Copy Dustin Johnson’s patented power fades with these movements

Golf guidance is always developing, but the best advice lies in the test of time. In the new Golf.com series, eternal tips, we are emphasizing some of the biggest tips that teachers and players have shared on the Golf Magazine pages. Today, we look back in the January 2017 issue when Dustin Johnson shared his secrets for hitting a faint power.

It may be difficult to understand but there was a time when Dustin Johnson Based on a draw – not a pallor! – off the tee. Before 2015, Johnson loving The movement of the ball to the left to the left, and he relying on his great purpose. The problem was, that draw could be difficult to control. And when things went wrong, DJ found himself playing from the left approximately more often than not.

This changed all at the end of 2015. At the end of that year’s tail, Johnson committed to recovering his swinging, trading that wild draw for a controlled pallor. The change was paid, and the following summer, Johnson won his first major title in the US Open.

This week, while Johnson returns to Oakmont For the first time since the great victory of his daughters, we turn the pages of Golf Back in January 2017. In that number, Johnson parted with David Denunzio of Golf his methods to turn his draw into a pallor. Copy them for yourself and you can also hit the patented power of DJ to fade.

How to hit DJ power fades

The swing speed begins in configuration, and this is not the lip service.

“Your address position sets the phase for everything you do at your pace,” Johnson says. “I spent countless hours perfecting this part of my game.” Dustin is 6 feet-4, so of course he addresses the ball using a “long” attitude, but every golf player would do well to look and feel more athletic in Setup. “You want a light curve in the small part of your back and have a little beard,” he advises.

Try DJ’s attitude control: Make a friend make a picture of your configuration, then trace an imaginary line on your phone’s screen up your driver’s axis, through the syllable and on your body. The line should hit the tightening of your belt.

To turn a slice into a pallor of energy, you need to make your bow shaking as wide as you can. This is your new return goal. “The usual trend among the weekend players is to” remove “the club with their hands,” Johnson says. “I see it all the time.” His movement to fix it? A low, slow, slow intake. “It allows me to make time my body to turn, so to reach a full breeze on top,” he says. “During the last round of US Open, I on average 327 yards away from tee when I shake the driver. It is all about the width.” Here is a trick: make sure your right hand is so far from your right ear to the top as it is at the address.

The bent dustin of the left -wing dustin and the position of the ultra -torned body on top can be followed by two ways away. You will never match his positions, and that’s okay. The shaking of everyone is different. “My smell is mine – you will be yours,” he says.

“What is important is that you keep the width built in your landing all the way to influence.” A way to keep that width? Amplify it. Exaggerate it. “Once you are placed on top, swing your arms down so you can increase the distance between the right ear and the right hand,” he says. “Think of it as more a downward movement, not the movement of casting or casting that turns into slices.”

Some of the new DJ landing movements are delicate and can get you a lot of verse repetitions to nail – but they are important, especially its hip movement. “When I was favoring the draw, my right hip would fall to the ground as I started,” he says. “Now that I favor fading, my turn is more enjoyable, or more horizontal on the ground.” This adjustment allows the club to swing in front of its body, rather than falling far from it. With the club more forward, his road moves more to the left. “The new mass feels good,” he says. As he told his coach Claude Harmon Ill, “the harder I swing, the better my results.”

To nail the turning turn of the Dustin level, photograph a point on your right hip and try to keep that point at the same height as you move it closer to the target as you rotate. “Not only helps with pallor,” he adds, “this stabilizes my knees, so | don’t come back. That’s why I’m able to keep my slope forward towards the long influence of the ball and stay in perfect balance all the time.

“Listen, when you go down, driving is easy – just turn the club in essence the same position in which it was in the address. But it’s hard to do if you don’t keep your behavior.”

A recent action to promote a faded power: “trim” right finger. Notice how Johnson wraps the right finger across the handle as if you are grasping a baseball stick. The less from the right finger you have in the club, the more control get rid of. It sounds bad, but a “short thumb” holding will soothe a very active right hand and keep those rough hooks looking in the breast.

So run it on the DJ Street. With some practices, you too can find yourself saying, “The harder I swing, the better my results.”