BEST GOLF SWING TIPS: WAGGLE AT YOUR OWN PERIL
There is a recent trend to teach golf students to waggle their club to the right immediately before commencing their golf swing.
What so many golf instructors do not know or appreciate is that if you waggle your club to the right to the extent that your wrists are moved to the outside of your right hip joint, you will rotate and lock-in the face of your club to a fade golf shot alignment instead of to a straight golf shot alignment,
That is, if you previously did not lock-in some other golf shot alignment by a prior body movement.
For example, I recently saw a video of Tiger Woods teaching his son, Charlie, to waggle his club to his right before commencing his golf swing.
However, before he waggled his club to the right it appeared that Charlie released his top thumb fully from his club handle and then redocked his top thumb back onto his club handle.
I believe Charlie instinctively releases and redocks his top thumb in such a manner one single time immediately after gripping his club which rotates his wrist and in turn, the face of his club, to lock-in his club face to a square alignment and an “on-line” swing path to create a straight golf shot alignment.
If you are a student of the GOLF CODE™ you should know that by releasing your top thumb from your club handle (or index finger) fully and then redocking it back on your club handle (or index finger) immediately after gripping your club, you will rotate and lock-in your club face to a square alignment and an “on line” swing path to create a straight golf shot alignment.
Had Charlie not executed such a release and redock of his top thumb prior to waggling his club to the right past his right hip joint he would have rotated and locked-in his club face to an opened alignment and an “out-to-in” swing path in relation to his body and created a fade golf shot alignment.
Every significant body movement you make after gripping your club will rotate your wrists and in turn, the face of your club, to a different alignment and swing path to create a different golf shot alignment.
Likewise, every significant body movement you make between the time you grip your left hand and the time you grip your right hand on a club will rotate your wrists and in turn, the face of your club face, to a different alignment and swing path to create a different golf shot alignment.
Charlie’s instinctive release and redock of his top thumb, before waggling his club to his right, locked his club face in to a square alignment and an “on line” swing path to create a straight golf shot alignment. (Without such a movement, he would be fading his ball to the right of his target instead of hitting it dead straight.)
So, if you do not lock-in your wrists and in turn, the face of your club face, to a square alignment and “on line” swing path to create a straight golf shot alignment prior to waggling your club to the right, watch out for a fade instead of a straight ball flight.
In other words, waggle your club to the right at your own peril – if you do not first lock-in a straight golf shot alignment of your club face.
Incidentally, had Charlie waggled his club to the left past his left hip joint prior to waggling it to his right, he would have rotated and locked-in his club face to a square alignment and an “on-line” swing path to create a straight golf shot alignment without the need of releasing and redocking his top thumb in relation to his club handle.
I teach more than 100 techniques to rotate and lock-in your wrists and in turn, the face of your club, to a square alignment and an “on-line” swing path in relation to your body to create a straight golf shot alignment, without the need to release and redock your top thumb in such a manner.
Many of these techniques are covered in books and videos that are available at locked-ingolf.com.
Gordon Jackson,
THE GOLF CODE™ GUY
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