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An interesting article by PGA Master Professional and 2009 North Florida PGA Teacher of the Year John Hughes has some helpful guidelines to use when choosing an instructor. See the full article on PGA.com here, http://tinyurl.com/dazrfw
A quote from the article raises a hard question. "Let's face it; golf is not rocket science or brain surgery. However, there are physics, biomechanical, and geometric principles involved with the science of golf instruction. Your golf instructor should have a thorough understanding of these concepts related to the game of golf..."
The hard question, which goes further, that you should ask when interviewing a potential instructor is: "Explain how you teach someone to control the change in the position of the leading hand from address to impact?"
The change in position of the leading hand includes an understanding of pronation and supination.
The answer more than likely will center on performing proper swing motion leading to correct timing of the "release" so that the clubface is in the desired alignment at impact.
Proper timing of the release is made necessary because of the potential variation in leading hand position that can occur during a swing when using traditional alignment guidelines.
Traditional pre-shot alignment guidelines of square feet, hips, shoulders, and two knuckles showing, allow for significant variation of clubface alignment during the swing.
At the beginning of the backswing, the leading hand can easily open or close its relation to the target line. The club also can easily travel inside or outside the proper path.
Despite a perfect backswing, more variation of alignment can occur if you do not remember to tuck your trailing elbow on the downswing.
Once you have learned to perform the perfect backswing and forward swing, you will still need to practice timing your release so that the clubface is in the proper configuration at impact.
Dynalign Golf's dynamic pre-shot alignment technique answers the hard question in a different way.
Rather than starting with a traditional address position and requiring the golfer to create the correct impact position from a multitude of potential positions, the Dynalign technique significantly reduces undesirable potential motion in the hands, wrists, and forearms.
The result is a more efficient functioning of the biomechanism, less margin for error, and most importantly a significant reduction in reliance on the golfer to independently time the release.
Dynalign Golf's dynamic pre-shot alignment technique can enhance your control over clubface alignment at impact for putting, chipping, as well as full shots. That's when the hard questions must be answered.
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