how to learn the golf swing in under an hour.

i have been golfing for about a year now, but never learned how to actaully swing the club properly untill reading somehtin for 10 minutes. after i read it i imiiealty made some practise swings and could feel the differnce imedeatly.... but it was late at night and i couldn't try it out. so the next day i went to the range and i knew it, i was hitting spectacularly, i could feel that i would the previous night, but i had to test i out to be posative.

i have read much bad advice from many "golf gurus" (as you probly think i am doing the same now lol) maybe they didn't mean it to be bad advice but it really screwd me up. one of the reasons i like this site, exchange of ideas and hearing and learning form differnt point of views.

i would make a book out of it but no one would want to buy a 1 page book lol.


now as i said i have swung the club for a years so i was familiar with it and i think you need to have swung the golf club (wrong or right) for at least a month before you get the felling of it.

well now that i have said that once you are familiar with the club and want to learn to swnig the simple way (no technical thought screwing you up) read this.

how to learn golf in less than an hour

the reason it takes an hour is all the reading.

the legs

the only role of the legs is a passive role and it is to support the swinging of the arm.

thhose "gurus" said that the DS starts from the ground up but i completel disagree. the legs so nothing more than support he arms. i don't know what they ment by that but i thought that ment what it said so i took t literal and stated my weight shift then turned my hips whick turned my body and flung my amrs around and finally the club. gave me no power and led to my sliding and losing spine angle tush line and early release.

see this site for firther clarification http://www.golf-tuition-online.com/g...ement-not.html (the role of the legs (lateral movement or not))

the waist or the "x factor"

the x factor is said to be the ratio of hip to shoulder turn and you wanted that to be around 45 deg if possable. why? if you want to turn you body faster turn you body, not your hips. i dont' agree with the x factor either and that screwed up my swing.

the upper body (core)

the upper body gives you rotaional power. the closer to the core also help you use more strengh. ie a skater, they have more speed strength when they are spinning if they bring their arms in close to the core. so you want to keep you left arm close to the core your rotational power is amplified through your right arm and not dissapated if you weren't connected. and as you come through ijmpact try to pull you left elbow into your ribs as hard as you can and push your right arm out as far as it can for a little more umph like when a skater brings in thier arms. that is why in the follow though the left arm should bend in and the right arm will just follow it up and to a finsh postion. i lik to think of my ribe cage and trying to rotate the as fast as i can.

the lower body is passive and therfore doesn't really add any power, the golf swing power is only from core rotation... and arm speed (and the other angles created with wrist)

arms

the left arm

the left arm is kind of passiv as well, but the left wrist is were the cocking/uncking is done and is very important passivly....it dosen't actaully do much unckocking

the right arm

very important. the right tricep, very important. the right arm is the lever we use to uncock the left wrist so forcfully. and the right arm aslo guides our swing path. the vertical component (what makes the left arm go up and dow with relation to the ground) in the swing in the BS is the right arm bending and in the DS the right arm straitening.

the grip (both wrist)

the grip to to proved a link between the arms and the club and to maximize the hinges in the wrist to get power. stick your right hand out (like shaking someones hand) and put the left hand under that (thumb thumb touching right pinkey) and align you hand to that the wrist joint are lined up right on top of each other (so that you could tick a pol right tghrough them both on the same axis) now move into the club and when you left hand meets the shaft close it and when the right hand (will uncock a bit more that left) meets the shaft close that. notice that you "V's" line up. that is jsut a secondary thing to look at, the V's lining up arn't important, it is the wrist lining up so that you can properly rotate them through out the swing. the V's are jsut a method people use to maek sure the wrist are lined up.

left wrist

this is a bit harder to describe in writing..... but a good grip is key. i like to have let my left arm hand down natutally at my side, and then put the club in it (a neutral grip) make a flat left hand fngers and thumb relaxed palm facing right and put the grip of the club so that the grip goes from in between the last knuckle (closest to the tip of finger) of pointer finger and the second knuckle and runs through the fist knuckle of the pinky finger (the fist knuckle) and then close your hand. make it comfterble form there some like short thumb grip meaning the thumb is lower than the thumb (with relation to wrist) when on the club. it is not that important, comfort is the most iportant and in your fingers becaue that allows you to be tension free and move easily cock and uncock your left wrist.

