The Golf Swing Made Easy

[ks8829]

I just found the golf swing to be pretty simple recently.

I set up and lilt my rear shoulder down and take my backswing with a straight left arm and this will limit my backswing to just under parallel and I am able to get into a slot and release the club staying behind the ball and extending with my arms and rotating with my shoulders the ball is hit solid with a click sound and flies effortlessly and on target its a simple compact golf swing.

I can't wait to play another round its exciting.

[jambalaya]

When is the book being published?

[ks8829]

The golf swing is a simple swing that we make complicated, but it took me 23 years to figure that out. I see the results in the golf swing and the flight of the ball and again can't wait to play a round this Friday.

I watched the pro's hit their approach shot onto the greens and their swings always looked effortless and now I know what that feels like. its uncoiling the swing and letting the big muscle do the work and not focusing on the hands or arms.

Its a Eureka moment for me.

[JackLee]

The golf swing is a simple swing that we make complicated, but it took me 23 years to figure that out. I see the results in the golf swing and the flight of the ball and again can't wait to play a round this Friday.

Congratulations! That sounds like what I have been doing since I read the master key instruction about 6 months ago. That made it easy for me.

[ks8829]

Its a great feeling when something clicks and you can't wait to see if you can continue to duplicate the swing and get results with control irons shots. I can say that I have never hit my irons and driver better than right now. before I felt that I was always compensating for my swing and never felt in control.

What I am doing to make my golf swing easy:

1) drop your rear shoulders
1A) turn your shoulder and hip slowly
2) keep your front arm straight on my backswing which will shorten your swing automatically
2A) once you are coiled
3) start your downswing with your hips and uncoil
4) extend your arms and let your wrist break just before impact naturally
5) your head will stay behind the ball.

I think the combination of extending your arms and the natural wrist break generates alot of speed and you are using your big muscle to help generate the speed so it feels effortless and almost like you are just turning back to the ball.

a) When I played yesterday I hit a 7 iron into the wind slightly uphill 150 yards within 5 feet,

b) I hit a hybrid 190 yards just 10 feet on the green on a par 3.

c) PW from 100 yards into the wind uphill punch shot within 5 feet and made the birdie

d) 7 iron 160 yards uphill into the wind on the green about 20 feet and made par.

e) 6 iron from 170 yards solid contact with a nice trejectory that started right and drew in at the flag but ended just short of the green.

I missed some irons shot so a work still in progress, but the ones above that I hit were shots that felt effortless and watching the flight of the ball told the whole story.

[PEZGolf]

The golf swing is a simple swing that we make complicated, but it took me 23 years to figure that out. I see the results in the golf swing and the flight of the ball and again can't wait to play a round this Friday.

You have discovered one of the main keys---use the big muscles. My definition of the golf swing that I recite to my golf students is this: the golf swing is a simple body turn, primarily a shoulder turn, done underneath a relatively steady head, in good rhythm and balance, with the goal being to "swing easy and hit hard" with a NATURAL, late release in the hitting zone. And I emphasize the words "good rhythm and balance".

[Scott_Tee]

Right, keep your balance and concentrate on hitting the Ball

[Andyonfire]

Listen *******.

I am 17 yars old and i am a scracth golfer.
Whatever the **** you just said, is a bunch of horse shit.
That is the stupidest ****ign swing i hae ever heard of.
Hit the ****ing ball and stop saying and thinkign of all this shit you read.
To the teaching pro, what you said is true, but why are you a 4 handicap?

[klaymon]

Listen *******.

You need to chill out, my man.

By the way, you're a scratch golfer? Your signature says your best round is 81. Did par suddenly go up 10 strokes on all your muni's or what?

[PEZGolf]

Listen *******.

If your question at the end of the post is addressed to me, I will answer it. I am not a teaching pro. I am a golf instructor and my students donate money to a junior golf tournament that my family runs in memory of my brother, so I do not receive payment myself. It has been my decision to remain an amateur, and according to the letter that I have from the USGA, the way that I give lessons does not change my amateur status. Not all club pros or teaching pros shoot under par. Some record scores in the same range as me because they are so busy that they have little time to play or practice. I have a regular full time job, and run my own business part-time. Therefore, I have limited time to play or practice golf, or give lessons. By the way, one of my students has been my son, who is a Head Pro at a golf course owned by a University, is also the Asst. Coach for the Men's and Women's golf teams, and was an All-American in golf as a junior when he was in college. My students have done well after taking lessons from me.

[PEZGolf]

Jim Hardy is now the "hottest" golf instructor by reviving the idea that there are two ways to swing a golf club: single plane and two planes. In the first, like Ben Hogan did, the arms follow the turning of the body. In the second, like Jack and Payne Stewart and many modern golfers, the arms swing on a different plane from that of the body. The best thing about his instructions is that he tells golf pros and instructors this tenet: "As a techer you should just try to make your student better in what he's doing"---whether it is one plane or two. In other words, every golfer has a natural tendency, based on body type, to do one or the other, and both methods can be successful.

Too many golf teachers, pros, and instructors try to make every student follow one model of the swing, and not take into account the two swing methods. Every golf swing has individualistic tendencies, but the fundamentals are the same. A complete makeover is not always necessary. A good instructor understands that the first commandment for teaching is "Do not change anything that does not need to be changed".

