Is float loading the answer to chronic throwaway?

[Seanmx]

Is float loading the answer to chronic throwaway?

I am a high handicap golfer with a fairly wonky swing. I have been studying TGM for about a year. In patches I hit the ball as well as any low handicapper but throwaway always seems to come back. When it does I start playing golf like someone who never played before until I re-discover lag and manage to sustain at least a good portion of it into impact.

I was at the driving range at lunch time today. Messing around I tried out float loading. WOW!!! I started hitting the ball more crisply than I ever did before. I can’t wait for the weekend so I can try it out on the course.

I wonder is float loading a good way to stop a high handicapper such as myself throwing the club away.

What I am doing is re-cocking the club a little on the way down, feeling the lag loading onto PP#3. Then all I have to do is let centrifugal force look after the rest and the ball soars into the distance.

To my amazement it also works beautifully with acquired motion swings. Acquired motion is something I always had difficulty with as I always over accelerate and throw the club away. With this float loading action I am able to hit the ball about 100yds with a tiny little back swing.

I hope that this feeling lasts!!

Thank you LBJ and Mr Kelley for the introducing me to the catalogue of components which I can experiment with. Eventually I hope to cobble together a swing that will allow me to break 80. Hopefully Float Loading will give me a good summer’s golf.

[Toolish]

I too find float loading helpful as a feel and a drill, but I am not a float loader by nature so I don't use it in my 'game' swing. Have you tried really consciously drag loading...get the the top of your backswing (wherever that may be, works well with acquired motion for a start) and pause.

Now pivot while making a conscious effort to leave the club and hands behind, start without a ball and focus on feeling the loading on PP#3 on the way down...really feel it...once you have that bring a ball into play and continue...really exagerate leaving the club behind as a drill...see how that changes your normal swing.

Float loading can be an answer, but it is not the only answer.

[bambam]

Float loading can be an answer, but it is not the only answer.

I agree. A little float loading can help, but if you have other issues causing throwaway, it may not be a permanent solution. Also, it's easy to cock your right wrist to really feel like you're float loading, but in reality you're not fload loading, messing up your flying wedges and creating more problems (been there done that!).

Here's a good thread on the subject, including a response from Yoda: http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=1132

[6bmike]

Chronic? No. Learn what the Flying Wedges do, how they are assembled and how they are bought to the aiming point. Learn Lag and lose the impulse to hit the ball with the clubhead before reaching the aiming point. Float Loading is not a band- aid.

[bray]

Chronic? No. Learn what the Flying Wedges do, how they are assembled and how they are bought to the aiming point. Learn Lag and lose the impulse to hit the ball with the clubhead before reaching the aiming point. Float Loading is not a band- aid.

Great Post 6B!

Sorting Through the Duffer's Bible.
B-Ray

[Seanmx]

Chronic? No. Learn what the Flying Wedges do, how they are assembled and how they are bought to the aiming point. Learn Lag and lose the impulse to hit the ball with the clubhead before reaching the aiming point. Float Loading is not a band- aid.

You were right, float loading is not band aid!! It did not last.

I am now making sure my pivot starts my downswing and am hitting the ball very well with drag loading and am trying to train myself to lose the impulse to hit as you described above

[6bmike]

You were right, float loading is not band aid!! It did not last.

I am now making sure my pivot starts my downswing and am hitting the ball very well with drag loading and am trying to train myself to lose the impulse to hit as you described above

Float Loading is addictive. Who doesn’t like that feel? It is like an insurance policy (not cure) against pp3 throw-away. I feel the float on pp1 and pp2.

Don't let the clubhead direct or command impact. Hit the ball with the Hands- let the club be an extension of your pressure points.

[brownman]

I hav,nt got tgm YET,can you please tell me what float loading is.Thanks in advance ,,TERRY Also where can I get a copy of TGM.(Im in OZ)

[Seanmx]

I hav,nt got tgm YET,can you please tell me what float loading is.Thanks in advance ,,TERRY Also where can I get a copy of TGM.(Im in OZ)

Float loading means that you add left wrist cock on the down swing. Usually when you do this the left wrist is not full cocked at the top.

Ben Doyle recommends this action for pitching. I find it great when I am throwing the club away and need to find that all important but alas for me occasionaly elusive lag.

You can buy the book on Amazon or at www.thegolfingmachine.com or www.bendoylegolf.com.

There is some super info in the Archive section of this forum which is split into the chapters of the book

[Toolish]

Can also buy the book from Paul Smith in Australia ( a contributing pro on here), contact him via iseekgolf (sorry lynn, hope that doesn't count as advertising!)