The golf downswing is important to understand and do correctly if you want to hit better golf shots. You could have the best backswing on the planet, but without the correct downswing fundamentals to compliment it, it’s useless. Now don’t get me wrong, the backswing is very important too. Generally speaking, a good backswing will tend to lead to a good downswing. You club will get into good position at the top of the swing so then it can swing down the plane line and stay on a good path as you approach the golf ball at impact. Here, I will go over the most important tip I have learned about the golf downswing and how you can incorporate it into your golf swing.
My newest swing coach from Milwaukee, Nathan Gray, told me that he would like me to “swing” the club down more with my arms on my downswing move. What I had been doing was steering or guiding the club too much with too much tension. This was cutting down my swing speed but it was also causing my swing to get out of sync. One important goal in the golf swing is to have everything come through impact together. The upper body, lower body, arms, hands, and club must all be together at impact in order to transfer maximum power through the shot.
Golfers who get too tight or tense from trying to steer the golf club can more easily get out of sync with their swing sequence. I was getting my upper body ahead of my arms too much. I either had to stop my body and swing with my arms only or I would hit a weak shot because I would only have my hands and arms to hit it. Instead, the move to correct it was to feel like my lower body stayed stable while my arms swung down faster. I consciously tried to do this and I started hitting the ball with a zip like I’d never had before. This is the kind of strike the tour players all have with their golf shots and I’d finally figured out how to duplicate it in my own golf swing.
It’s important to remember to maintain your wrist set and also allow your weight to start shifting to your left foot. This weight shift will happen naturally if you maintain good posture and knee flex. Getting a few fundamentals working correctly and applying the move of swinging down with the arms from the start of the golf downswing will really help you start crushing your golf ball longer and straighter.
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