movements of the upper body

If you are experiencing very erratic golf shots, it is probably because you have fallen in to habit of simply lifting the arms/golf club to the end of the back swing movement -- instead of holding the upper body unit tightly together and literally rotating the shoulders and the arms as a solid one piece unit to the end of the back swing movement.

(To a casual observer, a golf swing performed by a golfer who lifts the arms to the end of the back swing movement will appear to be quite normal, this is because the shoulders automatically follow the movement of the arms.)

(As a guide to indicate how the shoulders control the movement of the arms during the complete golf swing movement, imagine having gaffer tape wrapped around the whole upper torso at a point midway between the elbows and the shoulders thus bonding both upper arms against the body - whilst the arms are held in this condition, the rotational movement of the shoulders have total control over the movement of the arms and this is the exact feeling you must develop as you perform the full golf swing.)

Therefore from the moment you begin the golf swing you must make a conscious effort to unsure that the shoulders and the arms move in complete synchronisation to the end of the back swing movement.

As soon as the left foot is pressed to the ground, a combination of the rotational/pivotal movement of the hips towards the target area and the movement of the twisted body unit as it rotate about its axis thus automatically rotating the shoulders back to the original address position.

Therefore it is the skill of the golfer to judge the movement of the compact upper body unit so that the club head makes contact with the ball at the precise moment the shoulders return to the original address position.

At the precise moment the club head makes contact with the ball, the shoulders must be in the original address position, the head must be positioned so that the left eye is slightly behind the ball, the hands must not be ahead of the original address position and the weight of the body predominantly over the left leg.

However as soon as the club head makes contact with the ball, the muscles of the left shoulder pull the passive arms through the contact area, thus causing the arms to interact.

However the upper body angles must be maintained so that the right shoulder automatically rotates under the chin as the arms interact, then as soon as the both arms are straight, the whole body pivots on the left leg and quickly turns to fully face the target area.

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