The Full Golf Swing – A Delicate Blend of Balance, Speed and Reliability
The most important job of our body in good golf is to provide an efficient blend of balance (legs, hips, spine), speed (arms), and reliability (club face). When we get this blend correct, rhythm and confidence is a by-product and will produce a full golf swing that will produce successful results – the rest will fall into place.
The most common error in putting together this blend is to put too much emphasis on speed, before we create balance and reliability. The greatest inhibitor of good balance is too much effort at the wrong time from the wrong place. Remember, more is not better in this case. Sometimes it is because of a physical deficiency, inflexibility or lack of adequate strength in a part of the body.
Speed is a result of good balance. Reliability is a result of good balance (contact) and clubface awareness (direction). Complicated, inefficient swings are usually the result of bad balance. Good balance is very attainable for most any golfer if it is made a priority. It must be understood conceptually and practiced consistently.
The most important component to balance is a stable lower body. Lower body stability will allow the upper body to rotate behind the ball in the backswing and flow through the ball during the forward swing.par
If the pursuit of speed compromises balance and reliability, it is very harmful to good golf. Our priority should be to only swing as fast as we can maintain good balance and solid ball contact. Being a good player is being smart about our approach, not simply expecting to bully the ball around the course.
The Kendall Academy Teachers are very capable of helping you to evaluate where you are in your pursuit of efficiently coordinating the vital attributes of a full golf swing: balance, speed, ball flight and reliability.
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