Setting up the golf swing… correctly… is the name of the newest golf lesson I recently took from my husband and my most recent plan for improving my golf game.
My thoughts were that if only I could pick up one tip on the basics of golf the perhaps I could shave a few strokes off my total.
As you know by now my husband is my golf teacher. I have to wonder if he is getting just a bit tired of my struggles with learning to golf… not really… he loves to teach.
Besides, we have such a blast on the golf course that it makes me want to keep on trying to improve my game.
So off to the golf course I go and there I met up with my husband where along with several other women we began the class on correctly setting up the golf swing.
Of course, there were lots of laughs but then we finally got down to the business of learning to golf all with the hope of improving on the greens.
I learned very early that I will never be able to hit the ball as far as my husband. His golf swing is so much more powerful than mine.
However, I learned in golf school that there are some small things that I could do to develop a more powerful golf swing and that would definitely improve my game.
Jeff is diligent about teaching us to develop the correct golf setup.
I learned quickly that my power improved significantly when I set up my golf swing correctly.
I learned that my arms, my hands and the shaft of the golf club should form the letter “y”.
When I can manage to keep my left arm in a straight line and when the club becomes an extension of that straight arm, then I definitely have more power at impact. This was quite an impressive thing for me to see!
I had learned at a previous golf lesson that my grip should be relaxed and I should not try to grip it so firmly.
That is easier said than done…for me. Jeff used the analogy that I should grip my club like I was holding a baby bird… firm enough that the baby bird can’t fly away… yet so tight as to injure the bird.
Ok, I think I can picture that, but again executing that maneuver is easier said than done.