The golf swing is a unique movement, but some components have similarities to swings from other sports. One such example is a baseball pitching motion.
When you throw a baseball, you load on the side of the path, shift your weight forward as you finish the spiral, and then swing your arm around your body, much like the motion in a properly sequenced golf swing. You can also use the baseball pitching motion as a template for your structure track arm must look at the top of the backswing.
If you want to get a feel for the right position for your track arm at the top of your swing, try thinking about throwing a baseball. Swing your arm back as you would to start your throwing motion and then stop when you reach the top.
You should notice that it looks quite similar to the position your trailing arm is in at the top of the rear bend.
“When your trailing arm works back and up and reaches the top of the backswing, the arm is in the proper throwing position,” he says. GOLF Top 100 Teachers Krista Dunton. “If I were to throw a ball forward, my trail arm (throwing arm) would move down toward the ball and then drop around the body.”
Now, from the top of the backswing, your arm will be working more down towards the ball and around your body, so the comparison is not JUST apples to apples, but you can see how the movements have certain similarities.
Releasing your trail hand and wrist is also similar to the throwing motion. In both, you want your wrists to be somewhat soft in order to create that whiplash-like motion to generate maximum power.
“You feel like the trailing arm works back and sets the club,” says Dunton. “Then on the downswing, feel that trail arm create the same motion by sending the clubhead working down and around the body. If you keep the trail arm working down and around like you’re swinging a ball left, that sends the center of the clubface straight down to the back of the ball.”
If you are someone experienced in baseball – or any throwing sport – try incorporating this feeling into your golf swing. These baseball skills may end up helping your golf game as well.
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