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A Timeline of Golf - 1353 - 1993
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Timeline of Golf - From 1353 to 19931353
The first recorded reference to chole, the probable antecedent of golf. It is a derivative of hockey played in Flanders (Belgium).
1421
A Scottish regiment aiding the French against the English at the Siege of Bauge is introduced to the game of chole. Hugh Kennedy, Robert Stewart and John Smale, three of the identified players, are credited with introducing the game in Scotland.
1457
Golf, along with football, is banned by the Scots Parliament of James II because it has interfered with military training for the wars against the English.
1470
The ban on golf is reaffirmed by the Parliament of James III.
1491
The golf ban is affirmed again by Parliament, this time under King James IV.
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1502
With the signing of the Treaty of Glasgow between England and Scotland, the ban on golf is lifted.
James IV makes the first recorded purchase of golf equipment, a set of clubs from a bow-maker in Perth, Scotland.
1513
Queen Catherine of England, in a letter to Cardinal Wolsey, refers to the growing popularity of golf in England.
1527
The first commoner recorded as a golfer is Sir Robert Maule, described as playing on Barry Links (near the modern-day Carnoustie).
1552
The first recorded evidence of golf at St. Andrews.
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1553
The Archbishop of St. Andrews issues a decree giving the local populace the right to play golf on the links at St. Andrews.
1567
Mary, Queen of Scots, seen playing golf shortly after the death of her husband Lord Darnley, is the first known female golfer.
1589
Golf is banned in the Blackfriars Yard, Glasgow. This is the earliest reference to golf in the west of Scotland.
1592
The City of Edinburgh bans golfing at Leith on 1592 (continued) Sunday "in tyme of sermonis."
1618
Invention of the feathery ball.
1618
King James VI of Scotland and I of England confirms the right of the populace to play golf on Sundays.
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Golf Fitness Guide. Easy Tips And Techniques To Quickly Transform Your Game And Add 20 Yards
16 Motors of the Golf Swing
Golf Hitting Power
- Golf Hitting Power
We all want more power and more distance in our golf swing. And very fortunately, there are several options for creating power. If one does not feel good or suit your body type, there are still many more that can be used.
This report is about hitting.
Hitting, as contrasted to swinging, is when the player accelerates the clubhead by PUSHING ON THE SIDE OF THE GOLF CLUB. Technically, this is called a "radial acceleration" of the club meaning the right elbow and right wrist are pressing against the side of the club (radius) to achieve club head speed. This is hitting like with a hockey stick or tennis racket.
In hitting, the right elbow, right wrist, and right shoulder all play very critical roles.
The right elbow - How is power created? How is it used? When the right elbow is bent, energy is stored. This is the potential energy to open the elbow and move the forearm forward. This is the same action as a piston cylinder on an old steam locomotive or the piston action in a car engine. It is the action of a hockey player standing still on the ice and shooting the puck. It is a hard forward push on the club coming from the right elbow.
(As an aside, this is also probably why we take a stand to the ball with our left shoulder to the target. This stand allows us to use our dominant right arm and right elbow with the best angle to hit the ball, like in tennis with the forehand swing.)
The right wrist - The right wrist keeps pushing on the club during the milliseconds while the clubface is compressing and deforming the golf ball. The right wrist helps to resist the slowing down of the clubhead during impact. To keep it short, by resisting the clubhead tendency to slow down throught the hitting zone, a player can gain up to 30% more clubhead speed WITH THE SAME INITIAL CONDITIONS. So this is not trivial. Also, to be clear, this is NOT flipping the right wrist at impact. It is a passive but strong resistance to the slowing down of the club.
(Resistance to deceleration of the clubhead through impact will be discussed in more detail in the report - Swinging from your feet.)
Aha!!!!
The right shoulder - We know that better players rotate the right shoulder very nicely down the plane and down the target line. Yes, that has been said and observed thousands of times.
But WHY?
The right shoulder performs two functions - one is putting body mass behind the piston movement of the right elbow. So connecting the body weight into the right elbow with put enormous more momentum into the contact with the ball and transfer more energy to the ball. It is like being hit by a bicycle or a 10-ton truck both moving at the same speed. Which is going to do more damage and transfer more energy?
Obviously, the 10-ton truck. So get your body weight better connected and behind the right elbow for more power. OK - that is easy to understand.
But the second function of the right shoulder is more subtile. Imagine a dog leash. The dog is free to move for a certain distance. But when is gets to the end of the leash, it is suddenly stopped. The right shoulder is similar.
IF the right shoulder moves down the swing plane and down the target line, the right elbow can stay bent with all of its power for a much LONGER TIME allowing for a very late hit.
That is the dog leash is still loose enough to allow the right elbow to explode into the ball. However, if the right shoulder turns on a plane flatter than the swing plane, the right elbow will start opening up - that is losing power - before it is even near the ball. The right elbow is "leaking power" because the unconscious minds says "You must hit the ball!" and the only way to hit the ball with a shoulder rotating more flat that the swing plane is by opening up the right elbow.
The right elbow cannot explode into the ball because it is already opened up and can move only a short distance before it is at the "end of it's leash." Don't believe what I am writing here.
Try it yourself.
Do it now - even without a club in your hand. Am I right or not? And now you know why rotating the right shoulder down the swing plane allows a golfer to keep the power stored in the right elbow until the last possible second before impact.
John Matherly
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Harry Vardon's Swing Secret
Harry Vardon is one of the greatest golfers of all time. 6 time British Open Champion, Vardon (Overlapping Grip), debut of the vertical swing, etc. etc. etc.BUT there is something that is still a very very well kept secret that almost no one understands. The secret to his DISTANCE. Harry was considered a long ball hitter of his day but also a weakling. He suffered from tuberculosis and had repeated attacks.
