How To Improve Golf Swing Video

Developing your own natural swing is a unique part of golf. Learn some techniques for finding your own personal swing in this golf video.

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Swing back & forth
Club faces target at impact
Slowly increase swing length
Muscle memory

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Jay Golden has been a PGA Member since 1982 and was selected for the PGA National Teaching Committee in 1988. He has taught golfers of all levels ranging from stark beginners to professionals on the PGA and LPGA Tours. He has written hundreds of instruction articles and a book with the all-time winningest golfer of official tour events, Kathy Whitworth, entitled "Kathy Whitworth's Little Book of Golf Wisdom." He has also made numerous appearances on TV, has lectured on the topic of "How To Teach Golf" to PGA Members, and is an accomplished golfer and long driver.

JAY GOLDEN: How to learn golf's greatest drill, we have all seen it. A golfer that we do not know taking a practice swing, swinging back and forth, back and forth, back and forth before hitting his tee shot on the first hole looks like a very good golfer then takes a golf swing that is much less correct will take the high road there much less correct. But the drill that he is doing, that practice swinging back and forth is the greatest drill in golf because it teaches you your natural golf swing. The reason that it looks so good when that person who ends up shooting a 147, a cheating 147, the reason he has such a good looking swing when he swings back and forth is that that drill produces his natural swing. And this is how to do it. You start out swinging back and forth without stopping, very slowly and very short right where you want it at impact. You want the club head to do something at impact, you want it to face the target while moving towards the target, so you only swing about two or three feet back and forth without stopping to make sure that club hit is doing exactly what you want it to do. Slowly but surely you bring it back further and swing through further but always feeling that impact zone because that is the most important area, back and forth, further, further, further, further, your wrist hinge more, your arms go further back and further through, your body turns more going back and going through. This will teach you your natural swing. Not only will it teach you what it feels like so that you could try to copy that swing when you hit the ball but it will also produce a certain amount of muscle memory. If you swing back and forth without stopping for a year not only will you have the most boring year of your life but you will learn your natural swing. You could do it with a club, without a club, you could do it with your children, friends, relatives and everyone in the neighborhood, back and forth, do it to music, hold the spoon, it does not matter. The more you swing back and forth without stopping, you will learn your natural swing and muscle memory will teach you your natural most repeating, most correct and most powerful golf swing.

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