Timing is your ability to swing your arms and hands back to the golf ball as your hip turns out of the way. And the reason it has to turn out of the way is so the arms and hands can pass your body and wrap around you. That's the definition, no more, no less.
Now, I have gone to the golf course many days where I've hit the ball beautifully, solid, straight right. So, my timing was off a bit because my body was turning out in front of my golf club and that was sending it off to the right.
Now, the correction would be to slow the bottom half down and speed up the top part. There have been days where my timing has been off because the arms and hands were quicker than the bottom.
How do you correct that? Speed up the bottom and it'll catch up with the arms and hands, and that will help that.
Now, how do you fix your timing? That's probably the most difficult question in the game of golf. How do you get your timing back? I believe that if you can't hit your pitching wedge, you probably aren't hitting your 5 iron and your 5 wood and your driver.
So, I love to send people out to the practice facility to hit thousands of pitching wedges and work on their golf swing fundamentals. That, to me, is the easiest way to find your timing.
Now, let's say that your favorite club in your golf bag is your driver and you're driving the ball beautifully. Then go hit a thousand drivers. Or maybe it's a 5 wood or a 5 iron. Whatever club you're struggling with, stay way away from that one.
Go to the club that you're doing well with. And if you're not doing well with any of them, then go to a pitching wedge.
Now, the next question most difficult after that: How do you know when your timing's off? I believe that your timing is off when your miss/hit pattern is not consistent. One's fat, one's thin, one's top, one's good, one's to the left, one's to the right. That's a great indication that your timing's off.
Find your favorite club and go to the practice tee and hit ten thousand of them and remember when you hit the golf ball to think of the golf swing fundamentals.
Thanks and have a great day.
Copyright 2006 David Nevogt
I want to give you a little golf swing lesson that I think will help you a lot.
Grip the golf club like you normally would, and put it on the ground. Now raise it up in the air and make half a golf swing, or really, all the way back, and then stop.
Now, look at that club face. That club face should be perfectly square.
Now, here's a golf swing lesson in case you grip it off to the right a little bit. Alright. Now, maybe you're hooking the ball, but you're not paying attention to your grip.
Now that club face is closed, and that right there would tell me that you need to change your grip. Maybe you're slicing the ball and not paying close attention to my grip.
Okay, the club face is open. Then I would put it on the ground and turn it a little bit until it's square.
And if it's too far over to the right, put it on the ground and move your grip to the left.
This controls the face. Ninety percent of the time that's the reason the face isn't square.
So, if you're convinced that you're slicing and hooking and it has to do with the grip, the golf swing lesson is that all you have to do is hold the club in the air and take a little half-practice swing and see if the face comes back square.
Now, let me tell you what role the head plays because I have a golf instruction tip that is equally as important. You should not keep your head down throughout the entire swing. That would be just as wrong as if you were lifting your head up in the downswing.
So, there's a very fine combination of what the head should do. So, here we go.
As the golf club swings back, the head hasn't moved at all and your eyes are on the back of the golf ball. Now, in the downswing, as the arms unwind and the left hip starts to get out of the way, the golf club's going to swing to the bottom of the hip.
At that point, the speed of the right arm is going to start to pull you around.
So, the speed of the arms and hands are what pull you up and around. So, you can keep your head down as long as you like without forcing it down, and then the speed of the arms and hands coming past the golf ball turn you and pull you through.
So, here is the golf instruction tip again, keep your eye on the back of the ball, swing your arms up and down, and let the speed of the arms turn your head as you turn through.
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