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Swinging.
- Master- (Changed
- 31/03/2008)
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 are totally controlled
by the movement of the shoulders throughout the complete golf swing
movement.
During the back swing movement, the rotational
movement of the shoulders push the passive arms to the end of the
back swing movement.
From the moment the shoulders begin to
automatically rotate into the down swing movement, the passive arms
will immediately begin to slightly lag
behind the rotational movement of the shoulders and unless action
is taken to counteract this lagging effect, this slightly lagging
effect of the passive arms will remain at a constant level to the
completion of the golf swing movement.
However, is order create a swing action
of the passive arms, during the first part of the down swing movement
the hips and the shoulders move rapidly into the down swing movement
which ultimately forces the passive arms/golf club to be accelerated
to a high speed, however 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 are allowed
to begin to move independently of the shoulders, thus allowing the
passive arms/golf club to literally swing into the contact area
at a high speed.
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.
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 through the contact area at a very high speed
and into the follow through movement, thus swinging the club head
to the bottom of the swing arc
Therefore
once the shoulders begin to swing the passive arms/golf club into
and through the contact area, you must not try to assist the movement
of the arms to swing into or through the contact area, simply use
the momentum of the arms that is created during the down swing to
swing the arms into the follow through movement.
Therefore the down swing must be
judged so that four things occur simultaneously at the moment of
impact:-
1) The head
remains slightly behind the ball.
3) The club head makes contact
with the ball.
4) The hands
have returned to exactly the original address position.
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