Why Should I Accelerate At The Bottom Of My Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
Why Should I Accelerate At The Bottom Of My Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

Why should I accelerate at the bottom of my golf swing? Now the rate of acceleration throughout the golf swing does actually change as the club moves back, stops at the top, and then gradually increases in speed as the club travels back into impact. Now the reason you want to accelerate into impact and not kind of form the top of the golf swing or from the very start of the golf swing, is if you accelerated impact it will get the tempo and the rhythm, the timing, and the actual sequence of swings, swing movements into the ball correct.

But they’ll also produce the most amount of actual power and the most amount of club head speed and distance. Now there is a couple of ways you can actually practice this. But a very, very slow motion drill is probably the best way. So it's getting setup over the ball, or just to the side of the ball if you don't want to hit it to begin with, taking the club away lovely and slowly, rising to the top, slightly slow, pause and then come down and actually accelerate through the shot. The fastest points of the golf swing actually is in at the point of impact, is just after as the arms straighten and the arms extend past the ball. So the fastest point to your swing is at this point here. Another drill you can actually use is the slow motion swing and then actually try and feel like you're accelerating to that point. So it's to the top and then accelerate and extend through the ball. So you need to accelerate into the ball to maybe use the most power, to maybe use the most club head speed and if you get it right, the sequence of movements will be more than usually actually correct. So it's to the top of the swing, start down slowly and then accelerating. And if you can get all the movements in correct sequence you’ll hit some very good shots but also some very constituent shots. And if the acceleration is good, some good distant shots as well. 2014-10-21

Why should I accelerate at the bottom of my golf swing? Now the rate of acceleration throughout the golf swing does actually change as the club moves back, stops at the top, and then gradually increases in speed as the club travels back into impact. Now the reason you want to accelerate into impact and not kind of form the top of the golf swing or from the very start of the golf swing, is if you accelerated impact it will get the tempo and the rhythm, the timing, and the actual sequence of swings, swing movements into the ball correct.

But they’ll also produce the most amount of actual power and the most amount of club head speed and distance. Now there is a couple of ways you can actually practice this. But a very, very slow motion drill is probably the best way. So it's getting setup over the ball, or just to the side of the ball if you don't want to hit it to begin with, taking the club away lovely and slowly, rising to the top, slightly slow, pause and then come down and actually accelerate through the shot. The fastest points of the golf swing actually is in at the point of impact, is just after as the arms straighten and the arms extend past the ball. So the fastest point to your swing is at this point here.

Another drill you can actually use is the slow motion swing and then actually try and feel like you're accelerating to that point. So it's to the top and then accelerate and extend through the ball. So you need to accelerate into the ball to maybe use the most power, to maybe use the most club head speed and if you get it right, the sequence of movements will be more than usually actually correct. So it's to the top of the swing, start down slowly and then accelerating. And if you can get all the movements in correct sequence you’ll hit some very good shots but also some very constituent shots. And if the acceleration is good, some good distant shots as well.