Understanding And Fixing Your Golf Swing Path (Video) - by Pete Styles
Understanding And Fixing Your Golf Swing Path (Video) - by Pete Styles

I think one everywhere, club golfers and amateur golfers sometimes comes a little bit in stock in golf tuition and golf instruction is the understanding of some of the terminologies that coaches use, and maybe that’s the coaches’ responsibility to not use terms that club golfers don’t understand. But there is a term of path, club path. It’s a very important term, we need to understand that. And as an amateur golfer, you need to understand that as well because it’s a term we can’t get away from, you will hear it all the time either written down or in the golf instruction magazines that you see or on the television when you’re watching the tally casts of the tournaments. Commentators talking about swing path and how it affects ball flight and how different players have different swing paths. So let’s talk about that terminology and how that can affect your game. I’ve got a club shaft on the ground here, which is pointing on my ball to target line, the direction the ball is going to travel. And my swing path is going to be judged in relation to that ball to target line. And we have an inside of that line, and we have an outside of that line.

So whenever you hear the terminology swing path, it will often be associated with an outside to inside motion and inside to outside motion, or an in to square to in swing path. So as a golfer, you’ve got to have an understanding of what your current swing path is in that out to in, in to out or in square in. Once you’ve got a good understanding of what you’re currently doing, and how that affects your ball flight, you can go ahead and start to understand how you can understand to change that swing path. Either by taking lessons or watching some videos or understanding what they are talking about on the telly, in relation to how some golfers might have the club, oh he is really coming down on the inside here and he swings out to the outside and you’ve stood there, thinking, I have no clue what that means. But if you understand this is the inside, this is the outside, this is the outside, and this is the inside. And then the classic swing, the swing that probably most people want is in square in to make sure we try and hit that golf ball as straight as possible. So if you can understand swing path, you can go ahead and improve your swing path 2015-10-08

I think one everywhere, club golfers and amateur golfers sometimes comes a little bit in stock in golf tuition and golf instruction is the understanding of some of the terminologies that coaches use, and maybe that’s the coaches’ responsibility to not use terms that club golfers don’t understand. But there is a term of path, club path. It’s a very important term, we need to understand that. And as an amateur golfer, you need to understand that as well because it’s a term we can’t get away from, you will hear it all the time either written down or in the golf instruction magazines that you see or on the television when you’re watching the tally casts of the tournaments. Commentators talking about swing path and how it affects ball flight and how different players have different swing paths. So let’s talk about that terminology and how that can affect your game. I’ve got a club shaft on the ground here, which is pointing on my ball to target line, the direction the ball is going to travel. And my swing path is going to be judged in relation to that ball to target line. And we have an inside of that line, and we have an outside of that line.

So whenever you hear the terminology swing path, it will often be associated with an outside to inside motion and inside to outside motion, or an in to square to in swing path. So as a golfer, you’ve got to have an understanding of what your current swing path is in that out to in, in to out or in square in. Once you’ve got a good understanding of what you’re currently doing, and how that affects your ball flight, you can go ahead and start to understand how you can understand to change that swing path. Either by taking lessons or watching some videos or understanding what they are talking about on the telly, in relation to how some golfers might have the club, oh he is really coming down on the inside here and he swings out to the outside and you’ve stood there, thinking, I have no clue what that means. But if you understand this is the inside, this is the outside, this is the outside, and this is the inside. And then the classic swing, the swing that probably most people want is in square in to make sure we try and hit that golf ball as straight as possible. So if you can understand swing path, you can go ahead and improve your swing path