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Shoulders.
Master - (Changed - 31/03/2008)
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 using the
left shoulder to force the shoulder/arms-unit to rotate around the
central core of the spine and literally using the rotational movement
of the shoulder/arms-unit to push the passive arms/golf club 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.)
Therefore from the moment you begin the golf swing you must
make a conscious effort to use the left
shoulder as being in over-all control of the rotational movement
of the shoulder/arms-unit and use this rotational movement of the
shoulder/arms-unit to literally push the arms to the end of the
back swing movement.
As the rotational movement of the shoulders
push the passive arms to the end of the back swing movement, the
arms are pushed as far as possible across in front of the chest
and therefore the only way that the passive arms can reach the correct
top of the back swing position is by continuing to rotate the shoulders
as far as possible .
Therefore at the end of the back swing movement,
the arms have been pushed fully across the front of the chest and
unless action is taken to retrieve the position during the down
swing movement, the arms will remain in this position to the completion
of the golf swing.
As soon as the left foot is pressed to
the ground, the hips begin to rapidly rotate/pivot/sway towards
the target area and simultaneously the shoulders rapidly begin to
rotate into the down swing movement, but because the passive arms/golf
club are unable to immediately follow the movement of the shoulders
and therefore the passive arms/golf club lags further behind the
movement of the shoulders, thus creating a tremendous twisting effect
upon the upper body and therefore storing up a large amount of torsion/energy
to be used later on in the down swing and the follow through movement.
However, eventually a combination of the
hip and the rotational movement of the shoulders force the passive
arms/golf begin to move away from the top of the back swing position,
but as the shoulders get just over halfway back to the original
address position, two things must happen simultaneously:-
1) The golfer must fractionally begin
to slow down the rotational
movement of the shoulders.
2) The passive arms/golf club begin to
move independently of the shoulders thus releasing the stored energy
and the passive arms/golf club literally swing into the contact
area.
Therefore it is the skill of the golfer
to judge the movement of the shoulders and the swinging movement
of the passive arms/golf club, 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 shoulders return
to the original address position, they must stop
rotating, albeit for only a milli-second, whilst the passive arms/golf
club continue to swing into the follow through movement, thus swinging
the club head to the bottom of the swing arc, thus performing the
Key Movement,
As soon as both arms are straight the whole body pivots on the
left leg and quickly turns to fully face the target area.
So remember, "The shoulders must control the movement of
the arms"-- and definitely not "The arms controlling the
movement of the shoulders"
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