The reason the optimal golf swing is vertical and not rotary or lateral is because, as I’ve said before, you are using leverage and gravity to swing down into impact, and if your position remains laterally stable, you are golden with a modicum of practice.
I have taken a 5 iron swing and a Driver, to illustrate how purely you can strike the ball without jumping out of your shoes or breaking yourself in the gym.
This article from GolfDigestOnline is all over the place – I don’t know what stands out more to me having read it – that a professional tour would call a 286 yard hole a “par 4,” that people would freak out that, you know, a pro golfer would hit the green with an iron, or that they call it a “specially-made iron” but don’t give any loft information for the iron.
Originally published on the Smash Golf blog Sept 2, 2009
I was playing a round of golf yesterday working out more of the swing adjustment I made last week, and I was using irons off the tees on a few of the par 4’s instead of my driver.
I do this when I want to work on my irons because when I hit Driver on par 4’s, I am always left with a wedge to the green, and playing golf with Driver-wedge not only gets boring, you don’t get to use the irons in the bag.
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