Swing the Golf Club like a Professional

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What part of the body contributes the most to generating the maximum speed of the golf club head?

This single answer allowed me to make a huge leap in my understanding of the golf swing, and in everything I had seen and read about the golf swing none of it emphasized it anywhere near like enough.

I carried out a survey on the Internet over several weeks and asked visitors to my web site the question:

'What part of the body contributes the most to generating the maximum speed of the club head?'

Only 20% got the answer correct – That’s only 1 in every 5 golfers! And these golfers had a wide range of handicaps down to single figures.

Interestingly this figure corresponds to another golfing statistic - Did you know that only around 20% of golfers have a handicap of less than 18? It made me wonder whether the misunderstanding of the fundamental aspect could be the one thing that is holding so many golfers back.

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Which part of the body do you think creates the maximum speed of the club head?

Is it:

• Shoulders

• Arms

• Hands

• Hips

• Legs

• Torso

• Wrists

The part of the body that generates the maximum club head speed in golf can also be found in other sports such as Tennis, Baseball and Cricket.

In all of these sports the role of the hands or wrists is such that they contribute the most to generating the speed of the club, racket or bat.

When the club reaches the point on the downswing where it is level with the ground notice the position of the shoulders. Then take a look at the point when the club is parallel with the ground again, after the ball has been hit and again notice the position of the shoulders.

Look at how far the club has moved (over 180 degrees) compared to how little the shoulders and arms have moved (around 45 degrees).

So the answer to the question that I posed above is that it is the hands (or wrists) that contribute the most to generating the maximum club head speed. The club is moved through over 180 degrees while the arms move through less than 60 degrees – all of the rest of the movement of the head of the golf club is generated by the movement of the hands.

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P.S.: Donald N. Lombardi is an online researcher and consultant on the subject of Golf. You can also read about other golf products he has reviewed on his website The Golf Shop.