How to play great swings in golf

March 20th, 2010 by articles

Most golfers inaccurately hold the golf club too loosely in their fingers and too firm in their arms. Thus, the golfer sometimes fails to hold good grip on the club and he consequently plays a poor shot.

If you want to play a good swing, the club should be held tightly in your fingers. Suppose you are trying to pick up a cup of coffee with your loose fingers and stiff arms. What will happen? Most likely, you will drop it. The same thing will happen in case of a golf club.

After you learn to hold the club properly, it’s time to concentrate on a proper pull of the club. If you pull too swiftly or from your elbow or shoulder, there will be a lot of tension in your arm and upper part of your body. You need to strengthen your fingers and try to swing the golf club smoothly while having stiff control in the fingers. This will help you to be in line with the shot and you will hit the ball to its destined target. This also helps to bounce off the club correctly.

Mastering the skills of holding the club with firm fingers and moving the club smoothly enables you to play shots in artistic manners. Playing your best golf is at your finger grips.

There are different ways in which you can swing your golf club. The most famed is the modern swing which is also referred to as the lower body swing or total body swing. Most first time young golfers having a thin body have been seen playing this specific shot called “tail swings the dog”. A young boy generally swings the club with his arms, but his body inertly twists a little in reaction to his arms’ and club’s movements across the front portion of his body. The flexible torso of a young boy easily bends drawing an arc, due to the forces that result by the movement of his arms and the club.

On the contrary, the most visible shot played by most of the overweight men in their middle-age with their stiff central torso is “dog swings the tail”. Generally, an over-weight man is seen playing such type of shot because he fails to bend his torso in response to the movements of his arms and the club.

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