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"Hank knows more about ball flight and what controls it than anyone in the game." ?Masters and British Open champion Mark O'Meara

Get back to basics and build your best possible golf swing

Lots of golf instructors can show you tricks to correct a hook or to stop hitting the ball fat, but these are just quick fixes that leave you with a swing built on mistakes. In Hank Haney's Essentials of the Swing, the world's premier expert on the golf swing takes you back to step one to master the essentials and build a complete, powerful, and consistent swing that will improve your game quickly and keep you playing better for years to come.

This step-by-step guide brings you the same careful analytical approach that Hank has shared with the hundreds of touring pros who have been his students ? including the world's #1 golfer. It walks you through every aspect of your swing, from grip to contact to follow-through, and shows you how to analyze ball flight to shape your shots and put the ball where you want it more frequently and with much more consistency.

Packed with helpful pictures, invaluable practice tips, and insightful pointers on everything from club selection to the difference between a good miss and a bad miss, Hank Haney's Essentials of the Swing is the resource you need to hit the top of your game and stay there.
Introduction.

1. The Plan.

2. The Grip.

3. Stance/Posture/Alignment.

4. The Backswing.

5. The Forward Swing.

6. Practice.

7. On the Course.

8. Working the Ball/Shaping Shots.

9. Conclusion.

Acknowledgments.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	25 mars 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470508978
Langue	English

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Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1 - THE PLAN
Chapter 2 - THE GRIP

How to Hold the Club
Top Hand First
The Bottom Hand
Grip Pressure

Chapter 3 - STANCE, POSTURE, AND ALIGNMENT

Alignment
Stance
Ball Position
The Clubface
Weight Distribution
Posture
Right Arm-Left Arm
Keep Your Eyes Level
One Last Thing

Chapter 4 - THE BACKSWING

The First Move
On Plane
One-Piece?
The Backswing: In and Up
When the Shaft Is Horizontal
Width
From Parallel to the Top
More on the Plane
The End of the Backswing
O’Meara’s Backswing

Chapter 5 - THE FORWARD SWING

Up and Down
Starting Down
Checkpoints
The Release
The Follow-Through

Chapter 6 - PRACTICE

Practice Swings
Stick with It
Retrace Your Steps
Know Your Distances
What You Need to Work On
Warming Up versus Practice
Tiger’s Warm-up
Tiger’s Practice

Chapter 7 - ON THE COURSE

Pre-Shot Routine, Tactics, and Strategy
Over the Ball: The Waggle

Chapter 8 - WORKING THE BALL AND SHAPING SHOTS

Right to Left/Left to Right
The Fade
The Draw
Higher and Lower
The Low Shot
The High Shot

CONCLUSION
INDEX

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Copyright © 2009 by Hank Haney. All rights reserved

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Haney, Hank. [Essentials of the swing] Hank Haney’s essentials of the swing : a 7-point plan for building a better swing and shaping your shots / Hank Haney. p. cm. Includes index.
eISBN : 978-0-470-50897-8
1. Swing (Golf) I. Title. II. Title: Essentials of the swing. GV979.S9H279 2009 796.352’3—dc22 2008036263

