The Seven Fundamentals Key To Improving Your Swing
It is certainly no exaggeration to say that you cannot develop a great golf game without first turning your attention to your swing. The swing should be thought of as the engine to your golf game, without it, you just won't move. This article provides seven tips to help get you started in the game of golf.
Proper grip should be thumbs down with hands interlocked. Interlock the index finger from the hand highest on the club with the pinkie finger from the hand lowest on the club. Both thumbs should be on the top of the club and should be lined up with one another. The club should rest in the groove between the fingers and palms of both hands.
Your feet should always be in line with the ball. Your feet provide your swing with the direction that you are going to hit the ball. Observe where the ball lines up in your stance and make sure that you keep the ball in the same position every time you hit a certain club.
Choke up or down on the club to change the distance of the club. This works in both ways. As we all know the length of a club provides more leverage, and therefore greater speed at the head of the club. By choking up, holding more of the club between your hands and the ball, or choking down, holding less of the club between your hands and the ball, you are able to make slight modifications to the length the ball travels. You should use this technique when you are in between clubs.
Swish your hips as you move through your swing. Moving your hips through the swing and rotating your shoulders provides your swing with torque. The better you perform at these tasks, the longer you will hit the ball.
Keeping your knees bent allows your swing to be more fluid and helps you move your hips through the swing. If you were straight legged, you would not be able to hit the ball nearly as far.
By tightening or loosening your grip you can shape your shots to the left or right, respectively. Tightening your grip tends to make you hood your club which results in a more closed face at impact. This causes your ball flight to be shaped with a draw. A loose grip typically ends with a finish where the club face is slightly open at impact. This results in a faded ball flight. Fades and draws are different for left and right handed players. A draw moves in the direction your body is relative to the ball at address and a fade moves away from you body.
Different clubs have different optimal placement of the ball at impact. Some clubs do better with the ball slightly toward the heel of the club, some slightly toward the toe. Newer clubs have larger sweet spots and are easier to hit than older clubs.
A good golf swing is a fluid, natural motion that you should be able to execute without thought. Practice with the above tips until they become second nature to you.
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