Often when a golfer sees a video of their swing, they claim that it looks nothing like what it feels like to them. Author and PGA Professional Michael Hebron’s book See and Feel the Inside Move, the Outside suggests that a golfer write down what they think they do in their swing. In order to learn to play more effectively. This is my attempt to describe what I believe occurs in my golf swing:
My golf swing begins with building a proper setup. Tilt forward from the hips not hunched from the shoulders. The knees are flexed straight down so that the hips are over the ankles. The arms hang naturally from the shoulders. The stance should be built wide enough to maintain balance but not too wide to restrict the body’s turn.
From the proper setup the club is taken back in one piece, with a push from the left shoulder. Keeping flex in the right leg helps to facilitate loading into the right side and prevents over-rotation of the hips which causes the backswing to become disconnected from the body’s turn.
From the takeaway the club begins to set in front of the body with the grip pointed just inside the target line. The set occurs naturally due to the connection of the take away and leverage created at setup. When the golf club fully sets the body simply continues to rotate to the top of the backswing. Fully loading pressure into the inside of the right heel.
A proper backswing should feel like a wound up spring ready to explode forward into the back of the ball. The load in the right leg/foot is pushed off to start the unwinding of the body. Speed is passed from the body to the clubhead through the rotation/unwinding of the energy created and stored in the backswing. The chest remains down and the golf ball is covered.
There is no stopping or slowing into a full complete finish.
Components that make my golf swing run:
- Proper setup to create the leverage to set the golf club in front of the body. Proper setup also creates the space necessary for the arms and hands.
- The speed of the takeaway. Too quick and the hips will likely over rotate and the body becomes disconnected from the arms and hand.
- Loading into the right side allows the proper sequence to occur in the downswing. This also helps to use the big power muscles of the body to create speed instead of trying to create speed with the arms and flipping of the club.
The Process 