In a typical backswing, the club head travels further between the start of the swing to the top of the backswing than the arms, shoulders, and hips do. The problem when you use a one fluid motion swing is that when you begin the backswing, your body turns too early and has to wait for your arms and club to catch up. When this happens, the body gets out of line and you will lose power from your swing unless you make adjustments to your downswing. However, there are some steps you can take to keep your power without having to adjust your swing.

The first thing to remember is that in your backswing, your club head should be the first thing to move. Ensuring that your club head moves before anything else is critical to countering the timing problems with the one fluid motion swing. If you are right handed, start with a subtle clockwise rotation of your left forearm to start the club head moving away from the ball. Keep your hands from moving, but allow your right wrist to bend. For left handed golfers the hands are switched. This rotation will cause the club head to begin moving before the rest of your body. As a result, your arms and body will reach the top of your swing at the same time as your club and you can continue your downswing without having to make any last minute adjustments.

Just remember, the club and arms begin moving before the rest of the body. Let your shoulder movement come from the momentum of the club.

To practice the one fluid motion swing, draw an imaginary (or real) line in front of your toes from one foot to the other. Begin your swing and pause with the club just below waist level. Take a look at where the club is in relation to your line. If the club ends up well behind the line, then you are not moving the club head first and your body is turning too early. You may need to practice rotating your forearm to get the club head moving first. However, if your club and hands are parallel to the line on the ground then your club head is moving first and your body, arms, shoulders and club should reach the top of your back swing at the same time. Just remember that the club should be parallel to the line, not behind it or in front of it.

By practicing these steps you’ll be able move your club, arms, and body in sync, and have a powerful, one single motion golf swing.

To get into a good basic golf stance, start by putting your front foot just ahead of the ball and place your front and back feet shoulder width, or slightly more than shoulder width apart. Again, remember to keep your weight evenly distributed.

Once you have your feet set, soften or slightly bend your knees and bend at the hip, keeping your back straight. The angle of your back to the ground should be approximately 45 degrees so that your arms can hang straight down from your shoulders, and your kneecaps should be directly above the balls of your feet. Keep in mind that good posture counts. Be sure to keep your back straight, but stay relaxed so you don’t tense up. You may even want to think of the bend in your hips as pushing your back pockets higher. In this position your weight should be on the balls of your feet rather than your heels or toes and equally balanced between your left and right sides. Staying balanced should help you to remain comfortable and less tense, which is a key part of any good golf stance and swing.

Now that you know how to position your body, you need to properly line up your stance. To do this, think of a line being drawn across the front of your feet. If you were extend this line it should point directly to your target (so your feet are lined up with your target). You may want to check this by placing your club against your toes and then stepping back to see if the club is pointing toward your target. The line from your toes to the target is called the “target line” and when you get in your stance you should make sure that your knees, hips, and shoulders are parallel to this line. However you’ll need to make one slight adjustment to your shoulder position. If you are right handed, when you assume a proper golf stance and grip your club, your left arm will form a straight line between your shoulder and the ball. For this to happen, your right shoulder will need to be slightly lower to the ground than your left shoulder, but both shoulders should still be parallel to the target line. For left handed golfers, the right shoulder will be slightly lower.

Now that you know the proper golf stance, you’re ready to grip the club and take a swing. Remember to stay loose and relaxed. Once you get into your stance you may want to release some tension by shifting your weight from one foot to the other and then balancing out your weight distribution before taking your shot.

To begin gripping a club, start with the club directly in front of you with the club head pointing away from you at a 45 degree angle. Then grip your club with your nondominant hand (for most people this will be the hand they do not write with). The club will mainly be in the palm of your hand, across the pads at the base of your fingers. However, it will also lie across the first section of your index finger. Position your thumb so that it is straight on top of the shaft of the club; relative to the golf club, your thumb will be in the twelve o’clock position. Now, with your dominant hand (the one you write with; for most people this will be their right hand), grip the golf club just below your other hand (your dominant hand should be closer to the head of the club). But for this hand, instead of placing the club in your palm, hold it in your fingers. When you have the club properly placed in your hands the thumb of your dominate hand will be positioned slightly off to the left of the center of the club (at the eleven o’clock position). At this point, if you have gripped the golf club correctly, only the first two knuckles on your nondominant (or for most people left) hand will be visible. In addition, the index finger of your dominant hand will look and feel like a gun trigger finger. Also, be sure that the thumb of your nondominant hand is under your dominant hand.

