The ongoing process of improving your golf swing is what keeps the sport of golf exciting. The key to improving your golf swing is focusing on one aspect of your swing at a time so you avoid the pitfalls of getting into bad habits. IF you can improve your golf swing, you are surely going to lower your handicap.
Each generation of golfers is better than the golf legends who have preceded us because we all learrn from their experiences. A lot of people (including myself) have also experienced a better drive when they go over the most basic rules of a better swing. Even if you are an experienced player like myself, I would encourage you to learn these basic 10 rules of a better gold swing.
1. Maintain a distance between both your legs which should be equal to your shoulder’s width.
2. Your arms should comfortably hang when the ball is set up and you should not have to reach for the ball nor should you have your arms too close to your body.
3. Place about 70 percent of your body weight on your back leg.
4. Straighten your spine and have a slight of bend in your knees.
5. Keep your eyes fixed on your golf ball during your entire swing
6. It sounds simple enough to do, however in practice we see lots of golfers making the common mistake of gripping the club to hard. Many try to kill the golf ball which makes your entire body stiff and off balance.
7. A proper golf swing will have a fluid motion with your shoulders turning slightly in the backswing and your follow-through complete.
8. Make sure you keep your feet planted and slow down in your backswing. Most problems with a golf swing are cause by swinging too quickly in the back swing and then not accelerating through the ball.
9. You will want to hit the ball in the “sweet spot” or the center of the club. Hitting it anyplace else will cause your ball to travel in directions that you really don’t want it to go in.
10. Then grip it and rip it!
It might help for you to take a lesson or two on the golf swing or even watch the way the pros do it on television. There are numerous articles that exist on the Internet that can help you with your golf swing, so always look for information and take as much advice as you can get.
Learning to swing a golf club takes years of practice as any avid golfer will tell you. There are “a hundred” things to know and they all have to be working in exactly the right ways at exactly the right time to a have a good, consistent golf swing. Sometimes this just doesn’t happen, but when it does, it certainly is a great feeling!
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