Like many great golfers, Sam Snead was based on the swing keys to help you achieve consistency. As membership in the golf hall of fame testimony, these swing keys served him well throughout his career. Interestingly, many of them are still used by today's professionals to do the same.
Below are repeatedly tested swing keys that can help achieve consistency and knock down a few notches handicap.
1. Relax your hands
Your hands are one of the keys of your swing. If your hands are tight and tense, his body will be tight and tense, and you will not be able to rotate freely. If your hands are loose, you not only hit the ball farther you swing but still too soft.
Snead used to think to grab the club with the same amount of pressure used to keep a bird just firm enough to let fly, but not strong enough to hurt. Others think that holding a toothpaste tube in your hands, just firm enough to squeeze a little toothpaste tube, but not enough to push too.
2. First Down
Several key players in different things to begin your changes. Some focus on getting down with the left arm (for right handers). Others concentrate on turning the front hip slightly. Others, key in reducing slightly the left heel. For Snead, who was all these things. Since you can think in all of them at once while swing, pick the one that reminds you to move to make the first move down.
3. Hit the dimple
Many of my students during class golf to ask what to look at when putting the ball. Apparently, a lot of people also asked Sam the same question when I was playing in the tour. He had a simple answer. Choose a dimple on the ball and try to hit him.
The idea is to make the club strike the ball further back all the time. Zero in on that particular dimple, then putt away. If you hit full dimple the putter is probably moving and facing in the right direction. You will get solid contact unless you are cutting the ball, or swing to it. In order for the dimple will improve consistency.
4. The Cure The Slice
The sector is probably the biggest mistake of oscillation among recreational golfers. To cure a slice, check:
 • The club begins again in line
 • The left side is complete around
 • The left arm and hand dominate the up / down
 • The guidance is not the same for the intentional cutting, which makes a complete rotation.
For a quick cure, try hitting the ball to the right street. This helps focus on what the club on the ball more from the inside than the outside.
5. Launching the Green
Snead has always enjoyed a challenge. And trying to shoot pumped a danger to the green is a challenge. Snead advice to launch more of a hazard with little green between him and the hole was simple: You want the shot to fly high and land soft settle in their tracks. To execute this shot, the first thing to address the ball with the clubface more relaxed than usual, increasing the loft.
Once you've done this, take the club back and break your wrists early in the swing. Hit through the ball with your hands leader through the club head, with wrists and break on the ball. This produces a high balloon that lands softly. The swing of the whole must be slow and rhythmic.
6. Swing in "Waltz" Time
Everybody has their own pace. Some players play at a fast pace. Others play at a slower pace. If Sam had seen him play, he would have realized that if the club opened slowly and gently. He called swinging in waltz time, and that was his key swing to keep your swing under control.
Sam liked to tell the story of the time he gave a lesson to the player who played like he was going to a fire. He could get to the ball quickly enough in an effort to try to hit the ball 400 yards. Chops balls flying father. Afraid the man might hurt himself, Sam came and told the man to slow down his swing. The next time Sam saw the man was caught. He had slowed his swing to waltz time.
Sam Snead was one of the best games of the players and teachers. Like many golfers who used specific keys to activate your golf swing and achieve consistency. The six explained above were only a sample. By joining in your swing, you will be well on your way to reach a single digit handicap you've always wanted.
Copyright (c) 2006 Jack Moorehouse
Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.” He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately. He has a free weekly newsletter with the latest golf tips, golf lessons and golf instruction.
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