Lower your Handicap Now!

The fastest and best way to lower your handicap is to focus on your swing bottom. That is where the lowest point of your swing arc is. For years we have been  told to keep our eye on the ball. This will not only move your swing bottom back but is a sure way to hurt your game. Bobby Clampett conducted a study of how the swing bottom of players affects the players handicap. What he found is that for every inch a players swing bottom is ahead of the ball their handicap drops four strokes. So players that are scratch and shot even par most of the time have a four inch forward swing bottom. The best way to improve in this is to focus ahead of the ball. Not at the ball! This will help you swing down and through the ball and towards the target. I like to have my students do the line drill without a ball.

                                                                       

 Here we see two lines along with some divots. 

The ball line is where the center of the ball would sit. So if you draw a line in the grass using  spray powder or our Impact Zone Powder ( available at Impact Zone Golf world headquarters in Naples) and then add a second line four inches ahead. Now you can say your club about an inch behind the ball line. Look at the forward line and try to hit that line. See where your divot starts and where the deepest and widest part of that divot is. measure how far ahead that ball line this is. This will determine your handicap. That means if your are two inches ahead of that ball line consistently than you should be a eight handicap. If your are one inch behind that ball line you twenty handicap. Do this drill daily without a ball. Then when you hit balls on the range or during a round find a point in front of the ball  and try to get the bottom of your divot to be there. Forget about the ball. Just focus on the forward aimpoint and watch your scores drop. 

Bernard Sheridan is the founder of Par Breakers Golf Academy and host of Breaking Par with Bernard Sheridan a weekly golf instruction podcast on iTunes and Stitcher radio. He is now a full time Advanced instructor for Impact Zone Golf at the Impact Zone Golf World Headquarters 1040 Collier Center Way #15 Naples Fl. 34110  215-518-0435. 

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