The Windup And Delivery From Golf Swing Tips

Ball flight results from the interaction between clubface and ball during the impact interval of the swing, which is three quarters of an inch from start to finish. Logic suggests that we should spend a whole lot of our attention and training getting that right and it’s a bit of a mystery to me why we don’t hear more about it.
Our practice tends to have a lot of “hunt and peck” in it. However, if we view the golfer as essentially a catapult system to launch a ball in a direction, the entire procedure takes on a certain clarity and perspective. The catapult is grounded soundly and aimed at the target. Throughout the entire process of windup and release the catapult remains completely grounded. When correctly timed, the release arms which are hinged in the middle, multiply the release leverage created by the wound up body of the machine.
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The golfer at address is the same. It’s as if he/she is lined up at the edge of a moat hurling golf balls at the castle doors until they yield. Basically, we start in that grounded posture, wind up against the ground, reposition for release and release with precision from the point where we started. We can make it very complicated if we want to but it’s relatively simple stuff that the body can figure out how to do if we give ourselves a chance. We start, we windup, and we go back through the start with maximum acceleration. We know that the arms and club hinged lever system wants to move away, fold and move back on closely identical lines. This means the grounded body from the feet to the shoulders wants to move in such a way that when the arms and club lever system reflect that motion they will move away and back on closely identical lines. So now it’s “Just do it”.
Experiment with your release posture paying attention to rhythm, timing, balance, speed and precision to see where you need to be to bring it all back together at the bottom. It will swing you if you let it. Move in quarter swings to start so that you can really focus on the contact interval. We need to be in total control of ourselves during these moments and that’s what I mean by sticking the landing. When we are in balance inside the swing, it all sort of takes care of itself around you. Zone work. The golf swing is a closed system movement in that it winds out from and then back through the same space. If we work on being smooth, stable and soft we will be most likely to deliver speed and precision through impact.
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We should speak a little more about this landing we are trying to stick. In gymnastics a stuck landing or finish is the result of balanced motions setting up a perfect position like a spinning knife that sticks in the ground perfectly upright. In golf we are creating a body position that supports the clubface accelerating through impact. Let’s keep this picture very simple. Imagine an inverted Dixie cup cone like we would find in an ordinary water cooler except that this cone at it’s highest point is exactly the same height as the top of your own head. This imaginary cone has a shoulder assembly just like ours with arms and club set to swing along the target line.