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Martin's Library: The physics of golf (3:11)
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'School of Golf' host Martin Hall shares four ways to add distance to your driver using physics. Watch 'School of Golf' Wednesdays 7PM ET.
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-You're watching School of Golf Extended Library. I'm Martin Hall.
The book this week: The Physics of Golf by Theodore
Jorgensen. A very interesting man with some very interesting things
to say about the golf swing. Some very good drills
about how to get more power on the ball. Four
of them for you. Four influential drills. He is absolutely
adamant without a doubt. That is the big muscles of
the body that give the energy to the small muscles.
Maybe not great for accuracy but certainly great if you
want power. A very simple drill that you could do
at home. Take a soft ball. Take a baseball. Hold
it in your left hand if you are a right-handed
golfer. Practise going up to the top. Shift and pull
with the left side of the body and not the
left arm and then just throw that ball somewhere. That's
a terrific drill to get the sense of how the
left side of the body pulls the club down. Now,
the second part of his thesis is this. There is
a pull and there is a push. There is a
pull as you start down where you pull on the
left side of the body. But, somewhere down here, there's
a push. This is a wonderful drill here. Take your
club to the top. Put your right hand on the
shaft as I'm showing you here. So, I'm in a
position to actually push that club. The key here is
to push it out at the right time, in fact.
So, it's up to the top, pull down from-- I
will say 10 o'clock to 9 o'clock and then start
to push. So, the feeling is you pull with the
body then you push. You pull and then you push.
And, if you can pull and then push, you can
certainly get some fraction on that ball. I love this
drill that he has. This will be difficult for you
to see in the studio because of the brightness of
the lights but Jorgensen recommends getting a piece of black
cup with all black tape and putting a piece of
white tape over the driver. On the normal lighting conditions,
if you take a practice swing, that white line will
leave like a little after image and it let's you
see where the path of your swing is. Is it
out to end? Is it in to out? Probably for
distance, it will be best if it's ever so slightly
into that. It's really worth doing. The final thing that
Theodore Jorgensen gave us and which helps us analyze ball
flight is what he called the D-plane. Now, I'll keep
this really simple. The D-plane really means the ball starts
much closer to where the club face is pointing than
it does to the path of the swing. So, that's
Theodore Jorgensen's D-plane. Four drills, four knowledge on that to
help you hit it longer and straighter as much, in
fact. A wonderful book. Thanks for joining us on GolfChannel.com
for the best in golf instruction. I'm Martin Hall and
you'd been watching an extended version of Martin's Library. For
more tips like this, tune in to School of Golf
Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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