What Does Doubling Crossing Mean In A Golf Swing? (Video) - by Dean Butler
What Does Doubling Crossing Mean In A Golf Swing? (Video) - by Dean Butler

So, the question is what is double crossing in a swing? Well, it’s basically where, I can give you the best example. I’m going to set up to play a fade. And if I set up to play a fade, I would set myself up with a club face on line for the target, set up slightly open and I’m going to focus now. My brain is telling me to swing that club along that line out and coming across and of course as I do that, that’s the message that’s going through and my hands should be holding that club face in the position, so it’s actually holding it square. A double cross is when a message from the brain doesn’t quite get down to the hands and the hands don’t do as they’re supposed to do.

So they’re so much in the same set up but this time as I swing the club back, sort of holding the club face square, my hands come in and they roll over, because in a normal golf swing my hands are taught to release the club through. So here’s another classic example of a double cross. I’m setting up for the fade, I’ve got the swing right but unfortunately the message hasn’t gone from my brain to my hands and my hands are released. Now all of a sudden instead of getting that lovely fade and control shot, I’ve now got a ball that’s gone left like a pole with a massive big hook on, so it’s completely opposite to what I was actually trying to play. The double crossing is a little bit where you’re in 50/50 line, where someone is trying to do one thing but there’s something else, a very important part of it, does something that it shouldn’t be doing, the opposite. And that’s double crossing. 2014-08-05

So, the question is what is double crossing in a swing? Well, it’s basically where, I can give you the best example. I’m going to set up to play a fade. And if I set up to play a fade, I would set myself up with a club face on line for the target, set up slightly open and I’m going to focus now. My brain is telling me to swing that club along that line out and coming across and of course as I do that, that’s the message that’s going through and my hands should be holding that club face in the position, so it’s actually holding it square. A double cross is when a message from the brain doesn’t quite get down to the hands and the hands don’t do as they’re supposed to do.

So they’re so much in the same set up but this time as I swing the club back, sort of holding the club face square, my hands come in and they roll over, because in a normal golf swing my hands are taught to release the club through. So here’s another classic example of a double cross. I’m setting up for the fade, I’ve got the swing right but unfortunately the message hasn’t gone from my brain to my hands and my hands are released. Now all of a sudden instead of getting that lovely fade and control shot, I’ve now got a ball that’s gone left like a pole with a massive big hook on, so it’s completely opposite to what I was actually trying to play. The double crossing is a little bit where you’re in 50/50 line, where someone is trying to do one thing but there’s something else, a very important part of it, does something that it shouldn’t be doing, the opposite. And that’s double crossing.