Rinker’s Golf Tips Top 100 Teacher James Leitz

LarryRinkerGolf — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:14:00 +0000

Rinker’s Golf Tips Top 100 Teacher James Leitz. January 24, 2014 Trackman and 3D expert, Top 100 Teacher, James Leitz did a presentation at the Core Golf Academy for the coaches titled, “My road to 4/10,000th of a second” Impact, only time ball is told what to do. Here are some highlights.

What the club does trumps what the body does. Great players:
1. Have enough speed to compete at the level they are playing.
2. Impact alignments produce the type of shot that is desired.
3. Impact alignments are repeatable.
4. Golf Swing doesn’t cause injury.

Four things affect ball flight.
1. Club head speed
2. Path and angle of attack. Path = direction of the force. Vector of force is both path and attach angle.
3. Sweet spot or where the club face is pointing at the moment of impact.
4. Impact point or where you hit the ball in the club face.

Attack angle is a true indicator of shaft lean. Plane is golfers feeling of path. The starting direction of the ball is 70% club face angle with irons and 85% with the driver.
5 degrees off with club face at impact is 40′ at 100 yards.
1 degree off is 8′ at 100 yards.
1 degree off is 13′ at 250 yards.
That’s why you don’t want your club face more than 2 degrees off at impact.
Golfer has to “feel” the correct geometry at impact. A bad mental state can only screw up geometry (Pressure). Perfect mental state can allow geometry to work. (Zone)

For more information on James Leitz, please visit his web site at www.Leitzgolf.com.

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James Sieckmann Short Game Seminar

LarryRinkerGolf — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:13:00 +0000

James Sieckmann Short Game Seminar. PGA Tour Short Game Coach, James Sieckmann visited the Core Golf Academy on Thursday, January 23rd and did a presentation for the coaches and then worked with the students on their short games. James said he watched Seve Ballesteros and Raymond Floyd, two of the best short game players of all time, and came up with his short game program based on these two Hall of Famers.

To me it was a breathe of fresh air to hear a short game coach talking about the club head swinging and passing the body on these shots. James said the club head moves first and fastest from the top of the swing with the finesse wedges inside of 30 yards. He explained the sequence from the top with 3D graphs, and the 3D graphs showed the finesse wedge shot is not the same kinematic sequence as the power golf swing. Different mechanics.
Here are some highlights.
Set-up
1. Weak trail hand grip.
2. Where chest is at set-up determines the bottom of the arch which you want in front of the ball.
Swing
1. Swing plane. Handle and club head on plane. Right elbow has to fold or external rotation on the back swing. Yips in chipping is caused by under the plane with a shut or closed club face.
2. Shaft lean at address will match shaft lean three inches past impact.
3. Energy always flows to the pin.
4. Tension ruins motion.
5. Wanted students to hit four trajectories to the same pin.
6. Said lob wedge should be 2 degrees flatter than 6-I and SW one degree flatter than 6-I.
7. Want to expose the bounce with the club head is passing the body.

James also talked about bunker play,distance wedges, and how to practice with block, random, and tests or playing games. It was a great seminar and it was nice to hear someone who coaches the mechanics of the short game very similar to the way I do.

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