Wednesday's School of Golf show on GC was about the problems you face when playing links golf. This video is the "extra credit" video they do for GC's website. It deals specifically with playing in various types of wind and has a lot of good tips which are useful for anybody playing in windy conditions. This video is just over 5 minutes long, but it's loaded with good info.
A couple of simple tips from Nick Faldo that Hall mentioned on the regular show concerned lowering your ball trajectory. One was simply taking a longer club -- much longer, like 3 or 4 clubs more -- and swinging much more easily to take spin off the ball and keep it from rising in the air so much (less backspin).
Hall also mentioned a few setup guidelines which sounded quite a chunk like Jonas Blixt's setup from Tuesday's post.
And -- I notion this one changed into pretty neat -- one manner to lower your ball flight is to regulate your shoulder angle. We're usually taught to hold the lead shoulder a bit better than the trailing shoulder and hence tilt your spine barely faraway from the goal. In the wind, Faldo might on occasion try to get his shoulders greater degree inside the wind, which brought on his spine to be barely more vertical and therefore moved his weight slightly more towards his lead facet. (Another way to get the "Blixt Effect.")
I had was hoping to discover a hyperlink to the real display -- GC does that with a number of their applications -- however couldn't discover one. Here is the link to the web page in which this video is found; the web page also has a few other videos GC thinks is probably beneficial. One of these clips is set the e book Hall mentioned at the cease of his show, via the legendary Henry Cotton:
The tip about hitting the bag is one that Carl Rabito used with me. After he taught me the perfect way to coil my top body, he had me hit a bag with 1/2-swings for pretty a while. (Like 15 minutes or so, nonstop! But it worked.) It taught me the way to rectangular my fingers properly once he constant my turn.
Perhaps they will put up the entire episode later... However within the intervening time, these clips must come up with a few help with the wind.
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