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Golf Swing Basics To Build A Repeatable Golf Swing
Golf is a game where your mind, body and clubs combine to produce your golf swing. This is what might be called the foundation of modelling golfing excellence. The golf swing has many pieces to it from setup, to address to your backswing, downswing, impact and follow through.
Add to that your mental game, what you are thinking throughout the whole golf swing, the emotion you are feeling going into Your Swing and what your body is doing and your physical capabilities. Many golfers start behind the eight ball with poor physical conditioning, no set routines for pre-shot, shot and post shot.
Most golfers focus on hitting the ball and that is it. Should be easy right? Smash the ball should make it go a greater distance, right? Yes it will if you can build club-head speed at impact and the face of the club is true, square at impact and you are playing to your line.
Most golfers make it more difficult than it needs to be.
Are you playing against yourself before you even get started? Here is just a few ways you might be making it harder than it needs to be.
- Poor physical conditioning, muscles imbalances or tight shoulders, hamstrings and an inability to rotate impeding your golf swing.
- You have not put in the time or practice with the right coaching to have a reliable Golf Swing Sequence that never changes.
- You are thinking your way through every step of the golf swing completely distracted from playing to your target with a clear mind.
- Your golf clubs just don't feel right, you are stretching or simply too close to the ball in address. The clubs are badly fitted to you affecting your address of the ball.
- Your golf ball is cold, it has lost shape or compression. A cold golf ball will always travel less distance.
As far as your golf swing goes get back to the basics. Here are a few things you can do.
Work on finding a groove for a swing you can repeat every single time without fail. Break your whole routine down step by step and master each step one piece at a time.
At the very least stretch and warm up before you play. Stretch and warm your muscles and joints, particularly hips, shoulders, wrists, elbows backs and legs. Practice a few shots with each club in your warm up too.
Start with a solid address of the ball with your feet aligned to the target, your club face square to the ball and line. Once you address the golf ball all the decisions have been made, breathe to manage those emotions or nerves. Breathe to let go, relax, get into your body. Focus on your target and the shot you intend to play.
Sometimes it is worth swinging the golf club from shoulder to shoulder and focus on accuracy and control. Take a shorter backswing and you can build strength and power over time.
Know your trigger for your takeaway into your backswing. Move your hands, arms, chest and shoulders as one unit. A low and slow backswing with your arms out straight is best.
You want to build your club-head speed in your downswing. At the same time keep your timing, rhythm smooth throughout your swing. Your natural rhythm can be found through the breath. Breathe in on the backswing and out through the downswing through the ball to the target.
Your spine needs to be straight as this is the axis of rotation for the golf swing. Rotation is impeded if the spine is not straight and the result is often too much movement up and down or sideways of the arms, hands or head.
Make the effort to build a Solid Golf shot routine and focus on the golf swing basics. Slow is fast what I mean is we learn best often in slow motion one step after another to build a repeatable golf swing. Your golf swing is a combination of your mental game, your body and golf clubs working as one in a golf swing that works.
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