Well, if you've watched it on TV and checked the scores you know that DJ didn't have a good day today. Started off with a great three wood, right off the first tee, but he hung a little wedge to the right to a front right pin placement off the green and didn't get it up and down and made bogey.
Coming back with a birdie on the next hole, I thought he was going to shape up pretty good, because getting it back right away should put him in a good frame of mind. But I don't know if he ever got his frame of mind back. He had a very unusual day. He had five birdies and still shot four over par for a 75.
What bad about that is that, even though he made the cut, they're playing this week with the rule that, when they get over 80 people who make the cut, they have a Saturday cut to try to get the field down to as close to 70 as they can. So a number of people, depending on how the scores go, will be cut today. That's why you might see in the newspaper “DNF,” did not finish. They'll still make a check but they don't get to play Sunday. Unfortunately, even if you're kind of high in scoring, if you shoot a 65 or 64 and jump up pretty high and get a top 20 and make a nice check.
I know a lot of guys don't care for that and I don't know how long it might be around, but I understand that's what's going to happen today. So DJ won't be playing tomorrow.
Let's do a little instruction out of this. I was standing on the range this morning and all I kept seeing were finishes, these wide or deep finishes. When you get wide in the finish, the top arm in the finish is extended quite straight and the palm is down to the ground. As you know, in the Peak Performance Golf Swing, we want to finish up close to the forward ear, with the bottom hand on the club and the right hand, for a right hander, would be very close to the ear.
All I'm seeing, I don't care whether it's here on the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, Nationwide, almost anywhere you play golf today, you're going to see people with the big turn finish, with the arms outstretched and palm down to the ground. It has the front arm downward, than up in a nice, level triangle, and that also puts a lot of stress on the neck and shoulders and runs right down to the right hit.
You know the Peak Performance Golf Swing has a dynamically balanced finish. That is achieved by swinging right up, palms perpendicular to the ground, Secret #2, then we recoil and relax. Everything always stays palms perpendicular, so the shoulders are horizontal to the ground.
So, when you watch the tournament on TV, or whatever tour you're watching, you're going to see player after player in the finishes, palm down and the base of the equilateral is not horizontal to the ground as compared to the Peak Performance finish, where the elbows are parallel to the ground because the finish comes up palms perpendicular and recoils up front.
So work on your finish. You see that when you finish palms perpendicular to the ground, you'll have a much more dynamically balanced finish under control. You'll start hitting more solid and consistent shots with a tighter flight pattern.
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