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