Intermediate Improvement
This is a good method for those golfers looking for a swing re-build as well as for new golfers looking to sharpen up their game. It incorporates back -to-basic fundamentals that are easy to follow. Many of my students (male or female) have used this action to reduce their handicap from a 15 area to low single figures.
The swing is simple to learn and easy to maintain. Attention is on the takeaway, how the club is held at the top and understanding how the left arm advances down. Replace left for right and you have the same movement through and beyond impact.
Ready to swing the initial movement of the backswing is a rocking movement of the hips which moves the base of the spine laterally to the right. As the club-head separates from the ball feel that the movement literally starts from the feet and works up the body. For a short distance the clubhead, hands, hips and shoulders move parallel to the line of aim. Now the body is in position to pivot, raising the club above your head. This is done until you reach a position where the clubhead is held both above and slightly behind the hands, your conscious top of swing.
Nearly all good golfers and especially professionals swing rather fast. For that reason their wrists are bound to show a more extreme cocked position at the actual end of their backswing. This type of swing will benefit from a quick change-over from up to down which means that you can start your acceleration 12 inches from your backswing top-point.
The reversal of the swing enables the feet to guide the weight shift in the downswing. Leaving the inside of the right foot the weight shifts to the outside of the left. This reverse movement of the hips is much quicker than the corresponding movement on the backswing, and is the first step in transferring the weight from right foot to left. The left hip moves from its inward curve (facing the ball) to a straighter line toward the target. Remember the left arm is not pulled down or dropped; rather it is advanced downward toward the ball through the shifting of weight alone.
Substitute the first movements right to start the swing for left and you have the movements of the feet and legs from the point of impact onward into the follow-through.
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