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The Surprising Risk of Using Your Divots for Feedback

There’s an old saying in golf instruction that goes, “the divot tells you everything you need to know about a golf shot.”

If you’ve got a nice, square, shallow divot then the ball went long and straight, right?

Take a look at the divot below from a professional golfer and try to determine the ball flight.

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If you guessed that the ball went straight, you’d be sadly mistaken.

While this divot is dead square to the alignment stick, the reality is that this shot missed the target by a relatively wide margin, and if you had a Flightscope X2, you’d know why.

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Chuck Quinton

is the founder of the RotarySwing Tour online golf instruction learning system. He played golf professionally for 8 years and has been teaching golf since 1995 and has worked with more than 100 playing professionals who have played on the PGA, Web.com and other major tours around the world.

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