Golf Tips Slice

Looking for golf tips slice is often best accomplished by viewing a pro in action.  At the site Swail.com, look how Matt’s left hip spurts (‘snaps’) ahead of his left shoulder during and just after the overlap. In the photos below, the red lines are drawn through Matt’s hips, the green lines through his shoulders. Notice how the angle between these two lines opens up from 65 degrees to 72 degrees.

Just how quick is this “snap”? An article in the March, 1997 issue of Golf Magazine, “Science Of Swing Speed”, by Mike McTeigue, mentioned an average elapsed time for tour pros of 29 hundredths of a second from top of lift ‘n coil to impact. The implication in the text of this article is that Mike was tracking the whiphead. From the previous ‘Overlap’ chapter, we learned that the hips begin to uncoil before the shoulders, arms and whiphead have finished coiling.

In photos of Matt taken hundredths of a second apart, his hips appear to begin to uncoil 6hundredths of a second before the whiphead begins to rotate counter-clockwise. To get a ballpark figure for the elapsed time of hip rotation from the moment they begin to uncoil up to impact, let’s add Matt’s .06 to McTeigue’s Tour pro (whiphead) average .29 equals 35 hundredths of a second.

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