biomechanics of the golf swing

What is it that makes a good golf swing?

Is it golf swing tempo or golf swing technique?

Is it golf swing power or the proper golf grip?

Is it the proper golf back swing or a one plane golf swing?

Is it just the all around biomechanics of the golf swing?

well, After learning some of the secrets that I now know about the game of golf. The answer is yes to all of the above and much more than that. What I know is when I was looking for the best online golf instruction, I started with free online golf tips and beginners golf tips. The results where less that helpful, “I got what I paid for.” so to speak. What I wanted was a complete golf system including- A golf instruction video with golf swing drills and golf putting tips and really just a total system that I could actually apply on the golf course. Something that would really change my golf game. Something simple and effective.

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It’s kinda funny looking back now but in the past I had a real problem with hitting trees. It didn’t matter where they were located, middle of the fairway, OB, didn’t matter, I would hit it and the bounce was never favorable. One time I actually hit 7 trees in one shot! (yes, I counted the knocks.) I bring this up because it seemed like I would get into bad mental golf habits and really struggle to pull myself out of it. Yes, state of mind can an will affect your game to some degree. I’ve found for me a sort of “zen” state of mind is most productive. I call it “Zen Golf” but that’s just me.

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Greetings fellow golfer!

If you’re reading this you are probably just like I was last year. I was really struggling to bring some consistency to my golf swing. That’s why I started biomechanics of the golf swing. I was destined to spend the rest of my golf life shooting in the mid to high nineties or even break 100 sometimes! It was not fun being one of the worst golfers in the group time and time again. I have tried many different techniques and golf aids and even professional golf lessons. These techniques are fine and good for some, but I needed something simple to learn and apply that would get me consistent and sustainable  results. That’s when I found something that completely changed my golf game. This easy to follow system shaved 10 strokes per round off my game in just 16 days! I kid you not!

Here is just a quick tip about how your wrists should or shouldn’t function in a golf swing.

Learning the biomechanics of the golf swing: wrist action (the less the better)

There is no action in golf less understood than the use of the wrists: Oddly  enough we do not have to work our wrists, but we have to let them work themselves – like the hinges on a door.

This is important because the wrists will only be used correctly when we have the right idea of their correct mechanical action. If we get the wrong idea, the opening of the wrists in the region of the ball is bound to be mistimed.

You will almost never get perfect timing if you try to flick the club head through the ball by wrist and hand action. Perfect timing will come only when the opening of the wrists is brought about on it’s own by the momentum of the swing.

To put it in different way, the movements of the feet, legs and hips belong to the active, intentioned part of the downswing; the opening of the wrists belongs to the passive, purely reactive part of it. So keep on your mind that the hands and wrists do not and must not “tap the club head through the ball.”

The trouble in trying to let your wrists open themselves (which is what they have to do ) is, that at the top of the swing, the club head seems so far from the ball that you feel that, if you do not help it down with wrist and hand action, it will never get there or will “get there so late that I’m going to slice bad” (not the case)

The result is that you do work your wrists, you come down too soon, and pull instead of slicing!  Ground shots to the left are most frequently due to this premature flick.

This is just one very small part of what I learned, but I’m happy to share.

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I thoroughly enjoy playing golf. Be it a weekend outing with friends, a quick round after work or a vacation filled with golf.  I just didn’t really grasp the biomechanics of the golf swing.

Golf is the most relaxing and satisfying sport I can imagine but it wasn’t always this way. In my early years I tried hard to kill the ball and, once on the green, my putting left much to be desired.

Needless to say, I had very little early success and rarely broke 100. I used to really get down on myself  after such a round. I tried many golf aids/equipment and lessons (expensive) but nothing stuck with me long enough to change my game. I  became a better golfer because I finally learned what it really took to improve my scores and even stick-it to colleagues who were less than kind to me in the past.

When I  found this simple system I went from about an 97 average to a 88 in just about 2 weeks ( actually it was about 16 days, but you can probably still relate to my excitement )

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What I learned  was to “Have a System and Work your System”! I was taught to follow a set procedure and then I would be able to handle the unexpected, the initial rejections which inevitably happen in each and every sales presentation.

Think of your last three rounds of golf, did everything go as expected? It never happens that way does it? So you must be prepared by having a system and sticking with your system.

