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Anthony225 Jul 10, 2016
Ross,
I think the foot pressure description is an excellent one especially for a person like me who has always had great difficulty with being able to just turn back to the target (in any swing method). I never really found that type of detail after searches all over the web. I guess it’s hard to describe by people that it comes easily and naturally to.reneke Jun 09, 2016
Thanks again for the good advice
With your method I’m playing the best golf of my life!Rene
PS May y recommend the golf amateur who found this site (Ross Duplessis) to watch the videos here? They are short and clear and instruct a simple but efficient way to play golf.
And make you for a few dollars member for the rest of your (hopefully long) life
This is the best golf investment I have ever made!reneke Jun 08, 2016
Thank you Ross!With the “classic swing”, pro’s talk about building tension on the inner side of the trail leg during the backswing.
Were do we feel the tension with the Ross swing? Inner side front leg + back muscles?
Thnx and greetings!
René
Dan Apr 11, 2016
Ross, this is a good reminder and very timely. After Jordan Spieth’s final round he commented that he did not rotate through on his third shot at the 12th hole. Rotating all away through is important even for the pros.
Best,
Danlarry Apr 10, 2016
Said another way, the hands must pass the ball before the club head? Even if its by a very small amount.
Isn’t that why game improvement clubs have more offset than blades, to help the less skilled player get their hands through before the club head catches up?
Great Masters tournament this year!
LarryLarry45 May 25, 2018
Okay, Ross, thanks…that makes perfect sense. As I said in an earlier post, I’m 73 and have lost some flexibility and distance over the past few years. I think what I’m doing to compensate is taking the club back too far, to the point that I’m losing that vital connection between arms and body and getting out of balance besides. In this swing it is imperative that the arms and body stay connected, and the only way I can accomplish that is with a shorter backswing. What’s frustrating is that I know that, that my best shots are made with a short backswing allowing me to stay connected and in balance throughout the swing. Why my brain keeps telling me to take the club back farther is beyond me, but I have to learn to fight that impulse and just take what my body will give me.As I’ve said many times, this getting old has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, especially when it comes to golf. Thanks for your insight, Ross; it has been most enlightening and I sincerely appreciate it…
Larry45 May 24, 2018
Ross, despite my recent successes, I had another day today when everything was going left. The feeling I had was that I was actually over-rotating through impact – is that even possible? I replayed some of those swings in slow motion after the shot, and it felt like my body was rotating so much through impact that it forced the right shoulder out, in kind of an over-the-top move. The pulls were mostly straight and my divots were aimed left of target, telling me that the club face was square at impact but the club path was to the left rather than down the line. Do you have any thoughts on this? Knowing that body rotation is key to this swing, is it possible to rotate TOO much?Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated…
DJC2650 Aug 24, 2015
Thanks Ross. Yes, that describes it exactly. I need to readjust my pre-shot routine to make sure I am letting the arms (or the template as I call it now) hang correctly and freely.As a by the way, I am finding that setting up the template with the elbows pointing the hips correctly is a great way to visualize the shot from behind the ball in the pre-shot set up and helps me get my target and aim set up too.
Probably obvious to the ‘Ross’ golf community out there but helpful to me as I migrate from old swing habits.
DJC2650 Aug 23, 2015
Just a comment and I hope this makes sense. I had been hitting many of my shots pointed right or hooking right with a few slices thrown in. I was concentrating on keeping the original angle of club to my wrists intact through out the back swing and not hinging or turning my fore arms.I was finding that I was not rotating well on the back swing and my arms were getting caught too low because I was not letting my arms rise out naturally on the back swing.
Making much, much better contact now and the swing feels much better as I am letting my arms rise naturally in the backswing while I keep turning around my spine.
Before I was letting my arms hang low a bit too much.
Wondered if anyone else experienced this.
carlgo May 31, 2015
Ross, thanks. Exactly. The flatter the angle, the less I instinctively feel the need to moderate things to counter any forces. I know I was compensating for this before, with the expected mixed results. Looking at a reflection, angles are still there, not out straight like Moe or acute like you see on many videos.I think I might amend your suggestion to find the strongest angle to doing that and then flattening it out further a couple of degrees, to really keep that angle intact on full swings. Maybe that is another level of complication…
One thing that may be helping me is that my clubs are old eBay Ping ISI white dots, the size for taller people. The shafts I think are more vertical. I do not feel as comfortable with the long hybrids whose shafts are more horizontal. Perhaps they should be bent up a bit.
Oh, and thanks for mentioning that I may have a 100+ mph iron swing. Surely that is true…
JeffB7020 Jul 28, 2016
I think I sit down probably more than most. However, I noticed on address as long as my left hand touches the left thigh at address I am set up correctly with every club.Also on the turn I find that my left shoulder has to hit my chin with all the irons or I will HOOK the heck out of the ball and my driver it goes under the chin and I consistently hit it 250 straight.
i was making the worst looking pot hole divots until i watched the Lower body video and tried to touch the Knees on the follow through. That is a crazy good tip one I have never heard before. Wow did that fix a lot of my problems….
thanks again Ross..
Michae1_B Aug 12, 2014
Ross,Thank you so much for your reply. Just tried it. Feels a lot better already. Thanks again for you time in responding!
Michael
massimo Mar 08
Hi Ross, thanks, I have seen and tried this and find that a lot of pressure is on the front knee through the rotation toward impact which seems unnatural. Is there a way of alleviating this?
