Does Your Golf Swing Plane Suck? 5 Tips To Improve Your Golf Swing Fast

The golf swing plane basically represents the path on which the golf club should travel during the swing in order to achieve strong, accurate and consistent shots. Easier said than done! Find out how to improve your golf swing quickly.
If you’re an avid golf fan and have watched the pro’s at work then I’m sure you’ve wondered how in the heck they’re able to hit the ball so far with accuracy.

The secret is in the golf swing plane. Simply put, having a good swing plane means you’ll be able to hit the ball further with greater accuracy. Picture Tiger Woods golf swing. Golfers’ obsession with the perfect golf swing plane started with Ben Hogan who popularized the concept.

Here are some basics before I get to the good stuff

There are 3 parts to the golf swing plane

1. The backswing – drawing the golf club back behind you getting ready for the shot

2. The downswing – swinging the club down to strike the golf ball

3. The follow through

The golf swing plane basically represents the path on which the golf club should travel during the swing in order to achieve strong, accurate and consistent shots.

Each golfers’ swing plane is determined by their stance. The plane will be steeper or flatter depending on how much you bend from the hips forward.

To picture the golf plane, imagine yourself standing over the ball, club in hand extended and ready to take a shot. Now imagine a diagonal line starting from the ball and extending up towards you along the shaft and extending above and behind you.

The proper swing would consist of drawing the club back and keeping it parallel to the imaginary diagonal line and stopping when the club head is above your right shoulder(if you’re right handed) then bringing it back down the same path in order to strike the ball and finally bringing it back to the top to follow through after striking the ball.

Proper posture should also be taken into consideration in addition to the above. Think Grip, Aim, Stance & Posture for the perfect golf shot.

Here are 5 Tips to fix your golf swing

1. In order to swing in a proper plane, adopt the proper stance – body weight evenly distributed on the balls of the feet, arms vertical and hands low, slight bend at the hips, back straight, chin up and aim with your body. The goal is to hit the ball dead center.

2. Keep your head still and eyes on the ball

3. Swing the club back until it’s behind you

4. Check your swing plane and notice where the shaft is, it should be all the way behind you directly across your shoulders

5. If the club is way over your shoulder your swing plane is too steep and if it’s too low by your elbows then it’s too flat. However, consistent practice will reveal which swing plane is better for you

6. Repeat until you feel comfortable

There’s More….

The above are just basic tips, there is more to achieving the perfect golf swing than what is described above such as whether to adopt the 1 plane golf swing or 2, how to have the perfect grip, correct body alignment, learning backswing, downswing and follow through fundamentals and quickly learning to lower your handicap by 7 strokes or more, adding distance to your drives, how to use golf swing analyzer software, practice drills and more…

Access All Of These Goodies And Improve Your Golf Swing Plane & Lower Your Handicap By 7 Strokes Or More In Less Than 2 Weeks

By Sam Fox
Published: 6/4/2009
 
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