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How accurate are your
golf shots?
Do you consistently
hit a particular part of the fairway, or similarly do
you hit the green with your approach shot.
The answer is that
you probably do not.
The reason for this is that most golfers
use the arms as the main source of power to swing the
golf club - instead of using the movement of the whole
torso to control the movement of the arms and subsequently
using this controlled movement of the arms to swing the
golf club.
This website was initially
designed to help golfers understand how the golf
swing is performed, but I also realise that it could
enable the golfer to by-pass many years of frustrating
golf and thereby begin to play better golf, sooner rather
than later.
( See introduction
section. )
From my experience, I have found that in order to
play very good golf it is important that you are able
to rotate the upper body unit around the central core
of the spine during the back swing movement whilst held
firmly together as a very compact unit - whilst the lower
part of the body remains in a firm and stable condition.
But if you wish to consistently hit the ball like
the professional golfers, it is absolutely vital that
you learn to perform the down swing movement and the follow
through movement whilst the hips and the upper body unit
remain held firmly together as a solid
one piece unit, but importantly, with the movement
of the hips controlling the rotational movement of the
one piece unit.
When you watch the professional golfer swinging the
golf club it appears that the upper body unit is doing
most of the work, but I can assure you that with the majority
of professional golfers, the movement of the upper body
unit during the down swing/follow through movement is
mainly a reaction to the movement of the lower part of
the body.
The only physical actions required during the down swing
movement, other than the use of the hips to rotate the
whole twisted body around its axis, is to cause the arms
to interact and also to control the wrist joints so that
the release of the golf club is delayed for as long as
possible.
This is not an action that can be programmed into
the conscious mind overnight, but with practice and repetition
it can be achieved over a relatively short period.
I am not offering a different way to
perform the golf swing, quite the contrary.
Although I may describe the movements in a way which sounds
different to what you may consider correct, if
you observe and analyse the golf swing as performed by
most of the professional
golfers, with Graeme McDowell and Lee Westwood as
classic examples, and compare how they perform the golf
swing to what I am teaching, you will notice that I am
simply explaining the golf swing that is common to most
top class golfers, but especially to these two well known
golfers.
This website is written in series of 10 lessons.
The first lesson describes the set up prior to making
a golf swing, the second lesson will describe how to keep
the lower body in a firm and stable condition whilst performing
the golf swing and the third lesson will describe how
to maintain the upper body unit as a compact unit as it
rotates around the central core of the spine.
The remainder of the lessons will cover such things
as the Back Swing, the Down Swing, the Follow Through,
Chipping, Putting, etc
Therefore if you really want to
play much better golf and you are prepared to absorb this
information, this absolutely free website will teach you
how to play a very consistent and accurate game of golf.
Therefore how good you become will depend on the amount
of time and effort that you are prepared to put aside
to learn
to play golf as per my instructions.
This is not a "quick fix"
course of lessons.
All of the movements that I describe will individually
enhance the quality of your golf, but it important to
understand that you have to practice each movement until
it becomes embodied into the subconscious mind before
you can hope to achieve any benefit on the golf course.
So do not expect too much,
too soon.
As a point of interest, you often hear
top golf
instructors say that that a golfer should only have
one or two swing thoughts as they prepare to make a golf
swing, in reality this only applies to a golfer
who has already developed a well structured golf swing.
Therefore if you want to reach the stage of
having a well structured golf swing it is vital that you
learn the basic
principles and the basic
movements of the golf swing and practise these
movements until they become second nature to perform..
Take a few minutes to read a few of
the many testimonials
that I have received over the years.