Alignments w/ Davis Love

hg
Anyone else notice the short video clip at the PGA Championship website by DL. He talks about the importance of alignments and how 75% of his work off the course is on alignments. If his basic alignments are off he cannot achieve/maintain the geometry of the circle & the optimum angle of attack into the ball, thru impact and after impact. I thought it was cool to see someone at his level stressing the importance of alignments
Yoda
Originally Posted by hg
Anyone else notice the short video clip at the PGA Championship website by DL. He talks about the importance of alignments and how 75% of his work off the course is on alignments. If his basic alignments are off he cannot achieve/maintain the geometry of the circle & the optimum angle of attack into the ball, thru impact and after impact. I thought it was cool to see someone at his level stressing the importance of alignments
Stood right behind Davis for a half hour Wednesday (at the 2009 PGA) as he worked with Jack Lumpkin, his coach and Sea Island, Georgia / Golf Digest, legend. Anybody got a link to hg's clip?

P.S. In 1973, I was admitted to membership at Atlanta CC, then as now, an exclusive golf club. I was 25 years old; a four-year miltiary vet; Georgia Tech graduate; and, now, the youngest member of the club. Davis Love, Jr. was our professional, and his son, 'Trip', ran 'round the grounds and dominated the Junior Golf program. What a privileged time! Who could have known the destinies in wait?

P.P.S. When I'm back in Atlanta and ACC, I'll post a photo in this thread of DL III (and his PGA Championship trophy) that hangs in our lobby.

Richie3Jack
It's something I focus on a lot as well. I have 20/20 vision in both eyes, but I'm right handed with a left eye dominant. The past week I had been struggling and found that my body address alignments were open to the target. After aiming a little more to the right with my body, still struggled with a push/fade. I then realized as I aimed my body a little more to the right to correct my problem, I was also starting to aim my clubface to the right at address and that was causing an open face at impact. Changed that around and just hit 12/13 fairways and hit 15 GIR's (hit the last 10 GIR).

I have a friend that is good friends with the Nicklaus family and according to him, Jack told him once that every single time he goes to the range, he puts a club down by his feet to help with his address alignments. So if it's good enough for the guy with the most majors ever and who went to 40+ US Opens in a row, then it should be good for just about anybody to work on.




3JACK