Now that you know the basics of the golf grip its time to learn a little more about the three most common variations and how to use them:

• The overlapping grip is the most common golf grip. It is mostly used by male golfers and those with strong wrists and forearms. In this grip, the little finger of the dominant hand (the one lower on the club) lies on top of or overlaps the index finger of the other hand.

• The baseball grip is most commonly used by younger golfers, females, seniors, and those with weaker wrists and arms. In this grip, the little finger of the dominant hand touches the index finger of the nondominant hand, but does not overlap or interlock.

• The interlocking grip is often used by golfers who have shorter hands and fingers, those with thicker or chunkier palms, and golfers who have difficulty with the other grips. For this grip, the little finger of the dominant hand overlaps and interlocks with the index finger of the other hand.

You may want to try all three grips to see which is most comfortable and works best for you. However, regardless of which grip you use, you should lightly grasp the club (rather than tightly clutching it). If the pressure of your grip is right, the club could almost, but not quite be pulled out of your hands. You should feel as if you are holding the club mostly in the palm of you dominant hand and the last three fingers of your other hand. Make sure that both hands hold the club with equal pressure.

While a correct golf grip doesn’t guarantee a successful swing, an incorrect one will almost always result in a failed one.

Those two features are designed to get the ball air born quickly. Most beginner golfers try to scoop the ball into the air which results in poor contact.

To hit a great chip shot, position the ball in the middle. Tilt your body forward and lean to the left. This takes out the need to lean the club forward with your hands. Make sure the leading edge is not below the bounce. Relax you grip and let you body rotation propel it through thus giving you a solid contact. Bend your right wrist slightly as you start your backswing. On the downswing the handle should come back to the ball first as your body turns forward. After the club head hits the ball the handle should be closer to the target than the club head. Having a stable right wrist is the key to good chipping. It should be bent backwards slightly. Do not flick your wrist at impact. Having a stable right wrist gives solid compression at impact and gets the ball up.

Chipping should not be confused with pitching. When you chip a ball, you are going to be just off the green and you want the ball to easily roll across the green and toward your target. A pitch shot is a lofted shot that flies more than it rolls. A pitch is usually used when you are a little further off the green but you still are close enough that you won’t want to take a full golf swing.
A pitch shot is usually from 30-70 yards away from the green. You can also use a pitch shot if you need to hit above trees, hazards, or sand traps.
Use a lofted wedge club like a sand wedge, a pitching wedge, or a lob wedge. These clubs have faces that allow you to get underneath the ball and put it in the air.

You will want an open stance with your feet closer together. The ball should be positioned in the center of the stance. Your body turn will be determined by the size of the swing. Focus about 70 percent of your weight on your lead foot.
You will have to modify your backswing according to the distance you have to go to the hole. It can be waist high, shoulder high, or a full swing. Just don’t put too much power into it or you will overshoot the green. Let your legs and body turn slightly through the shot.

As with any shot, your aim should be to present the clubface perfectly square to the target. But this is even more important with the pitch, as any minor deviations will be magnified by such an intense shot. Aim for a ball then turf contact. If you are regularly thinning the ball when attempting this shot, you are probably not accelerating into it.
Once on the green, you’ll want to putt effectively. There’s nothing more frustrating than taking more putts than what you need to.

To fix a slice you need to hit up at the ball not down, therefore you should tee the ball higher. At address half the ball should be above the top of the club head.

Hookers tend to swing too far from the inside and get the club trapped behind them, and from there they have to use their hands to release the club, which produces the hook. Hookers should tee the ball lower so that the club will be in front of your body on the downswing. In short slicers should tee up higher and hookers should tee lower.

As in the slice, the hook is often a product of an improper grip. Start by looking at your current grip. Remembering the basics of the golf grip, you should only see 2 knuckles of your left hand. If you see 3 knuckles, then you have a “strong grip” and this maybe the cause of your golf hook.

You can fix your hook by trying to change your grip to a “weak grip”. Turn your hands slightly counter-clockwise on your grip, (opposite for lefties), thus weakening the grip. Grip pressure is also a key element in the release process. If the pressure is too loose at impact then the tendency will for the club to release too early causing the ball to hook.

