Keith Marks Golf Lesson: How to Aim

Several years ago I asked one of my mentors, the late Golf Hall of Famer Henry Picard how do you tell someone to aim.

In his reticent New England crisp accent he said ” You don’t tell them!!!”. ” You get their swing right and the pupil will then come to aiming on their own and they won’t realize the day or the hour that it  happens ”

Two of golf’s greatest players, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead had vastly different approaches to this issue.

Hogan aimed near the left rough and drove the ball in the middle of the fairway, while conversely Snead aimed near the right rough and drove the ball in the middle of the fairway. Which one was right???. They both were..

The point is neither of these two great players got caught up in a laundry lists of do's and don’ts about their golf swing. They simply concerned themselves to hit the ball where they wanted it to go. Good advice.

Keith Marks Golf Lesson: Proper Wrist Action

One of my earliest mentors was the legendary teacher Alex Morrison. I suppose Alex was the most influential person in my life that instilled to me a philosophy that just because everybody is doing it doesn’t mean that it is right.

He told me to be an effective teacher,  I would for the most part be swimming upstream, as far as new fads concerning instruction were concerned.

One thing he harped on was wrist action, which one hears so little about these days.

“Wrist action is the barometer of efficiency in a golf swing”, he said. It is!!

Proper wrist action at the end of the backswing allows the easy feel and timing to start the downswing leisurely which is so important.