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Hack It Out Golf

Practice Swings

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Practice swings: useful? Necessary? Time-waster? What are your practice swings for? What about practice swings when you're practicing? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about practice. Should you take a practice swing? If so, for what reason? What should you be trying to accomplish? Here is practical advice to maximize your practice time and get you in the best position to hit your best shots on the course. Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's talk practice swings. One thing I notice, like I really noticed this was students,

0:07.4

is having the respect of a practice swing is often very low. Understanding the importance of a

0:15.4

practice swing, I think, can be quite low. I see that with students time and time again. I can't

0:19.1

think of many lessons I've done where I'm telling them to stop demoing. I'm more, I'm normally trying to stand on the mat so

0:27.2

they don't just smash another ball off. Like let's, whoa, slow down. Nothing's changing. We've,

0:33.3

you know, we're trying to achieve a task and you're just eating balls and I can see you're

0:36.7

focused on that. Let's have a few mirror swings or, you know, look on the camera of your head up. Let's hit

0:42.2

a position or a feeling. And one thing you notice if you go to a tour range and Greg has said

0:48.1

this before is often how relaxed the players are. And when they are hitting shots, they're like,

0:55.6

there's big gaps between shots.

0:56.6

There's good gaps.

0:57.6

Sometimes they might hit three,

0:58.6

bang, bang, bang, a little bit.

0:59.7

And then they'll pull off.

1:01.8

Often it's a shot, step back.

1:02.9

There's a practice swing.

1:04.4

Might be a training aid.

1:06.1

Might be one hand off practice swing.

1:12.7

I would love to get the listeners value in practice swings a whole lot more.

1:14.3

Lou loves a practice swing.

1:15.6

You're not afraid of a practice swing. We're talking about practice.

1:17.2

We're not talking about the actual game.

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