There is one thing that essential to comprehend and to believe in, for one to achieve one’s utmost potential in swinging a golf club with both precision and power, and to swing “in the box,” with no lateral motion.

That thing, friends, is to comprehend and believe the golf swing effort is over at the swing bottom.

I used to say the “the swing is over at the bottom,” but that then conjures the image for many people that “the swing stops at the swing bottom,” as if swinging into a wall or impact bag.

And that is how you see the many contortions in the Modern Golf Swing world from swingers who indeed swing as it the swing stops at the bottom, when in fact it doesn’t.

The swing effort is over at the swing bottom and everything that happens after this point is merely the momentum of the swing taking the club, arms and body to the finish position.

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This above swing of Bryson DeChambeau’s, to my eye, has all of the elements of practicing swinging into an impact bag, which would be fine if that were the case and there actually was an impact bag around his leading foot:

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It would be fine to have a squared leading foot if swinging into an impact bag, because all of the motion stops there.

Without it, however, you see what Bryson has to do after impact to keep himself from incurring injury to the leading joints – the spinning on the heel and the imbalance of the follow-through pulling him way out over the leading foot.

It is such an un-athletic and amateurish way of swinging a club for a world-elite player so as to invite disbelief.  It looks like the follow-through and finish of a double-digit handicapper.

Now, because the swing itself doesn’t end at the swing bottom, you will of course still see motion and some muscular action, such as the straightening of the trailing arm and the continuing drive of the legs, so I would say that the real termination of swing effort is  where the trailing arm straightens:

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If some of you think that this particular position looks familiar:

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It’s because I’ve been talking about this particular meme or feel for over a decade.  Back then, I likened the motion of hitting a golf ball as feeling the same as throwing the club shaft into the ground a little bit ahead of the ball:

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Nothing that happens after impact has any effect on the ball, but since you want an acceleration into impact, you don’t want the swing effort to terminate until slightly after impact, hence the effort until the spot referenced.

Even with an iron or wedge, the concept holds true (9 iron):

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As with the driver, all swing effort I am putting into the down swing has terminated at this point:

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… and all remaining motion is simply balancing oneself whilst the momentum of the club and arms brings one to the finish.

When you swing down and not at the target, this will allow you to swing with lateral stability, or to swing “in the box,” with no lateral shifts or swaying/leaning.

In the upcoming video, I’ll explain this concept in greater detail and offer ways to practice the swing so that you aren’t trying to “push” the ball towards the target with your club, arms or body:

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… and also to avoid “pulling” the club toward the target with a rotary, spinning motion the way you see happening today:

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Instead, you’ll be able to attack the ball with all of the effort you wish to put into a swing, and yet still remain stable and centered in your “boxed” position:

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