Perfect Golf Swing

Having a perfect golf swing is well within the ability of the golfer even if you have just started to play golf. Accomplishing it is hard triumph and to do it constantly is difficult to achieve. To learn the procedure is important, having a perfect golf swing is effortless by having a good technique.

The breakthrough is the combination of physical and mechanical strength of the body. The body creates many pivots and turns while maintaining the good position.

To have a perfect golf swing relates to the study in physics, internal bodies relates on how your body will perform during the game.

And every golfer's aspiration is to have a perfect golf swing that makes them practice harder in driving ranges until the target swing is achieved.

Regular practice makes the muscle memory enhanced and develops a swing that will be admired and may become a catch to the game that brings you rewards and fame in the golf game.

A beginner must already know the right mechanics; beginners must develop the right swing foundation that the body tracks every game. There is lots of available training aid to help you build it up.

All golfers have the potential to have a perfect golf swing if you just continue to develop the skill. It is good to have someone to record your swing to know the body shots that needs improvement and what position is in need of change.

Seeing your actual swing plane in the action could slowly develop a perfect golf swing and if you already had it, you will have an outstanding golf game.

Most of the golfers are not contented with their swing though it is already good, they still want to improve and achieve the best of the best swings that could ever be performed.

So, they go to different programs available, hire trainers and even watch the swing of the other golfers to study how they execute their golf swing. Analyzing swings in every angles because it will really set your performance during the golf game.

To enhance your golf game, having an open mind is a must, welcome all mistakes and try to improve it. In golf games, no same person has identical golf swing, practice golfing by trying rounds of set of golf balls.

Even at home, take your club and practice swinging, with that your strike will build up and see difference in every golf game.

With all of these tips, it will help your score, experience and confidence improved. It's important to give much attention to improve your distance and accuracy.

We all desire to make a perfect golf swing. To perform one is difficult especially when you are striving and aiming to execute it constantly. Indeed it is what a golfer wants. It is their aspiration and pleasure isn't it.

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What Is The Perfect Golf Swing?

You might be wondering, "what is the perfect golf swing?" Many experienced golfers and golf instructors argue that there is nothing like a perfect golf swing but that it involves a combination of good techniques that are applied consistently to ensure that a person delivers a great shot.

What Is The Perfect Golf Swing - The Grip

The first place to start in answering "what is the perfect golf swing", is with the grip. A perfect swing starts with good grip something golf instructors always insist upon. Since the golf swing will involve your whole body it requires that your hands firmly grip the golf club as you swing it and deliver the impact. Your hands should act as conductors which transfer speed and power that has been generated by your body's turning motion to the golf ball. Your hands should hold the golf club in such a way that it approaches the ball in a square position and to achieve this, your hands must be in a neutral position, that is, palms facing each other across the club shaft while being square to the golf ball.

What Is The Perfect Golf Swing - The Backswing

Next is the backswing, for a perfect golf swing you need to draw the golf club in one motion then as the club starts back it should be accompanied by a turn of the left shoulder and hips so that weight is transferred to the right side. Your hands should begin to set when they are at waist height and your shoulders should continue to turn as the club continues its rise to the top. Your hands should remain set even as you raise your golf club to the top for consistent shots.

What Is The Perfect Golf Swing - The Downswing

The down swing should be delivered in a strong but controlled manner so as to get the best shot possible. The point of the down swing is to deliver maximum but controlled impact to the golf ball. Avoid going too fast or too hard as this will result in bad shots. Too much speed causes the golf club to reach maximum speed and force before reaching the ball and results in weaker shots. Studies recommend that you should either use maximum power to start your backswing or build up the power through the entire swing so that the golf club is at maximum force by the time it hits the ball. There are other studies that suggest that you should increase the torque to a maximum slightly after starting the backswing and maintain the force until you hit the ball. You should avoid pulling your left arm from the top and leading your downswing with the left side as this will result in weak shots.

What Is The Perfect Golf Swing - The Finish

A good finish is also important for a great shot and your finish needs to be high. A low finish results in toppled shots and a hard time getting the ball air borne and should therefore be avoided. The club needs to remain square several inches after impact in order to ensure that the ball attains the proper flight. You should transfer the weight from your left side to your right during the finish and for a proper finish your right knee should be the one facing the target and your hands should end up high and near your left ear.

So if your quest to find out what is the perfect golf swing still has gone unanswered, then you might want to try apply these basic steps to help answer your question for you.

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Golf Grip

A good golf grip is for sure one of the most important fundamentals of golf.

Since the hands have direct contact with the club it always amazes me the little attention most golfers give to it. I know a lot of my fellow golfers

just grab a club and move forward just because it is comfortable.

