Swing Dont Lift How Senior Golfers can improve their golf and ball strike (Video) - by Dean Butler
Swing Dont Lift How Senior Golfers can improve their golf and ball strike (Video) - by Dean Butler

Right. I want to talk about swinging the club not lifting the club, so what's the difference? Well if I stand here so you can see me from behind. When you swing the club correctly we turned the shoulders. That's how the golf swing goes. The shoulders go from 90 degrees. And we're talking about here is when you lift the arms, and when we lift the arms we tend to just go and as you can see from that, the club has gone very steep. It's gone very up and is moved outside the line and if it goes outside the line it's got to come back inside the line. And when that happens so you think it's going to happen with your ball flight.

One is going to go to the left to pull. One is going to go left to right which is the slice, but because you're coming in so steep you're going to be prone to hitting either behind the ball or on top of the ball because this is left arm so they show again from this snap this view here. What we did there was from here we took the club back and we took it back with the arms. The arms are bent. The shoulder turn is very, very poor, and from here you can just have much in my arms are bent, and I have gotten to straighten out. As you straighten out I'm looking dropping myself back on that golf ball. So what we need to do is we need to get rid of this. So how we get rid of it? Well, easy don't you think? I'll show you from this way here. Again it's all about focusing on something different. If I put two golf balls down, and I put one golf ball just literally a couple of inches to the right of the ball, but a couple of inches behind the ball. As I take the club back now, if I take the club back with my arms, let's put that a little bit close. If I bring that club back now and I take it by arms the ball has gone because I have taken the club outside the line. So if I pull that ball back, and I set myself up, and I focus on turning my shoulders that club will come back very slowly. I'll demonstrate the club will come back on the inside. As I continue to turn my shoulders, the club has now come back. We've cured the problem. The left arm is nice and straight. Remember before it was going up outside the line. Now we're over the ball. And we're focusing on again focus on this left shoulder pushing the club away, and focus on your shoulder turn, and remember you can actually put a club down here to represent the direction so you could see if that club is moving outwards or inwards, and just focus on bringing that club on what we call the inside, and remember the shoulder turn here is the key, is the key of all golfers. Turn the shoulders. Don't be a tilter or arms player. Turn those shoulders and reap the benefits that the benefits are massive, and again if you struggle with this start on the practice ground. And if you struggle go and see a PGA Pro, couple of lessons they would have this sorted for you. 2013-10-31

Right. I want to talk about swinging the club not lifting the club, so what's the difference? Well if I stand here so you can see me from behind. When you swing the club correctly we turned the shoulders. That's how the golf swing goes. The shoulders go from 90 degrees. And we're talking about here is when you lift the arms, and when we lift the arms we tend to just go and as you can see from that, the club has gone very steep. It's gone very up and is moved outside the line and if it goes outside the line it's got to come back inside the line. And when that happens so you think it's going to happen with your ball flight.

One is going to go to the left to pull. One is going to go left to right which is the slice, but because you're coming in so steep you're going to be prone to hitting either behind the ball or on top of the ball because this is left arm so they show again from this snap this view here. What we did there was from here we took the club back and we took it back with the arms. The arms are bent. The shoulder turn is very, very poor, and from here you can just have much in my arms are bent, and I have gotten to straighten out. As you straighten out I'm looking dropping myself back on that golf ball. So what we need to do is we need to get rid of this. So how we get rid of it? Well, easy don't you think? I'll show you from this way here.

Again it's all about focusing on something different. If I put two golf balls down, and I put one golf ball just literally a couple of inches to the right of the ball, but a couple of inches behind the ball. As I take the club back now, if I take the club back with my arms, let's put that a little bit close. If I bring that club back now and I take it by arms the ball has gone because I have taken the club outside the line. So if I pull that ball back, and I set myself up, and I focus on turning my shoulders that club will come back very slowly. I'll demonstrate the club will come back on the inside. As I continue to turn my shoulders, the club has now come back.

We've cured the problem. The left arm is nice and straight. Remember before it was going up outside the line. Now we're over the ball. And we're focusing on again focus on this left shoulder pushing the club away, and focus on your shoulder turn, and remember you can actually put a club down here to represent the direction so you could see if that club is moving outwards or inwards, and just focus on bringing that club on what we call the inside, and remember the shoulder turn here is the key, is the key of all golfers. Turn the shoulders. Don't be a tilter or arms player. Turn those shoulders and reap the benefits that the benefits are massive, and again if you struggle with this start on the practice ground. And if you struggle go and see a PGA Pro, couple of lessons they would have this sorted for you.