The Real Golf Swing Killer
The Real Golf Swing Killer
Tips To Improve Your Golf Swing
What part of the body contributes the most to generating the maximum speed of the club head?
This single answer allowed me to make a huge leap in my understanding of the golf swing, and in everything I had seen and read about the golf swing none of it emphasised it enough.
I carried out a survey on the Internet over several weeks and asked visitors to my web site the question:- What part of the body contributes the most to generating the maximum speed of the club head?
Only 20% got the answer correct – That’s only 1 in every 5 golfers! And these golfers had a wide range of handicaps down to single figures.
Interestingly this figure corresponds to another golfing statistic – Did you know that only around 20% of golfers have a handicap of less than 18? It made me wonder whether the misunderstanding of the fundamental aspect could be the one thing that is holding so many golfers back.
Which part of the body do you think creates the maximum speed of the club head?
Is it: Shoulders, Arms, Hands, Hips, Legs, Torso, wrists
….So the answer to the question that I posed above is that it is the hands (or wrists) that contribute the most to generating the maximum club head speed.
The club is moved through over 180 degrees whilst the arms move through less than 60 degrees – all of the rest of the movement of the head of the golf club is generated by the movement of the hands. Unfortunately the large majority of golfers think that it is with the shoulders and arms.
I’ll come back to this point at a later date as even when you get everything else right in your swing this can be a real golf swing killer!
Today I would like to talks about the #1 problem in golf swings that people tend to have. It goes back to clichés that are predominating in golf. Golf, many times is taught by clichés. Your dad or your uncle or grandfather may be the one that teaches you how to play at a young age.
You get a lot of common advice, things like; keep your head down, keep your eye on the ball, shift your weight, follow through and so on. Many of these are repeated so much that they become cliché, and this one I call the killer cliché because it kills golf swings more than any other one and it is:keep your head down, keep your eye on the ball, its really two but I think of it as one because you always hear them together.
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