In fact, he had to cancel a promotional tournament tour in America sponsoring the newest golf ball from Dunlop due to a bout of tuberculosis, which also forced him to cancel his ticket on the Titanic!So how could he be a long hitter and suffer from tuberculosis at the same time?
The answer is in his bent left elbow. Yes, I know your Pro has told you many times to keep a straight left elbow. And that is the classic thinking even today.
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But there is a difference between the problem the Pros are trying to prevent and what Vardon did. Many amateurs will over-swing at the top and let their left elbow bend.
On the start down, they will again straighten out the elbow causing extra movement and swing plane variations.
What Vardon did was something else. He HELD the bent left elbow until just before impact with the ball.
John Jacobs, in his book - The 50 Greatest Golf Lessons of the Century (HarperAcademic), described Vardon's swing LIKE THROWING A FRISBEE!!!
Theodore Jorgensen in his book - The Physics of Golf -devotes 1 separate chapter to Vardon's swing and comes to the conclusion that by using his left elbow as an additional hinge that only unhinged very late like a whip coiling out, a power increase of up to 50% is theoretically possible.
Another description of Vardon's bent left elbow is that he made his left arm into a whip with an additional bending point in it. And then threw his left arm down the target line similar to an athlete throwing a discus but in a more vertical plane. How can you try this out?
Think - throw the Frisbee down the target line.
Keep your left elbow bent on the way down to the ball and unfurl it, like throwing a discus, down thru the ball.
You can see a photo of Vardon's swing here.
http://www.swingofchampions.com/harry-vardon.htm
Cock/Uncock - How "surface effects" can double your clubhead speed
We all know the drill - go from the hitchhiker position (thumb up) in the backswing, swing through the ball and uncock the wrists, and then continue on to the hitchhiker position (thumb up again) in the follow through. This is a favorite tip from Davis Love III.
But why?
Here some high school geometry is necessary - BUT - don't worry. No homework here. I will do the math. The circumference of a circle (your golf swing) is the distance around the outside of a circle.
This is defined in the formula - 2pr , where p (pi) is the value 3 (remember, we are keeping it simple) and r is the radius of the circle which we assume to be approximately the length of your arm - 1 meter (or 1 yard if you are in the USA).
This means the total distance around the circle is 2 x 3 (the p in the formula) x 1 meter = 6 meters in total. So if the radius (your arm) turns throught a full circle in only 0.2 seconds, the clubhead speed is 6 meters / 0.2 seconds = 30 meters per second.
So far so good.
Now lets put a golf club at the end of your radius (your arm). And lets use the same values as before. The only difference is that the total radius is not only the length of your arm (assumed to be 1 meter) but now the lenth of the arm PLUS the length of the golf club, or 2 meters (I am assuming a golf club length of 1 meter and your arm length of 1 meter.)
So, 2 x 3 (the p in the formula) x 2 meters = 12 meters in total distance around the circle.
And again, we assume a turning time of 0.2 seconds. The clubhead speed is 12 meters / 0.2 seconds = 60 meters per second!!!! To say this in other words, by starting off with a radius of only 1 meter (hand COCKED) and then EXTENDING the radius out (UNCOCKING the hands), the clubhead speed is DOUBLED without any changing the the timing of your body turn!
In physics, this is called a surface effect. The same rotation speed with generate increased clubhead speeds at increasing lengths of the radius. Yes - for the purists - there are some subtile points I didn't discuss here. There will be a slight slowdown in the rate of turning to the movement of the center of momentum farther away from the center.
Nonetheless, learn the general principle - Cock / uncock can double your clubhead speed.
John Matherly - www.swingofchampions.com
But why?
Here some high school geometry is necessary - BUT - don't worry. No homework here. I will do the math. The circumference of a circle (your golf swing) is the distance around the outside of a circle.
This is defined in the formula - 2pr , where p (pi) is the value 3 (remember, we are keeping it simple) and r is the radius of the circle which we assume to be approximately the length of your arm - 1 meter (or 1 yard if you are in the USA).
This means the total distance around the circle is 2 x 3 (the p in the formula) x 1 meter = 6 meters in total. So if the radius (your arm) turns throught a full circle in only 0.2 seconds, the clubhead speed is 6 meters / 0.2 seconds = 30 meters per second.
So far so good.
Now lets put a golf club at the end of your radius (your arm). And lets use the same values as before. The only difference is that the total radius is not only the length of your arm (assumed to be 1 meter) but now the lenth of the arm PLUS the length of the golf club, or 2 meters (I am assuming a golf club length of 1 meter and your arm length of 1 meter.)
So, 2 x 3 (the p in the formula) x 2 meters = 12 meters in total distance around the circle.
And again, we assume a turning time of 0.2 seconds. The clubhead speed is 12 meters / 0.2 seconds = 60 meters per second!!!! To say this in other words, by starting off with a radius of only 1 meter (hand COCKED) and then EXTENDING the radius out (UNCOCKING the hands), the clubhead speed is DOUBLED without any changing the the timing of your body turn!
In physics, this is called a surface effect. The same rotation speed with generate increased clubhead speeds at increasing lengths of the radius. Yes - for the purists - there are some subtile points I didn't discuss here. There will be a slight slowdown in the rate of turning to the movement of the center of momentum farther away from the center.
Nonetheless, learn the general principle - Cock / uncock can double your clubhead speed.
John Matherly - www.swingofchampions.com
DANGER! - Use this golfing Power Source only at your own Risk
The power source I would like to talk about today is the rotation of the left forearm.
Please perform this test. Take a club in your left hand only.
Cock your LEFT wrist.
Imagine the face of a clock on the ground in front of you.
Turn your left forearm to the 3 o'clock position to back again to the 9 o'clock position. See how far the clubhead moves with only the turning of your left forearm. It is a distance of approximately 2 meters! Wow - a lot of clubhead distance for only a small rotation of the forearm.
