How to Golf – Discover how to golf part 2

How to golf after the hands

If you remember, we set up how to golf with the position of your hands. This is very important as most golfers hit bad shots because there hands are incorrectly positioned on the golf club grip.

Now to continue. Let’s set up your stance or address or whatever you want to call it. You are to stand with your feet apart about equal to your shoulder width. So, if you can get to a full length mirror and set you feet apart, look to see if they are apart the same amount as your shoulders. If no mirror then just put your hands where your shoulders are and run your hands straight down to see if your feet, the inside of your big toe is equal to your shoulders.

Keep your back straight and slightly flex your knees. Then bend over slightly so that your hands can swing back and forth and miss hitting your knees or upper thighs. Just swing them back and forth with your hands apart by about 6 inches.

This will be the approximate position of your body and arms and hands in relationship to the ball. This is your how to golf ready position or your sport ready position.

How to golf before the golf club

How to golf with a make believe loaf of bread. You are in your golf ready position. You have your arms hanging down, your upper torso is bent from your waist so that you can swing the arms without hitting your legs. Now pretend you have a loaf of bread between your hands by placing them apart about 10 to 12 inches with the palms facing each other.

Now swing your arms back and forth without moving anything other than your arms. Not very high, just get the feel of the swing. Do you feel the nice easy swing of the arms. We will start using the club in the next section of how to golf.

How to golf starting with the back swing

This next section we will start how to golf using the club. Now pick up the club and lay the goof club grip across your left hand like we said earlier, then place the right hand on the grip. Make sure that you can touch the ground with the club with your back bent over at your waist. Just to make sure, swing the club back and forth to make sure your legs do not hinder the swing and you are not bent over too far. Have your little pendulum swing just clear your knees.

Next we shall rest the club head on the ground with out bending over any more. If you need to, place the club down further in your grip. It should be up near the top of the grip anyway unless you are extremely short. Now to begin your back swing.

Rotate your shoulders towards the right. See how your arms follow. Can you rotate your shoulders so that your shoulders are 90 degrees from you feet. That means your left shoulder would be pointing straight out front of you. Also, you have kept your head straight and the left shoulder should be just under your chin. How high is the golf club? About parallel to the ground?

Now rotate the other way until your right shoulder is pointing straight out in front of you and under your chin also. Your club should be parallel to the ground again only on the other side of your body.

Did you feel your knees bend a little. The right knee flexed a little more and the weight shifted more so onto your right foot when you went back and then onto your left foot most of the weight was on the left foot. If you tried to hit a ball like that it would go about 50 or 80 yards.

There are people who claim they can hit the ball 300 yards without using their arms. I don’t know about that but they are trying to make a point. You don’t need to swing hard with your arms to hit the golf ball. As a matter of fact most guys and some women try to do exactly that and do not play very well.

When you rotate back you are putting torque on your swing and when your body rotate back around it unloads that torque which results in club head speed in how to golf.

How to golf by unleashing the power

How to golf when you rotate backwards you are then using your shoulders to turn and torque the body. Most instructors would have you rotate further and then get your arms involved by taking the club further back to over your head and parallel to the ground over your shoulders.

But lucky for me I am not an instructor and I can do whatever I want. Most people would try to do that and it is all arms from that point. Some don’t even rotate their shoulders, they just use their arms to swing the club. This will max out your swing speed to less than 80 miles per hour. And because their body is still, the club will fly out and put spin on the ball  as it cuts across the ball which will make it go way right. A slice! We don’t want you to learn how to golf by hitting a slice do we?

So how to golf properly

So, lets show you how to golf properly. When you rotate your upper torso to the right, your arms are following. Both arms are still straight and act as pendulums. We want to do a little more to get you some distance. You have rotated your shoulders and now we want you to move your arms a little more by trying to rotate a little more and carry the arms up to so that the club is pointing at the sky. Your left arm is straight but your right arm is bent slightly and you are ready to unleash the monster within you.

You can’t just rotate your shoulders back around as your lower torso will keep you from supplying any power. So, we have to get the waist, hips and legs out of the way. We do that by starting with the hips. We rotate the hips and the upper torso follows. Depending on how fast you move your hips and torso will dictate how fast you can generate club head speed.

They say that the torso can only move 1 to 3 mph. But that 3 mph will help you generate 100+ mph club head speed. And at that speed you will hit the ball approximately 250 yards.

Now, while your moving right to left with the lower body and then the torso, your arms are being dragged by the torso, hence “I can hit a ball 300 yards without my arms”, and your wrists are still cocked slightly. As you move through the ball the arms will straighten out and you will go down the path. You will continue the swing from the momentum and then the club will try to wrap around your head.

This is why we want very little pressure on the grip especially with the right hand as it is just along for the ride. If you grip it tightly you will want to pull the club around earlier causing you to put the ball left. Your back swing and forward swing are on the flight path of the ball for most of the swing. That is why we want the back swing to be a little over parallel so that we don’t leave the flight path. Does this make sense? This is how to golf for 90% of you. You can get more details about how to swing by getting the Simple Golf Swing form the golf swing guru David Nevogt. I am a believer and so are over 2 million others who have purchased his Simple Golf Swing.

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Thanks,

Lou M.

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