Golf Swing Fundamentals
Fundamentals Swing Fundamentals
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Learning golf requires good fundamentals. Good fundamentals go beyond swing mechanics and setup. It is true that setup and swing mechanics are extremely important to your ability to execute good golf shots, however, they are only one piece of the puzzle. You must expand your focus to include learning the fundamentals of "playing" the game. There are several pages on StrategicGolfer that deal with all of the aspects to playing great golf. This page is the starting point for discussing fundamentals of golf related to golf swing mechanics and swing sequence. Ultimately as your golf skills improve the way you will measure progress and success is by "ball flight". Your ability to contol trajectory is very important and will influence your consistency. Accuracy and distance are can be managed by ball flight and trajectory. |
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| Face Angle, Club Head Path, Angle of Approach | |||||
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Our golf swing instruction is designed to show you how to build a proper golf swing and a simple golf swing. Improve golf swing to us means finding a simplified swing that focuses on impact. We want you to focus on building a simple and repeatable swing that produces the desired results. Do not waste time trying to build a perfect swing. There is no such thing as the perfect swing. In fact, the best player in the world has a swing that produces errant shots and is far from perfect. Maximize your efforts by focusing on building a swing that produces the right face angle, club head path, and angle of approach; at the moment of impact. If you can get the impact right it does not matter what your swing looks like. Three important factors to understand as part of your growth and improvement are face angle, club face path, and angle of approach. Below we have included examples from our E-book "Play Golf Basics" that illustrate these very important concepts. |
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| At impact, an open club face produces left to right spin (ball rotation) and normally causes the ball flight to move from left to right. A closed club face at impact will produce right to left spin and will result in a right to left ball flight. A square club face produces end over end spin off of the club and generally will result in the ball flying straight. | |||||
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| There are generally three paths the clubface can take as it returns to the impact position during the downswing. Many golfers return the club on the (out to in) path which results in slices and blocked shots to the right of the intended target. Better players will return the club on the (in to in) path which squares the club at impact and produces powerful shots that generally fly straight. When the club gets stuck in the (in to out )position the hands must become more active in the impact zone which can cause pulls and hooks to the left. Generally the best path is (in to in). | |||||
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| If the club head path is (in to in) and the ball position is correct, the angle of approach will be correct resulting in powerful shots to the intended target. Over the top (out to in) club head path generally results in a steep angle of approach. The (in to out) path can get stuck under the plane of the swing resulting in a too shallow approach. Work on returning the club on a (in to in) path resulting in the best angle back to the ball. | |||||
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Golf swing instruction also includes golf swing sequence. It would be very difficult to find two players whose swings looked identical, however, most good players move the club thru a series of positions that result in an ideal "impact position" and then continues to a balanced finish position. It is helpful to use golf swing analysis with a video camera and software to see how similar your posiitons are to the ones shown below. Remember these positions are not exact. Because each of us have different body shapes and flexibility we will have different looking golf swings and golf swing mechanics. The impact position is the most important to your success and consistency. All of the other positions are in support of finding the right impact between the club face and golf ball. |
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Any discussion about fundamentals of golf has to include short game fundamentals. There are correct setup and swing mechanics unique to the golf short game. There are other pages on this site that are a more in depth discussion of the golf short game including putting, chipping, pitching, and sand shots. |
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Play Golf Basics is an E-book designed to help aspiring golfers with the fundamentals of the golf swing. Play Golf Basics is 83 pages packed with 121 high resolution color photographs and 24 illustrations focused on "Playing The Game" and includes golf instruction on these topics:
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All good golfers focus on good fundamentals as the foundation upon which they learn to become good players. They know that the fundamentals of golf are one of the key pieces to the puzzle of great golf. StrategicGolfer can help you in your pursuit of building a strong foundation of golf skills and knowledge about "playing the game". |
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