The problem with this is that in most cases their grip is not correct resulting in many problems in hitting the ball correctly. Even though they may be satisfied with their grip and game it is always a good policy to evaluate all the fundamentals involved and make necessary changes as warranted.

Correcting the grip can result in a much improved game. But, changing your grip is not necessarily an easy thing to do and it will take much practice and dedication to be successful.

In Ben Hogan's book he commented that "If it doesn't feel like your grip changed it probably hasn't.".When you first make a change it will naturally be a little uncomfortable until you practice with it for a few days. Continue with your waggle and a few practice swings and see how it feels. The more you practice, the new grip will become more comfortable. Spending the time in becoming familiar and comfortable will eventually pay off.

A good proper grip will help set up the club face during your swing and reduce the need to make adjustments.

There have been three accepted grips.

1. The baseball grip which I use and is good for young golfer or with arthritic problems.
2. The overlapping grip.
3. The interlocking grip.

Ok! here we go.

The following describes the "overlapping grip".

1. If you are right handed hold the end of the club with the left hand steady and bring the club handle across your palm from the index finger through the middle of the palm. Now close your fingers with the thumb sitting a little to the right of center on the handle.
2. The palm of your right hand should mirror the position of the clubface, in other words it should face the target. Start by holding our right hand flat against the club's grip. Then fed the club into your hand, alone the base of your middle two fingers.
3. Close the fingers of your right hand around the grip. Your forefinger should adopt a "trigger position." Since this an overlapping grip the little finger of your right hand overlaps the left forefinger. Your right thumb should run diagonally down the side of the club's grip. You should be able to see two of the knuckles of your right hand.

For more information and explicit instructions on the golf grip and the fundamentals of golf I would suggest Ben Hogan's book " Five Lessons:" The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.

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The Perfect Golf Pro

I recently had a golf lesson with Tex, the golf professional. Tex is according to Golf Digest, one of the best young teaching golf professionals in America. Tex also works with PGA Tour professionals Matty Greg (whose career he resurrected) and Big Stew E whose swing he is in the process of fine tuning. He also works with a bunch of Nationwide Tour guys. So Tex knows a thing or three about the golf swing and all of its quirks.

I had the pleasure of working with Tex, in 98 degree Dallas heat, late last summer for five hours over two days. At the end of the second day Tex took me aside, put his hand on my shoulder, spit tobacco over his left shoulder and said "Mike, I want you to take two weeks off from golf, just git away from it, reflect on what we have worked on the last couple of days (spit again) and then... I want you to quit the game entirely."

And with that he walked into the air conditioned comfort of the pro shop. I assume to purge from his mind the assorted angles, dangles and rectangles that is my golf swing.

My love/hate/hate relationship with golf started with my nineteenth birthday when I got my first set of golf clubs. They were a set of Northwestern woods and irons for which I believe I paid the grand total of $49.95 plus tax. This led me to Ernie and Joe's (E&J's) Driving Range which later became, for me, Ernie and Joe's You Hit 'Em, You Get 'Em.

In poor weather, when they could not run the tractor Ernie and Joe would allow me to shag balls by hand and hit every fifth basket I could drag into the pro shop. For a poor college kid with a golf addiction that was a deal. E&J's is also where I learned the value of a hard hat. (What nervous twitch and memory issues?)

E&J's was also the place where I learned to re-shaft clubs as hitting the ball straight was not as easy as you might think and I had a... bit of a temper. And being at the lower end of the I.Q. scale I tended to break things when things didn't go well... usually golf shafts. It wasn't uncommon for a round of golf, any round of golf, for me to include a broken club or two. Maturity and better throwing skills have greatly reduced my broken club incidents. (Note: A horizontal club throwing launch angle is preferable to a vertical club throwing launch angle if you do not want to break the club. Not a guarantee but the percentages are in your favor).

One of the more memorable incidences involved me with an errant shot into the trees. I was still in bounds so I tried to play it to the green. Sadly the ball went further right and out of bounds. And I responded, like any real man would, by slamming my club against a tree (baseball swing style) snapping the shaft and sending the bottom half rocketing directly over my head like an arrow with the severed end sticking into a tree just above my head. Picture someone leaning against a tree with an apple on their head and an arrow splitting it and the arrow pinging back and forth in the tree and you get the idea. That was the closest I ever came to wetting and killing myself on the golf course.

However that was not the most embarrassing moment for me on a golf course. The most embarrassing moment involved me, a duck hook, a corn field and three of my friends. After hitting a smoking "duck" deep into a corn field I went in after the ball. I had a line on it so how hard could it be to find it? Well, it turns out pretty damn hard!

