How to clean your forests in Fairway, according to a big sample

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Everyone knows that to win the masters, you need to conquer four par-5. If you do not benefit and accumulate birds in those holes, you have little chance of slipping into the green jacket on Sunday.

Raymond Floyd knew this fact well – and in 1976 he used the full advantage. That April, Floyd hit the field in Augusta National, leading wire wires as he won his first green jacket with an eight stunning shots. And he did that in The strength of his right road forests In attacking par 5s.

A few years later, Floyd sat with Golf To share his best tips to hit the Fairway Woods clean. Listen to his tips and you can also start Smoking in your street forests off the deck.

How to fry your forests on the road

Accuracy in Golf is similar to gunshots: the farther away you are from your target, the more accurate your goal should be. That is why Wood Fairway to A Green is definitely the most sought after goal in the game. Not only should it be long – up to 200 meters or more – it must be straight, extremely straight.

Club selection

The best way to approach these essentially difficult shooting is to try to do everything easier for yourself. The first place to do this is in choosing your club. Do yourself a favor and buy a 5-wood, already done. This is what I did last winter, and she has added a new dimension to my game.

I practiced with the club in the early spring and then discovered it on the Greensboro Open tour, a week before the masters. In Augusta I have hit 5-Dru nine times in the front holes and now I am convinced that there has never been a better club for that golf course. (Editor’s note: Floyd made an eagle, 12 birds and three pars for a record 14 under the money in PAR-5 holes in masters.)

5-Druri is weaker than 1- or 2-Hekuri, which means you don’t have to work so hard to get the ball into the air. Also also longer and heavier than the handcuffs, so you will get more weight and power after the ball. In addition, it is great from the rough, because the small, round head slips lightly through the heavy grass. I even use 5-wood from a trap of the road when conditions are favorable.

Now that I have had so much success with the club, I will keep it quite often, instead of 1- or 2-Herkuri, especially in the long and narrow championship courses. This is a great switch for me to do because I have always considered my long handcuffs to be one of the best parts of my game.

However, for most amateurs, a 5-dru should be one of the Group quarries. You can even consider getting one of the service clubs, a 6- or 7 tree if you have a lot of problems with your long handcuffs.

The second way to make the wooden shots easy for yourself is to make sure you have a lot of club in your hand. Perhaps the most common mistake in the Long Iron Fairway wood game is to overload, and this fault is especially widespread in the par-5s, where, after a good car, you often have a chance to reach green in two. The typical result is a shot at the top, a slice of skittering or a bang. So save it against these mistakes by taking a club more than you think you need it. There is no reason to force a 4-tree because it is my feeling that if you can develop a sound control, attitude and taking, the rest of the shake will take care of himself.

grip

If you don’t have a good check now, you can have one in three days. That’s all you need. Of course, switching to new hand positions will be uncomfortable at first, but if you work on it for three days of practice and golf, you will be at home for free and on your way to better golf.

My grip is quite standard among tour professionals. My left finger points straight between the axis and the “V” formed by the thumb and my right hand fingers just to the right of my chin.

For most players, however, I would recommend holding the club so that even the right and left “vs” show the outside of the right shoulder. This is a strong, strong control that you need to ingrain and then check occasionally to be sure you are not “moving” in one direction or the other.

configurations

At the address my attitude is only slightly smaller open, with my left foot drawn back around an inch from the target line. That’s because I like a hint of movement left-right in most of my shots. A better position for amateur players is the square stand, where the left foot is also the right and an imaginary line that connects the toes of both legs parallel to the target line. Your club should also be square on the target line of flight.

The ball position for the right road forests should only be inside your left heel. Try to stay so that the club is a direct stretch from your left arm to the ball. Your weight should be evenly distributed between right and left sides and you should stay calm again between the balls and the heels of your feet.

Both knees should be bent so that you are in a semi -sitting position, half position on the foot. Feeling reminds me of a position I have taken to conquer often during the evenings of my early days in the tour – sitting in a stool bar!

Before discussing my swing, let me say I have never read a golf guide book in my life. However, I have always been lucky to have had something better – a father who is a teaching professional.

Leakage

IR has a concept that my dad introduced to me early, was an appreciation of golf swing as a unified movement than as a competition between right and left sides or a race between the upper and the last. Theorists preaching a dominant rhythm from one side or the other or a concentration on the upper chest or legs are departing dangerously from the central idea of ​​a quiet and fluent golf oscillation.

The sequence here shows a shot with 5 wood, but my swing is almost identical to the driver, all forests and long cuffs. The most important part of this, or any, shaking, is the beginning – taking. If you can make that initial movement correctly, a good pace will follow. If you make an error in taking, the chances will be against you for the rest of the swing.

slope

My taking for the long shooting is a wide cleansing, with a piece of back from the ball. The rotation of my left shoulder pushes my left arm and moves the club a few inches back and just inside the target line. Once the club crosses my right foot, a natural growth effect takes place. This is simply a function of the constant shoulder twist. There is no intentional “rise” of the club and I do not make a conscious effort to break my ankles.

At the same time that the previous action is continuing, the lower half of my body begins to beat. My left knee bends slightly and moves out, pointing directly to the ball.

At a time when my hands are high, the club is exactly parallel to the land. There has been a small break in the wrist, but the club is still a lot of an extension of my left arm. My left knee has continued its rotation to the ball.

A friend of mine was very kind to rape the masters’ television coverage. About a week after the tournament, I managed to watch those movies that I was amazed at what I saw. At the top of my back, the club was actually parallel.

I don’t remember the last time I was getting it a great pace and I’m very pleased when I saw it. It is an indication for me that I have been able to add energy without losing any accuracy.

The only way to develop a long pace that is also a controlled pace is to increase the shoulder twist. I make a twist of more than 90 degrees, which for me is very good after being built thick. I have been able to increase it to return to its current size through training and through the practice of swinging with a weighted club. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in more distance. The principle of the shoulder bend is similar to shooting a bow and arrow. The more you can withdraw, the biggest spring and power you will have along the way.

Notice some other things at the top of the back. My wrists have the cock completely and of course, my hips have wrapped about 46 degrees and my left knee is rotated to the extent that it is now pointing behind the ball.

drop

It is the turn of the left knee to the left side that begins my landing. This attractive knee act is accompanied by an incapable of the buttocks and an attraction down to the left -handed golf club.

Throughout this immature process, I hold the arms, gloves and positions of the hands, with the same thing, as they were at the top of the back. I remember vividly my boyhood sessions in the practice of practice under my father’s critical eyes. I would hit the wooden shots and destroy a 250 below the middle. My dad would shake his head and say “not good”. I would hit another 250 and straight and again he would deceive his disapproval. Why? My foot action was a little far away.

Since those days, I have worked hard to make the right movements with feet, feet and hips. The right foot is the insertion point for driving the foot into the influence, while the left foot is tightly nailed to the ground, placing a solid tightening up and down on the left side of my body. The right knee is just as active in falling as the left knee was one on the way back, and the hips continue their immature while my weight is almost completely transferred to my left side.

In the impact, the club and the left arm have formed the same straight line position in which they were during the address and receiving. As it moves through the ball, my head stands down and my right arm runs to a full extension. At the end of the swinging I feel well balanced and raised smooth, with my level of my thighs, my high hands and my right legs directly directed to the ground.