Golf Balance and Optimal Swing

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The Key Physical Fundamentals: Golf Balance and Optimal Swing

Your golf balance is different from normal standing balance because during the golf swing the lower body, hips and trunk must provide a stable platform for the arms and club to rotate about at a high speed. When your golf balance is consistently good, your major body parts (e.g. hips, trunk and arms) will move in a coordinated and well-sequenced manner resulting in improved club plane and path movement.

 

In order to achieve a consistent and efficient golf swing, the major parts of the body must move correctly in less than a second. This can only occur when they have minimal limitations during their movement. Any limitation or instability in the movement of these body joints, during the golf swing, results in less than optimal “golf balance”.

 

Good golf balance during the golf swing requires three important components:

  1. Sufficient joint movement and strength and stability in key parts of the body

  2. Proper knowledge of how to initiate and move the body correctly

  3. Ability to visualize and feel the correct movement of the body

 

Golf balance and awareness is defined as a skill required to maintain dynamic stability of the lower body, hips and trunk to create a coordinated, well sequenced movement of major body parts and golf club, resulting in optimal ball striking, consistency and smaller misses.

 

Program Overview: Our program is uniquely designed to improve the three critical components that are the foundation of good golf balance. It is easily customized for each golfer’s strengths and limitations based on these three components.

 

Component 1: Sufficient joint movement in key parts of the body

 

The golfer’s current joint ranges of motion are evaluated to determine any limitations that require improvement to facilitate adequate hip and shoulder rotation during the golf swing and specific treatments and exercises are performed to enable this.

 

Component 2: How to properly initiate and move the lower body correctly

 

The golfer learns specific points on the body fundamental to correctly initiate and move during:

  • Address position

  • Takeaway

  • Top of backswing position

  • Transition

  • Downswing

  • Follow Through

 

Component 3: How to visualize and feel the correct movement of the lower body

The golfer will learn how to increase their awareness and ‘feel’ the correct movements