After twenty minutes of being lost in a corn field (Unless you've been in one don't laugh. What happens is you dive in thinking I can just turn around and walk out. Wrong! The corn is ten feet high and there's no reference point, all you see is blue sky, the same blue sky everywhere) I stumbled out of the corn field on the wrong hole with mud half way up both legs, holding my left shoe in my hand and no lost golf ball.

The damn shoe had gotten stuck in the mud and I had to get down on both knees to yank it out and in doing so, you guessed it, landed flat on my back in the mud. But I got my Footjoy back. My buddies were two holes ahead of me laughing their asses off.

In fairness my golf career has not been a total disaster. On two, twenty-two, ninety-two, on the second hole on the second nine (i.e. #11), while playing with two M.D.'s I hit a Pro Staff #2 with a six iron into the cup for the only hole-in-one in my life.

It was after they quickly accepted a second round of drinks after the round in honor of my ace that it occurred to me that perhaps America's health care system was in need of an overhaul.

By now my club breaking abilities had become legendary. However, after about the twentieth re-shaft job, Ernie was "kind" enough (I had actually become a "Profit Center" for E&J by then) to let me buy the materials (shaft, tape, grip, epoxy) for the repairs and then he would show me how to make the repairs and then charge me for the "consult" the whole time reminding me how stupid my actions were. Reflecting back, I can honestly say he was a great guy.

Golf instruction for me and I suspect for most people has always been a hit or miss proposition. Mostly miss. I have taken over a hundred golf lessons in my life from over... well a lot of golf teachers and all with the same result... not good. (Note: At some point you realize the problem ain't them). It is common knowledge that most golf lessons only fix the one thing that balances the fourteen swing faults you have that allows you to hit the ball at all.

Golf lessons work like this: show up, get a swing fix ("Swing the club back by turning your left shoulder") hit balls, pay seventy-five dollars or a hundred dollars, wait a month, swing turns to turns to crap and repeat.

You go back to the same pro, get a swing fix ("Swing the club back by turning your right shoulder while saying three Hail Mary's") hit balls, pay seventy-five dollars or a hundred dollars, wait a month and everything turns to crap and repeat.

So, you go to a different pro, get a different swing fix ("Swing the club back by swinging your hands back, not the shoulders") hit balls, pay a hundred dollars or a hundred and twenty-five dollars, wait a month, everything turns to crap and repeat.

Then of course there are the golf schools. Now we're talking big bucks for a fix that lasts about as long as it takes for the blisters on your hands to heal. It is at these schools where you can learn to do the following:

"Turn your body and let the arms follow the turning of the body."

Or

"Swing the club back with your hands and arms and let your body turn to accommodate the hands and arms."

Or

"Swing the club back, while breathing in, on an upward vertical plane and let gravity return the club back to Earth striking the ball at the greatest point of inertia."

Or

"Swing the club back on a horizontal plane, while exhaling, feeling the weight of gravity while returning the club to the back of the ball in the optimal force vortex."

You get the idea.

But I think I have finally found the golf school for me. Maybe you have heard of it. It is called the Music Man Golf School and it is located in River City. Our teacher, Professor Hill doesn't have us hit balls (Look, no blisters). He has us think about hitting balls, over and over and over again. I think I can hit a 280 yard low running stinger just like Tiger and I think I can roll in a fast-as-lightning 25 foot right-to-left breaking putt to win the U.S. Open. And here's the kicker, you should hear me play the French Horn!

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Looking For the Perfect Golf Swing?

The perfect golf swing, it is the desire, the goal, the dream of any golf player whether you are playing golf as a hobby or as a pro. Hearing that sound, *thwack*, means you did it. It is the sound any golfer wants to hear after every drive. Yet, it is something that easily eludes any golfer; except maybe those playing as pros. So how does any golfer attain the elusive perfect golf swing? How can you attain that of a swing you can watch from the PGA golf tournament?

The PGA golf tournament is the pinnacle or the grandest stage that any professional golf player dreams to be in. The best of the best would compete here for pride and prestige. The PGA tour does not actually organize the major golf tournaments and events like the Ryder cup, and they are not the governing body for golf players in the United States, instead they organize the weekly events of golf tournaments in the United States. This is where golfers have the chance to enter the biggest events and tournaments. Watching a PGA golf tournament you will see the best golfers and watch in awe as they perform that perfect golf swing you are looking for.

