| Now you are ready to start the golf swing, to | | | | in a barrel," didn't permit you to transfer your weight |
| uncover the first fatal flaws that appear, with the | | | | to your right leg. You kept too much of it on your |
| horrible shots they produce, and to learn the first of | | | | left leg. |
| the magic moves that will cut strokes from your | | | | Taking the club away inside (it was probably quite |
| score. | | | | sharply inside) got it moving too flat, as well as |
| Ironically, these first flaws that creep into the | | | | opening the face. Then, to get the swing farther |
| average player's golf swing produce an effect that is | | | | along, you had to bring the club up. At that point |
| the exact opposite of what he wants. Just as you | | | | things began to get tight and uncomfortable.To ease |
| have, he has read and heard all his golfing life that | | | | them you stopped the turn that your shoulders were |
| certain things are essential. The first of these is that | | | | making and let your left wrist collapse, or bend back |
| you must pivot, the second is that the club must be | | | | and gounder the club. This let you raise the club and |
| taken away from the ball inside the projected line of | | | | get what you felt was a full golf swing, without being |
| flight, the third is that the wrists should be broken | | | | uncomfortable. The face of the club, of course, was |
| late and upward. Now let's see what happens when | | | | wide open at the top. |
| you put them into practice. | | | | What happened next was inevitable. You started the |
| You twist your body as you start the take-away. | | | | golf swing by regripping with your left hand, which |
| This brings the club back on an inside line. Fine. It | | | | had loosened, which made you get the club head |
| opens the face of the club too. Excellent, you say, | | | | started moving too soon. Your weight,being mostly |
| for you know it should be open at the top of the | | | | on your left leg, moved back to the right leg. You |
| golf swing.You delay the wrist break as long as | | | | turned your hips and shoulders sharply, which threw |
| possible and then let the wrists break upward. Then | | | | the club onto the outside-in line you were trying to |
| what happens? The very thing you wanted most to | | | | avoid. And you came down across the ball. |
| avoid. You hit the ball from the outside in, with an | | | | Chances are that as you did, your left knee snapped |
| open face (usually), and you get an outlandish slice. If | | | | back and locked and your right knee bent straight |
| you close the face on the golf swing you probably | | | | out in front of you. And your golf swing |
| will get a pull, or as mother (if it's closed too much), | | | | follow-through, what there was of it, carried the club |
| or a hook. If the club is outside the line far enough, | | | | around you instead of up and out after the ball. |
| you will even get that most horrible of all shots, a | | | | You, however, see none of these things as the |
| shank. Your golf swing is the primary thing to perfect | | | | cause of your bad shots. You feel only that you |
| in your golf game. | | | | haven't done well enough what you are trying to do, |
| You are then thoroughly crestfallen. You have done | | | | and in your efforts to meet the standards, you |
| everything you'd been told to do and you still hit | | | | exaggerate the actions. You don't improve. You may |
| those awful shots. Why? You hit them because your | | | | easily get worse. And you finally end your practice |
| early movements in your golf swing got you into | | | | session frustrated and dejected, or your round, if |
| such a position at the top that you could hardly hit | | | | you are playing, with a shameful score. So follow |
| anything else. Your early pivot, your attempt to "turn | | | | these tips to improve your golf swing today. |