In this months Golf Digest Butch Harmon, the swing guru gave a simple but very effective golf tip. In talking about the drive he mentions that too many people stand over the ball and try to swing as hard as they can. This is pretty much common knowledge yet even though everyone knows you need to slow down your golf swing, too many of us just keep swinging as hard as we can.
If you can slow you swing down to 80% of full speed and get yourself into a rhythm, you will straighten out your shots and have a better day of golf. Sure you can go with the tried and true swing as hard as you can and end up 40, 50, even 60 yards off-line, or you can swing at 80 percent power, end up in the fairway and be 170 out rather than 150 out in the rough or OB.
Next time out on the course suck up your pride and don’t try to out drive your buddies, male or female. Just relax swing slow and watch the ball hit the center of the short grass.