If you look at players like Steve Ballesteros and Ian Woosnam you can see how much the left forearm roll plays in their swings. The left forearm rotation allows them to really accelerate the clubhead through the ball with almost no body movement visible to the eye.
The clubhead is moving very fast but the players' body has all but stopped. This is because the players are transferring the momentum from their body turn down into their arms and allowing the left forearm to rotation strongly into the ball. However, many amateurs are totally unaware of what they are doing with the left forearm. They will rotate it clockwise in their backswing, but the FORGET to rotate it back down into the ball on the downswing. If the rotation back to the ball does not take place, a nasty slice is the result.
Or the reverse, some amateurs have found out how much acceleration they can achieve with the forearm rotation and then over-do it. With too much rotation too quickly, the clubface is too closed at impact and a duck hook is the result. So, there is a lot of power in the left forearm rotation. BUT only use it with caution. Otherwise you will be visiting the rough or out-of-bounds many more times that you might like. By the way, there is a solution to the timing of the left forearm rotation by gentling allowing the clubface to "roll over the ball thru impact."
It is called the magic of the left thumb. But that is a report for another day.
John Matherly - www.swingofchampions.com
Please perform this test. Take a club in your left hand only.
Cock your LEFT wrist.
Imagine the face of a clock on the ground in front of you.
Turn your left forearm to the 3 o'clock position to back again to the 9 o'clock position. See how far the clubhead moves with only the turning of your left forearm. It is a distance of approximately 2 meters! Wow - a lot of clubhead distance for only a small rotation of the forearm.
If you look at players like Steve Ballesteros and Ian Woosnam you can see how much the left forearm roll plays in their swings. The left forearm rotation allows them to really accelerate the clubhead through the ball with almost no body movement visible to the eye.
The clubhead is moving very fast but the players' body has all but stopped. This is because the players are transferring the momentum from their body turn down into their arms and allowing the left forearm to rotation strongly into the ball. However, many amateurs are totally unaware of what they are doing with the left forearm. They will rotate it clockwise in their backswing, but the FORGET to rotate it back down into the ball on the downswing. If the rotation back to the ball does not take place, a nasty slice is the result.
Or the reverse, some amateurs have found out how much acceleration they can achieve with the forearm rotation and then over-do it. With too much rotation too quickly, the clubface is too closed at impact and a duck hook is the result. So, there is a lot of power in the left forearm rotation. BUT only use it with caution. Otherwise you will be visiting the rough or out-of-bounds many more times that you might like. By the way, there is a solution to the timing of the left forearm rotation by gentling allowing the clubface to "roll over the ball thru impact."
It is called the magic of the left thumb. But that is a report for another day.
John Matherly - www.swingofchampions.com
The Unseen Secret Power of the Swing Radius
"Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I could move the Earth."- Archimedes
When you read the typical advice about the swing radius, the teacher will talk about how the player is holding his arms outstretched and hands far away from the body.
And they talk about the fact that the golf player keeps the hands far from the body during the swing. The mistake here is that the teachers are defining swing radius as simply the distance the clubhead is being held away from the body.
BUT this is by NO means the whole story.
It is actually only a beginning. This new power source cannot be seen normally since it is working thru the linkages in the golfer's body.
Principle: The swing radius, properly defined, is the distance from the clubhead to the first non-pulling link in the body.
Think of a chain with 5 links being swung in a circle. If you hold onto the chain at the link number 2, there are only links that swing around and that form the lever (swing radius). The other 3 links are just passive and along for the ride.
However, if you hold the chain at link number 5 and swing it around, all 5 links are pulling and the swing radius has been extended from 2 to 5 links - a more than doubling of the swing radius.
In the golf swing, if the hips turn with the shoulders and then turn exactly with the shoulders again on the downswing, the hips are not pulling and therefore are not part of the swing radius. This can be seen in many beginners at the driving range.
If however, the hips pull the shoulders around on the downswing, the swing radius has been lengthened by the distance from the shoulders to the hips. And again, if the knees are used to pull and turn the hips, which then pull on the shoulders, the swing radius is again lengthened by the distance from the knees to the hips.
Taken to the maximum, the maximum possible swing radius is from the left heel all the way back to the clubhead.
This is called swinging from the feet in some golf techniques.
By causing one body link to pull on the next, the effective lever is very significantly extended (up to 1.5 meters longer!) and much much more leverage is generated that can be applied to the ball. So now that you know the principle, try swinging from the feet and see what kind of increased distance you will have.
John Matherly - www.swingofchampions.com
When you read the typical advice about the swing radius, the teacher will talk about how the player is holding his arms outstretched and hands far away from the body.
And they talk about the fact that the golf player keeps the hands far from the body during the swing. The mistake here is that the teachers are defining swing radius as simply the distance the clubhead is being held away from the body.
BUT this is by NO means the whole story.
It is actually only a beginning. This new power source cannot be seen normally since it is working thru the linkages in the golfer's body.
Principle: The swing radius, properly defined, is the distance from the clubhead to the first non-pulling link in the body.
Think of a chain with 5 links being swung in a circle. If you hold onto the chain at the link number 2, there are only links that swing around and that form the lever (swing radius). The other 3 links are just passive and along for the ride.
However, if you hold the chain at link number 5 and swing it around, all 5 links are pulling and the swing radius has been extended from 2 to 5 links - a more than doubling of the swing radius.
In the golf swing, if the hips turn with the shoulders and then turn exactly with the shoulders again on the downswing, the hips are not pulling and therefore are not part of the swing radius. This can be seen in many beginners at the driving range.
If however, the hips pull the shoulders around on the downswing, the swing radius has been lengthened by the distance from the shoulders to the hips. And again, if the knees are used to pull and turn the hips, which then pull on the shoulders, the swing radius is again lengthened by the distance from the knees to the hips.
