Using Ground Force To Accelerate Into Golf Impact Position (Video) - by Peter Finch
Using Ground Force To Accelerate Into Golf Impact Position (Video) - by Peter Finch

Powering the downswing is drawing upwards. So using ground forces is absolutely key to help generate the correct amount of power as you move down into the point of impact. Now ground force works very, very simply, what you push into the ground you will be able to draw upwards through energy. Some kind of physics in there, I can’t remember at the top of my head, not that I’m Einstein, Newton, someone with a mustache and crazy hair. But they figured out that any amount you push into something unless you’re met with an opposite force you’re going to carry on going.

Now obviously, as a golfer pushes down into earth the mass of the earth is slightly bigger than the golfer, therefore the force of their meeting is greater and they will be able to draw the energy back upwards. It sounds slightly complex but it’s very, very simple. All you need to be doing as you’re moving down through the point of impact, is pressing your weight downwards into the left. And it’s something that you see with the very, very best golfers as they hit the shot. So they move through the ball, the weight moves onto the left leg but it also goes downwards in this direction. Now they don’t carry on moving down, they use the force to move upwards, rotate the hip out of the way into this position here. It is that movement downwards and left why Rory McilRoy for example, can hit the massive shots that he can for such a small framed person. By shifting down the left, by using ground force, and then by rotating upwards he’s able to generate much more club head speed than he otherwise would be able to do. And to use this in the swing, it’s very simple, you just need to go through those same processes, it’s to the top of the swing, move that way down and left, and then extend the left leg upwards, extend that left leg up and out of the way. If you can do that and you can include that with a very, very smooth transition, you can get a lot of distance very, very easily. So give that ground force [Indiscernible] [0:02:18] transfer that weight down left, turn that left hip upwards and out of the way, and use the force of the earth, not the Star Wars force, although if you do have access to that will be useful. 2016-09-02

Powering the downswing is drawing upwards. So using ground forces is absolutely key to help generate the correct amount of power as you move down into the point of impact. Now ground force works very, very simply, what you push into the ground you will be able to draw upwards through energy. Some kind of physics in there, I can’t remember at the top of my head, not that I’m Einstein, Newton, someone with a mustache and crazy hair. But they figured out that any amount you push into something unless you’re met with an opposite force you’re going to carry on going.

Now obviously, as a golfer pushes down into earth the mass of the earth is slightly bigger than the golfer, therefore the force of their meeting is greater and they will be able to draw the energy back upwards. It sounds slightly complex but it’s very, very simple. All you need to be doing as you’re moving down through the point of impact, is pressing your weight downwards into the left. And it’s something that you see with the very, very best golfers as they hit the shot. So they move through the ball, the weight moves onto the left leg but it also goes downwards in this direction. Now they don’t carry on moving down, they use the force to move upwards, rotate the hip out of the way into this position here.

It is that movement downwards and left why Rory McilRoy for example, can hit the massive shots that he can for such a small framed person. By shifting down the left, by using ground force, and then by rotating upwards he’s able to generate much more club head speed than he otherwise would be able to do. And to use this in the swing, it’s very simple, you just need to go through those same processes, it’s to the top of the swing, move that way down and left, and then extend the left leg upwards, extend that left leg up and out of the way. If you can do that and you can include that with a very, very smooth transition, you can get a lot of distance very, very easily. So give that ground force [Indiscernible] [0:02:18] transfer that weight down left, turn that left hip upwards and out of the way, and use the force of the earth, not the Star Wars force, although if you do have access to that will be useful.