Golf Swing Training

Golf swing training helps players at all levels understand the technical terms of golfing like JUNK “DOWNSWING”.  Now we’ll turn our attention to what’s commonly called the “downswing”. Arms up, right side of torso coiling around to get behind, and greatly increasing torso stretch are mostly what you feel during the lift 'n coil. For about 60% of Tour pros, at the start of the ‘downswing’ some nearly instantaneous ‘down’ action by the torso takes place. Thereafter, though, part of the torso moves up. The dominant ‘down’swing sensation is hips, shoulders, arms and clubhead whirling around (much more later):

So, once again, we need a name change, removing ‘down’ as a comprehensive descriptor of the move after the lift ‘n coil. “Swing”: Look more closely Also, now is the time to take Swail’s first shot at making the case that ‘swing’ is “misleading and incomplete”. 

If you watch a clubshaft during a ‘swing’ from the common face-on view, indeed it looks to be making a swing-like motion. So far so good. But the clubhead is making a major additional move--which the eye cannot catch.

The red arrows indicate the direction the clubhead is facing. Between these two pictures the clubhead rotates about 180 degrees, and this action occurs in about one-tenth of a second (assuming clubhead speed of 120-ish miles per hour. Matt’s been clocked at 127 mph).

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