Taken to the maximum, the maximum possible swing radius is from the left heel all the way back to the clubhead.
This is called swinging from the feet in some golf techniques.
By causing one body link to pull on the next, the effective lever is very significantly extended (up to 1.5 meters longer!) and much much more leverage is generated that can be applied to the ball. So now that you know the principle, try swinging from the feet and see what kind of increased distance you will have.
John Matherly - www.swingofchampions.com
Why Slowing Down Can Increase your Clubhead Speed
Sometimes there is a small observation described in golf books that - "it has been observed with high speed photography that pros slow down their body turn during the hitting zone." And then the book continues on to another subject.
But why?
I have never seen any further commentary on this point except in Theodore Jorgensen's book - The Physics of Golf.
After testing this aspect myself, I know there is a lot to be said and explained here that is not included in standard golf teaching.
OK - what is it?
It is all about SNAP!
In other words, it is understanding how to use the whole body as a whip, and how to transfer energy / power from your large leg and torso muscles thru the arms and hands down to the clubhead.
When the lion trainer snaps his whip in the circus cage, the whip DOES NOT make the cracking sound by the tip hitting back into the body of the whip.
Rather, the whip snaps because the tip has just BROKEN THE SOUND BARRIER.
Yes, the tip of the whip is traveling at MACH 1!!! - like military jets.
And that was all powered from one arm movement! This has been proven by scientific experiments. The tip is traveling at a speed greater than the speed of sound when it cracks. The crack is a sonic boom!
Imagine a children's game. There are five children and they all line up next to each other in one long line and holding hands. The whole line, all 5 children, start to run forward together.
First, the first child on the farthest left side stops.
Because the children are still firmly holding hands, the second child is soon forced to stop by the action of the farthest child on the left. And so down the line thru children 3 and 4. What then happens to child nr. 5 on the right? He or she FLIES thru the air.
Why?
Because the accumulated momentum (a type of energy) has been transferred from child 1 to child 2 to child 3 etc. until much of the accumulated momentum of the 4 previous children are transferred to child 5. And that momentum is so so large that the child literally goes flying thru the air. Crack the whip is what this game is called some places.
The same also happens in a whip. The hand moving the handle brings the total whip into one long pulling movement. The whip is still fairly straight and the hand is simply pulling it.
Then suddenly, the hand changes direction and creates a WAVE in the whip. This WAVE of ENERGY runs down the whip transferring more and more momentum (energy) down to the
But why?
I have never seen any further commentary on this point except in Theodore Jorgensen's book - The Physics of Golf.
After testing this aspect myself, I know there is a lot to be said and explained here that is not included in standard golf teaching.
OK - what is it?
It is all about SNAP!
In other words, it is understanding how to use the whole body as a whip, and how to transfer energy / power from your large leg and torso muscles thru the arms and hands down to the clubhead.
When the lion trainer snaps his whip in the circus cage, the whip DOES NOT make the cracking sound by the tip hitting back into the body of the whip.
Rather, the whip snaps because the tip has just BROKEN THE SOUND BARRIER.
Yes, the tip of the whip is traveling at MACH 1!!! - like military jets.
And that was all powered from one arm movement! This has been proven by scientific experiments. The tip is traveling at a speed greater than the speed of sound when it cracks. The crack is a sonic boom!
Imagine a children's game. There are five children and they all line up next to each other in one long line and holding hands. The whole line, all 5 children, start to run forward together.
First, the first child on the farthest left side stops.
Because the children are still firmly holding hands, the second child is soon forced to stop by the action of the farthest child on the left. And so down the line thru children 3 and 4. What then happens to child nr. 5 on the right? He or she FLIES thru the air.
Why?
Because the accumulated momentum (a type of energy) has been transferred from child 1 to child 2 to child 3 etc. until much of the accumulated momentum of the 4 previous children are transferred to child 5. And that momentum is so so large that the child literally goes flying thru the air. Crack the whip is what this game is called some places.
The same also happens in a whip. The hand moving the handle brings the total whip into one long pulling movement. The whip is still fairly straight and the hand is simply pulling it.
Then suddenly, the hand changes direction and creates a WAVE in the whip. This WAVE of ENERGY runs down the whip transferring more and more momentum (energy) down to the
How to unleash more power with the legs
Weight shift - many beginning golfers find this difficult to execute, an unnatural feeling, and not clear why it must be done.
In addition, there is the subject of the legs - some golf pro's ignore them almost totally in their system. Some say "this is an upper-body swing using the legs only as solid base."
Well, this can work. No doubt about it. BUT you are excluding an important power source if you decide not to use your legs. And there are basically different ways to use the power of the legs.
1. The first is basically a passive lower body just supporting the upper body turn. In this mode, the legs do not actively help increase clubhead speed. They do help in the background that the golfer can keep his balance and still cleanly hit the ball.
2. The second method is what I call the "push-off" method and is used by golfers who feel comfortable with hitting the golf ball. When the 100-meter runner is starting from the blocks, he pushes off strongly to explode out of a standing position into the fastest start possible. Or when the swimmer pushes off of the wall in the swimming pool, he pushes as strongly as possible to get his body moving toward his goal as fast as possible.
For example, have you ever been at the driving range and seen someone falling backwards after hitting a ball. Why? Because the golfer was hitting the ball forward only with an upper-body movement and the "recoil" (just like with a rifle!) PUSHED the whole body backwards. In other words, the legs were not actively used to initial the swing of resist the backpressure of the upper-body turn.
In the push-off method, the RIGHT LEG can be used to strongly push-off to start the whole body into motion to strongly whip (there is a reason this report is only AFTER the SNAP report!) the relaxed upper body around into the golf swing. When you are coiled up over the INSIDE ARCH of the right foot, stay relaxed in your upper body.
