Taking Your Fluid Swing On To The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles
Taking Your Fluid Swing On To The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you are now prepared to try and take your fluid swing on the golf course, you’ve practiced your fluid swing on the range, you’ve understood what a fluid swing should be, the benefits, the pros the cons. We’ve understood the one handed exercise of how we can make this fluid swing happen a little bit more. As you’re ready to take that on the golf course, you really need to make sure that you almost allow that fluid swing to happen and you almost get out of your own way. Sometimes you see golfers on the course, they take so much information in, in the practice range or reading magazines or watching golf on the TV, but when they get on the golf course, they’re so full of different ideas they struggle to actually let it all go and let it all perform and happen. I think one of the key focuses here is just take a really good strong deep breath before every shot, try and bring that deep breath in as part of your practice routine. Most golfers will have a sort of a pre-shot routine, a practice routine. I’d like to see the deep breath added in to that routine. It’s a great way of just letting everything relax and drop down a little bit, your emotional level comes down, your sort of relaxation of your shoulders, your hands and your arms all just relaxes a bit more. Therefore when we setup to the golf ball to go ahead and make the swing that fluid swing is easier to find rather than emotionally quite tight, physically quite tight in the shoulders, I think you should stand up and you give it a good old rip. So just relax everything down with that really big deep breath.

One other thing I think will help you play fluid golf is playing within your limits, playing within your known capabilities. If you stand there with an eight iron knowing that you can hit it 150, there’s a good chance that you’ll make a nice fluid swing to hit it that far. But if when I say 150 you think, “Well I’ll be hitting a six iron from there?” Well a six iron would be nice a fluid shot for you, but you’re trying to hit an eight iron 160 probably wouldn’t look fluid. It would probably look like you take too wide a stand, too big a back swing, too fast a swing because you are trying to not play within your limits, you’re trying to force your capabilities. So whether it’s a drive, an iron shot, or even a chip, play well within your capabilities, make sure you take that extra long deep breath just before you set up to the golf ball in your pre-shot routine and hopefully that will encourage you to play with a nice fluid golf swing and play within your set limits. 2016-05-04

So if you are now prepared to try and take your fluid swing on the golf course, you’ve practiced your fluid swing on the range, you’ve understood what a fluid swing should be, the benefits, the pros the cons. We’ve understood the one handed exercise of how we can make this fluid swing happen a little bit more. As you’re ready to take that on the golf course, you really need to make sure that you almost allow that fluid swing to happen and you almost get out of your own way. Sometimes you see golfers on the course, they take so much information in, in the practice range or reading magazines or watching golf on the TV, but when they get on the golf course, they’re so full of different ideas they struggle to actually let it all go and let it all perform and happen. I think one of the key focuses here is just take a really good strong deep breath before every shot, try and bring that deep breath in as part of your practice routine. Most golfers will have a sort of a pre-shot routine, a practice routine. I’d like to see the deep breath added in to that routine. It’s a great way of just letting everything relax and drop down a little bit, your emotional level comes down, your sort of relaxation of your shoulders, your hands and your arms all just relaxes a bit more. Therefore when we setup to the golf ball to go ahead and make the swing that fluid swing is easier to find rather than emotionally quite tight, physically quite tight in the shoulders, I think you should stand up and you give it a good old rip. So just relax everything down with that really big deep breath.

One other thing I think will help you play fluid golf is playing within your limits, playing within your known capabilities. If you stand there with an eight iron knowing that you can hit it 150, there’s a good chance that you’ll make a nice fluid swing to hit it that far. But if when I say 150 you think, “Well I’ll be hitting a six iron from there?” Well a six iron would be nice a fluid shot for you, but you’re trying to hit an eight iron 160 probably wouldn’t look fluid. It would probably look like you take too wide a stand, too big a back swing, too fast a swing because you are trying to not play within your limits, you’re trying to force your capabilities.

So whether it’s a drive, an iron shot, or even a chip, play well within your capabilities, make sure you take that extra long deep breath just before you set up to the golf ball in your pre-shot routine and hopefully that will encourage you to play with a nice fluid golf swing and play within your set limits.