How to Golf: The Full Swing

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Hope we have taken our good grip and get our posture and our ball position, and alignment all correct. Now we want him work on what is initiating the back swing. There are a lot of different fallacies in this movement but we want to make sure that we do and that we do this movement with our big muscles and not our arms and not our hands.

So if I can get Kent to this place where he has just turn your shoulders away from the target you will notice that the club—stop right there for me Kent—knows that the club rises off the ground. When he gets to this position right here, his shoulders are starting to turn, the club is parallel to the target line; the tow is sticking straight up in the air. Now he is in a real good position. This is the key position in golf that we want to try to master in the back swing. You noticed what will happen as the shoulders are turning; his hips have started to turn also which are following the shoulders. If Kent continues his shoulder turn, you will noticed that the left arm will be straight but not rigid. The left arm will come up and across his body and his shoulders will finish to the nice turn at the top of the golf swing.

Now this is what we are all going to be a little different. Some of us will stop there, that will be our top of the golf swing. Some of us may take it a little farther and the club makes it to a position of being parallel to the top of the golf swing. This is going to be determined by the mono-flexibility that you have. And this is an individualistic thing. But we want to make sure that we achieve is at the top our wrist are fully cocked and we have this L-position right here, meaning that the club is fully cocked and fully loaded and ready for the down swing.

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Now I have Kent go to the top of the golf swing or what we like to call the transition point. He noticed he made a good solid one piece take away with his shoulders turning his body away from the golf ball. From this position you know what is happening with his feet. The weight has transferred now to his backside or his right side. His knees are still fairly level with the left knee pointing at or slightly behind the golf ball, but the important point to remember here is look at the right knee. The right knee is still flexed and pointed in. With this helps Kent do is to wind up and coil around that back thigh or his right thigh on the back swing. This will give him the ability to unwind, uncoil around that locked thigh on the down swing.

At the top of the golf swing, you noticed that Kent’s arm is straight but not rigid; it is still nice and relaxed. If he turned his shoulders a little bit more, now the club is supported underneath the hands and not on the sides of the hands. From this position right here, Kent has round up or loaded up and ready to unwind the golf club through the ball.

Let us back track a little bit and put a little more emphasis on what the lower body is doing throughout the entire swing. We got Kent in the addressed position. We will come here and we will stick a couple of shafts but in the outside of his legs and you will notice when Kent make his good circular golf swing that there will be a very little if no lateral movement. There will be no movement outside the shafts whatsoever.

This is a very good practice drill that you can use in your own backyard. Just stick two broken shafts or two poles or anything in the ground to help you with that winding up or that coiling and non-coiling motion that your lower body is doing throughout this swing.


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