Your Golf Swing: What Makes It Efficient?

We have all done it. We look at a video of our favorite tour player, frame by frame, analysing every move and then try to imitate it frame by frame sometimes contorting our body into age-defying positions that ensure a profitable future for our chiropractor.
We may try any number of players this way, trying to make our swing resemble their swing as closely as we can. We may even make it look good for a while but then something breaks down, goes awry or we just forget and combine Tiger Woods backswing with Ernie Els downswing and end up with an Elmer Fudd duff.
Then we end up asking ourselves the essential question. How can there be so many unorthodox different golf swing styles among pro tour golfers and yet each of them so successful with their long drives? Is there something that each of them have in common that is not so easily seen or mimicked?
It turns out that there is.
The true measurement of a consistent golf swing is not found in your ability to mimic pro golfers. The answer is found in how efficient
your golf swing is. In other words, if ugly golf swings still get the job done, what do you have to do to make your golf swing get the job done?
So what elements make a golf swing efficient?
An efficient golf swing is one that minimizes movements that do not transfer power through the clubhead to the ball. Through the use of 3D analysis, researchers have discovered how golfers generate and transfer speed throughout their bodies. This is called 'the Kinematic Sequence' and it describes how energy is transferred and multiplied from the ground, through the golfer and into the clubhead at impact.
Every great ball striker has the same kinematic sequence regardless of their particular style. Well, this is great news for us mere mortals who will not be spending our days at the driving range. That is not to say that practice isn't necessary, but think of how much time is wasted trying to change our style when what we need to be doing is just changing the order that we move our body parts.
In spite of what we see from the video camera, this is the dirty little secret of all great ball strikers: Ready? They simply begin generating speed from their lower body, transfer that speed into their torso, combine this speed into the arms and then out through the club.
Got it? Hips, Torso, Arms, Club.
I know that may seem pretty basic, but do you really know what sequence that you move in? You may be surprised to learn how much power you are losing. Think of how much less energy you will use with a more efficient golf swing!
Any good golf instructor can help you to identify those inefficiencies. A TPI Certified golf instructor is especially suited to help you with this. Take time to look for one and
Have A Great Game!

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