Everybody's usually searching out a mystery, a silver bullet in order to supply them THE KEY to a extremely good golf swing. Today I've were given one which I doubt you have got ever heard earlier than.
It comes from a 2004 book by John W. Barrett called Such a Little Secret. It centers around an old BBC broadcast of the Open Championship, with commentary by Peter Alliss and Henry Longhurst, where they discussed "The Secret" as it was being demonstrated by some player who Barrett couldn't remember.
Anyway, in line with the Dynamic Duo, "The Secret" is illustrated by means of this diagram from the ebook:
To restate "The Secret" so each lefties and righties can use it, "Swing round a nonetheless trailing ear." To quote Barrett:
In any focus of concentration, the smaller the focal point the greater is one's sensitivity to it. To continue to use the word ear would do, and in a television broadcast it was probably a more genteel choice than use of the vernacular. Distilling the focal point down to the quarter inch diameter of the aural canal, however, will give a golfer a far sharper image in the mind than the more vague outline of the whole of the right ear. [p57]Look, am I saying that this is "The Secret" to fixing your golf swing? Absolutely not. I don't believe there's one technique that will make you the next Jason Day or Rory McIlroy. If there may be a secret, it lies in rest, stability and rhythm.
Still, some of you would possibly discover some use in this concept of swinging round your trailing ear. You might not opposite pivot or sway in the course of your backswing if you use it, however your head will nonetheless have a few freedom of movement. You won't drive too tough in the direction of the goal in your downswing due to the fact, if you do, your head gets pushed far from the target and you will fall over backward. And you may finish in a balanced function -- you need best to look at the drawings above to peer that.
So at the same time as I don't consider this is "The Secret" to good golf, I do suppose it is an photograph that would assist a number of you who're suffering to live consistent over the ball during your swing. Take it for what it is really worth.
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