Craig Lots to practice here, glad the season has finished.
Hi Craig
Lots to practice here, glad the season has finished. I've started with the right hand putting drills and will follow the program as laid out. A couple of things I've noticed over recent months. Back when we first had C1-C4 I noticed that after doing C1 (holding off the release) my ball striking was markedly improved with my best score (in good conditions!) back in 2022. More recently, and it's easiest to do with wedges (shorter) I've found it much easier to use my core to turn and the results have been good, on long and short wedge shots. Putting these two observations together they were insights into what a better swing feels like - maybe my right side was becoming more active. Just recently I've hit some great drives (longest ever for me) using trail side feel.
Only consistent issue I've got is that my long shots are all going left ( which I think is due to old habit of trying to actively turning the wrists over as in the lead side pattern), so I need to switch this off.
But a question - how is the club released in the trail side pattern where the face is held square into impact and beyond. The old lead side pattern taught that the club face has to turn over through the hitting area (passively) which increases speed, then we got into making the wrists more active (faster turnover and more speed in C3), but now with the trail side pattern the stronger grip, anchored trail arm and wrists hold the club face square throughout. So what is releasing and where do we generate the 'hand speed' that Tiger talks about?
