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How you finish often reveals what’s happening
during your swing In fact, I often key on a player’s
finish in my golf lessons to determine exactly how
to help he or she can improve their game. You can
do the same for yourself—if you know what to
look for.
Below I describe four of the more common finishes
I see when giving golf lessons, possible causes of
the finish, and ideas on how to eliminate, the swing
faults that cause them.
High Finish
The high finish position is among the most common.
Hands held high and a flying left elbow (for right
handers) characterize the position, associated with
pushes, thins shots, and shots struck toward the clubface’s
heel. High finishers tend to swing on an in to out
path that’s extreme, with the club traveling
to the right of the target, minimizing control.
If you read my golf tips, you’ll find that
the in-to-out swing is my preferred approach; however,
in this case, it’s extreme. When the inside-out
move becomes severe, you push the shot. When club
comes too far inside with a closed clubface, you pull
the shot. Also, swinging too far inside delivers the
club below the swing plane, preventing the club from
striking the ball on a descending path. The key is
not to exaggerate the move too much.
Low Finish
The low finish stems from an overly out-to-in swing
path, caused by a downswing motion initiated by the
arms instead of the body. Players developing this
finish come over the top of the plane, as I’ve
explained in my golf tips, causing the clubhead to
cut across the ball through the impact zone. The position
is associated with pull slices, pull hooks, and shots
off the toe. Since the club is moving steeply and
across the ball, none of the shots are well struck.
Nor do they fly toward the intended target.
If you freeze this finish, you’ll notice that
the player’s hands and arms seemed to be all
jammed up. That’s because the arms have moved
earlier than the body, impeding the arm’s movement
and limiting their extension. To fix this problem,
you obviously need to work on the body/arm synchronization,
so your arms don’t out race your body on the
downswing.
Lunge Finish
I don’t know how popular this finish is statistically,
but I often see it in my golf lessons. With this type
of finish, the player’s head is in front of
his or her left leg, or the golfer feels himself or
herself falling forward. It stems from a poor rotation
of the lower body through the hitting zone, causing
the upper body to get ahead of the ball. The end result:
the player fails to stay behind the ball during the
swing.
To correct this fault, you need to work on your hip
rotation. Try leading the down swing with your hips
instead of your body. Try placing a chair to your
front side, with the back of the chair just touching
your hips. Take a few practice swings being careful
to stay in contact with the chair’s back as
you turn through impact. Also, try finishing with
your head over your left leg.
Reverse C Finish
The Reverse C Finish, in many golf instruction courses,
was thought of as the perfect finish— that is,
up until a few years ago. Now, it’s not as highly
regarded. With the reverse C, the golfer slides his
legs and body laterally to the left (for right-handers)
and too fast through impact. The weight, however,
remains on the back foot. A reverse pivot—which
occurs when you fail to transfer your weight from
the front foot to the back foot—also produces
a Reverse C finish configuration.
To correct this fault, you need more hip rotation
and less slide. To cure the reverse pivot, you need
more weight transfer. If your problem is the reverse
pivot, try making your ordinary swing while lifting
your front foot of the ground on your back swing,
then replant it on the downswing. This helps transfer
the weight from the front foot to the back foot, as
it should. If you want to build more hip rotation
in the swing, try taking practice swings with a shaft
placed on right side of your hips. Your hips should
rotate so that they never touch the shafts. If they
touch, you slid.
The reverse C finish is one of the more prominent
finishes. But like the lunge, low, or high finishes,
it can indicate hidden swing faults that need correcting.
The sooner you start working on correcting the swing
faults discussed here, the sooner you’ll start
lowering your golf handicap.
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Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling
book “How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.”
He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has
helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents
lower their handicap immediately.
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