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To Move or Not To Move? (Daniel Walker) |
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This is a
question that has been kicked around many times by golf professionals
and amateurs for years. Does your head move in the golf swing? You’ve
heard it several ways; "Keep you head still", "You moving
on the ball", "Don’t sway" and my favorite "Keep
your head down". Which is good advice when someone yells
"FORE!" But, is it good advice when talking about your golf
swing? The real question here is "Does your swing remain centered
and where is you center?"
In it’s simplest terms the golf club travels in a circle or an arc. Well, every circle has a center and the center of our circle is the bottom of your spine. How do we determine this? What is the center of our body from our head to our feet? A. WAIST. What is the center of our body from our right side to our left side? A. SPINE So the bottom of our spine is the ultimate center of our body. This is also the center of our swing circle. If our center moves in the golf swing than the entire circle shifts in that same direction changing the bottom of our arc. This would cause inconsistent ball contact and having to manipulate the club with our arms and hands to make contact. If your spine stays centered you will hit golf shots in the middle of the club face and that takes the correct amount of turf using your body pivot to produce the power and correct path the club is to be swung. The second result of a good swing center is distance. Someone who keeps their head still in the golf swing actually moves their spine to the left of the ball and then to the right of the ball in their downswing. You wouldn’t see many pitchers stay in the major leagues long with this motion as we compare it in the pictures below. What you should see as a result of a good body rotation is the spine staying centered and the mass of the body rotating around the spine. This allows your body to move toward the target hitting the golf ball with the larger muscles in your body and not your arms and hands. Notice the head has a slight lateral movement if the spine stays centered. How to learn to make this happen? A good drill to do to get the feeling is the shaft over the shoulder drill. Set up in good posture taking the shaft and laying across your shoulders. Also, you will lay a shaft inside your right foot perpendicular to your target line. Rotate your body around your spine until the two shafts are parallel. This will allow you to make a full body rotation in the back swing and to get turned behind the ball to insure a powerful pivot through the ball. For more information on how to add distance or using your body to simplify your swing motion, Contact Daniel Walker at 865-675-0100. Special thanks to Scott Mc Murray for his help in time in posing for these photos. |
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