Keep Your Whole Golf Swing Quiet (Video) - by Pete Styles
Keep Your Whole Golf Swing Quiet (Video) - by Pete Styles

I always consider when I'm thinking about watching golf and watching all the sports how simple the best players in the world make whatever they’re doing. Look, so a good golfer will make this swing look simple. But also a good tennis player, basketball player, gymnast, swimmer whatever sport you want to choose, the best in the world generally make it look very, very simple and very, very easy. Now one of the key differences to them and maybe the average amateur is the fact they have a very efficient motion with almost no wasted energy or no wasted parts. So a good golfer when they’re making that swing will almost be effortless, up and down on the same line. Likewise a good gymnast there is no flailing arms and wobbly legs, it's just very simple, strong, powerful movements.

We want to see the same thing in our golf swing. So we want a quiet action with very few wasted energy parts. We know the golf swing has to move quite a lot. We’re trying to generate nearly a 100 miles an hour of club head speed down here. So clearly there is lots of moving parts. What we don’t want is any wasted energy, any inefficiency in the action. So during the swing we’re up and down on the right line to a nice follow-through. What we wouldn’t want to see in that swing is a big leg action and lots of movement here or bending of the arm over this way and moving the head up and down and leaning back and falling off balance that would start to look a little bit more complicated, a little bit more amateurish and I think one of the key elements to a golf swing that looks quite simple and quite clean would be this level eye position. So during the setup we want to work on those eyes being leveled. In the backswing the eyes stay level, in the impact position and in the follow-through the eyes stay level. And what you would generally feel with that is there’s less moving parts, less inefficiency, and a quieter swing. If your legs are moving or you're leaning back and scooping under the ball, the eyes will be all over the place, the inefficiency is in there, and that’s not such a quiet swing. So keep your eyes leveled for a quieter, more efficient looking golf swing. 2016-10-03

I always consider when I'm thinking about watching golf and watching all the sports how simple the best players in the world make whatever they’re doing. Look, so a good golfer will make this swing look simple. But also a good tennis player, basketball player, gymnast, swimmer whatever sport you want to choose, the best in the world generally make it look very, very simple and very, very easy. Now one of the key differences to them and maybe the average amateur is the fact they have a very efficient motion with almost no wasted energy or no wasted parts. So a good golfer when they’re making that swing will almost be effortless, up and down on the same line. Likewise a good gymnast there is no flailing arms and wobbly legs, it's just very simple, strong, powerful movements.

We want to see the same thing in our golf swing. So we want a quiet action with very few wasted energy parts. We know the golf swing has to move quite a lot. We’re trying to generate nearly a 100 miles an hour of club head speed down here. So clearly there is lots of moving parts. What we don’t want is any wasted energy, any inefficiency in the action. So during the swing we’re up and down on the right line to a nice follow-through.

What we wouldn’t want to see in that swing is a big leg action and lots of movement here or bending of the arm over this way and moving the head up and down and leaning back and falling off balance that would start to look a little bit more complicated, a little bit more amateurish and I think one of the key elements to a golf swing that looks quite simple and quite clean would be this level eye position.

So during the setup we want to work on those eyes being leveled. In the backswing the eyes stay level, in the impact position and in the follow-through the eyes stay level. And what you would generally feel with that is there’s less moving parts, less inefficiency, and a quieter swing. If your legs are moving or you're leaning back and scooping under the ball, the eyes will be all over the place, the inefficiency is in there, and that’s not such a quiet swing. So keep your eyes leveled for a quieter, more efficient looking golf swing.