Now what do I mean by having a System? If you are teeing off and you use a different method of setting up each time, what are your odds of striking the ball consistently? On the other hand, if you always go behind the ball and line up the ball with the target and with some object about 2-4 feet in front of the ball and online to the target, you will be more consistent and hit online more often than not. This is having a system and using your system.

Now if you can paint a mental image of how you want the swing to look, the flight path of the ball and its landing you have won most of the battle. So how do you paint this image so that it will always be there and, if you can visualize the act, then you can accomplish the act. Your body will do what your mind tells it to do.

In addressing the ball, you visualize getting in your car in the morning to go to work. The first thing you do is put the car in reverse and back up slowly, then you stop and put the car in neutral, than you put the car in forward and step on the gas. At first you accelerate moderately but then you visualize yourself going up an on-ramp to an Interstate Highway and a big semi-truck  is coming on in the inside lane, you know that you have to step on the gas so that you will enter the highway safely in front of the truck and out in the clear on the open highway.

Imagine you are on the 3^rd tee at a beautiful Hill and Dale course with the tee up high and a beautiful tree line fairway in front of you on a 428 yard par 4 hole. There is a slight dogleg left about 266 yards out and the fairway begins to roll downhill a bit just at the dogleg.

As you step back and check out the fairway you realize that you want your ball to stay right so you can negotiate the left dogleg. So you line up your shot to the right center of the fairway and you see a broken tee about three feet in front of your ball, it is right between you and the spot you want your ball to land.

So you line up using the tee as a guide. You pause at the top of your backswing as you imagine yourself changing the car to neutral and then shifting to drive, you start your downswing slowly at first and then faster as you feel that you are in control and in the zone. You maintain the acceleration all the way through the ball and continue all the way until the clubhead wraps itself around your left shoulder.

As you are standing up high on this beautiful golf tee on a clear day you admire the flight of the ball as it starts to the right side of the fairway and then curves in gently to the center right portion of the fairway and lands about 260 yards out and then the balls takes the spin and rolls just up the hill and then down the other side stopping in the middle of the fairway about 150 yards from the pin.

You begin to imagine your next shot landing about 4 feet from the pin and you putt in for a birdie (never think, the worst I can do is a par, always think, hey I’ve put myself in position for a birdie).

Now that, I submit to you is BEAUTY!  The beauty that you will experience when you have a System and work your System.

Now Granted that a lot of what I’m writing about is mental and not the biomechanics of the golf swing. The system that worked for me covers exactly how  to get the similar results to what I have seen myself.

The system covers all kinds of things: the golf backswing, golf hook, golf slice, golf stance, golf grip, golf putting, golf swing plane, golf swing tempo, and much much more. Even some secrets that I keeps to myself and don’t tell my colleagues about.  Hehehe… aren’t I a stinker?

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I was golfing with a buddy of mine a couple weeks ago and he told me this joke:

A young man and a priest are playing golf together. At a short par 3 the priest asks, ‘What are you going to use on this hole, my son?’

The young man says, ‘An iron, father. How about you?’

The priest says, ‘I’m going to hit a soft seven and pray.’

The young man hits his iron and puts the ball on the green. The priest tops his iron and dribbles the golf ball out a few yards.

The young man says, ‘I don’t know about you, father, but in my church when we pray we keep our heads down.’

I don’t know about you but keeping my head down and eyes on the ball was a big problem for me.  Which made this a particularly funny joke for me.

Here are some golf truisms  I found humorous:

• A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent’s luck
• No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse
• Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three
• The less skilled the golf player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing
• A golf ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is probably not yours
• Golf balls are like eggs; they’re white, and they’re sold by the dozen. Also you need to buy fresh ones each week
• Never try to keep more than 200 separate thoughts in your mind during your golf swing
• It is surprisingly easy to hole a fifty foot golf putt: for a 10
• Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a golf  rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut
• Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect  approach shot
• Don’t buy a putter until you’ve had a chance to throw it
• When you look up, causing an awful golf  shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the golf ball if you ever want to see it again
• Hazards attract, fairways repel

• If your opponent has trouble remembering whether he shot a six or a seven, then he probably shot an eight

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