GOLF PSYCHOLOGY & THE WEAK LEFT ARM AND WRIST

ORIGINAL GOLF FUNDAMENTALS

De: Ronald Ross

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Get it into your mind that the golf-swing is begun and ended with the wrists, that it is the snapping of the wrists into the ball at the last moment which decides the character of its flight. A master-thought of this kind will prevent you from hurling your
shoulders at the ball, or from attempting a step-dance with your feet, or from swaying, or from lifting the head. Say to yourself, 'I am going to hit the ball with my hands, and I must keep my head immovable until those hands have flashed past my line of vision with a flick of the wrists.' As far as possible, get your brains into your hands. Let the ankles, knees, and hips do their swinging movement as subconsciously as possible, and let your thoughts live only in your hands - in your delicate, sensitive, and obedient hands.
J. H. TAYLOR, 1925
It is all very well to say 'sweep the ball away'. But no golf ball was ever sent a long way without some sort of resistance creeping into the swing - without hitting past the body and allowing the clubhead to overtake the hands. If the towing or
tugging down from the top continued without some resistance somewhere, the clubhead would never catch up with the hands and the body. It would trail all the time. Now what sort of resistance can be found? There is no way a ball can be firmly struck without s absorbing an impact shock; a sloppy sweep through the ball gives very limited results. I believe that for my method it is essential to be able to lever against the left wrist at will - to hit past the left hand.
HENRY COTTON, 1952, 1959, 1980
"One cannot see the correct timing of a stroke, but one can feel it."
MARSHALL WHITLATCH, 1913
"This is produced by the right hand striking forward while the left hand resists backward. For all strokes of considerable distance, the left wrist should be the hinge of the wrist action."
SEYMOUR DUNN, 1897, 1907, 1922, 1930, 1934