The golf swing

Folks think the golf swing is difficult, I disagree. It's just physics and all the good players make the same moves. If you watch the best, see the common moves and copy, you have it made!

Of course there exist the individual differences, preferences, physical adjustments etc., but all good golf swings comprise the same qualities and components: a good horizontal move, (turn, pivot, rotate, transfer of weight, coil and uncoil) and many other terms that are all the same. All strong, right handed golfers fire the right side, it's just a matter of whether they feel the trigger is the right knee, right hip, turning belt buckle to the target, lifting the right heel or something else. We don't know what they're thinking in terms of swing thought, but we vividly see the strong move past the ball and toward the target. It's called commitment to the shot. The other necessary component you see in high level players is the vertical plane: the backswing, up, down, then up again. The common terms you hear are, hinge, unhinge then hinge, set, release then fold or maintain good extension of the left side, (right handed players), etc.

If golfers have a good horizontal and vertical, they can be coordinated, but the goal of all instructors is to first develop those two components. The coordination of the two planes is called: one piece golf swing, a connected swing or vertical coordinating with horizontal. If this is done in a nicely coordinated fashion, balance will be good. On the flip side, if you exhibit good balance, you probably made a coordinated swing. Just be sure that both planes are complete. If they are complete, they are constant factors. If they are incomplete, they become variables. We do not want variables!