You Need To Understand Your Swing

If there's one thing that see every single day I give lessons it's a golfer that thinks he/she is doing one thing, when in fact they're not doing that at all. Yet they been working on any number of ways to improve their "swing". Consequently, that self diagnosis in most cases is actually making their "swing" worse.

This image above shows all of the external and internal effects on your body and club in one golf swing. If you find golf difficult, then you’re not alone! All of these arrows, which represent forces and their responses, are with you.

In my study of golf swing biomechanics over the last 20 years, one fact has become abundantly clear. For me to be truly successful as a teacher and make changes that will stand the test of time, I need to understand every effect that gets put on the “swing” of the golfer. When I say the “swing,” I’m talking about the club, the golfer—the whole entire thing. Most coaches and researchers separate themselves from the club and they work on body movements without a club. Sometimes it's good to work on micro movements at the body level, but the club IS a part of the entire swing. So it eventually needs to be accounted for!

That’s a big part of what makes golf hard to learn, and for a player to make lasting improvements. The graphic here shows you all of Newton’s laws—and the forces that go into them—whether it be from external forces of gravity or support forces or internal force of the golfer. This is everything that goes into making the swing do what it does.

So when you play your front nine and you shoot your best score ever and you play the back nine and you're like you’ve never swung a club before, this is probably why. It's a very difficult sport. It's one of the most complex movements in all of sports. The “swing” has a lot going into it!

I wanted to share this image to give you an idea of all the effects that are taking place on the “swing”. Helping players understand their “swing” and how these forces work together is what I do on a daily basis. When you come for a lesson with me, you have my assurance that there’s a path to negotiating these forces, and we’ll find the right one for you. Immediately making your “swing” more efficient, which in turn will have you hitting better, more consistent shots, Guaranteed!

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Daniel is a Top 100 golf Coach, PXG Staff Pro, World Long Drive Coach and the Head of Golf Instruction at IMAGEN Golf the area's leading golf instruction and advisory firm, host of the IMAGINE Golf Differently podcast and Best-Selling Author of "Unleash The Golfer Within".

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