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Jay, I am not sure I understand the last par graph starting with the sentence “In actuality………”. It looks to me like the 2nd club layed parallel would also point 30 yards left of target.
Would you please clarify that statement?

Thanks!!
Hi Gary,

I’d like to thank Mike for providing the Golf Tip below and I hope you find it useful. I know I have laid a club at my toes to check my aim not taking this into consideration.

Golf Tip by Mike Bender:

Mike B ender is a two time North Florida PGA Teacher of the Year, and is
ranked by Golf Magazine as one of the Top 100 Instructors and Golf Digest as one of the top 50 Instructors in America. Winner of the NCAA Division III National Championship individually in 1979 & 1980. A three time All American and in 1979 he was named Athlete of the Year. After leaving college in 1980 Mike turned professional and began his playing career. In 1987 he set the course record at PGA West in Palm Springs and earned his Tour Card. After playing the PGA Tour for three years Mike turned his talents toward teaching. With his experience as a player and reputation of having a world class swing the transition was natural.

Golf Tip by: Mike Bender, Consistency of alignment.

Most golfers are continually searching for the key to consistency. I like
to look at the swing as a series of dom inos lined up in order, as the first one falls it collides with the next causing it to collide with the next and so on. In order to be consistent the first domino of alignment must be in place. 90% of all golfers aim too far to the right making it necessary to compensate in order to hit a good shot. This so called over the top
compensation leads to inconsistent results.

TIP:

Each time you set up to hit a ball, make sure to pay attention to where your feet are pointing. If you were to lay a club across the front of your toes it should appear to point approximately 30 yards left of your target. In actuality if you were to put a club parallel, to the one that is across the toes through the ball, you will find that it will be at your target. Try it on the range and you will be amazed at how far left you feel but how
straight you are aimed.

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Jay, I am not sure I understand the last paragraph starting with the sentence “In actuality………”. It looks to me like the 2nd club laid parallel would also point 30 yards left of target.
Would you please clarify that statement?

Thanks!!
Hi Gary,

Hi Gary, you’d have to ask Mike Bender to be sure.

I’ve seen him describe this on video - tyr parallel shafts 1) at your toes 2) one thru the ball
From behind they should be pointing at the target and in a parallel path left of the target.

But when you step up and address the ball and look up at the target from your stance it feels like your aiming too far right (because of the slight angle of your stance being left of the ball for a right handed golfer).

I recently had a fellow golfer and old teaching pro point out that I was aiming right after I hit what I thought was a perfect shot and it ended up right. He said I was lined up that way.

I just recently started addressing this problem in my pre-shot routine by not looking up once I had picked my target directly in front of the ball to square my club face up to - I then place my club face squarely behind the ball, place my feet perpendicular to that line and concentrate on striking the ball. Never looking up at the target from the address position. — And I have been hitting consistently straighter shots as a result.

I hope that helps,
Jay
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Phil Mickelson believes that golf should be an Olympic sport by the year 2016 because of how it would help develop the growth of golf worldwide.

“It would bring in 168 different countries and their Olympic foundation, and all those revenues would be going toward the growth of the game of golf.” -Phil Mickelson

With this idea, Mickelson also suggested that golf in the Olympics would actually be more important for the game than events such as this weekend’s PGA Championship. While Mickelson favors the idea, others such as Trevor Immelman believe that not only golf should not be in the Olympics, but also basketball and tennis, citing the sports were too professional and the athletes who played them were being paid too much money already. Worldwide interest in golf may increase with its addition to the Olympics, but take away the majors to accomplish this? I don’t know about that.