What separates the South Korean from many golfers is that he’s able to swing aggressively through impact, letting the clubface close noticeably without fear of hooking the ball.
Injuries such as sprains, tendinitis, carpal-tunnel syndrome – and even fractures of a delicate bone called the hook of hamate – are common wrist issues that golfers experience.
With your trail foot dropped back, you’re so far away from the ball on the backswing that the only way to get back to the ball is to shift aggressively into your lead foot on the downswing.
To give you an idea of just how good Woods was that year, there hasn’t been a player on the PGA Tour who has hit greens at that high a percentage in the past decade.
We often focus on the shots that we don’t have on a given day and not the ones we do. It’s a concept that sports psychologist Dr Bhrett McCabe calls capability versus capacity, and it is key difference between us and the pros.
With help from Randy (one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers in America), I want to show you things that I’ve done that will help you get to your next level.
We’re revisiting this range session to uncover what we can learn from how Scheffler practises. We can study his golf swing all we want, but that swing was created here, on the range, with hours of practice alongside swing coach Randy Smith.
How do young players, many of whom have never competed in front of this many spectators – or a national TV audience – handle the spectre of competing at Augusta National? Their responses are simple, yet applicable to golfers of all skill levels.
There are optical illusions all over Augusta National, according to Ralph Bauer, a PGA Tour putting coach to multiple players in the Masters field and co-founder of the popular Tour Read putting app.
Australian Golf Digest