FOREWORD
“May I tell you something?” Hank Haney asked. He’s been watching me play golf for twenty years, exercising singular restraint in never once fixing what is so clearly a flawed action. Sam Snead once said my grip resembled a can of worms. The writer Charles Price once said that if I hit the ball any lower I’d be playing underground. The comedian Ray Romano once observed that my putter resembles a metal detector. But through all of these years, Hank suffered in silence.
He couldn’t take it anymore on the 13th fairway at Pine Valley Golf Club, where we get together every spring for a couple of days of nonstop golf. On this occasion the catalyst was a weakly struck 3-wood that found the sandy hazard short and left of the green.
“Let me show you something,” he said. “You play a shot by walking up to the ball and taking your stance and looking down at the target. For as long as golf’s been played, no good golfer ever started from beside the ball. Golf starts by standing behind the ball and looking at the target. Then you walk to the side of that line and take your address position.”
I guess he had a point. Why should I think I’d be the first “good golfer” in five hundred years to start my setup from beside the target line? There’s a good chance that the coach of Tiger Woods may know something about how to set up to the ball, so I nodded knowingly and filed his advice away for future application. Since that revelation, I can’t say it’s exactly transformed everything. My trajectory is still practically underground, but sighting the target from behind the ball has given me more consistency. It has the secondary effect of improving my posture. And it forces me to slow down, which has always been a mental fault.
When I reported to Hank months later that his impromptu lesson made an impression on me, he said: “You could make an argument that everybody’s swing mistakes come from setup mistakes. That doesn’t mean they are all going to go away if you set up well, but the whole evolution of your swing might have started just from setting up poorly. I try to make my teaching as simple as I can. All I’m trying to do is help you take a little step. And then if you can take a little step, then you take another one. I don’t want to make it more complicated by advocating giant leaps. Just be patient with a little step. If you take enough little steps, you are going to cover a tremendous amount of ground.
“The hard part as a teacher, though, isn’t necessarily looking at somebody and seeing what they need to do, but it’s the convincing part. In your case, what struck home was my statement about five hundred years, as long as golf’s been played, nobody has ever started from the side and played well. So that was the convincing part that got you to commit. It was the most important part of the message for starters, because if it didn’t come with that, it wouldn’t have clicked.”
“So what’s the next step?” I asked.
“What are you looking at when you now start the swing from behind the ball?” replied Hank. “Pick an intermediate target—a leaf, a sprig of grass, a spot on the ground—and set your aim to that point. You know, Nicklaus and Tiger both pick that intermediate target right out in front of them. In effect, bringing the target closer. And, my gosh, it’s just amazing that those two guys do something that simple and yet everybody else who plays golf doesn’t do it. You know, I mean, what else do you need? People want to make the game harder than it is. My teaching is about making it simple.”
Over many hours of discussion through the years, Hank has convinced me that there are two legitimate ways of teaching. The first is a quick fix. In golf, the master of the quick fix is the British genius John Jacobs, who’s considered the godfather of the European Tour and is one of Hank’s original mentors. Jacobs could stand with his back to the student, observing only the flight of the ball, and magically offer the key setup changes necessary for improvement. “Basically when you do that, you’re picking which bad impact you’re going to live with,” says Haney. “In other words, you might make somebody whose swing is too steep swing more shallow. Now they are on their way to being too shallow, but that’s a lot better than being too steep. Sometimes Jacobs strengthens the grip—rotates the hands clockwise on the club—and once again fixes the problem by turning a slice into a hook.
“You’ve got to have some element of that in your teaching, or you’re never going to be successful, because it’s what everybody wants. Even students who say they don’t want it, want it, because everyone’s determination and persistence and dedication to a swing change is going to be tested at some point. You can line up somebody with a good grip and all the fundamentals, but if they’re hitting grounders trying to make the change, how long will they stick with it?”
Haney believes the other method is to teach swing shape. The theory is, if you create a great-looking swing, you’ll get a great-looking shot. “Every teacher I know, regardless of what they say about ‘teaching the student, not the swing,’ actually teaches a swing based on a model,” says Haney. “Even the biggest proponent of ‘I work with what you’ve got and I don’t change it all around’ still has some vision of what the swing should look like.”
Hank’s first two books were constructed around the first way to teach—fixing swing problems—and they really offered insight into the way he gives a lesson. If you’ve read those books, and for those who haven’t I recommend you do, you would walk away having a pretty good idea of what taking a lesson from Hank would be like. In this book, Haney and his talented collaborator, Golf Digest ’s European correspondent John Huggan, explain Hank’s vision of what every aspect of the swing should look like. He’s focused more on everything you would do, piece by piece, to build the best swing that you could for you. There’s no short game, no putting—just full swing. Hank Haney’s Essentials of the Swing is a culmination of thirty years of teaching. It’s the model on which Hank bases his p