Golf Information

Most golfers think of the golf swing as one big arc, or pendulum. In fact the golf swing is made up of two pendulums, which without the help of the rotation of our body would swing in two different directions. The first pendulum is the arm pendulum. The arm pendulum has its center point on our left shoulder and is scribed by the left arm until just after you strike the ball, at which time the center point of that pendulum transfers to your right shoulder as the right arm straightens and extends out along the ball-target line while the left arm folds.

In the arm pendulum one arm is always extended. This allows for the maximum swing arc. Extended does not mean stiff. I prefer to think of the arm in a reaching position. The muscles remain active, and the elbow is not locked. The left arm is the extended arm in the backswing and remains extended in the downswing through contact. Just past contact there is a brief period where both arms are extended, and then the right arm takes over. There is a real reaching or extension movement as club head follows the target line for as long