Push off very hard with your right foot like when skiing and making a sharp turn. Keep pushing with the right foot and right leg until the sole of the right foot is totally off the ground. Just concentrate on the right leg and keep the rest of the body relaxed. See how much distance you have gained!
3. A third method is "counter-fall" as first described by David Lee in his book - Gravity Golf. Golfers who prefer swinging the golf club and not hitting prefer this method. The key here is to use your own body weight to whip around the upper body.
In addition, there is the subject of the legs - some golf pro's ignore them almost totally in their system. Some say "this is an upper-body swing using the legs only as solid base."
Well, this can work. No doubt about it. BUT you are excluding an important power source if you decide not to use your legs. And there are basically different ways to use the power of the legs.
1. The first is basically a passive lower body just supporting the upper body turn. In this mode, the legs do not actively help increase clubhead speed. They do help in the background that the golfer can keep his balance and still cleanly hit the ball.
2. The second method is what I call the "push-off" method and is used by golfers who feel comfortable with hitting the golf ball. When the 100-meter runner is starting from the blocks, he pushes off strongly to explode out of a standing position into the fastest start possible. Or when the swimmer pushes off of the wall in the swimming pool, he pushes as strongly as possible to get his body moving toward his goal as fast as possible.
For example, have you ever been at the driving range and seen someone falling backwards after hitting a ball. Why? Because the golfer was hitting the ball forward only with an upper-body movement and the "recoil" (just like with a rifle!) PUSHED the whole body backwards. In other words, the legs were not actively used to initial the swing of resist the backpressure of the upper-body turn.
In the push-off method, the RIGHT LEG can be used to strongly push-off to start the whole body into motion to strongly whip (there is a reason this report is only AFTER the SNAP report!) the relaxed upper body around into the golf swing. When you are coiled up over the INSIDE ARCH of the right foot, stay relaxed in your upper body.
Push off very hard with your right foot like when skiing and making a sharp turn. Keep pushing with the right foot and right leg until the sole of the right foot is totally off the ground. Just concentrate on the right leg and keep the rest of the body relaxed. See how much distance you have gained!
3. A third method is "counter-fall" as first described by David Lee in his book - Gravity Golf. Golfers who prefer swinging the golf club and not hitting prefer this method. The key here is to use your own body weight to whip around the upper body.
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Using the lat muscles for clubhead speed
Here is a tip from a standard golf technique book: Pull the club down like ringing the bell in a church.I want to go into more detail here because a lot is not being said about the use of the lat muscle to generate clubhead speed.
What is the latissimus dorsi or lat muscle?
The latissimus dorsi or lat muscle is the wing-like muscle of the upper back under each arm. This is the muscle that offers the opportunity for the "V" shaped contour of the upper body and the upper back. Why train the upper back or lats muscles?
The V shape is often considered very attractive on men and women alike; it is also an important muscle group to bodybuilders. In competitions you will frequently see bodybuilders spread their lat muscles by tensing them as they press their upper arms behind and up against them, raising them up. There are individual points given in bodybuilding for the quality of development of the lats muscle, as with all the other major muscle groups.
If you look at the golfer in the photo from the front, you will see that by "pull the rope" down (or as they used to say in England along time ago, "pull the rope and make the church bell ring!"), the lat muscles, particularly the left lat muscle is being used to PULL STRAIGHT DOWN the club generating tremendous speed.
The Lat muscle also has a very long range and can be stretched very long in the backswing - reach to the sky! - and contracted back into the more normal position with the arm down by the side of the torso. This range of motion allows the lat muscle to very significantly add to your clubhead speed.
How to work the lats.
The easiest exercise for the lats is the lat stretch. This exercise can be done almost anywhere and without special equipment. Grasp the outer edge of a door jam with one hand while pressing against it with the other hand. Literally stretch the lat muscle under the arm that grasps the outer edge of the jam. Repeat this effort 5 times or more. Perform an equal number of stretches for the opposite arm. You can do this 2-3 times a week for about 5-10 minutes each workout or all together.
Then hit a few golf balls being sure to really stretch the lat muscle in the backswing and let it really contract and pull down hard in the downswing. FEEL the rush of POWER you have just created!
John Matherly - www.swingofchampions.com
Where are the biggest muscles in your Body?
We all want more power and more distance in our golf swing. An very fortunately, there are several options for creating power. If one does not feel good or suit your body type, there are still many more that can be used.
This report is about using some of the really large muscles in your body to get more distance. So what I am talking about? The hips.
The muscles connecting from the legs to the hips and from the hips to the thorax are the largest in you body. There are 4 groups of muscles around the hips. These are the adductors (on the inside), the abductors (on the lateral hip), the flexors (on the anterior side) and the extensors (on the posterior aspect). In particular, the Iliopsoas muscles attaching from the top of the hip bone and the lower back down to the top of the thigh bone (femur) are very powerful muscles.
Now, how to use the hips by means of the X-Factor.
Jim McLean introduced the concept of the difference between the hips and the shoulders as the X-factor in December 1992 as the cover story for a best-selling issue of Golf Magazine and later wrote the book - The X-Factor Swing by Jim McLean.
If you think of your shoulders and your hips as hands on a clock face, you can see how this works.
A full shoulder turn of 90 degrees on the backswing (looking down from above the golfer's head - the left shoulder goes from 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock) , minus a hip turn of say, 30 degrees (meaning the left hip moved from the 9 o'clock position to 10 o'clock), where the left heel has come off the ground and the hips have turned slightly, would give you an "X-Factor" of 60, which is pretty good .
Any "X-Factor" over 50 isn't bad for an over-40 golfer. If your other fundamentals are sound, an "X-Factor" of 60 should allow you to generate a fair amount of clubhead speed at impact.
