| The club heads travel must have a stable center for | | | | weight goes slowly, as the arc gets tiny the weight |
| the path and the depth of the arc to be controlled. | | | | is literally zooming around. |
| The perfectly controlled arc determines the direction | | | | Just as an unbalanced wheel can not be spun as |
| of the club heads travel and the place on the club | | | | quickly as a balanced wheel can, the golf swing needs |
| face where the ball impacts. | | | | that kind of a stable center to both create speed |
| Just as the pin of the compass must remain in the | | | | and to also have the kind of precision contact we |
| hole in the paper for the pencil to return to the | | | | desire. |
| exact spot it started from to complete the circle. If | | | | When we address the ball one of our most important |
| we can maintain a fixed in space swing circle center | | | | duties is to locate the exact location of the swing |
| we will both have much more accurate and solid club | | | | circle center. We do this by using the club as part of |
| ball contact, as well as more club head speed. | | | | the measuring tool (the other part of the tool is the |
| An illustration of why we have more club head speed | | | | correctly angled left arm) to precisely position it. This |
| can be felt an seen by twirling a weight on a short | | | | measurement, and the maintenance of it, is vital to |
| (one foot) piece of string. Try this; swing a weight, a | | | | the success of the shot. |
| keyring works fine, move your hand in a good sized | | | | If the swing circle center moves around we lose |
| circle and gradually make the center of rotation as | | | | both speed and the ability to return to the exact |
| small as you can. You will find that when the center | | | | spot we measured at address. |
| of the arc moves as you swing the weight the | | | | |