Full Swing Analysis Version: April, 2008
By Christian Chiou, Revised in September, 2010, Revised in November, 2010
1. Handgrip And Ball position
1.1.01 Hold firmly but not so tightly as not to move your wrists freely. You may feel more pressure on the last three fingers of left hand as well as the thumb and forefinger of the right. Snugly melt your both hands into one piece with either “interlocking” or “overlapping” grip.
1.2.02 Face squarely the back of left hand down the target line, which is so-called “neutral grip”; so are your shoulders, feet and the club face.
1.3.03 Hang your two arms naturally down toward the ground. Don’t let them surpass the vertical extended line from your toes.
1.4.04 The ball should be placed at the lowest point any of your club head sweeping over the turf, where it can be invited with the maximum club momentum.
2. Stance
2.1.05 Spread two legs within shoulder width while too wide to shift your weight and too narrow to meet a nice balance through full swing motion.
2.2.06 Bend down yourself at your hip but make your back straight and always keep the constant spine angle. Keep your chin a bit above from the path of your shoulder turn. Both knees should be flexible, not too rigid nor too relaxing; make sure they are stable and natural. The center of whole body weight lies evenly on both feet and knees, feeling like sitting on the edge of a tall bar chair.
2.3.07 Be in alignment with the target line. Make sure your stance, your feet and the club are parallel to the target. Only so can you then identify if your swing is correct. In golf, one good thing leads to another --- and the chain reaction starts with your address position.
3. Take-up
3.1.08 Put some little pre-shot motion into a routine before taking up to loosen the nervous muscles. Left arm straight, right flexible. To initiate the swing, move your club with your left shoulder slowly and smoothly as possible in a hand-shoulder-waist-one-piece unity, feeling both arms faithfully attached your chest. Never manipulate them jerkily to break this unity.
3.2.09 Head, neck and spine angle should be still as three most vital fulcrums during a swing, always so even till the utmost of your shoulder turn. Be sure your right elbow is always pointing down the ground and both your arms clipping to your chest when taking up.
3.3.10 To create the largest power of a swing, you have to shift your weight totally to the very right side of your torso, namely, not over the left margin of your right foot. You can reach the position by checking if your left knee cap has already been pointing to the ball a bit behind, but keep the right knee rather fixed as an insurance of not shifting too far to keep the fulcrums still. Don’t dip yourself or lean forward at this stage. Doing so will cause “thick hits”, which along with “topping” is one of the nastiest maladies of amateur golfers.
3.4.11 Forget about the wrist cock. The weight of the club head will naturally make them cock when taking up to the top and the centrifugal force will turn them to their initial stance posture back. The whole movement is a matter of instinct and spontaneousness. Just keep them flex and alert, and leave them alone.
4. Down Swing
4.1.12 Start the down swing from your right (yet some pros start their swings from the left) waist, hip, and esp. right elbow, so-called “magic move”, dropping down your right elbow back to the right side, not your hands. Hands are mostly passive. Take a look at the move of trains. As they are not powered, the cars would always be still unless the locomotive starts first and pull, one by one. So is the down swing. Be aware of the synchronization of the swing of your waist and hands! As down swing, your navel is the centre, and the distance from your navel to your hands is the radius. Let the navel lead the hands sweep through till the navel turns to its utmost left, namely, the sheer end of the down swing. Always keep face to face of both points. At impact, the navel sees the hands and still brings them further. Then, you'll be amazed at how straight and powerful the trajectory has been made. Plus the right hand exertion is another key to power shot: the right hand exerts right as the down swing begins, and, what is the most important, in the direction toward the left hand. Your right hand should exert 'on' your left hand, follow it, along with it, within the path of a smooth down swing orbit. Not swing 'down', which is the culprit of fat hit; nor swing 'toward' the ball, which is responsible for most hooks and tops. Your head should be kept still, very tranquil, to help create a greater torq your righ hand is to bring about.
4.2.13 Don’t shift, but turn. Imagine you are making a down swing in a tight barrel. You have to fight the urge of shifting forward. You can also imagine you wish to see the whole back surface of the ball. Failing to turn completely will cause to top the ball.
4.3.14 When you turn, transiting the weight gradually over the left, drop naturally your right elbow down to the right side, clinch tight your right armpit from take-up to the the beginning of the finish, and still retain the wrist angle. Remember, these moves almost happen at the same time and allow you no time to ponder which of them has been performed correctly. You need a lot of practice here. Repeat this over and over again till it is your second nature. Don’t go any further of playing golf unless you are quite happy with it.
4.4.15 As for the natural correct hand path during down, it will be a good check point to see if your both hands could nearly but not yet scratch your right pocket, which ensures the club to hit the ball from “inside out”. Use another word, make your right shoulder pass through under your chin. You will not want your right shoulder to pass the cordon for doing so will cause the club head to go from outside in, which is the main culprit of a big slice, and to sink, which makes you hit fat. As impact, your left arm should be relaxed and passive, totally subject faithfully to your right hand.
