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BODY ROTATION In the golf biomechanical literature, body rotation, typically quantified by axial rotation of the central body segments, has been widely investigated and linked to performance outcomes, such as clubhead velocity. Many…

What You Can Do Yes, you can play better golf. Anyone can, once he gives himself a chance by learning what to do and how to do it. You who score over 100 can break 100. The 90 player can get into the 80's. The high 80's can drop to the low…

Introduction This is a different kind of golf book. If it were not, there would be no excuse for our writing it, the publisher's printing it, or you reading it. To say that it is different is a mild understatement. It is radical,…

BODY ROTATION When discussing posture the coaches also referred to the key technical parameter ‘Body Rotation’ . Several terms were used to communicate the idea of body rotation including ‘Core’, ‘Upper Torso,’ ‘Trunk’, ‘Shoulders’, ‘Hips’…

POSTURE Fourteen coaches identified ‘Posture’ as a key technical parameter of the golf swing. Posture was typically discussed in terms of a golfer’s body position at set-up and their ability to control or maintain their posture throughout…

Sweeping Out the Rubbish "Be loose" This is the second cousin of "Relax." At first glance they may look like twins, but there is a difference. Your swing can be loose even though you are not wholly relaxed. This becomes possible with a…

Sweeping Out the Rubbish The fallacies of golf are many and of various kinds. Some deal with the mental approach, some with a specific action, others with the mechanical principles which underlie the swing. We will not attempt here to…

What You Can Do The answer, in the large general sense, is because the golf swing is extremely subtle. The essential actions are small actions, not readily seen with the naked eye, and from which attention is constantly diverted by the…

Introduction This is a different kind of golf book. If it were not, there would be no excuse for our writing it, the publisher's printing it, or you reading it. To say that it is different is a mild understatement. It is radical,…

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION OVERVIEW Five higher order categories emerged from the inductive analysis as to the key technical parameters of the golf swing which were ‘Club Motion’, ‘Posture’, ‘Body Rotation’, ‘Sequential Movement of Body…