Golf Swing

Putts and short chip shots are mainly played withoutaddress, the player stands with the left shoulder
any body movement from the golfers body, butpointing in the intensional direction of ball flight, with
most or the other golf shots such as drives arethe ball before the feet. The club is held with both
played using parts of the full golf swing. A full swinghands, the clubhead resting on the ground behind the
is a extremely complex rotation of the body aimedball, hips and knees somewhat flexed, and the arms
at accelerating the golf club head to a great speedhanging from the shoulders. The backswing is a
and keep it acurate. very few golfers play with theirrotation to the right, consisting of a shifting of the
left hand, with even players who are stronglyplayer's body weight to the right side, a turning of
left-handed in their daily life preferring thethe pelvis and shoulders, lifting of the arms and
right-handed golf swing. The downswing is roughly aflexing of the elbows and wrists. In the past, this
backswing reversed. After the ball is hit, themay have been due to the difficulty of finding
follow-through stage consists of a continued rotationleft-handed golf clubs.Today, more manufacturers
to the left.At the end of the golf swing, the bodysprovide left handed variations of their club lines, and
weight has shifted almost entirely to the left foot,the clubs are more readily purchased from mail-order
the body is fully turned to the left and the hands areand Internet catalogues. Even the best professional
above the golfers left shoulder with the club hanginggolfers sometimes succumb to this pressure, such as
down over the players' back. For a right-handedgetting the "yips" and being unable to make short
golfer, it consists of a backswing to the right, aputts, or having collapses of their full swing.
downswing to the left, and a follow through. At