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A Good Golf Swing Is All About Timing
Having a good golf swing demonstrates that you have good timing and when your shots are off so is the timing in your swing. We hear this all the time, but what is actually meant by timing as it relates to your golf game and how do you go about correcting it if you're not getting the results you desire?
To start with, we require some type of meaningful definition of what proper timing is. Your timing relates to your ability to execute a golf swing with your arms traveling towards the ball as your hips turn to get out of the way. Without a hip turn, the arms would not be able to wrap around the body and properly compete the golf swing rotation.
When you go out for a round of golf and find that even though you’re hitting the ball pretty well, there is still a tendency for the ball to travel to the right, indicating that your timing is slightly off.
Another way to gauge whether your timing is off is by paying attention to how you’re missing the target. The more inconsistent the type of miss from one hit to the next (golf swing slice, hook, thin, fat, good, then bad again) the more likely your timing is off.
For a right handed golfer hitting slightly to the right, they would need to slow down their lower body movement so it can catch up to their arms with the reverse to be applied to a left handed golfer going slightly left.
While that may be easy to understand, it’s not always easy to accomplish.
One way to approach this is to recognize that you're basically executing the same swing regardless of what club you use. So one way to try and get your timing corrected is to focus on a club you're hitting well and stay away from the ones you're not.
Go to the practice green and hit a few buckets of balls with the club that is working well and providing you with a consistently executed shot. The more you work on that one club and get your swing repetition down, the more the fundamentals of your good golf swing will transfer over to the other clubs and improve your timing in the process.
If you don’t have any clubs that are working for you, start with your pitching wedge and work on it on the practice green until you're getting consistent results. Once that good golf swing timing is consistent with one club, then expand to the others one by one.
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