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The Golf Swing: Your Divot Tells a Story
When amateurs watch the pros play golf on television, they
see that all of the best players in the world take divots
when they hit an iron shot, especially a high iron shot.
Then, they try to emulate them on the course, but do not get
the desired results. Why?
The answer is because a divot, in and of itself, will not
improve your golf results.
After seeing the professional golfers take divots, amateurs
will hit the golf course and try to take divots. Well,
anybody who can swing a golf club can swing it so that it
digs up a little bit of mother earth. Thus, taking a divot
on its own will not improve your golf swing. However,
taking the right kind of divot will improve your golf swing.
As a low handicap golfer, I remember the first time I
started taking divots. I hit a few good shots and my
playing partner said, "I love how you get that divot. It
looks a lot like the players on TV. How do you do that?"
At first I was complimented. After all, he was saying that
I look like the guys on TV. However, I was still not
getting the exact results that I wanted. In fact, I think I
took it to extreme as I remember thinking, "The bigger the
divot, the better I look."
In the end though, I was looking for results not big holes
in the ground. Here is how I improved my golf game through
a bit of divot analysis.
The reason for taking a golf divot is to ensure a descending
blow on the golf ball to create compression, get a clean
strike on the sweet spot of the golf ball, and increase spin
to control the ball landing, ideally, on the green. Many
golf ball reviews suggest that this compression and spin can
be drastically improved also by the golf ball that you play.
It is ironic--and seems athletically counterintuitive--that
for a ball to fly high, we need to hit down on it for the
best results (thus creating the divot) instead of trying to
sweep the golf ball like most amateurs do.
As I said, I was successfully creating divots without
shooting better scores. One look at my divot told me quite
a bit. My divots all pointed to the left. This meant that
my swing plane was slightly off and my club head at impact
was not square which cost me a lot of distance and many
inaccurate iron shots.
Here is how I fixed my problem on my quest to become a par
golfer. I waited until the golf course was relatively empty
and, when I noticed that I would have the golf hole all to
myself for a good 30 minutes, I put 10 balls on the 145 yard
marker. I pledged to swing until my divots went straight
and not to the left. It took a little while to achieve
this.
At first, I was swinging to fast. I intentionally slowed
down my swing, made it very deliberate, and ensured all of
my divots were going straight. This exercise not only
improved my divots but improved my whole golf swing,
improving the plane of the golf swing so that I was "hitting
out" on the ball as opposed to "across the ball."
For me, it was imperative to do this on the golf course.
The driving range may work but you cannot do this exercise
on a golf matt.
Now, though I am far from perfect, I am taking a perfect
divot. This exercise has consistently shaved strokes off of
my final score and only took me about 30 minutes to do.
Occasionally, I will still revert to my old swing path.
However, now I can immediately correct it with one look at
the divot. Who would have known? A little whole in the
ground can tell you a lot about your golf game.
Learn proper golf swing mechanics on the how to swing a golf
club page at ThisIsHowYouDoIt.com. The author, Richard
Tyler, is an avid golfer and proprietor of your home for how
to videos, ThisIsHowYouDoIt.com.
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