Is there a drill the average golfer can try to improve their hand-eye coordination?
There are different ways to get the clubface square to the ball. What I like to do is work with small golf swings, from waist height to waist height, which gives you feedback on what a good ball flight looks like. I like my students to draw the ball. If I can’t get them to hit a solid little draw from a waist-height swing with an 8- or 9-iron, I don’t have much chance at a full swing. Once they feel how to square the clubface and make center-face contact, then we can expand. You can’t go from 0 to 100 (mph) and pass 30, 40, 60 first. You also recently played with Cardinals’ manager Tony La Russa and Hall of Fame basketball coach Bobby Knight in a celebrity event. Did you observe anything from watching these two coaching legends that might help the average golfer? I’ve played with Tony several times. Skipper is a little quiet – not real demonstrative – but he’s extremely competitive, just as we all know Coach Knight is. He likes to win. Tony was getting frustrated some but he was all ab
