Tag Archives: Shot Shaping

Golf Digest With Useless “Cure Your Slice” Advice

Taking a break from the video-editing – Golf Digest just gave me an excellent article to use to point out how Modern Golf Swing instruction is just… pretty much useless.

Instead of giving some really good advice (in my opinion), they are compounding the problem by not really explaining what causes a slice.

It is not, as they state, the simple matter of one’s club face being open at impact – in fact, club path has a good deal more to do with slicing that the simple open face.

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Finally – A Golf Digest Article I Find Useful (On Shot-Shaping)

This article may just be another thinly-veiled Golf Digest article promoting something (usually lessons, this one with a teaching pro and simulator session), but the visual chart it includes is one people may find useful.

The reason I suspect an ulterior motive is because, in the article, the writer Alex Myers purports to be on a one-year mission of daily training, practice and playing, but somehow didn’t already know what causes a hook?

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