Far and Straight with Rescue 11

  Growing up fishing left lasting memories as my father taught me the movement needed to cast my line far and straight. He then taught me how to swing a TaylorMade Rescue 11 on the golf range using the same technique.
He was a fine golfer in his day and inherently new that the back arm was the key to delivering a powerful strike on a golf ball. He spoke about the back arm often, its position and movement pattern and he believed that all great golfers must have discovered its magic.
  As a PGA Golf Professional for almost 30 years, I think my father had it right. There is in fact several common swing faults associated with the back arm. In the coaching world they are known as early release/scooping, over the top, and trapped. Golf coaches today spend a great deal of their efforts helping their students overcome these faults as they rid us of power, consistency, and accuracy.

EARLY RELEASE / SCOOPING
  This occurs on the downswing and is a premature release of the back arm angles; the result is a weak impact position with the left wrist being bent the wrong direction at impact. This adds loft to the face of the TaylorMade Rescue 11 and as a result we see a loss of power and consistency. Early release can be evaluated with high speed video from the front angle by observe when the forward arm is in line with the shaft. Scooping happens when the club head passes the hands before impact.

OVER THE TOP
  This is perhaps the most common swing fault among high handicap golfers. It occurs due to the back arm straightening out too early on the downswing and being thrown outside or above the intended swing plane striking the ball from the outside. This in turn creates a pull if the clubface is square or a slice if the TaylorMade Rescue 11 face is open.

TRAPPED
This occurs when the back elbow gets behind the right hip on the downswing and is often caused by the lower body moving closer to the ball in the downswing. The result is a feeling that the body is in the way and the back elbow is stuck behind. The result is two typical miss hits, the block to the right and a hook to the left.

TaylorMade Rescue 11

  Everyone knows that a golf club, for the most part, is a straight shaft and the shaft is connected to the club head at the hosel. Club heads are designed so that when the sole (bottom) of the club is placed square to the ground the grip end of the shaft leans toward the target and the club head is behind it. When the TaylorMade Rescue 11 is set down like this the level of loft on the clubface is as the designer intended. By allowing the TaylorMade Rescue 11 to have its naturally designed forward target side lean at the address point we are using the design rather than fighting it. I call this Design Rule #1.

  How often do you see players at address with the shaft positioned at right angles to the ground or even pointing backwards? Too often. With their hands in this position the loft now being presented to the ball is much higher than what is stamped on the TaylorMade Rescue 11, in other words a 5 iron is now a 7 iron.

  For all right handed players, the left hand holds the grip of the club at the top of the shaft. Few of us probably think about where our left hand actually locates itself naturally and so we end up with our hand holding the TaylorMade Rescue 11 shaft vertically somewhere around our zippers.

  Figure 3 shows how my arms hang naturally by my sides standing up. Figure 4 shows where they hang as I tilt forward into a golfing posture at set-up and Figure 5 shows this same position from a target line view. Note I am not putting my arms in this position; they naturally fall this way once I lean forward. Where they hang from person to person will vary. This is Design Rule #2.

                             

  If trying this at home or in the office lean forward, find where your arms hang naturally and give yourself a reference point on your thigh or trousers so you can look down and see that your hands are in the same place more often than not. Also note how far away your hands are from your body as we do not wish to either stretch outward or pull inwards from this point as we set up or swing.

  Note too that I have a straight back. As I tilt forward I do not hunch over or round my shoulders, my spine stays straight. As we swing the TaylorMade Rescue 11 we pivot around our spine so the fewer curves in our spine at setup the easier this is.

Get a Hybrid or Not？

  I got a question asking about whether or not she should take advantage of the new hybrid clubs. She had thought about trying them and caught some grief from her regular foursome. Apparently, her golfing partners were purists and thought she should keep hitting those 3 and 4 irons. So golfers what are your thoughts? Well, first I’ll give you mine.

  I don’t know about the rest of you golf nuts, but no matter how well I’ve been hitting the golf ball, I’ve never had much consistent luck with the long irons. I can manage the 5 ok at times, but for the most part the 2, 3, 4, and 5 irons are a gamble every time I pull them out.

  So a little while back I tried a TaylorMade Rescue 11 instead of hitting my 3 iron. And I loved the way that club felt and I REALLY loved the way I hit the ball with it! I then tried one instead of my 4 iron. Before you know it I didn’t have anything higher than a 6 iron in my bag. And I was hitting the ball better than ever.
And you can use these clubs to get out of trouble in fairway traps and tall rough. The bottom line is that these clubs are just much easier to hit than the long irons. If you are anything but a low handicapper, you are probably giving up between 6 and 14 strokes a round by not hitting these hybrids!

  I am a high handicapper who cannot hit fairway woods. Last year I bought two hybrids, 22-degrees and 19-degrees . The 22-degree TaylorMade Rescue 11 has become my favorite club in the bag. The 19-degree replaces my 3-wood. It doesn’t give me quite the distance of a well-struck 3-wood, but well-struck 3-woods were few and far between for me.

  I have always had trouble hitting my long irons and frankly my fairway woods are not consistent at all. I recently added a TaylorMade Rescue 11 to my bag. Instead of reaching for my 6 iron, my club of choice is my hybrid hands down. I get distance from the fairway that just wasn’t there with an iron for me. The TaylorMade Rescue 11 cuts through the tall grass so much better than an iron. I love it.

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