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Lesson 4
Lesson 4 - The Back Swing.(Changed 16/02/2025)

 

The back swing movement is the bedrock of the golf swing and therefore if you can perform it correctly you will have a solid foundation for a top quality golf swing.

Therefore the set up and the way you take the club away from the ball at the very beginning of the back swing movement will determine the outcome of the golf shot, so pay particular attention to this aspect of the golf swing.


 

Back Swing Movement.

 

I set yourself up with the head slightly behind the ball so that you are looking at the back of the ball.

The back swing movement is a very basic movement where the shoulders and the arms are rotated whilst held firmly as a solid one piece unit thus turning the upper body unit and the golf club away from the ball.

(Before you begin the back swing movement focus your eyes on the back of the ball and religiously maintain that focus on the ball whilst you rotate the shoulders as far as you can. but never take your eyes off the back of the ball, your eyes must not waver from this task..)

This ultimately forces the hips to rotate away from the frontal facing position and creates a twisting of the upper torso,

The upper body unit must be firmly held together as a one piece solid unit, but importantly whilst the head is firmly held at a position where the left eye is slightly behind the ball position, so that at the end of your back swing movement, your back is facing the target, or as far as you are able to rotate the upper body, and the left arm is close to the right shoulder.

 

But importantly, you must only rotate the compact upper body unit as far as your physicality allows, by that I mean when you reach the limit of your back turn do not allow the arms to bend in order to make a fuller back swing movement.

( The arms and the shoulders must form a solid one piece unit as you rotate/twist the upper body unit to the end of the back swing movement.)

As you reach the end of your back swing it is vital that pause for a millisecond before you begin to rotate the hips towards the target area.

 

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