One of the biggest afflictions I see every day with the better players I coach on the practice range has to do with a false piece of golf instruction many of us were taught in our earliest learning stages. We were taught to push the club back and this does an enormous amount of damage to 98% of the golf swings I see. Lets talk about what I mean from a practical standpoint and then I’ll back my comments up with hard scientific evidence.

Nearly every amateur golfer progresses through a series of levels. They highest handicap golfers start out by hitting the ball left of the target line with a slice until they figure out how to release the club and eliminate some of the problems that originate from pushing in both the back swing and the downswing. They have two misses. They either pull the ball and it…