[montru]

"As a techer you should just try to make your student better in what he's doing"---whether it is one plane or two. In other words, every golfer has a natural tendency, based on body type, to do one or the other, and both methods can be successful.

I couldn't agree more, I went to the Nick Faldo Golf Institute in Orlando and they tried to change my swing from a one plane swing to a two plane swing and as a result has totally destroyed my game, my confidence has gone, and am now trying to get back to where I was before I went but it's taking what seems a lifetime to get it back, before I went I was playing to a low <15, shooting low 80's now my league handicap is up to 19+ lucky to break 90, I feel soooo P***ed off that I have almost given up, it is only my regular fourball buddies that have kept me going because they keep saying that they have seen me do it once and they know can get it back.

[PEZGolf]

I couldn't agree more, I went to the Nick Faldo Golf Institute in Orlando and they tried to change my swing from a one plane swing to a two plane swing and as a result has totally destroyed my game, my confidence has gone, and am now trying to get back to where I was before I went but it's taking what seems a lifetime to get it back, before I went I was playing to a low <15, shooting low 80's now my league handicap is up to 19+ lucky to break 90, I feel soooo P***ed off that I have almost given up, it is only my regular fourball buddies that have kept me going because they keep saying that they have seen me do it once and they know can get it back.

Good luck and I hope that you do get your game back. As you probably know, your bad experience is not unique. Many golf schools are structured to teach "The Method"---and no variance from that is allowed. I have been fortunate to learn from many veteran golf pros and instructors. Their basic creed is that swings are individualistic, somewhat, and the instructor must accept that and work with it. We teach basic fundamentals, with emphasis on a good body turn, primarily a shoulder turn. We do not teach "stack and tilt" and will not----it can lead to a reverse pivot very easily and once a player develops that, it is not easy to have him or her unlearn it.

Any one who does not accept the fact that swings like those of Jim Furyk, Fuzzie, Freddie Couples, Lee Trevino, Allen Doyle, etc. are successful because they repeat, and put the player in the proper position at impact needs to rethink their concept of the golf swing. While many Tour players look as if they came out of the same machine, a close look will show some individualistic tendencies. When a student comes to me, I avoid preconceived notions of what to teach him or her. The first question that I ask is "Why are you here?" The second question is "Have you taken lessons before, and if so, from whom?" I need to know what their problems and plans are, and what they have been taught. No one is completely self-taught. If he or she has not taken formal lessons, someone has helped them get started, and they have been taught something about what to do. I remember one good fellow in particular who had a 6 handicap and was a very steady player. He decided he wanted to "get better" and contend for our Club Championship, etc. So he went to the Club Pro, who decided that his swing plane was too flat, and he wanted to make him swing more upright. The result: he lost distance, confidence, and consistency. His handicap went up to a 13 and never went down from there. While he and his wife still played golf and enjoyed it, he told me that deep down, he was very disappointed and golf no longer had the same strong attraction it did. He was a real competitor and found it difficult to accept that he had gone backward and paid the pro to help him. Whenever I work with a student, I remember Max, and tell myself, "Do not ever do that to someone."

[sonicblue]

It was approximately the year 2000. I had a driving range across the street and no kids. Put a sawbuck in the machine, grab your balls and go. Life was good.

I had no real golf game then, just swinging away, so it was genereally irrelevant what I was "working on." However, one day, it occured to me that, unlike baseball where your hands are high, a golfer's hands are low, and the concept of, "get your front hip out of the way so the hands can clear" came to me. My friends, that day I entered what has come to be known as "The Golden Era"...

All I remember is the feeling...the effortless feeling. My backswing was...well, I'm not sure, I didn't even feel it. The downswing was just a gravity-induced nap, and my release was the most automatic anatomical movement next to poppin' a chub in third grade history. The impact on the club face was softer than a hummingbird with sore feet landing on the wing of a butterfly.

And the ball flight...... oh, the ball flight! The ball would scream out, seemingly scraping the blades of grass, but then rising like a jet off the tarmac, all the while seeking its target like a missile.

I proceeded like this for several days. The first chance I got, I took it to the course. On the par 3 second hole, I dropped a 9-iron to a foot. Life, as I knew it, was about as perfect as it could be. I...you see...had solved the game of golf. The sky was the limit. Visions of club championships, regional victories and Q-school danced in my head.

Alas, The Golden Era lasted about a week in all. I have no idea what started going wrong, and although I remember the very short list of swing thoughts that seemed to lead to so much success, I have never been able to duplicate it.

[ScruffyScraper]

Even when the golf swing is easy, it's anything but easy.

The human skeletal and muscle system is built like an AK-47—loose tolerances for reliability. Only it’s alive so it’s always in flux.

Hit the ball. By the time you walk to it and get ready to hit it again, you’re a different human being than the guy on the tee was.

You can have a relatively consistent and reliable swing—if you’re born a freak like Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.

Absent that, have fun with your friends and keep a smile. It’s a fabulous game!

[JaY_B]

The beauty of eureka moments, is that they only last a moment.

I promise you haven't found the magic move thats going to get you on tour buddy

[Chilidipper]

Even when the golf swing is easy, it's anything but easy.

Nice analogy and well spoken

[Chilidipper]

The beauty of eureka moments, is that they only last a moment.

Exactly

I had a Eureka moment on the range until I went out the following day and shot a 95. O wait I did have a Eureka moment, all my confidence was sucked out of me.