John Jacobs wrote the book called, “Quick Cures for Weekend Golfers.” From the front of the practice range, with his back to the pupil and looking out into the practice range, he asks the student to hit some golf shots. Watching only the flight of the ball, he gets one of his assistants to make a couple of adjustments to the student’s swing. Upon making the adjustments, the flight pattern of the student’s golf shots improves! Welcome to the expertise of John Jacobs. You can’t do this without knowing the golf swing intimately.
As you develop your golf swing, you will experience a variety of golf swing faults. It is very useful to have a reference that you can use to troubleshoot your golf swing. For me, my first choice of references in troubleshooting my golf swing was John Jacob’s book.
The lessons are structured exactly as if you were taking a private golf lesson on the practice range with a teaching professional. Each lesson follows the pattern of presenting the diagnosis, the explanation and finally, the correction. When you take a private lesson with a teaching professional, you can expect to hit a few golf shots in front of the pro. He will analyze your swing as you hit shots. He then will ask you to stop hitting shots so he can begin to explain what golf swing fault is causing you the most trouble. In giving his analysis he may get you to swing the club so that you can replicate the fault and feel it for yourself. Once you understand the fault, the teaching pro will give you an explanation of the solution. Thereafter, the rest of the lesson is spent teaching you how to implement the correction. Once the teaching pro is confident that you can duplicate the correction on your own, the lesson is finished. You are free to practice the correction daily until it becomes a permanent change to your golf swing.
It takes about seven to ten days of daily practice for the correction to begin to feel normal to you. Once you get to this point you are well on your way to overcoming the golf swing fault and you should notice an improvement in your swing and ball striking.
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James Lythgoe is passionate about the golf swing and wants to share his knowledge of the golf swing with you. He is the author of The Golf Swing: It’s all in the Hands. He founded a blog thegolfswing.ca, where he can share instructional posts and insights on the hand action of the golf swing with beginner and intermediate – level golfers.
