The Double Pull or the Essence of the Golf Swing

I finally got it all together.  In the process, I found out that some of the "truths" I have written before no longer are true while the other ones I have stitched together to embody the perfect golf swing.

Essentially, the perfect golf swing is indeed a pull motion but the pull is done by two body parts - one starting the swing and the other one accelerating it further.  What I mean is the upper body pulls the club towards the ball and the lower body then taking over and pulling it further to speed up the velocity.  It is a swing where the body feels the weight of the club being pulled towards the ball and at a given split second, transfers the pulling force to the lower body - until it goes around to the perfect finish at the top.  The swing is felt and the body reacts.

This reminds me of the billiard stroke.  In the process of learning it, one eventually forgets the cue and just executes the shot.  It is now possible to feel the golf shot and execute it without thinking.

So how should it be done?  Well right now, I have only practice the shot in my bedroom but it does not seem to be impossible to transfer to the real thing.  One thing I noticed is because I am trying to feel the club now, I felt that the upswing now has to be like a round-house kick motion where the weight of the club is thrown away like a launch of of satellite until it is felt to arrive at the top.  Then the pull action by the "mostly" upper body towards the ball starts - the weight of the club being felt all the time. Somewhere and sometime, the lower body and the hips turns around to launch the club head further along its way.  It is a two stage launch!

By the way, just to emphasize the technique - this is actually the implementation of the chip pulling spin action I have written about a couple of postings before.  But now that I have further made it a two pull action, that chip technique must now also be revised to ensure that the body now pulls the club - upper body first and the turning hips afterwards.  Of course, this is all done by feeling.

This new way must now find its way to all the shots - from putter to the driver.

IMPORTANT (April 9, 2015)

What was discovered here is the essence of the golf swing.  On chip and putts, the axis is the hands is while in a regular swing, the axis is the shoulder.  The pulling force is dependent on the individual.  The main point to remember is the golf swing is the fluid motion of bringing the club up pivoting along the axis with the body feeling the weight of the club.  When the desired moment is reached when the club has stopped its acceleration, the pull of the body is started and the club thrown towards the ball, letting the pulling force be as violent as desired towards the target and then the body closing up to the picture perfect finish.

We must remember that this is the whole objective in the Imperfect Golf Swing - to create this fluid motion of bringing the club up and feeling the weight of the club and pulling and throwing the club head along the ball towards the target and turning the body to the perfect finish at the top.  All the rest, the grip, the stance, etc. are dependent on the capability of the individual to execute this move.

This topic is copied in different postings to remind us of this fact.