The biggest mistake most golfers make is that they hold the golf club too loosely in their fingers and too firm in their arms. This may result into poor control of the club and the golfers have to use too many muscles in the swing.
Don’t forget to hold the club firmly in your fingers, if you wish to play a good swing. Suppose you are trying to pick up a cup of coffee with your loose fingers and stiff arms. What will happen? Most likely, you will drop it. The same may be the case with a golf club.
Once you understood how to hold the club, the next thing is to learn is the proper pull. Don’t try to pull too quickly and from the elbow or shoulder, which may create a resultant strain on your arm and your torso. You need to strengthen your fingers and try to swing the golf club smoothly while having stiff control in the fingers. This will help you to be in line with the shot and you will hit the ball to its destined target. This also helps to bounce off the club correctly.
Mastering the skills of holding the club with firm fingers and moving the club smoothly enables you to play shots in artistic manners. You will play your best golf when you hold the club with firm grips.
There are different ways in which you can swing your golf club. The modern swing, or also known as the lower body swing or total body swing, is the most important swing. Most first time young golfers having a thin body have been seen playing this specific shot called “tail swings the dog”. In the course of swinging the club with his arms, a young boy arcs his body a little across his front portion of his body, which results in response to his arm’s and club’s movements. A young boy usually has a flexible and supple torso that easily moves about in space in reaction to the forces that come into play by the active movement of his arms and club.
But most of the grown up men who have bulky body and a firm central torso play a shot which is called “dog swings the tail”. A man with bulky body is unable to bend his torso complying to the movement of his arms across the front portion of the body and hence plays this type of swing.
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This post was written by admin on April 27, 2010
