Newsgroups: rec.sport.golf
Subject: Increasing distance
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:24:00 -0600


WA>My wife is a relative beginner who has reached the point where she
WA>hits consistently with all her clubs, but gets only about 150 yds
WA>on her drives and proportionally less with other clubs.
WA>She is physically strong enough to hit much further, but not sure
WA>what to try yet.  We live in a remote area and so far haven't
WA>found a good pro, so I was wondering if anyone on the net could
WA>recommend any instructional materials that they have found
WA>helpful, particularly for women, to increase distance while
WA>maintaining accuracy and
WA>consistency.

Warren--

In golf, I think seeing IS believing. When I first saw my  swing  on
videotape during a golf lesson with a pro, I was amazed. Most people
are--I've heard it compared to hearing your voice for the first time
on audiotape--THAT ISN'T ME! But it is.

Since you don't have access to a pro, perhaps you could rent a video
camera and videotape your wife's swing at a local driving range. The
newest  cameras are VERY easy to operate what with auto-focus and so
forth. Take shots of the side view and back view of the swing.

One instructional videotape you might try  for  comparison  to  your
wife's swing (we all know getting lessons from a pro are better than
videotapes or books) is "Jan Stephenson's How to Golf".  I rented it
from  the  local  video  store.  The video covers all aspects of the
game but has an important difference---it SHOWS real amateur golfers
(in  this  case,  women) alongside Jan's swing.  You can see how bad
weight shifts, not extending through the "big arc", etc.  etc.   can
rob distance.

I've seen videos by Golf Digest, Nicklaus, Palmer, Crampton,
Trevino,etc.   (yes,  I'm  addicted  to  golf) and NONE of them make
comparisons of their swings  to  us  poor  hackers  except  for  the
Stephenson  video.   IMHO,  they  are  missing their customer.  Yes,
these videos should show us the "proper" swings that  the  pros  use
(yeah,  Trevino's  swing  is a lot like Palmer's--HA!)---but we need
something to compare them to or we can't learn (MOST of us).

Golf  merchandisers, are you listening? Stephenson's tape shows some
of the results of the amateur's bad shots as they  play  on  a  real
golf  course, but I'd like to see more in an instructional tape. You
hear comments from the pros like Nicklaus on his tape  say  "wow,  I
was   playing   in   this   pro-am,  the  other  day--and  this  one
guy--boy, did he have a slice--we changed x,y, and z in  his  swing
and  he  did  much  better!" Well, LET'S SEE IT! Maybe somebody else
seeing the tape has the same problem---

In effect, I'm asking that instructional tapes  show  us  pros  that
teach  hackers with RESULTS during the course of the tape.  Watching
a big name pro bore 250 yard drives straight down fairways over and
over(How  many  takes  do  they do on these tapes--I wonder)--is NOT
that instructional.

Help this helps. I know I feel BETTER now. <grin>


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