If you’re going to take advice about golf, what better way than listening to an eight-time major champion explain the secret of an 18-time major champion?!
That’s what happens in this excellent little video in which Tom Watson describes a key movement made by Jack Nicklaus.
“The old adage of keeping your eye on the ball,” Watson starts off. “It really has to do with keeping your shoulder tilt the same at impact as it was at address.”
In his classic head nodding fashion Watson adds: “That’s keeping your eye on the ball.”
“But another couple of things,” he adds, ready to introduce his old foe and now great friend.
“I like to go back to what Jack Nicklaus does with his head right before he takes the club back.”
Watson demonstrates the classic move that many an average golfer has made when doing an impression of Nicklaus – and Nick Faldo did something similar – but how many of us have included it in our own pre-shot routine?!
“He’ll look at like this,” Watson shows us. “When he turns his head like this, like he’s looking out of his left eye.
“What that does is freeze up his shoulder turn.
“That’s a good move to start the back swing with.
“It also keeps your head behind the ball as you start to hit it.
“The one thing you don’t want to happen with your head is to bob it up and down, especially bob it up and down before you get to impact.
“I think its okay for the head to slide off the ball and then slide into the ball
“It’s okay like Annika Sorenstam, when you come into the ball your head starts to turn. You don’t have to look at the ball as your head starts to turn. That’s okay.
“But the one thing I don’t want to see in the head is the bob go down and then on the downswing come up.
“That’s a killer for consistency.
“That club head cannot hit the ball consistently if you do that.”
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