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Feel Vs. Real: Exaggerate To Change!

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Feel Vs. Real:

Build New And Beneficial Habits By Over Exaggerating Your Rehearsal Swing!

Problem: When making changes in your golf swing, it almost always needs to “feel” very different to get the club in the correct positions. After all, feeling uncomfortable or different, is a great indicator that you are making a change in your swing.

Try: In order to help ensure you are moving away from your biggest swing faults, exaggerate the feeling of what you are trying to accomplish during your practice swing.

Why: When you feel what it is like to exaggerate the new swing motion you are trying to create, chances are you will be much closer to where you need to be when you actually go to hit the ball.

Example: If you are prone to hitting slices, rehearse a hook swing and vice versa.

In these pictures, I am demonstrating the “rehearsal” downswing path of many Touring Professionals who tend to hook left or block the ball to the right. This exaggerated rehearsal swing resembles the downswing that would create the opposite ball flight pattern.