| Re: Have you been taught to swing wrong or RIGHT? What I am suggesting is that to use an aggressive and artificially early rotation of the hips in the downswing is an unnatural action that ruins many golf swings. The action in it's self will encourage the right shoulder to be thrown out and the clubface to move too far away from the body.
I think many golfers, even those at the top of the game have a distorted view of what they actually do in the swing. Some great players have used poor swing mechanics but manage to create suitable adjustments that bring the clubface back on target, surely this would not be a model on which new learners should be basing their new swings?
I would recommend that the swing should be kept close as possible to the natural way the brain and body want to swing the clubface into the ball by replicating the action of hammer and nail. There are some areas where natural instincts become a little confused like trying to hit up with a flipping action and swinging too fast but these should be easily overcome with a little instruction on the correct angle the club needs to strike the ball and ground.
I have mentioned 3 skills as it uses a different way of thinking such that the only consideration in the swing should be the in to square to in path, there should be ball turf contact at the correct angle with all clubs except the driver and the clubface should move open to square to closed through impact. The system does have some great imagery though, it teaches how to strike the ball correctly using analagies like driving nails into the ball that clarify so much to the student.
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Brian
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Last edited by BrianW; 05-06-2008 at 11:17 AM.
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