| Putts and short chip shots are mainly played | | | | left, and a follow through. At address, the |
| without any body movement from the golfers | | | | player stands with the left shoulder pointing |
| body, but most or the other golf shots such | | | | in the intensional direction of ball flight, |
| as drives are played using parts of the full | | | | with the ball before the feet. The club is |
| golf swing. A full swing is a extremely | | | | held with both hands, the clubhead resting on |
| complex rotation of the body aimed at | | | | the ground behind the ball, hips and knees |
| accelerating the golf club head to a great | | | | somewhat flexed, and the arms hanging from |
| speed and keep it acurate. very few golfers | | | | the shoulders. The backswing is a rotation to |
| play with their left hand, with even players | | | | the right, consisting of a shifting of the |
| who are strongly left-handed in their daily | | | | player's body weight to the right side, a |
| life preferring the right-handed golf swing. | | | | turning of the pelvis and shoulders, lifting |
| The downswing is roughly a backswing | | | | of the arms and flexing of the elbows and |
| reversed. After the ball is hit, the | | | | wrists. In the past, this may have been due |
| follow-through stage consists of a continued | | | | to the difficulty of finding left-handed golf |
| rotation to the left.At the end of the golf | | | | clubs.Today, more manufacturers provide left |
| swing, the bodys weight has shifted almost | | | | handed variations of their club lines, and |
| entirely to the left foot, the body is fully | | | | the clubs are more readily purchased from |
| turned to the left and the hands are above | | | | mail-order and Internet catalogues. Even the |
| the golfers left shoulder with the club | | | | best professional golfers sometimes succumb |
| hanging down over the players' back. For a | | | | to this pressure, such as getting the "yips" |
| right-handed golfer, it consists of a | | | | and being unable to make short putts, or |
| backswing to the right, a downswing to the | | | | having collapses of their full swing. |