GREATER POWER / STRONGER FOLLOW THROUGH

I am not seeking to inundate this forum with new threads, but rather expand on a few issues raised in my first post.

When I returned to golf a few years back one of the things which perplexed me was how golf pros. could (if they wished) lash their driver across their back on completion of their follow through whilst mine went almost nowhere, and at worst travelled almost horizontally right to left, as in anguish I usually watched a blocked or faded ball.

Increasing my daily stretching / flexibility exercises was only marginally beneficial, but nevertheless essential for long term lower back health.

My follow through finally came good when I realised that such had very little to do with yoga-like flexibility but depended on two simple principles:

1. When attacking the ball with a driver concentrate on keeping the right shoulder back as long as possible. Imagine that your target is twenty yards right of where it actually is and swing out to that location. In other words uncoil as late as possible. Most golf pros. are still attacking way right of target when their club head is parallel to the ground in the down swing. Whilst amateur players tend to uncoil almost at the very top of their down swing and thereby lose most of their power.

2. When practicing the above expect to block ball after ball to the right until you have mastered the second half of the equasion: Switch all weight off the right foot onto the left foot in time! This is what true balance means in driving - switching feet - not being stable via weight being simultaneously equally distributed between two feet.

Finally all that one needs to do is make the effort to lash the club across one's back.

I have added a YouTube video but it only works normally here if the blue hyperlink is clicked before the picture has a chance to open. Otherwise please go to Youtube).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LTTVdLVn24k

(I don't discuss / debate. Please feel free to shred amongst yourselves).