right wrist

the whole point of the right wrist is to add leverage pressure on the club while so that it uncocks forcefully. just find the most comfertable way to do that keeping the wrist hinges in line, it is not that imporatant how "correct" it is. try this ..... get you left hand on the club.... not use the webbing between you thumb and pointer finger and press that against the tip of the thumb of the left hand.... that is all the right hand is needed for. i can hit hte ball just as far having that grip and i do with a normal grip but i dont' because it is a bit harder to guide and hold onto the club. but once you get that feelin gof the left tip of the thumb is the fulcum for the lever than you jsut add the right hand (traditionall) he pad of the palm of the right thumb goes right around that to give it the pressure and leverage of your right arm to forcefully uncock or hammer down into the ball.

once you repeat that and get comfterble with an effective grip, then it comes natural to you and you dont' have to line of the shaft with knuckles or any of that anymore.

that is it, that is all the components of the swing alone.... now how to use them together

http://www.golf-tuition-online.com/g...-how-golf.html (finally learned how to golf....)

too be continued..... the site will only allow 1000 words per post

see that site and learn what i mean by throwing the club. so the two components are throwing the club and rotating the core.... thats it, it is that simple. once you learn to use the legs they are passive. but there are few swing thought involved. you have to feel the club head throug out the swing, that is the key (i do have a few BS thoughts but that is slower and i am allowed time to think thoose and my only DS thougts are turn ribs as fast as i can and throw right knuckle to gound when trying fo max distance, and iron shot there is no swing thoughts, the rest just happens). helping you feel the club head is by resisting the direction it wants to go ie BS to DS by rotating and uncocking.

the right arm is the guid to swing path. if you have an flat swing or one plane that try to bend right arm back in BS and at the top, try to uncock as hard as you can (which if you didn't have any rotational power you would d0) but you won't be able to uncock because of rotating. and the right arm..... try to imagine you are trying to straiten your arm at or just past the ball (for those that have a flat swing or a round or one plane swing and at adress have very littl if any angle with relation ship with the club and arm). when trying to straiten it you will be rotatinig back down and your right arm strying to striaten will be in effect rying to uncock the club via correct grip and pressure of the right hand pushing against the lever of the shaft bending the shaft. if you shaft is too stiff you won't feel this and you need a more flexable shaft. the harder/faster you core rotates back down will add more bend to the shaft and allow you to try even harder to uncock. it is only that when you club reaches about parellel to the ground that you will be able actaully be able to uncock and release all the pressure into the ball. it is also this uncocking motion (if you didn't fan the club back in the BS) that allows your face to return square at impact and allow your right arm to cross over your left. you shouldn't have to conciensly rotate you wrist at all or timing involved, the simple uncocking of them will cause the club to square up at the right time. i like to try to look at my right hand at adress and remember what it feels looks like and find a knuckle on that hand and in the DS throw that knuckle of my right hand at the ball as hard as i can making sure that the knuckles reltaioship to the ball is the same at impact as it was at adress.

for thoose with a 2 plane of upright swing, they want to do much the same with the right arm, but since they have an angle between the club and arms at adress they need to try to keep that angle and swing plane, so instead of trying to straiten the right arm at the ball, just straiten it to where you hands were at adress. you want your right arm to bend as much as posible (wthout letter the left arm bend too much, because when the left arm bends in the BS it straintens n the DS and can cause a lot of damage like tennis elbow) but you dont' want it to bend to much that your elbow is touching your ribs because that adds tension and anything that adds tension to your swing is bad. but the more your right arm bends the longer you can accelreate the club via straitening the right arm.

after you get the basics down you can play around and learn a few tricks here and there....but the main key in the DS is trying you harder to throw he club at the ball by trying uncock the wrist (if you have enough rotaional power) will cause pressure and speed to build up and fianlly release through the ball.

but if you don't want to read all that jibba jabba, then i would say feel of the club is the key to a powerfull and acurate swing. you tell the club what to do and it listens. it is hard to tell the club to do with you body though, that is why arms so important.

thats all there is to it.