“Technique”The American Heritage Dictionary says: “The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished”.
It is possible to analyze the swing of a golf ball. You can reduce it to a process. This can be broken down step-by-step. This is the way that most instruction works.
Golfers often appear to be concentrating only on one thing, which can cause their swings to look jerky. A stiff, stiff and tense look.
Teaching golf could be more effective if students were able to feel the motion of the swing. When you are swinging at the golf ball, there should be two main sensations: Whip and Around.
For golf instruction, the most dominant directional indicators are “Back” and “Forth”. Because the most popular view of the swing in golf instruction is from the face, it’s easy to see why. Many apparent back and forth actions take place from this perspective.
The truth is, any back and forth movement is only incidental. The golf swing’s dominant body motion is the around, or rotational. The circular motion of the golf swing is obvious if your eyes are directly in front of an excellent player. It is what determines the way a great golfer feels during a swing. Good golfers feel like they are whirling round in circles and not sliding forward and back.
But the whipping motion in your torso is not one-piece. Whipping motions are created when the hips start to uncoil and the shoulders continue to coil. A cowboy cracks a bullwhip by pushing the handle in front while the whip’s strand is still flopping backward.
The major mid-torso muscles that are responsible for shoulder rotation, the ROTATOR muscle, can get stretched slowly when hips and shoulders turn in opposite directions. This whipping sensation is essential to achieve incremental muscle stretching and faster shoulder rotation.
Although technical coaching can assist with learning how to golf swing the game, you should still be in touch and in sync with the feeling that you desire.