Basic Steps to Better Golf

When I say the swing the arms, this does not mean that the arms are swinging loosely, far from it, but more about the fact that the movement of the passive arms, which are forced into a passive condition by the action of holding the elbows close together, are controlled by the rotational movement of the shoulders.

For instance, during the back swing movement, the shoulders rotate around the central core of the spine thus literally pushing the arms to the end of the back swing movement, but focusing on the left shoulder to do the pushing.

During the down swing movement the hip movement forces the shoulders to rotate around the central core of the spine - thereby using the rotational movement of the shoulders to literally swing the passive arms/golf club into and through the contact area.
(The elbows must be held so tightly together throughout the complete golf swing, thus forcing the arms to remain in a totally passive condition.)

Therefore it is the skill of the golfer to judge the swinging action of the passive arms during the down swing movement so that the club head makes contact with the ball at the precise moment the shoulders return to the original address position.

Therefore the swinging of the passive arms during the down swing must be judged so that five things occur simultaneously at the moment of impact:-

1) The head must remain slightly behind the ball.

2) The shoulders are parallel to the target line.

3) The club head makes contact with the ball.

4) The hands have returned to exactly the original address position.

5) The muscles of the left shoulder/left upper arm pull the passive arms/golf club through the contact area.

Practice.

To understand how the shoulders swing the passive arms, take you normal address position with a nine iron in your hands, hold the elbows as close together very tightly and hold the muscles of the shoulders in a firm condition - the upper body unit should at this point be quite compact so that any rotational movement of the shoulder will eventually cause the passive arms to follow.

Now whilst holding the elbows together, rotate the shoulders into a short back swing movement but keep the arms in a totally passive condition so that the arm/club head lag slightly behind the movement of the shoulders - slightly increase the speed of the shoulders so that the golf club begins to move faster - and then whilst the arms/club head is still swinging to the end of the back swing movement begin to rotate the shoulders in the opposite direction, thus creating a swinging action of the passive arms/club head - but to be successful you must keep the elbows close together at all times.

Keep rotating the shoulder back and forth until you are able to make a full back swing movement and a full down swing /follow through movement of the arms/golf club simply by using the rotational movement of the shoulders.

There you have the basis of the golf swing, but to recreate this swinging action on the golf range/golf course and actually hit golf balls requires a lot of practice, but with perseverence it can be done as long as you start off with a short iron such as a nine iron, develop the technique and gradually build up to the driver.

You will find it very difficult not to use either the shoulder muscles or the arm muscles to assist in the swinging of the arms, but if you wish to be successful you must overcome the urge to assist in the swinging of the arms.

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