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Vertical swing or swing plane will definitely promote and
encourage straight ball fly after hitting.
However, rotational swing will tend to be hitting the ball to the right
or left because of rotational movement of body and arm but with more power and
lack of control. There is no clear reason for this shift of thought, but every
player has to understand the pro and cons of two different swings.
This article strongly suggest that Vertical Drop is the right
way.
Vertical Drop Swing will be more accurate and encourage the
straight ball fly after hitting. This gives
a huge benefit and advantage over the rotational swing. Then, what kind of
simple mechanics and tips are involved in this for consistent and repeatable swing?
First, Back swing.
a.
Now back swing has started. Make sure to recognize the moment when the
left hand is reaching exactly over the top of right foot. At this time, left arm will be very much
parallel to the imaginary line that can be drawn with two toes and target
point.
b.
Takeaway (not Rotation) will happen only with using
upper body and shoulder, not using lower body or hip, but using very minimal
waist turn.
c.
Imagine that your back swing completely stops or
pauses for a second. I would say this is
point of lifting. The left hand which
grabs the golf club would be very vertical, almost pointing to the sky
vertically at the height of waist. This
point is very important because we will lift the left shoulder and arm and hand
together up vertically after this point.
d. Simply lift up the left shoulder along with hand
and arm together. This lifting will be extremely important because we want to make
sure that the top portion of left shoulder is naturally touching up the bottom
of chin.
e.
Lift up further and further until you reach at the
peak of back swing. Here, at peak, the
shaft of golf club does not have be parallel to the ground. In other words, three quarter swing should be
enough to generate enough power with such an accuracy.
f.
Make sure that right hip around right back
pocket area does not rotate that much. It
will stay with only minimal rotations, or virtually no rotation at all.
Second, Vertical drop or Down Swing.
a.
We want to use the power of natural gravity from
down swing or simply vertical dropping of club.
We want to trigger the powerful dropping of club with natural gravity.
b.
If possible, we want to minimize the movement of
wrist as hard as possible in order to result in such an accurate hitting of golf
ball with iron blade or drive head. The more
we use the wrist movement, the lesser the accuracy of ball striking will be. This is a known fact and this has to be
stressed over again and again.
Lastly, Finish.
a.
The Finish will be a series of action, but more
or so it would be the same of reverse back swing.
b.
In other words, make sure to recognize when the
right hand stretches out and reaches to the left side lifting point (this would
be almost symmetric to beginning of back swing).
c.
Likewise, simply lift up right shoulder along
with right hand and arm together. Please make sure that the top portion of right
shoulder is naturally touching up the bottom of chin.
d.
Lift up further and further until you reach at the
peak, so that you can finish the swing.
e.
Right hand will stay high at around 11 hour clock,
not necessary at 12 hour clock.
f.
Body shifting from center to right and back to center
and further to left will be done naturally and smoothly.
Thanks for reading and I hope you will have a huge
improvement in golf swing this season!
