From: Larry Bud on

rich wrote:
> How many times have we all been told to "swing easy"..... "don't try to
> kill the ball"..."let the club do the work"...
>
> Often each of us ( well, a lot of us!!!!) just ignore that valuable and
> clear advice. We try to drive the ball WAY down the fairway. Sometimes we
> get the perfect shot, BUT..... far more often, we put the shot right or
> left..and sometimes we even top the ball.... trying to kill it!

The harder I swing with my driver, the straighter and farther it goes.
When I try to "swing easy", I end up manipulating the club instead of
just swinging it.

From: Hero on
Larry - that's prob due to the fact that your 100% is about 70% of
normal golfers.

I try to believe I swing approx 70-80%.. swinging faster ONLY
translates into long bombs if you hit the center of the clubface. My
75% swing gets me 270+ which is more that fine since I hit very long
irons. Your drives are the most important part of the game.. learn to
het the fairways & watch your game improve exponentially. All IMO

-Hero

Larry Bud wrote:
> rich wrote:
> > How many times have we all been told to "swing easy"..... "don't try to
> > kill the ball"..."let the club do the work"...
> >
> > Often each of us ( well, a lot of us!!!!) just ignore that valuable and
> > clear advice. We try to drive the ball WAY down the fairway. Sometimes we
> > get the perfect shot, BUT..... far more often, we put the shot right or
> > left..and sometimes we even top the ball.... trying to kill it!
>
> The harder I swing with my driver, the straighter and farther it goes.
> When I try to "swing easy", I end up manipulating the club instead of
> just swinging it.

From: fiveiron on
The harder I swing with my driver, the straighter and farther it goes.
When I try to "swing easy", I end up manipulating the club instead of
just swinging it. larry bud
===
10-4, while maintaining one's balance. If decelerating comes into play,
resuming can affect the swing plane. a smooth tempo is the key,
physically, easy does it, mentality.

>mho
>v fe

>w o o d s y  t h e  o w l  s e z,
>g i v e  a  h o o t !  d o n 't  p o l l u t e......

From: Fairway on

Larry Bud wrote:
>
> The harder I swing with my driver, the straighter and farther it goes.
> When I try to "swing easy", I end up manipulating the club instead of
> just swinging it.

OK, here is a question: when you swing harder (and straighter, and
farther), does this extra strength come from the left side or the right
side? F

From: oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com on

rich wrote:
> How many times have we all been told to "swing easy"..... "don't try to
> kill the ball"..."let the club do the work"...
[snip]
> I swung
> easy; that action produced a nice little draw down the middle of the
> fairway... Not as long as I can hit it when I crush it..but...golly, right
> in the middle of the fairway!
[snip]

Had a less than stellar tee shot. Was too far to try to reach for
the green, especially out of the rough, into the wind. Screw it, I'll
lay up 60 yards short of the pin. I take out the 5 wood, swing
really easy, and launch one well onto the green. Now if I could
just find a way to be pissed off and try to lay up 60 yards short,
into the wind, and swing easy EVERY TIME.......