A shoulder turn of 80 degrees, which is still good for over-40 golfers, minus a hip turn of 20 degrees, which would likely mean both feet remaining firmly planted on the ground, still generates an "X-Factor" of 60. That means the golfer who turns his shoulders only 80 degrees but keeps his hips more firmly planted creates the same amount of energy as the golfer who turns his shoulders 90 degrees but turns his hips 30 degrees.
A huge long backswing doesn't necessarily translate to clubhead speed on the downswing. You can turn your shoulders 100 degrees, wrapping the club around your body, but if you also turn your hips 60 degrees, you have created a
This report is about using some of the really large muscles in your body to get more distance. So what I am talking about? The hips.
The muscles connecting from the legs to the hips and from the hips to the thorax are the largest in you body. There are 4 groups of muscles around the hips. These are the adductors (on the inside), the abductors (on the lateral hip), the flexors (on the anterior side) and the extensors (on the posterior aspect). In particular, the Iliopsoas muscles attaching from the top of the hip bone and the lower back down to the top of the thigh bone (femur) are very powerful muscles.
Now, how to use the hips by means of the X-Factor.
Jim McLean introduced the concept of the difference between the hips and the shoulders as the X-factor in December 1992 as the cover story for a best-selling issue of Golf Magazine and later wrote the book - The X-Factor Swing by Jim McLean.
If you think of your shoulders and your hips as hands on a clock face, you can see how this works.
A full shoulder turn of 90 degrees on the backswing (looking down from above the golfer's head - the left shoulder goes from 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock) , minus a hip turn of say, 30 degrees (meaning the left hip moved from the 9 o'clock position to 10 o'clock), where the left heel has come off the ground and the hips have turned slightly, would give you an "X-Factor" of 60, which is pretty good .
Any "X-Factor" over 50 isn't bad for an over-40 golfer. If your other fundamentals are sound, an "X-Factor" of 60 should allow you to generate a fair amount of clubhead speed at impact.
A shoulder turn of 80 degrees, which is still good for over-40 golfers, minus a hip turn of 20 degrees, which would likely mean both feet remaining firmly planted on the ground, still generates an "X-Factor" of 60. That means the golfer who turns his shoulders only 80 degrees but keeps his hips more firmly planted creates the same amount of energy as the golfer who turns his shoulders 90 degrees but turns his hips 30 degrees.
A huge long backswing doesn't necessarily translate to clubhead speed on the downswing. You can turn your shoulders 100 degrees, wrapping the club around your body, but if you also turn your hips 60 degrees, you have created a
The secret golf swing drop
In the book, The Physics of Golf by Theodore Jorgensen he describes a way to add additional acceleration to a golf club that is not mentioned in any other golf instruction.This secret is about how to use your weight shift to create a downward pull, and thus an acceleration, on the golf club.
When the left arm is at the top of the back swing, it will be in a position parallel to the target line.
Now the golfer shifts his weight to the left, back towards the target.
With this lateral weight shift movement, the left shoulder is pulling the left arm down creating additional acceleration as shown here in the schematic diagram.
Try it. It works.
John Matherly - http://www.swingofchampions.com/
How to use your body turn to hit it farther
If there were a bicycle and a truck coming right at you, both driving at the same speed, which one would be more worried about hitting you?
The truck, right! And why?
Because of the amount of mass in the truck. That means that there is more energy in the impact with a truck than with a bicycle.
Similarly in golf, which is "heavier"? Turning only your arms back-and-forth or turning your whole torso (upper body)? Which has more weight, your arms alone, or your arms and torso together?
Obviously, the answer is arms and torso together.
Hitting the golf ball with the torso TURNING and pulling on the arms so that the whole mass is connected is like a 10 Ton truck hitting a tennis ball - Whaaap!
And there is a second trick here. The torso is not shifting to the target but rather rotating around the spine and the tilted axis with the right shoulder working its way down under the chin.
By rotating smoothly around the spine, and not shifting, a much FASTER ROTATION of the whole upper body is possible. (Yes, many golfers have a tendency to let their upper body slide forward during the swing and therefore loose speed and power.)
Let your upper body hang back, relax and rotate quickly around your spine for much more speed and for longer tee shots.
Try it - you'll like it.
John Matherly - http://golfvideos.blogspot.com
The truck, right! And why?
Because of the amount of mass in the truck. That means that there is more energy in the impact with a truck than with a bicycle.
Similarly in golf, which is "heavier"? Turning only your arms back-and-forth or turning your whole torso (upper body)? Which has more weight, your arms alone, or your arms and torso together?
Obviously, the answer is arms and torso together.
Hitting the golf ball with the torso TURNING and pulling on the arms so that the whole mass is connected is like a 10 Ton truck hitting a tennis ball - Whaaap!
And there is a second trick here. The torso is not shifting to the target but rather rotating around the spine and the tilted axis with the right shoulder working its way down under the chin.
By rotating smoothly around the spine, and not shifting, a much FASTER ROTATION of the whole upper body is possible. (Yes, many golfers have a tendency to let their upper body slide forward during the swing and therefore loose speed and power.)
Let your upper body hang back, relax and rotate quickly around your spine for much more speed and for longer tee shots.
Try it - you'll like it.
John Matherly - http://golfvideos.blogspot.com
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How Resistance to Deceleration can make a BIG Difference!
First a small personal note. I have received emails from readers posing questions that I would like to briefly answer:
a. These reports are my own opinion, not Leslie King's. And I am not sure if Mr. King would have approved. So only I am responsible.
My defence is that if you simply look at pros which such different swings as Jim Furyk, Fred Couples, John Daly, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer, you can SEE that there are many different ways to successfully hit a golf ball and to win tournaments.
b. Also, I know that some of these power sources are not compatible with each other. My objective in these reports is simply to list and explain each power source. The golfer is free to use or reject whatever he or she wishes. AND I am not explaining in the reports the correct sequencing of the swings. I am only describing power sources.
