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4.5
One thing I have learned is that reading too many hints, tips, theories, etc. can finally turn your swing into such a mess that sometimes it becomes a minor miracle that you can even hit the ball! THIS BOOK CHANGES ALL OF THAT!Jim McLean, as one of golf's most qualified instructors, gives you permission to take the club back with a lot of leniency in how you do it. He analyzes, with accompanying illustrations, the swings of some of history's best ball strikers, and you see that they all do the takeaway a little differently - BUT - to a man, they all find "the slot" on the way down, and by the time they are halfway down in the downswing, they all look virtually the same, with a powerful, inside approach to the ball.What I really liked about the instruction in "The Slot Swing", is that it doesn't require a lot of thought! Setting yourself into the slot will happen naturally with your initial hip slide back at the start of your downswing if you haven't taken the club too far back to the inside, initially. Unlike many other golf books' ideas that I've taken to the range without much success, THE SLOT SWING GIVES YOU IMMEDIATE, BETTER RESULTS!I've been hindered for the last few months by not allowing myself to do the things that I want to naturally do for power in the swing, i.e. taking the club back initially to the outside and letting my rear arm fly away from my side on the backswing. I learned from this book that IT IS OKAY TO DO THESE THINGS! In fact, you will probably slot the club better if you do! One of the most effective things I learned from this book is the concept of taking the club head away in such a way that it is most gravitationally balanced. Fighting the weight of the club head because it is tilted off plane, too far forward OR backward just makes it that much harder to deliver the head to the ball with maximum energy and consistency. Before reading this book, I would say that out of a bucket of about 120 balls I hit at least 10% of them too fat or too thin. After reading "The Slot Swing", I totally mishit maybe three out of the whole bucket! Better yet, you start to realize after you have found "the slot", that bringing full, confident power down through the slot is the most consistent way to deliver a dead-on strike on the ball! If, like me, you have thought in the past, "No, I don't want to really hit it with full power - I need to control this shot and make good contact", this fantastic book will improve your swing to where you not only won't be thinking that, you'll be thinking the opposite - "I need a dead on shot, so deliver full power down through the slot!"Reading this book may be the simplest step you will ever take to truly "finding your groove", which, as it turns out, is "the slot", and "the slot" is the same for all great ball strikers, no matter how you manage to get there. I can't recommend it highly enough. READ THIS BOOK! IT'S A GAME CHANGER!
