The discovery of the five swing principles is a real breakthrough for golfers. They not only define the golf swing and the athletic motion used by all ground based sports, but make all the positive effects every golfer wants in their swing to happen automatically.

I want to talk about how the Concept Golf swing principles create the swing positions that make high quality shot-making common place rather than an accident. It occurs to me that I know and understand the connection between the principles and the positions that cause excellent, consistent shot-making but that it may not be so obvious to many golfers.

Today I am connecting the dots between one of those important positions and two of the Concept Golf swing principles.

One of the necessary positions for excellent ball striking is for the hands ahead of the club head and the ball as the club hits the ball. This is a truth-position for all clubs all the time. Especially the wedge, the putter, the 7-iron, the driver, the 3-wood, the 1-iron, the chip shot, the pitch shot, the sand shot and any other club and any other shot you can think of.

ONLY with the hands ahead of the club head will the ball be struck squarely and fairly. If the club head ever gets ahead of the hands during the swing, many unpleasant results can be expected. Such as: fat shots, crooked shots, very short shots, high aimless shots, shots that no one could love.

As an example, did you ever try to make that little wedge shot near the green only to have the club get some dirt before it got to the ball? The resulting shot is a short dribbler causing an occasional utterance of golf words.

What caused that manly shot? The club head got ahead of your hands. That made the bottom of the arc before the ball rather than beyond the ball. We could focus on what caused the poor shot or what