Now, on to the meat of the report. Golf Pros will often tell a students - Swing all the way through the ball! Well, I want to be more specific WHY in this report.
This is going to be somewhat technical, so please have some patience.
When a golf ball is being hit by a club face, there are three separate and distinct phases of the collision.
Here is an overview:
First, the clubhead makes contact with the ball and COMPRESSES and DEFORMS the ball. This compression is stored energy in the ball.
Second, when the ball cannot be compressed anymore, the clubhead starts pushing the compressed ball along the path of the swing.
Third, when the clubhead is slowing down from the impact with the ball, the compression on the ball is released and the ball literally JUMPS (like a rubber ball) off the clubface.
The energy of the JUMP comes from the materials of the golf ball returning to their original shape (coefficient of restitution.)
How much the initial energy input into the ball on first impact is returned when it jumps off the clubface is called the coefficient of restitution (CR). If the CR is 100%, then 100% of the energy input into the ball is returned when it jumps off the clubface.
In the real world, this is not possible due to friction and heat. High quality golf balls hit with a very clean impact can reach a CR of approcimately 80%.
So, lets now walk through the clubface hitting the ball with some speed. And I will simplify the numbers to make the mathematics easy.
Just assume for a moment that the clubface is traveling at 100 km/hour and hits a golf ball that is standing still. Th
a. These reports are my own opinion, not Leslie King's. And I am not sure if Mr. King would have approved. So only I am responsible.
My defence is that if you simply look at pros which such different swings as Jim Furyk, Fred Couples, John Daly, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer, you can SEE that there are many different ways to successfully hit a golf ball and to win tournaments.
b. Also, I know that some of these power sources are not compatible with each other. My objective in these reports is simply to list and explain each power source. The golfer is free to use or reject whatever he or she wishes. AND I am not explaining in the reports the correct sequencing of the swings. I am only describing power sources.
Now, on to the meat of the report. Golf Pros will often tell a students - Swing all the way through the ball! Well, I want to be more specific WHY in this report.
This is going to be somewhat technical, so please have some patience.
When a golf ball is being hit by a club face, there are three separate and distinct phases of the collision.
Here is an overview:
First, the clubhead makes contact with the ball and COMPRESSES and DEFORMS the ball. This compression is stored energy in the ball.
Second, when the ball cannot be compressed anymore, the clubhead starts pushing the compressed ball along the path of the swing.
Third, when the clubhead is slowing down from the impact with the ball, the compression on the ball is released and the ball literally JUMPS (like a rubber ball) off the clubface.
The energy of the JUMP comes from the materials of the golf ball returning to their original shape (coefficient of restitution.)
How much the initial energy input into the ball on first impact is returned when it jumps off the clubface is called the coefficient of restitution (CR). If the CR is 100%, then 100% of the energy input into the ball is returned when it jumps off the clubface.
In the real world, this is not possible due to friction and heat. High quality golf balls hit with a very clean impact can reach a CR of approcimately 80%.
So, lets now walk through the clubface hitting the ball with some speed. And I will simplify the numbers to make the mathematics easy.
Just assume for a moment that the clubface is traveling at 100 km/hour and hits a golf ball that is standing still. Th
Using gravity in the golf swing
Yes, we all know that things fall down to the Earth.
And sometimes a golf pro will tell you to just let your hands fall. Actually, this is not bad advice for many types of shot. Certainly, the relaxation of the muscles that is necessary to "just let your hands fall" is helpful in creating increased clubhead speed. But there is more....
I want to go into more detail here because there are also other things to be said about gravity.
a. Gravity can be used to help you in your backswing. The famous forward press or bending of your right-knee towards the target to get the backswing started is a type of swaying motion to use the recoil movement to throw your arms up to the top. Meaning, you press forward, and on the rebound due to gravity back to the left foot, the golfer uses this backward movement to swing the club up and into position. All this is done in rhythm with gravity.
b. Then, gravity can be used (but does not have to be) to fall again back to the right foot and stretch the whole lever system from the left heel and leg all the way back to the clubhead. This creates a very very long lever, or swing radius, for the swing.
c. Gravity can help you to let your hands fall and speed up as they come down, as explained in the opening paragraph. And....
d. Gravity can help to accelerated the clubhead by using the weight of the left hip and leg to fall in the opposite direction to the swing of the clubhead - balancing the two spinning forces left leg and hip versus clubhead.
This use of gravity is called a "counterfall" and is described in David Lee's book - Gravity Golf . Using gravity effectively makes for one of the most effortless and beautiful swings on the planet.
John Matherly - http://golfvideos.blogspot.com
And sometimes a golf pro will tell you to just let your hands fall. Actually, this is not bad advice for many types of shot. Certainly, the relaxation of the muscles that is necessary to "just let your hands fall" is helpful in creating increased clubhead speed. But there is more....
I want to go into more detail here because there are also other things to be said about gravity.
a. Gravity can be used to help you in your backswing. The famous forward press or bending of your right-knee towards the target to get the backswing started is a type of swaying motion to use the recoil movement to throw your arms up to the top. Meaning, you press forward, and on the rebound due to gravity back to the left foot, the golfer uses this backward movement to swing the club up and into position. All this is done in rhythm with gravity.
b. Then, gravity can be used (but does not have to be) to fall again back to the right foot and stretch the whole lever system from the left heel and leg all the way back to the clubhead. This creates a very very long lever, or swing radius, for the swing.
c. Gravity can help you to let your hands fall and speed up as they come down, as explained in the opening paragraph. And....
d. Gravity can help to accelerated the clubhead by using the weight of the left hip and leg to fall in the opposite direction to the swing of the clubhead - balancing the two spinning forces left leg and hip versus clubhead.
This use of gravity is called a "counterfall" and is described in David Lee's book - Gravity Golf . Using gravity effectively makes for one of the most effortless and beautiful swings on the planet.
