Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Learning To Play Golf - Improving Your Swings

By Jason Maxwell


Most people love to learn and play golf. Different people have different ways of learning the game. While most often people prefer taking professional lessons and training to play golf, there are many who find it interesting to read up as well as learn the game on their own through observing others and by trial and error.

But then some kind of lessons and theoretical understanding of the game is necessary for it is quite a tough game to master.

If you observe the other players moves very critically you will understand a lot about swings. You will understand as to why they practice their swing several times before taking a shot. You will also observe the way their swing and the movements involved thereof. There is the twisting of the body and secondly the swinging of the arms in co-ordination.

For an effective swing the body has to turn properly. The body turn should be at a near to horizontal plane and should be at right angles to the spine and parallel to the line of the shoulders.

Arms Swinging involves swinging as nearly as possible with force aimed at the ball. The arms are free to swing when the body turns to make swinging of arms possible. The shoulders remain

Do not think that swinging is very easy just because it looks easy on television or watching other professionals at play. You will be surprised while you practice that it takes quite a while for you to get control and coordination over the swing and get going. In fact you have got to learn about two more aspects of swing which have to do with backswing and downswing which are also important.

The swing has two distinctive parts to the entire technique. The first part involves a backswing where in the player lifts the club back and upwards to the right side of his body if he is a right handed golfer and pickups the required distance and speed. The second part is to swing it down and hit the ball in the required direction with the right amount of force.

The swinging action if you analyze is done in a circular motion starting with backswing. This is made possible by turning the upper part of the body to facilitate fluid movement.




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