Should I Decelerate Into My Golf Shots To Hit Them Straighter? (Video) - by Dean Butler
Should I Decelerate Into My Golf Shots To Hit Them Straighter? (Video) - by Dean Butler

So, the question is, should you decelerate into the ball to hit the ball straighter? Absolutely not. If you think about it, if you decelerate into the ball, you’re actually switching off everything that you set out to do in your backswing. So, let me demonstrate. If you set up to the ball and you do your normal swing, you know that when you turn the club back, you take the club back, push it away of your left arm, pushing away your left knee, you just turning to the right and as you go back you get into this position here. So a good shoulder turn, weight transfer and from here we start to pull the club back down, as we pull that club back down we accelerate into the hitting area, with acceleration coming from this point here and then through, and it carries us through into this position.

So when you look at the swing, look at the mirror image. So here’s the backswing and here’s the follow through. It’s a nice balanced proportion. There’s no wobbling, I’m not falling over. But if you decelerate, wow! This is what happens. So, then it’s the same back swing, I go back, swing the club back and now I decelerate. If I decelerate, there’s my follow through. It’s got no follow through. I’ve got half a follow through. So if I’ve decelerated, the first thing that’s going to happen, you think well the ball will go straighter, no. Because If I cut off the natural movements, which was the shoulder’s going through 90 degrees, the hips through 45 and I decelerate then I end up with my hips being static, and my arms being static here, my shoulders and it’s almost a bit of a shove. And if I was hitting the ball towards the camera, the sort of favorite shot from this position here decelerating would be a club face that is open and the ball would tend to travel down the right hand side. So, did we hit a straighter golf shot by decelerating? Absolutely no. Hitting straighter golf shots is through other methods, but deceleration to hit straighter balls, no. 2014-08-04

So, the question is, should you decelerate into the ball to hit the ball straighter? Absolutely not. If you think about it, if you decelerate into the ball, you’re actually switching off everything that you set out to do in your backswing. So, let me demonstrate. If you set up to the ball and you do your normal swing, you know that when you turn the club back, you take the club back, push it away of your left arm, pushing away your left knee, you just turning to the right and as you go back you get into this position here. So a good shoulder turn, weight transfer and from here we start to pull the club back down, as we pull that club back down we accelerate into the hitting area, with acceleration coming from this point here and then through, and it carries us through into this position.

So when you look at the swing, look at the mirror image. So here’s the backswing and here’s the follow through. It’s a nice balanced proportion. There’s no wobbling, I’m not falling over. But if you decelerate, wow! This is what happens. So, then it’s the same back swing, I go back, swing the club back and now I decelerate. If I decelerate, there’s my follow through. It’s got no follow through. I’ve got half a follow through. So if I’ve decelerated, the first thing that’s going to happen, you think well the ball will go straighter, no. Because If I cut off the natural movements, which was the shoulder’s going through 90 degrees, the hips through 45 and I decelerate then I end up with my hips being static, and my arms being static here, my shoulders and it’s almost a bit of a shove. And if I was hitting the ball towards the camera, the sort of favorite shot from this position here decelerating would be a club face that is open and the ball would tend to travel down the right hand side. So, did we hit a straighter golf shot by decelerating? Absolutely no. Hitting straighter golf shots is through other methods, but deceleration to hit straighter balls, no.