John Matherly - http://golfvideos.blogspot.com
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Using your powerful right hand for extra power!
Yes, this article is being written from the perspective of a right-handed golfer. If you are a lefty, then please turn the orientations around.
When the flat back of the right wrist/hand bends backward toward the forearm, this is called the right hand flex. This is different from cock - uncock which is a movement of the thumb in a flat plane in the direction of the forearm.
The right hand flex can be used in two different ways - passive or active.
As a passive element, the right hand flex is used to increase resistance to deceleration described in a previous report. The resistance to the slowing down of the club head thru the ball can add 10 to 25% more distance to the shot. So it is not to be underestimated.
In addition, as a passive element, you can use the right hand as the last small correction control for clubface control and distance control. If you do not plane to use the right hand flex in a shot, but notice that something is off - not enough power from your body turn for example - the right hand can still compensate by adding the missing power to still make the shot a success.
So, plan to hold the right hand in reserve only for when it is necessary. Also, as a passive support, you can use the right hand with the same feeling as in throwing or hitting a ball. There is a natural eye / hand coordination that can be used to your advantage for being more sensitive to your shot's distance and direction.
As an active element, the right hand flex offers the opportunity to give an additional "hand slap" to the ball at the moment of impact or just after impact. The most well known player at the moment using this technique is Michelle Wie, the young sensation from Hawaii.
If your right hand were a door, then the active right hand movement is like the slamming closed of a door.
The active right hand can be difficult to control and is not to recommended for every golfer.
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When the flat back of the right wrist/hand bends backward toward the forearm, this is called the right hand flex. This is different from cock - uncock which is a movement of the thumb in a flat plane in the direction of the forearm.
The right hand flex can be used in two different ways - passive or active.
As a passive element, the right hand flex is used to increase resistance to deceleration described in a previous report. The resistance to the slowing down of the club head thru the ball can add 10 to 25% more distance to the shot. So it is not to be underestimated.
In addition, as a passive element, you can use the right hand as the last small correction control for clubface control and distance control. If you do not plane to use the right hand flex in a shot, but notice that something is off - not enough power from your body turn for example - the right hand can still compensate by adding the missing power to still make the shot a success.
So, plan to hold the right hand in reserve only for when it is necessary. Also, as a passive support, you can use the right hand with the same feeling as in throwing or hitting a ball. There is a natural eye / hand coordination that can be used to your advantage for being more sensitive to your shot's distance and direction.
As an active element, the right hand flex offers the opportunity to give an additional "hand slap" to the ball at the moment of impact or just after impact. The most well known player at the moment using this technique is Michelle Wie, the young sensation from Hawaii.
If your right hand were a door, then the active right hand movement is like the slamming closed of a door.
The active right hand can be difficult to control and is not to recommended for every golfer.
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Rotation into the Ball of the Spinal Tilt!
Yes, again this article is an article about a very subtle effect which is almost never mentioned in standard golf teaching.When a golfer addresses the ball, and places the right hand below the left on the club, a natural tilt of the spine to the right (meaning the right shoulder is somewhat lower than the left shoulder) happens automatically.
In the backswing, the upper body rotates around this spinal tilt. And on the downswing, the upper body also rotates back to the ball around this spinal tilt axis.
BUT then to add power, the professional players allow the axis of the spinal tilt ITSELF to rotate and move into the ball. (Technically, this is a precession of the axis. See the graphic)
Because the whole upper body is moving into the ball, the whole mass of the upper body is better brought to bear on hitting the ball. This places much more weight behind the advancing clubhead and supplies more momentum into the striking of the ball.
In addition, by the axis of the spine rotation rotating into the ball, the right elbow is allowed to stay "cocked / or bent" until a much later moment before extending down into the ball. This rotation (precession) therefore facilitates the so-called "late hitting."
Try it and see for yourself how much more weight and force can be brought into your hitting by allowing your spine to rotate into the ball on your downswing.
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What is the 16th motor? Sequence and Timing!
Up until now, I have discussed only individual motions and physical effects that generate clubhead speed. Now it is time to put them all together.When a rocket is launched to the moon, there is a first stage and then a second stage and maybe even a third stage of the rocket that gives it more and more power. The golf swing is similar.
Take a look at this graphic. It shows the angular change in velocity of the hips, shoulders, arms and all that is funnelled into the club on a time axis. First the hips, then the shoulders, then the arms and then the club are accelerated. But even this graphic does not tell the whole story.
If you have been reading this series of articles, you know that are many more elements to create speed than these.
In fact, there are 15 elements in total, not just these 3. And those 15 elements are list the items on a restaurant menu.
You can pick and chose those that you prefer and that feel right for you.
For example, the weight shift is the preparation for creating a very long swing radius from the left heel all the way to the clubhead.
The Jorgensen drop, to start and acceleration of the left arm down, is done during the weight shift and isn't even shown on this graphic.
The uncocking of the wrists to let the clubhead lash out at the ball is also not on this graphic.
The left forearm rotation is not described in the graphic, nor Vardon's secret Frisbee move.
And several of the other factors I have described are not shown in this graphic.
Nonetheless, the graphic is useful to display the principle - one stage is fired, and then the next, and then the next. Each stage builds on the speed of the previous stage and adds more acceleration to the system. And that acceleration is then transferred to the club.
So, again - use the those elements, of the 15 I have described, that YOU feel comfortable with, in the SEQUENCE that YOU have tested and chosen as right for your body structure and physical condition to build SEVERAL accelerations of your Swinging System to culminate in a really high clubhead speed thru the ball.
So my recommendation is to TEST which of the 15 elements feel good for you, and then work on getting each element in the proper sequence for accelerating the clubhead.
There is NO one best sequence.
What works best for you depends on your body, coordination, physical condition and personal preferences.
So test the individual elements of this series and use them to create your ow