Remember the basics and only hold the club tight enough to keep control. You should not have any tension on your wrist and forearms. Practice the grip and check your results. Changing your grip should be slight, over compensating can cause other problems with your swing or begin to cause you to slice.
Most golf hooks are from a “strong grip”, but in order for you to correct your hook properly; you must have the know-how and learn the basics of the golf swin

1. The forearms will naturally rotate clockwise slightly until the golf club head points to the sky. Opening the club face more won’t seem right to you if you tend to slice, but don’t resist this very natural movement.

2. As your arms travel up and back and the golf club shaft approaches parallel to the ground, you will gradually begin cocking your wrists. Then by the time that your left arm is parallel to the ground, your wrists should be completely cocked at a 90 degree angle.
Cocking your wrists is a very important part of creating club head speed. This is often a big swing problem. You can get so concerned about “taking the club straight back” at the beginning of your back swing that you don’t completely cock your wrists. Fixing this problem can straighten out several golf swing problems.
The next part of the golf swing is the shoulder and upper body turn. The left arm has swung across the body near the right armpit. The natural continuation of this motion is to begin the turning of the shoulders. The shoulders will turn from parallel to the target line to approximately perpendicular to the target line depending on your own flexibility. As this happens, the hips and then legs will also become involved in the turn.
Wouldn’t you like to feel more body torque build up in your golf back swing? Of course! A friend gave me this golf swing tip just the other day. Maybe you’ll find it to be as helpful as I did. Instead of trying to create body torque by turning your shoulders, think of turning your lower chest (Let’s say about six inches above your bellybutton) away from the target. Of course when you do it this way your shoulders will still turn but you should feel much more torque building through your body.
Don’t let the knee of your back leg turn or fly out or to the back as the back swing progresses. You’ll lose part of your body torque. At the height of the back swing, you’ll feel like your back is over top of your back leg. At this point your weight has shifted back over your back leg.
It is truly a myth that the head stays over the ball as at address and the body turns on an axis formed by a line traveling through the head and the backbone. In reality, the body turns on an axis formed by a line traveling through the head and the back leg. Keep in mind that the head is moving slightly backwards. The head should stay fairly level and not bob up and down. Where are the arms and club at the end of the back swing? Should the golf club be parallel to the ground? Honestly, you shouldn’t really don’t give that much thought. As long as you don’t bend the left arm more than slightly, these positions will be determined by how far you can turn your upper body.
If you keep your back knee in, the back foot will feel your body weight on the inside as the shoulders turn. Towards the end of the golf back swing, some golfers make the mistake of letting the heel of their front foot leave the ground. If the back swing coils the spring, the feet must stay anchored to the ground to give the body something to coil against. Better to let the front foot roll or sort of lay down on the inside of the foot without dragging.
If you start with a correct golf stance, grip, and back swing, the best advice for your down swing for the most part is to just let it happen! The down swing and follow through should be the very natural result of everything that precedes it. You may want to use the “No Arms Drill” in the next section to memorize the feel of the golf swing which leads to a more comfortable, automatic golf swing. If you’re at the correct position at the top of your back swing, your body will start to unwind releasing the golf club which will strike the golf ball and lead to a balanced follow through.
Think of the follow-through as your victory salute to a successful golf swing! Your front leg will be fairly straight and your hips will be forward forming a straight line with your front leg.
Your head may feel like its back a bit and your back leg will be forward of the back foot which has rolled to the inside, front of the foot. Most all of your weight will be on your front foot, completing your weight shift from the back side to the front side. This is like a barometer of your entire swing. When your golf swing is balanced and smooth, you end with that nice reverse C position at the end. On the other hand, you could end your golf swing off balance and catching yourself from falling down. Then it’s time to go back to the beginning of your golf swing and find where you lost that balance.
You should have only one swing thought during your golf down swing. That’s because you really don’t have time for two. Consequently, your only thought should be to turn your belt buckle (or bellybutton) towards the target as fast as you possibly can. This movement should begin about a third or half way through the golf down swing. It will end, of course, when you are pointed towards the target at which point you will have already hit the golf ball and you’re into the follow through. And you should also be seeing the golf ball traveling straight down the fairway!