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Originally Posted by ChrisNZ
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My name is ChrisNZ and I am a bobber...
I really struggle with this affliction as video has proven to me. You learn to compensate a bit, but hitting fairway woods off hard ground isn't fun (my home course is dry linksland). Plus it is incredibly ugly and makes you feel like a real hack!
I'm trying to diagnose the cause of this in myself, and feel I may be pinning it down to a loss of tension in my left thigh if that makes sense. If I feel like I maintain some tension in my left thigh throughout the swing (particularly the backswing) it seems to help.
Any thoughts on this?
By the way, I was practicing today in my lunch hour, hitting pretty nice pitches in a little field. A cyclist rode past and just after I'd hit a nice pitch said "Keep your head down" - I don't know if he was jokingly being friendly or was serious, but I wanted to run after him and attack him with my pitching wedge. So that's how dangerous the snares can be.
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It would be interesting to know where exactly it is during the back swing that the bobbing occurs. Start-up, back swing, top, end? Personally, I hold the record for swaying and bobbing, and I don't like it when someone else is encroaching on my record, so, it's important to get you fixed as soon as possible. I've asked my wife to watch me swing and to tell me when I start to bob, and so far I have address and finish pretty well under control.
7-16 "Actually, the primary function of knee action-as with waist bend-is to maintain a motionless head during the stroke".