It was pretty funny. One of my far off students who comes to see me from western Canada every year, said, "Watch this, Steve!" He made a magnificent stroke and hit the ball about twice as long as I've ever seen him do. I immediately knew why. "It's the tilt, Steve," he said. "You've probably told me a thousand times, but when I saw the DVD, well, the tilt finally sank in." It sure did. His back shoulder was lower than his front shoulder (it has to be as you'll see), he made a great turn -- head behind the ball -- and he smacked that puppy straight and true.
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Mark it on your forehead: TILT.
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-- Steve
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Great comment.
The tilt is a must in the set up for sure. Coming down into the ball, your back shoulder wants to drive even further down into the ball. Hogan used to say to drive your back shoulder down, like it’s trying to hit the ball. The shoulders at impact are even more vertical than they were at address. Too many amateurs have their shoulders almost horizontal at impact and that’s what makes us come over the top, putt the ball, or feel like we’re swinging up and hitting some tops. There’s a great section in the new book and DVD on this too so hope you check it out and good luck.
Steve
Enjoyed the lesson. Would like to see you set your club on the “students” shoulders and complete the swing to the top, and back down and through. Reason being, I have plenty of tilt, but seem to turn my lead shoulder back up on the way back down and through, which causes me to top the ball. I’ve been told that I need to level out my lead shoulder coming down from the top.