The secret to quiet power is in the proper implementation of the kinetic chain sequence – the leverage is created when you have successfully performed your back pivot and begin the down swing phase.

One thing you’ve never seen me do on a swing, no matter how hard I go after it, is jump around or have my leading foot flying about through the impact phase.

There’s a very simple reason for that – the mechanically-correct way to generate power with the golf swing swing is by transferring one’s weight and balance to the leading foot and allowing the connect links of the kinetic chain to do the work.

You can’t really do that if your leading foot is not on the ground – actually, it’s impossible.

If you watch a swing in real time:

… it all happens so quickly that you really can’t see what’s going on with the mechanics.

Slow it down a bit:

… and you can see clearly the transfer into the leading foot in the transition at the top.

For smooth power generation and in order to not be turning to the target on the down swing, you need to swing the club at the ground, not at the target the way the online gurus and even many instruction pros talk about doing.

That’s a death move, and an immense power leak.

If I take a down swing and start it around halfway down, and then pause it at impact:

… you can see pretty clearly that there is no actual work being done post-impact, other than the continuing extension of the trailing arm until the club head is about a foot or 30 cm from the swing bottom.

The rest of the swing motion is merely momentum where the club and arms pull the body around to the finish, dragging the released trailing foot along.

You’ll notice that, at the halfway down point, my club head is still behind my head, yet it travels all of that distance in the arc to reach the swing bottom at the same time as my hands, because this is way the acceleration takes place when you swing properly.

You do the work before impact, not after it, so throwing a club “at the target” is not only ineffective, it’s nonsensical – the club has already struck the ball when you accelerate the club to release it at the target.

The proper way is to accelerate the club into the bottom, at which point your work is complete.

The rest is just hanging onto that club to the finish.