Getting started correctly and precisely is obviously important the moment of impact–contact between the club head and the ball–is even more so.

How to Teach a Beginner to Swing a Golf Club

1. Go to a driving range at a local course or to a practice facility with the beginning golfer.
2. Demonstrate each step of the golf swing.
3. Start with a sound grip.
4. Introduce the correct stance and posture.
5. Start with short swings at first, one-quarter of the way back.
6. Introduce the concept of weight shift.

TAKEAWAY: START CLUBHEAD FIRST The various parts of the swing should start back in this order: clubhead, hands, arms, shoulders, hips. Your right arm should stay close to your right side, so don’t force a straight-back takeaway. As the hands pass the right leg, weight should start shifting to the right.

A complete finish helps your balance, and forces you to relax the big muscles of your hands and arms. You can practice your finish with the following drill: Start your swing at the finish position. Now take a complete backswing, and go back to the finish and see if you can hold your finish for five seconds.

The first move down from the top is one of the most important in the golf swing. No matter how you take the club back, the transition into the downswing has to be smooth, and the club needs to come into the ball from inside the target line.

Once the slight pause at the top has been completed, it’s time to start the downswing. The first element that starts this sequence on the way down is the hips. If you’re too quick on the way down, usually it’s the upper body that starts first which makes it nearly impossible to rotate your hips fast enough.

It holds that golf involves a swinging motion directed toward a target, and that that motion is a whole body swing, which emphasizes swinging through the ball. In other words, we don’t swing at the ball to hit it. If the ball is in the right place, we’ll hit it because it is in the natural path of the swing.

Squat to square is a great way to learn to accelerate your hips the right amount. It’s the first thing that you’re going to do in your downswing as you shifted your weight. Then from there basically push up off that left leg and that’s going to force the club to release more.

The Magic Move, the one that initiates all great ball-striking, is the first move from the top of the backswing. Prior to the squat even taking place (if it does at all), all great golf shots are made or lost.

The key is to start the downswing with the lower body. In the best swings the lower body starts forward while the upper body is still turning back. The left hip turns toward the target as the shoulders continue to coil. That takes terrific timing and a lot of practice.

As you reach your backswings upper limit, the arms, shoulders and hips slow to a halt. To initiate the downswing, imagine stomping lightly on a bug with the left heel. This triggers the left hip to rotate, followed by the torso, shoulders and, finally, the arms. As you can see, the downswing flows from the ground up.

left hand

If the right hand becomes too strong it can take control of the club face through impact, close the face and send the ball flying low and left. The right hand (for a right handed golfer) should sit below the left and hold the grip through the fingers.

For a variety of reasons, including the ability to play with the favored side toward the hole and the fact that most teaching professionals and instruction is designed for right-handed golfers, many left-handers choose to play golf right-handed. But, by doing so, you are limiting the success of your golf game.

Is golf harder than lefties? I would have to answer yes. While it’s better than it was the past 15-20 years, the sport is still more challenging for lefties. In fact, a lot of players are lefty and choose to play right handed just to make the sport easier.

The theory follows that because it is generally easier to slice the ball than hook it, left-handers have a natural edge with their tee shots on dogleg left holes. Mickelson agrees and said there were other advantages, including some of the key pin positions on the lightning fast greens at Augusta.

Generally yes, Lefties have a big advantage…purely because there are less of them, each time someone throws the a ball down the lane they move the oil a little bit, Righties in general have to move their line WAY more often then a lefty does, that’s good for lefties most of the time because the less you have to move …

The DeSales senior switched from the traditional one-handed style to bowling with two hands for two reasons: power and control. “I throw it slower, per se, but it has a lot more power on it,” Swift said. “There are a lot more (revolutions) on the ball and it really gets through the pins more.

Being a leftie has a genetic component, is linked to better verbal skills and is associated with a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study published in the journal Brain.

Other studies have found lefties seem to have the upper hand when it comes to smarts. A 2007 study in the Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology found that, out of 150 subjects, left-handed participants were significantly more likely to perform better on an intelligence test than right-handed people.

They die sooner? They found left handers had died at an average age of 66, while righties died at an average of 75. They also found that left-handers were more than five times as likely to die in industrial and auto accidents—perhaps, they offered, because it is harder for them survive in a right handed world.

Left-handers tend to die, on average, about nine years earlier than right-handers, according to a surprising and controversial new study published today by California and Canadian researchers.