4.5.16 Pay more attention to your lower body when you swing down, as your right knee chasing your left one, or focusing on turning your waist and hip. Never, ever, try to hit the ball hard with your hands, for it will crush the natural correct swing plane and torque tension wound up already built when you took up. The ball carry will thus be very terrible.
5. Finish
5.1.17 If you do practice well out the above-mentioned four categories, you can easily make perfect finish, which is a completely weight shift to the left within an effortless and somehow elegant holding posture without any jerkiness or reluctance, sending the little white ball to its nice long journey.
5.2.18 Tiger Woods says that he imagines shaking his right hand with the target after hitting the ball. Don’t hastily raise your head to watch where the ball goes. That will dislocate the fulcrums and the swing will not be constant.
6. As A Whole
6.1.19 Practice swinging as slowly as possible. And I mean slowly. Make such a slow motion to recognize and identify each detail stated above, till your muscle groups store all the parts step by step as a linking done instinctively.
6.2.20 Swing within yourself, that is, use at most 80% of your sheer power. Focus on your balance and rhythm from stance to finish.
6.3.21 Balance and rhythm of any club shots is the same, not only the driver but the 9 iron. You can practice them alternatively at the driving range to adjust yourself to the same rhythm. Ernie Els says he owns totally the same concepts of swing from driving to putting, only the zooming in or out of any single motion. That the number on the iron is lower does not mean you should swing the club harder.
6.4.22 Do establish your own personal “pre-shot routine” (what you ought to do precisely or not to forget before you swing). Have your own way and sequence of each swing such as how to aim the target first, then how to grip, how to stance, how to start a take up, or even how to soothe your breath… Besides, put no more than three reminders into your own pre-shot routine; for example, mine is a. Head still, one-piece take up. b. Remember rhythm, don’t haste. It will change somehow as a golfer improves himself in the future.
6.6.23 Always try to hit the shot at the moment well enough for the next shot to hit more easily. Never have the bad shot in mind you just hit on the course too long. But one thing you do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.
6.5.24 Only mind one technical item around 18 holes since teeing off. Only one for a round, two is too much. Face it frankly and try to think out a solution with the help of your pro.
6.6.25 Golf is a game of honesty and self-achievement, and a game of a life long. You will never enjoy the pure exhilaration of golf only when you take it really, really seriously. So determination is the first thing first of playing golf.
By Christian Chiou, Revised in September, 2010, Revised in November, 2010
1. Handgrip And Ball position
1.1.01 Hold firmly but not so tightly as not to move your wrists freely. You may feel more pressure on the last three fingers of left hand as well as the thumb and forefinger of the right. Snugly melt your both hands into one piece with either “interlocking” or “overlapping” grip.
1.2.02 Face squarely the back of left hand down the target line, which is so-called “neutral grip”; so are your shoulders, feet and the club face.
1.3.03 Hang your two arms naturally down toward the ground. Don’t let them surpass the vertical extended line from your toes.
1.4.04 The ball should be placed at the lowest point any of your club head sweeping over the turf, where it can be invited with the maximum club momentum.
2. Stance
2.1.05 Spread two legs within shoulder width while too wide to shift your weight and too narrow to meet a nice balance through full swing motion.
2.2.06 Bend down yourself at your hip but make your back straight and always keep the constant spine angle. Keep your chin a bit above from the path of your shoulder turn. Both knees should be flexible, not too rigid nor too relaxing; make sure they are stable and natural. The center of whole body weight lies evenly on both feet and knees, feeling like sitting on the edge of a tall bar chair.
2.3.07 Be in alignment with the target line. Make sure your stance, your feet and the club are parallel to the target. Only so can you then identify if your swing is correct. In golf, one good thing leads to another --- and the chain reaction starts with your address position.
3. Take-up
3.1.08 Put some little pre-shot motion into a routine before taking up to loosen the nervous muscles. Left arm straight, right flexible. To initiate the swing, move your club with your left shoulder slowly and smoothly as possible in a hand-shoulder-waist-one-piece unity, feeling both arms faithfully attached your chest. Never manipulate them jerkily to break this unity.
3.2.09 Head, neck and spine angle should be still as three most vital fulcrums during a swing, always so even till the utmost of your shoulder turn. Be sure your right elbow is always pointing down the ground and both your arms clipping to your chest when taking up.
3.3.10 To create the largest power of a swing, you have to shift your weight totally to the very right side of your torso, namely, not over the left margin of your right foot. You can reach the position by checking if your left knee cap has already been pointing to the ball a bit behind, but keep the right knee rather fixed as an insurance of not shifting too far to keep the fulcrums still. Don’t dip yourself or lean forward at this stage. Doing so will cause “thick hits”, which along with “topping” is one of the nastiest maladies of amateur golfers.
