“According to the researches conducted at the golf laboratory, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the magnitude of upper body coiling during the back swing and the velocity of its uncoiling during the down swing have a direct impact on ball velocity (which in turn is related to driving distance)”

James M. Smoliga, a doctoral student in NMRL, presented two group studies in the American College of Sports mentioning, “Golfers generally do not have a lot of torsional flexibility and strength”.

Do you achieve the desired results by your golf swings? Are you not able to shave off even five handicaps? Do you get frustrated because of bad golf playing? Do you want to improve your strength, speed, legerity and endurance? Have you been trying every other golf training product that you stumble over net, but every time you found yourself stuck with just another gimmick? Doesn’t the very idea of adding 30 yards sounds like a real achievement? Imagine all the confidence and respect you will have after a long shot. Sounds excellent, isn’t it? The great formula for such success is to swing with the right body movements.

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Golf is a game of perseverance and method. If you have perseverance but no method, you may not really reap the fruits of your labor. Every Golf player may develop a unique style of his own, but the common characteristics of every successful Golf player remain the same.

Consistency in shots is of paramount importance. Thereafter, comes the ability to hit a shot which may cover longer distance to be able to reach near the hole in lesser number of shots. But the ability to hit long distance may prove counterproductive, if the precision is lost. The Golf balls may land at a disastrous spot requiring additional hits to evict the balls. Thus, what works in golf is a combination of power and the right skill.

The mechanism of swing that a player adopts is crucial for becoming a successful golf player. Swing involves complex motion of different parts of the body. The parts which get maximum projection when a swing is attempted are hands. But it is a fundamental misconception to think that swing is all about hands. No doubt the grip and the motion of hands are very important, but equally important are the posture and movement of other parts such as, shoulder and spine. There has to be a perfect coordination among the movement of all the body parts involved, to execute a praiseworthy swing.

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