Swing The Handle Golf Swing Teaching Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles
Swing The Handle Golf Swing Teaching Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles

We re going to have a little look now at swing the handle teaching method. Now this was advocated by Eddie Merrins back in the 70s, when he worked a little bit with Nicholas on how he was turning his body through the ball, or more importantly how he was controlling that using his forearms and not specifically worrying too much about what the club head is doing. A lot of golfers struggle to understand that you know that the club head is moving round up here and it’s quite an awkward position, but if they can understand how little movements that they put into their hands and arms actually have a big effect on what the club head is doing. So a small turn of the thumb from one side to another has a big effect on the club head and an even bigger effect on what the golf ball is doing. So as you set up to the golf ball you take hold of the grip and you understand the relationship your forearms should have.

Basically the forearms here should be quite level to the target so that in the same direction as the target. In the backswing the right arm will drop lower, the left arm will come a little bit higher. And then during the downswing those hands need to change position. So my right hand is curling under my left; through the impact phase my forearms will square up, and then my right hand will come back over the top of my left in the follow-through. And if I can work up rotating my forearms through this area, Eddie Merrins talked about how if I rotate my forearms, clearly I’m rotating the club head; and as long as I focus on rotating my forearms, almost like a two handed tennis shot in tennis, you focus on what the forearms are doing, the club head, the racket head is going to do its job quite nicely for you. Merrins was also quite keen to work on the principle that the golf ball is not the destination for the swing but simply the golf ball is half way, in the down swing the ball gets in the way. So really once we’ve got the club up from the top position here, the destination for the golf club is this side in the follow-through. So we come down, rotate the fore arms, and swing through to a full finish. So if you’re struggling to understand what your club head is doing and you’re getting confused with that and not striking the ball correctly, try and simplify this a little bit; work on what your forearms are doing throughout the swing and that should help you strike the ball better and straighter. 2014-03-28

We re going to have a little look now at swing the handle teaching method. Now this was advocated by Eddie Merrins back in the 70s, when he worked a little bit with Nicholas on how he was turning his body through the ball, or more importantly how he was controlling that using his forearms and not specifically worrying too much about what the club head is doing. A lot of golfers struggle to understand that you know that the club head is moving round up here and it’s quite an awkward position, but if they can understand how little movements that they put into their hands and arms actually have a big effect on what the club head is doing. So a small turn of the thumb from one side to another has a big effect on the club head and an even bigger effect on what the golf ball is doing. So as you set up to the golf ball you take hold of the grip and you understand the relationship your forearms should have.

Basically the forearms here should be quite level to the target so that in the same direction as the target. In the backswing the right arm will drop lower, the left arm will come a little bit higher. And then during the downswing those hands need to change position. So my right hand is curling under my left; through the impact phase my forearms will square up, and then my right hand will come back over the top of my left in the follow-through. And if I can work up rotating my forearms through this area, Eddie Merrins talked about how if I rotate my forearms, clearly I’m rotating the club head; and as long as I focus on rotating my forearms, almost like a two handed tennis shot in tennis, you focus on what the forearms are doing, the club head, the racket head is going to do its job quite nicely for you.

Merrins was also quite keen to work on the principle that the golf ball is not the destination for the swing but simply the golf ball is half way, in the down swing the ball gets in the way. So really once we’ve got the club up from the top position here, the destination for the golf club is this side in the follow-through. So we come down, rotate the fore arms, and swing through to a full finish. So if you’re struggling to understand what your club head is doing and you’re getting confused with that and not striking the ball correctly, try and simplify this a little bit; work on what your forearms are doing throughout the swing and that should help you strike the ball better and straighter.