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| Proper Speed | |||||||||||||||
| If the golf swing felt like it looked or looked like it felt everybody would be making an effective swing. It is useful to swing as strong as possible for most full shots, but don't confuse speed (quickness) and strength. Quickness is almost always wrong. Quickness is generally generated by the improper use of the hands and wrists while strength is induced by the use of the big muscles of the body (hips and back). There seems to a current thought to keep the body still and swing your arms, but only if you truly learn to swing your arms by the use of effective body movement. Effective body movement is learning to swing the hips on the hip sockets and use this work to move the shoulders through the swing. That will go a long way toward creating proper power and timing. Nearly everyone who has been playing golf for a while has experienced the shot that feels so easy and goes so far. That shot is an interesting learning tool. One of the most commons things that happens after that shot is for the golfer to think “If I could hit it that far swinging that easy could you imagine how far I could hit it if I was really trying?”. That thought will cause untold grief. Attempting to add more speed to the swing that was just made will definitely have a counter productive effect. The proper thought would be to recognize that the shot that felt easy and went so far is the model for a effective speed. One of the reasons that this type of swing feels so slow is because the player has used a long lever to deliver the impact. The lever is nearly 5 feet long. The lever is the clubshaft and the lead arm. For the lever to function appropriately the player needs to allow it to swing freely from the front shoulder socket. For the lever to swing from the shoulder socket the back hand must move through impact at the same speed as the front hand. That is surely one of the most difficult things to accomplish in the golf swing. So few manage to get this task done. An interesting paradox: If you feel like the swing has high speed it probably doesn't and if you feel like you are coasting smoothly and completely to the finish you most likely have profound speed. So, let the body give the speed to the arms and it will provide impressive power for impact yet feel smooth and complete. |
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| Bobby Jones was a wonderful example of perfect pace. | |||||||||||||||
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