Golf Swing Instructions

Golf swing instructions defined by Webster on ‘rhythm’: “Movement marked by regular alternation”. The snap of the hips which results in a “wrench” of the torso is not a part of any pattern of ‘regular alternation’. Students, encouraged to ‘swing rhythmically’, will not lead snappily with their lower torsos and are doomed never to improve. ‘Swing’ is what it looks like, but it’s not how you do it. 

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Entrenched as ‘swing’ is, its influence on the thought processes of students is insidious, if not diabolical! Take a moment to assess what a box your thinking has been trapped within by the word ‘swing’ and all the ease, grace and rhythm it connotes. Remember Jack Nicklaus saying that the legs and body are the engine of the ‘swing’. What they’re doing is hardly easy, graceful or rhythmical. Indeed, if you were focusing solely on the moves of the legs and torso and trying to find words to describe these moves ‘swing’ probably would never enter your mind. 
What are we going to do about the universal use of ‘swing’ to describe the motion a body makes as it hits a golf ball? If we keep calling it a ‘swing’, golfers are going to think they’re supposed to swing. But we’ve learned their primary move is supposed to be a stretch and snap. Neither ‘Lift ‘n coil’ nor ‘Flail’ is a good replacement since each describes only a portion of the motion.