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1. You don’t hit the ball going back. Just keep it smooth. This way you are not rushing the downswing with the arms.

2. Hi Paul, just want to say I really like your golf tips. Your lessons has given me more knowledge and I really start to improve my game.
   Regards from Sweden

3. Thank you very much. I truly appreciate the feedback and support.

4. I’m new to golf, I’m 20 years old, I’d love to get into the next level of golf, right now I’m hitting 100-109s out on any course I play, I’m using some antique clubs, no hybrid just woods and irons. I’m trying to master a swing I just have trouble with accuracy. I line up perfectly to the pin or wherever I aim to hit to, usually end up to the right a LONG ways and it’s not by a hook or slice in the ball its just where my body naturally wants to hit the ball. Any tips would be appreciated by any.

5. You tips are great Paul. Is not easy for someone who swing with the arms to get the proper feeling of your concepts but when it does happen the ball really goes nicely. I wish I could repeat the same feeling over and over but is not that easy. Keeping a slow tempo has always been a problem. Will keep trying though…thanks again for the great tips.

6. Hey Paul, great video. I have a question about the arms in the golf swing. While you take the club back, and during the downswing, are you thinking about the arms at all? I was also wondering about taking the club back, and where it should be pointing on the way back. If you have other videos that explain this please link me to them! Thanks for all your help!

7. Desperately trying your swing mechanics but have an ingrained inside swing path for 20 years. Does lower body have to load(initiate) backswing. One plane backswing automatically takes you on inside swing path, what some call dead zone.To get your hands that close to your right shoulder on backswing you have to be manipulating the club. RElax????

8. Paul, I seem to have lost distance with my driver. I can hit a three wood off the deck just about as far. I have put this instruction to work with my swing, and it has really helped, especially when I slow down my backswing. Thanks for all your videos!!

9. That’s great news. Unfortunately, people keep trying to hit harder and harder. When they do they tighten their arms and wrists which slows the club down. The looser something is the faster it swings. Stay loose.

10. You are right it is not easy especially when there are people out there telling you to hit the ball. The best way to get it is to hit 2/3 or 3/4 distance full swing shots with your clubs. By doing a full swing at less distance you have to start taking the arms and any hitting out of the swing. Once you get used to this easier swing with no arms you speed up the rotational speed of your body to hit it farther. Feel the legs hitting it not the arms.

11. The ball going straight right from a square setup is from you sliding through impact. When you slide your upper body tilts too much right in the downswing. This creates the path too much from the inside. You need to turn your legs and hips more in the downswing. If you do it right your left leg will be locked dead straight and the right left will have come around to touch it in the follow through. Right now your left leg is buckled when you are finished. It must be locked.

12. Yes, I am thinking to not use them in any way to hit the ball. I am allowing my body to coil and uncoil with the arms going along for the ride.

    Some people get this wrong and get too flat going back if they just turn. You may have to lift the club up to set the backswing until it goes there without having to lift it up there.

    I have a free trial on my Ignition Golf site. Just look it up and this will allow you access to hundreds of my tips.

13. To fix the path going back you take out your putter. With it you do a few strokes. In doing so you would do a perfect one-peice takeaway. After you do a few of these you keep doing putting strokes but now from your golf setup imagining you have a 7 iron in your hand. As you do there is no way you will be taking too far inside. Get used to this then switch to the actual 7 iron. Keep doing this and you will fix it in no time.
    For more tips please check out my Ignition Golf website.

14. all your videos are very helpful, many thanks from brazil !!!

15. Love your tips Paul. You’re absolutely right about having experienced that few times where that nice easy swing produces fantastic results. Tonight I’ve been practising coiling to get a nice backswing plane and I can do this. It’s starting the uncoiling where I have problems. However I believe this tip for hitting at 3/4 for a full swing will work and I’m looking foreard to trying it. Thanks again.

16. Thank you very much.  I appreciate it.

17. Thank you very much. Definitely keep coiling and uncoiling. This is the way to go then you will be basing your swing on torque which will repeat. Hitting does not.

    Uncoiling is tricky. Just do the 3/4 distance shots and lots of swings holding the club off the ground. When you hold it off the ground, there is no ball to hit. This allows you to feel your legs powering the swing.

18. Great tip, this has helped me a lot!

19. When I try to swing effortlessly with relaxed arms and wrists and try my hips to initiate the swing I hit a lot of high pushes, and push slices. What can I do?

20. Hi from Iceland.I think your swing is awsome and your lessons very good. I am training my lower body now to uncoil first and it is wery hard to learn and when I tried it for the first time I could not do it. I first got back pain trying to work those new muskles that had never been used in the swing. ;). I am slowly learning it and it is amazing. Why is it so hard to swing once the ball is on the ground?. when I have the ball the old over the top monster creaps in ughhhhhhh.

21. Your lessons are phenominal! You seem to touch upon and lay thread bare many mental blocks that come in the way of playing good golf, and I dont see many golf instructors doing that. That makes your lessons laying out strategy for improvemnet training all the time!

22. Thank you for the feedback.

23. Glad you like the videos. Thanks. It is hard to hit the ball when it’s on the ground because of human nature. It wants you to hit the object. You have to against what you want to do and keep the arms turned off. Once you do you will be able to do it off the ground. Swing easy and get used to this feeling. Then speed up only the body rotation to hit it farther.

24. You are driving the hips way too hard. Keep the arms turned off. Swing slow and get used to this new feeling. Then speed up the body rotation a little. Get used to this speed. Then turn it up another notch and so on. You are trying to run before you can crawl.

25. Thanks. Glad I could help.

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