The Perfect Swing - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
The Perfect Swing - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video to PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand how a series of great positions within your golf swing can blend together to form the perfect swing.

A great setup position, which is balanced and athletic, followed by an improved top position can help lead to a solid impact position which creates power and consistency. All of these great positions followed by a great follow-through position, full of poise and balance should combine to form the perfect golf swing.

So sometimes we are looking for the perfect golf swing and to do that I think there's a couple of points 3 points throughout the swing that we'd look for and also one point to start off with. So if you were going to describe the perfect golf swing to us Pete what would you be looking for. Well it's the Holy Grail isn't it all searching for that perfect swing with maybe watched it on T.V. We've seen Adam Scott or Tiger Woods or Justin Rose, but I think what you start to see is they they all have really good solid fundamentals the foundations of their swing are set in a really good addressed position. So I think club and amateur golfers need to focus on this bit first before they move on to actually finding the perfect swing. So where is your starting point? I am going to go through a wide base something to go for a solid platform shoulder width apart with the feet would be good and not too much like this but more like this in any set up. Then where we flowing on to? I like to see a good distance away from the ball so I want to see them nice and comfortable and not too close and I've got a really nice posture. Hips pushed back chest pushed up and we should feel athletic but we stand over the golf ball and I think that gives me a good starting point to then make this perfect golf swing. Right so the first bullet point going to be looking at is what top the back swing up way through where we're going for? I think it's worth while checking where the club goes to half way before it gets to the top because where it goes through halfway can affect that top position. So from that good address position the focus should really be on a one piece shoulder turn. So working the front shoulder round underneath the chin good feeling for that is that motion there with the handle of the golf club pointing down towards the ball which should mean that the club moves back nicely through a good checkpoint here where my club is level with my hands half way back turning it now actually to the top.

So when you get up to the top is there anything that you'd look for in this perfect golf swing? I think we've got to abbreviate or classify the word perfect carefully because depending on your age your flexibility the type of shot you're trying to hit there isn't necessarily one perfect position I think it's got to be appropriate to the person the shot they're trying to play, but I think we could work on the concept that it's somewhere between around about 1 and 3 o'clock on the clock face in terms of length so as I look at this camera turning back to here knew that that's around about 1 o'clock that's around about 3 o'clock somewhere in that area. I think some golfers almost get themselves in a bit of a pickle because they're trying to hit the key position for Tiger but at 68 years old with a bad back that's maybe not the perfect for you. No definitely swing your own swing I think is a good way of looking at it. That's a great way of saying yeah, and into impact will probably be the next point you will be stopping at. Is there anything you're trying to create at this point now? coming down to the golf ball from here I want to open my hips up nicely open my shoulders up nicely keep my head level with the golf ball and have my rear heel starting to lift. You notice that position is very different from my setup position they're not the same. I'm turning opening staying down for impact heel starts to lift up that shows I'm turning my body weight onto my front side. Yes now I can start to come through to the finish position. Excellent and what would you be looking for in you finish position Balance all about balance the perfect golf swing cannot be perfect if we ruin it by falling over at the end. So we start with a stable consistent address position working half way back to the top turning into a nice spot for impact it's all about this big a release and hold this position and actually try and hold this position long enough that the ball had the chance to fly and land without at this position, and if you turn to face target or is it that you've not fully down towards the target now. Here hips chest head while facing down the target balanced on the front foot rear heel is lifted up onto the tip to all the body weight here and importantly I'm holding I'm not sort of hitting and stumbling or walking off. So the perfect swing as it's called is perfect from set up all the way through to finish so we've heard on about it lets see it. Yeah if in the putting in all that let's have a little go. So there is a good solid set up there going through those points now and turning into this nice balance finish as you swing.

Beautiful and now the ball is still in the air just watching it down it is nice and balanced throughout this swing looking like a really solid and quite a simple movement for yourself like you're in control all the way through. That's hopefully how it should look at it when we see those perfect swings if that's what we're going to call them they look simple to execute hopefully following those points will help people. Excellent so take those points on board and hopefully you're going to see some perfect golf swings.

