In working with the greats of golf from Ben Hogan to Jack Nicklaus and especially his original teacher Sam Byrd, who won over 30 PGA events, had a lifetime batting average of 276 and was the back-up outfielder for Babe Ruth. DeWitt will relate to you the natural athletic way to play golf. He will show you how golf is really no different than other sport in the way you use your body to strike an object.

1.   Alignment—Jack Nicklaus quotes “The most important part of golf is the discipline of alignment.” As in aiming a rifle you always want to come into the ball from left to right, never right to left, as in aiming a rifle to square up your shoulders.

2.   Stance---notice how in all sports all great athletes keep their right knee flexed and turn on it to create as much torque as possible.

3.   Baseball---hitting or throwing a ball. Notice the coil and movement to the right side getting behind the ball. In so doing the left arm is flexed but not completely straight and held close to the body. The shoulders and hips have turned on top of that right knee. The downswing is created by the movement to the left side and a release of the entire right side with a folded left arm and a bowed left hand as in trying to knock the pitcher down. 

4.   Football---Watch the motion of the quarterback and the positions of the arms noticing how close he keeps the left arm during the throw.

5.   Throwing a medicine ball. Notice how you have to keep the right hand outside the left in order to take the ball back with the big muscles of the body. Then releasing the entire right side to throw the ball forward. Tiger Woods would drop the ball on the back swing. Since he has been working with Hank Haney he has gone from a balanced position at the top to a bowed and closed position causing him to block the ball. That is not necessarily wrong but not as great as he once was.

6.   Golf --- Try not to make golf a complicated game. Most all youngsters have great swings until they learn wrong perhaps from a relative.

a. Visualize the ball flight and line up your feet and shoulders from left to right.

b. Keep the feet on the ground raising only the left heel turning the hips and shoulders on top of a flexed right knee.

c. Try to keep the arms in front of you as you swing to the top.

d. Wrists break up never around

e. Release the entire right side letting the left arm fold maintaining a bowed left wrist on the downswing.

f. End up balanced on left side facing the target and see the ball going in the hole.