basic rudimentary principles of golf by basic steps to perfect golf

To obtain a very good illustration of how the golf swing is performed, take you normal address position whilst holding a three wood.

Place a golf ball as if you were to play a normal shot, but then move it to a position so that it is adjacent to the toe of the left foot, but importantly, you must continue to keep your head firmly positioned so that it is directly over the exact centre of your stance.

Therefore as you look down at the ball, the ball will be positioned well to the left of your head position and the hands will be position to the left of the centre of your body.

Now whilst keeping the head firmly over the exact centre of your stance, rotate the shoulders very slowly into a short back swing movement, using the head as the pivotal point of the back swing movement -- and then whilst continuing to keep the head firmly positioned over the exact centre of your stance, simply use the movement of the hips to force the shoulders to rotate slowly back to the original address position, thus returning the club head to the ball.
( You will note that at this point you are looking at the top/back portion of the ball.)

At the precise moment the club head makes contact with the ball, the shoulders stop rotating, albeit for only a milli-second whilst the arms continue to swing to the bottom of the swing arc - an action that forces the right arm into the fully straightened position, whilst the movement of the hips and the shoulder movement continue to force the right shoulder to rotate under the chin, you would get the feeling of simply sweeping the ball away from the resting position.
( As the right arm is being fully straightened, you should feel the back muscles on your left side being activated.)

Therefore the key to playing very good golf is to perform every golf shot in this manner where the head is held so that the left eye is slightly behind the ball at the moment of impact and then swinging the passive arms/golf club to the bottom of the swing arc but you must keep the head in the original address position until well after the ball has been stuck and the upper body angles must be maintained to the completion of the golf swing.

Obviously they other things to consider, but look at the video of the frontal view of golf swing and a side view of the golf swing and notice how the head remains behind the ball throughout the complete golf swing but also notice how the club head sweeps the ball away at the moment the club head makes contact with the ball.

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