2018-11-09

In this video to PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand how a series of great positions within your golf swing can blend together to form the perfect swing.

A great setup position, which is balanced and athletic, followed by an improved top position can help lead to a solid impact position which creates power and consistency. All of these great positions followed by a great follow-through position, full of poise and balance should combine to form the perfect golf swing.

So sometimes we are looking for the perfect golf swing and to do that I think there's a couple of points 3 points throughout the swing that we'd look for and also one point to start off with. So if you were going to describe the perfect golf swing to us Pete what would you be looking for. Well it's the Holy Grail isn't it all searching for that perfect swing with maybe watched it on T.V. We've seen Adam Scott or Tiger Woods or Justin Rose, but I think what you start to see is they they all have really good solid fundamentals the foundations of their swing are set in a really good addressed position. So I think club and amateur golfers need to focus on this bit first before they move on to actually finding the perfect swing. So where is your starting point? I am going to go through a wide base something to go for a solid platform shoulder width apart with the feet would be good and not too much like this but more like this in any set up. Then where we flowing on to? I like to see a good distance away from the ball so I want to see them nice and comfortable and not too close and I've got a really nice posture. Hips pushed back chest pushed up and we should feel athletic but we stand over the golf ball and I think that gives me a good starting point to then make this perfect golf swing. Right so the first bullet point going to be looking at is what top the back swing up way through where we're going for? I think it's worth while checking where the club goes to half way before it gets to the top because where it goes through halfway can affect that top position. So from that good address position the focus should really be on a one piece shoulder turn. So working the front shoulder round underneath the chin good feeling for that is that motion there with the handle of the golf club pointing down towards the ball which should mean that the club moves back nicely through a good checkpoint here where my club is level with my hands half way back turning it now actually to the top.

So when you get up to the top is there anything that you'd look for in this perfect golf swing? I think we've got to abbreviate or classify the word perfect carefully because depending on your age your flexibility the type of shot you're trying to hit there isn't necessarily one perfect position I think it's got to be appropriate to the person the shot they're trying to play, but I think we could work on the concept that it's somewhere between around about 1 and 3 o'clock on the clock face in terms of length so as I look at this camera turning back to here knew that that's around about 1 o'clock that's around about 3 o'clock somewhere in that area. I think some golfers almost get themselves in a bit of a pickle because they're trying to hit the key position for Tiger but at 68 years old with a bad back that's maybe not the perfect for you. No definitely swing your own swing I think is a good way of looking at it. That's a great way of saying yeah, and into impact will probably be the next point you will be stopping at. Is there anything you're trying to create at this point now? coming down to the golf ball from here I want to open my hips up nicely open my shoulders up nicely keep my head level with the golf ball and have my rear heel starting to lift. You notice that position is very different from my setup position they're not the same. I'm turning opening staying down for impact heel starts to lift up that shows I'm turning my body weight onto my front side. Yes now I can start to come through to the finish position. Excellent and what would you be looking for in you finish position Balance all about balance the perfect golf swing cannot be perfect if we ruin it by falling over at the end. So we start with a stable consistent address position working half way back to the top turning into a nice spot for impact it's all about this big a release and hold this position and actually try and hold this position long enough that the ball had the chance to fly and land without at this position, and if you turn to face target or is it that you've not fully down towards the target now. Here hips chest head while facing down the target balanced on the front foot rear heel is lifted up onto the tip to all the body weight here and importantly I'm holding I'm not sort of hitting and stumbling or walking off. So the perfect swing as it's called is perfect from set up all the way through to finish so we've heard on about it lets see it. Yeah if in the putting in all that let's have a little go. So there is a good solid set up there going through those points now and turning into this nice balance finish as you swing.

Beautiful and now the ball is still in the air just watching it down it is nice and balanced throughout this swing looking like a really solid and quite a simple movement for yourself like you're in control all the way through. That's hopefully how it should look at it when we see those perfect swings if that's what we're going to call them they look simple to execute hopefully following those points will help people. Excellent so take those points on board and hopefully you're going to see some perfect golf swings.