How To Swing A Golf Club

All the time you will hear that you should do this or never do that when it comes to playing golf and instead of focusing on the negatives, lets focus on how to swing a golf club. The swinging of a golf club is a series of complicated positions and a don’t has absolutely no place in golf.  

Any golfer’s goal is consistency in their game whether it is bad or good, consistency allows for many different things and even if bad, you still can manage a handicap to keep you in the game. It is important that when swinging the club, you focus on using the larger and strongest muscles of the body rather than the smaller ones at first and then latter if you feel capable of attempting it, you can move on to using the smaller muscles like the wrists. 

In its simplest form which is known as the single or one plane golf swing, the golf swing consists of a triangle which is composed of the shoulders and the hands as the points. This triangle should stay rigid while at the same time your body, arms and wrists should stay fairly loose. When you start the back swing and move into the transition then to the down swing, this triangle should stay the same size and shape which relies on the torso to create the necessary power and torque as the body swings in its natural arc.  

When learning how to swing a golf club it is very important to also take into consideration that since every body is completely different, so too will each person’s swing be entirely unique to them and the only constant between any two swings comes down to the half a millisecond in which the face of the golf club’s head squarely makes contact with the ball sending it soaring towards the intended target. 

Focusing on the basics of how to swing a golf club means learning the stages of the golf swing and where your body should be positioned at each stage. From there it is also important to maintain some sort of consistent tempo or rhythm when playing golf which can be as simple as quietly counting to yourself in even spaced intervals at the beginning of each and every stage of the swing.