Mechanics to Create a Connected Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Mechanics to Create a Connected Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

Creating a good consistent smooth golf swing can often be a little bit of a battle between the smoothness and the consistency. If a golf swing is too smooth and too free flowing it can often look a little bit wobbly and not consistent enough. But then likewise if a golf swing is too rigid and too stiff it might be fairly consistent but it’s got no smoothness no power. What I actually consider the perfect model for a golf swing, a lot of people think, well if you built a robot to play golf what would that look like? Well it would have a wide base, it would a central point in the middle, it would have some long arms and it would turn back with a hinge and it would turn through. And this bit and this bit in the middle would never move and it would consistently hit the golf ball. Now that robot is actually being built and it’s called Iron Byron and it’s a testing robot. And all of the manufacturer use the Iron Byron to test all their new equipments and their new drivers and so on, because they know it’s going to be super consistent so they can measure it with a perfect swing every single time to measure how that could perform with different shaft and different components different heads, for example. So when we’re playing golf we need to have a little bit of the Iron Byron mentality but also put a human element and a human touch and feel into it. So when we set up we have a nice wide platform, but then we have to pick a fulcrum point in the middle, a pivot point in the middle that the swing turns around. Now for the right handed golfer that pivot is just left off center in their sternum and that point of your sternum which stay relatively still as you turn back and through so we’re not swaying off the ball, we’re not rising up in the back swing. So the next time you’re playing, try and focus on keeping the sternum relatively steady turning to your right side and turning through. And it’s only in the follow through where you move through and that’s when you get that fluidity. So it’s not standing perfectly still and hitting, but it’s not swaying around too much either. There’s a nice consistency in the back swing and a nice turn though with a bit of smoothness in the finish. And that’s the key to getting a nice consistent connected golf swing.

2013-03-29

Creating a good consistent smooth golf swing can often be a little bit of a battle between the smoothness and the consistency. If a golf swing is too smooth and too free flowing it can often look a little bit wobbly and not consistent enough. But then likewise if a golf swing is too rigid and too stiff it might be fairly consistent but it’s got no smoothness no power. What I actually consider the perfect model for a golf swing, a lot of people think, well if you built a robot to play golf what would that look like? Well it would have a wide base, it would a central point in the middle, it would have some long arms and it would turn back with a hinge and it would turn through. And this bit and this bit in the middle would never move and it would consistently hit the golf ball. Now that robot is actually being built and it’s called Iron Byron and it’s a testing robot. And all of the manufacturer use the Iron Byron to test all their new equipments and their new drivers and so on, because they know it’s going to be super consistent so they can measure it with a perfect swing every single time to measure how that could perform with different shaft and different components different heads, for example. So when we’re playing golf we need to have a little bit of the Iron Byron mentality but also put a human element and a human touch and feel into it. So when we set up we have a nice wide platform, but then we have to pick a fulcrum point in the middle, a pivot point in the middle that the swing turns around. Now for the right handed golfer that pivot is just left off center in their sternum and that point of your sternum which stay relatively still as you turn back and through so we’re not swaying off the ball, we’re not rising up in the back swing. So the next time you’re playing, try and focus on keeping the sternum relatively steady turning to your right side and turning through. And it’s only in the follow through where you move through and that’s when you get that fluidity. So it’s not standing perfectly still and hitting, but it’s not swaying around too much either. There’s a nice consistency in the back swing and a nice turn though with a bit of smoothness in the finish. And that’s the key to getting a nice consistent connected golf swing.