3.4.11 Forget about the wrist cock. The weight of the club head will naturally make them cock when taking up to the top and the centrifugal force will turn them to their initial stance posture back. The whole movement is a matter of instinct and spontaneousness. Just keep them flex and alert, and leave them alone.
4. Down Swing
4.1.12 Start the down swing from your right (yet some pros start their swings from the left) waist, hip, and esp. right elbow, so-called “magic move”, dropping down your right elbow back to the right side, not your hands. Hands are mostly passive. Take a look at the move of trains. As they are not powered, the cars would always be still unless the locomotive starts first and pull, one by one. So is the down swing. Be aware of the synchronization of the swing of your waist and hands! As down swing, your navel is the centre, and the distance from your navel to your hands is the radius. Let the navel lead the hands sweep through till the navel turns to its utmost left, namely, the sheer end of the down swing. Always keep face to face of both points. At impact, the navel sees the hands and still brings them further. Then, you'll be amazed at how straight and powerful the trajectory has been made. Plus the right hand exertion is another key to power shot: the right hand exerts right as the down swing begins, and, what is the most important, in the direction toward the left hand. Your right hand should exert 'on' your left hand, follow it, along with it, within the path of a smooth down swing orbit. Not swing 'down', which is the culprit of fat hit; nor swing 'toward' the ball, which is responsible for most hooks and tops. Your head should be kept still, very tranquil, to help create a greater torq your righ hand is to bring about.
4.2.13 Don’t shift, but turn. Imagine you are making a down swing in a tight barrel. You have to fight the urge of shifting forward. You can also imagine you wish to see the whole back surface of the ball. Failing to turn completely will cause to top the ball.
4.3.14 When you turn, transiting the weight gradually over the left, drop naturally your right elbow down to the right side, clinch tight your right armpit from take-up to the the beginning of the finish, and still retain the wrist angle. Remember, these moves almost happen at the same time and allow you no time to ponder which of them has been performed correctly. You need a lot of practice here. Repeat this over and over again till it is your second nature. Don’t go any further of playing golf unless you are quite happy with it.
4.4.15 As for the natural correct hand path during down, it will be a good check point to see if your both hands could nearly but not yet scratch your right pocket, which ensures the club to hit the ball from “inside out”. Use another word, make your right shoulder pass through under your chin. You will not want your right shoulder to pass the cordon for doing so will cause the club head to go from outside in, which is the main culprit of a big slice, and to sink, which makes you hit fat. As impact, your left arm should be relaxed and passive, totally subject faithfully to your right hand.
4.5.16 Pay more attention to your lower body when you swing down, as your right knee chasing your left one, or focusing on turning your waist and hip. Never, ever, try to hit the ball hard with your hands, for it will crush the natural correct swing plane and torque tension wound up already built when you took up. The ball carry will thus be very terrible.
5. Finish
5.1.17 If you do practice well out the above-mentioned four categories, you can easily make perfect finish, which is a completely weight shift to the left within an effortless and somehow elegant holding posture without any jerkiness or reluctance, sending the little white ball to its nice long journey.
5.2.18 Tiger Woods says that he imagines shaking his right hand with the target after hitting the ball. Don’t hastily raise your head to watch where the ball goes. That will dislocate the fulcrums and the swing will not be constant.
6. As A Whole
6.1.19 Practice swinging as slowly as possible. And I mean slowly. Make such a slow motion to recognize and identify each detail stated above, till your muscle groups store all the parts step by step as a linking done instinctively.
6.2.20 Swing within yourself, that is, use at most 80% of your sheer power. Focus on your balance and rhythm from stance to finish.
6.3.21 Balance and rhythm of any club shots is the same, not only the driver but the 9 iron. You can practice them alternatively at the driving range to adjust yourself to the same rhythm. Ernie Els says he owns totally the same concepts of swing from driving to putting, only the zooming in or out of any single motion. That the number on the iron is lower does not mean you should swing the club harder.
6.4.22 Do establish your own personal “pre-shot routine” (what you ought to do precisely or not to forget before you swing). Have your own way and sequence of each swing such as how to aim the target first, then how to grip, how to stance, how to start a take up, or even how to soothe your breath… Besides, put no more than three reminders into your own pre-shot routine; for example, mine is a. Head still, one-piece take up. b. Remember rhythm, don’t haste. It will change somehow as a golfer improves himself in the future.
6.6.23 Always try to hit the shot at the moment well enough for the next shot to hit more easily. Never have the bad shot in mind you just hit on the course too long. But one thing you do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.
6.5.24 Only mind one technical item around 18 holes since teeing off. Only one for a round, two is too much. Face it frankly and try to think out a solution with the help of your pro.
6.6.25 Golf is a game of honesty and self-achievement, and a game of a life long. You will never enjoy the pure exhilaration of golf only when you take it really, really seriously. So determination is the first thing first of playing golf.
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