To perform the perfect shot would mean that you can cover the greatest distance with perfect accuracy. And the first step to learn this is from professional golfers you can watch on a PGA golf tournament or other golf tournaments. They send the ball flying perfectly almost each every time. Basically learning and achieving that perfect shot boils down to one thing which is you. You can become your own teacher as long as you know what you want to achieve. Practice is everything and understanding how you should practice is the key to improve your swing. There are two main variables in your golf swing, first is the downswing. Bringing the club straight back in the takeaway phase as long as possible is the key to fixing your swing. Study the path of your golf club on the downswing and make the proper adjustments. Next is the clubface position. If the clubface is open then you need to tighten your grip; and if the clubface is closed then you need to loosen up a bit. When swinging, it is best to have someone watch your shot so that you can focus all your attention in performing the swing rather than observing your own shot. Then you can use the feedback of the observer to adjust your swing.

Practice makes perfect. Keep practicing your shots and be mindful of what to adjust in your swing. If you are having some difficulty in managing your shot and teaching yourself, you can grab a book about making the perfect shot. Once you get that perfect golf swing off, then it will become automatic. And who knows, after observing how the pros swing then practicing yours, you might just get a chance to join a PGA golf tournament with that perfect golf swing.

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Getting That Perfect Golf Swing

It is a notion that golf is only for the wealthy. Well, anyone can play this beautiful game provided one knows how to play. If you are new to the game of golf, you have a long road waiting ahead. While thinking of golf just gives us the idea of those divine puts, there are many more technicalities that go into the game. In fact, those looking to just go out there and have a fun swing or two are not cut for the game. For example, if you are looking to start playing good golf, you need to get your stance right to begin with. This is indeed the first step to getting the right golf swing.

You cannot become a good golf player if you don't know what a good golf swing is. Learning how to swing a golf club perfectly will make you a good golfer. This is both satisfying and challenging.

The right stance gives you much required balance to complete a swing without losing focus or alignment. In fact, standing right also goes a long way in getting your angles right. And if you have even little experience in golf, you would know how much the trajectory and angle of shot matters.

Similarly, another elementary point to focus on when getting your swing right is the grip. Everything from the gap between two hands to the placement of your finger has a telling effect on your swing. In fact, many golfers who get everything right often miss out because their grip is all wrong. A proper grip can be considered to be the building blocks to that perfect golf swing.

These are only the elementary techniques you need to master when you start playing golf. As you move across various distances and angles, you will notice that you need the right amount of control over pressure as well as direction of your swing. As you would have noticed starting a game is very different from putting. One phase may require brute power while the other may demand flawless finesse.

Playing golf can get quite frustrating if you don't know the technicalities. Well, don't get disheartened. You can always learn from experts and improve. You can find loads of information on how to perfect your golf swing. There are also several e-books and reports by expert golfers themselves that can give you some very good golf playing tips. You can read what experts have to say and practice accordingly.

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The Perfect Golf Swing - Is Yours Lost In Translation?

I'm sure you've experience this before - you've chosen your club, lined up your shot and gone through your preparation ritual and then... aaarrrhhh! What came out at the end of the process definitely wasn't what you thought you'd put in at the start!

This was how a golfer described it to me today on the range. So why does it sometimes go so wrong?

I asked him to explain to me what he was doing as he got into his stance and sorted out the grip etc. And guess what? He was failing to do half the things properly he told me he was doing - and then did many other things he didn't mention and therefore didn't realise he was doing. In other words, what he had in his head was not finding it's way to his body (hence the lost in translation).

So what was he doing?

When he said he was 'relaxing his shoulders' he was actually lifting them slightly. He thought his back was straight when in fact he was bent slightly forward from the middle, and rather than his legs 'being like springs' they were quite fixed and tense.

Now before you think I'm being a bit harsh on this chap I'll say that the same goes for the majority of people whether playing sport or not. We're usually quite unaware of many of the unnecessary actions we bring to any activity. For example, when you get up from a chair do you notice whether you

• Push you lower back in.
• Pull your head back.
• Lift your shoulders.
• Hold your breath or make a noise or
• Push down with your hands on your legs or arms of the chair.

You might want to get someone to watch and point these things out.

If you do, did you know that all of these actions are completely unnecessary? They actually make the movement harder work than it should be.

If you're unaware of what you're doing when you get out of a chair, what about on the course? Anything you might do there that doesn't help? Speaking from experience (both personally and from coaching others)

I've seen many inefficient actions used by players that add nothing to their game, many in fact, reduce their power, accuracy and even heighten the chance of an injury.

You won't know you're doing these actions because they're part of a habit and therefore you're unable to control them. The only way to ensure that what you want to do and, what you actually do, are pretty much the same thing is to get into the moment, quieten your thoughts (and therefore your muscles) and become more sensitive to what you're doing.

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