Malaska Journey Lesson 3
Unlock a more efficient and powerful golf swing with PGA National Teacher of the Year, Mike Malaska. In this insightful lesson, Malaska delves into the core principles of his renowned M-System, emphasizing the importance of natural body motions for developing a consistent and repeatable golf swing.…
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- Instructor: Mike Malaska
- Category: Lessons
- Topic: Full Swing
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So week three, we're going to work on probably the most important fundamental relative to compressing a golf ball and hitting it solid. And the reality is it's pretty much the same in every sport. It's why I'm holding a baseball bat, because I'm going to show it to you, then I'm going to show you how we practice it. So if I were to take a baseball bat and I'm going to hit a ball, when I hit the ball, where's my right arm? Well, my right arm lines up with the bat. You'd never see a baseball player run the bat into the ball and have their right arm up here. It's the same with if I hit a forehand in tennis, your arm lines up with the racket. You don't get your arm up high. Well, 90% of people who play golf, when they come into the ball, their right arm is way above the shaft plane. So when that happens, even if you square the club face on the ball, you can't compress the ball because there's no force into the back of the shaft. So this whole thing, lining this right arm up, is a big deal. Now it lines up from this angle. It doesn't line up like this necessarily. So the handle is a little forward of my hands, but this lines up with that. So here's what we're going to do. So we're going to start with your putter. Now, honestly, you can spend all your time at home just practicing this with a putter and a wedge and not really hit any full shots. You don't have to, because you have to get this feeling. This is the major task you have to understand if you're going to be good. Because…