Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Turn your hands naturally.

One very hard thing for many golfers to do is to let their hands turn naturally in their swing.  By this I mean letting their hands work naturally back and all the way through.  Many people don't let their hands work properly because they are either trying to hit the ball too hard without trusting in their own power or they are trying too hard to hit the ball straight.  Most of the time when you purposefully try to do something it ends up doing more harm than good because it doesn't allow you to trust in yourself. 

A simple drill for this is to take one of your irons and grip it with your normal grip.  Swing the club back to about the height of your knee or little higher in the backswing.  From there swing through to about the same height on the other side without trying to swing hard.  Your hands will naturally move properly because of the short swing and the absence of trying to hit it as hard as you can.  Do this over and over to develop a more natural hand movement in your swing.