Nature Valley's Tips From the Pro: Start Your Swing Right

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Chris King

A good start is vital to any golf swing, and Brad Redding, the director of instruction at the Grande Dunes Golf Academy, reveals the secret to backswing success in Nature Valley's Tips From the Pro.

 

Comments for Nature Valley's Tips From the Pro: Start Your Swing Right

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by John Barry:
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Clark Kent:
Mr Redding, In your film of the back swing you stated don't lift the golf club. At some point you will lift the club. Hearing your statement does not reveal how the golf club get to the top. I would mention that your start back on a striaght line and to a point the club you will begin to rotate the toe of the club to the sky above, then begin to gently lift the club while raising the arms to the intended postions you want. I just wanted to get your thoughts again as to where I may not be understanding you. I teach high school golf in Alabama. Roll Tide. PPGS teaches different also. Thanks, Clark Kent
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Clark Kent:
Mr Redding, In your film of the back swing you stated don't lift the golf club. At some point you will lift the club. Hearing your statement does not reveal how the golf club get to the top. I would mention that your start back on a striaght line and to a point the club you will begin to rotate the toe of the club to the sky above, then begin to gently lift the club while raising the arms to the intended postions you want. I just wanted to get your thoughts again as to where I may not be understanding you. I teach high school golf in Alabama. Roll Tide. PPGS teaches different also. Thanks, Clark Kent
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Brad Redding:
John, Thank you for your comments. There are four things that happen in a proper and on plane backswing. 1.The back, chest and shoulders turn. 2.The wrists cock. The arms swing while the left arm rotates. What makes the club go up is 3 things. You are turning your shoulders 90 degrees with your spine and since you are bent over from you hips the club will go up. Your wirsts are cocking the club up. Your right elbow folds. All of this makes the "lift" you are talking about. The problem is that most golfer take the club to low to the ground and under their swing plane which forces them to lift the club with their arms. This lift makes the back and shoulders not turn. An over the top move int the down swing in nessecary just to find the ball. On your point on "you start back on a straight line." I would disagree. At address the golf ball is on the ground and to the side of you, so the golf club would swing up and in. The golf swing is a arc and as such it cannot go straight line. I will mention that a person who swings the club to the inside to early in the back swing may feel like it is going straight back and even outside their target line. I will tell them that feeling they might have since it was going to much to the inside. I will tell them that is a feeling but their club is actually swing in and up the proper amount. I use video to illustrate the point and they can see it for themselves what they are actually doing. I hope this helps. I went to the University of Tennessee. GO BIG ORANGE!!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Brad Redding:
John, Thank you for your comments. There are four things that happen in a proper and on plane backswing. 1.The back, chest and shoulders turn. 2.The wrists cock. The arms swing while the left arm rotates. What makes the club go up is 3 things. You are turning your shoulders 90 degrees with your spine and since you are bent over from you hips the club will go up. Your wirsts are cocking the club up. Your right elbow folds. All of this makes the "lift" you are talking about. The problem is that most golfer take the club to low to the ground and under their swing plane which forces them to lift the club with their arms. This lift makes the back and shoulders not turn. An over the top move int the down swing in nessecary just to find the ball. On your point on "you start back on a straight line." I would disagree. At address the golf ball is on the ground and to the side of you, so the golf club would swing up and in. The golf swing is a arc and as such it cannot go straight line. I will mention that a person who swings the club to the inside to early in the back swing may feel like it is going straight back and even outside their target line. I will tell them that feeling they might have since it was going to much to the inside. I will tell them that is a feeling but their club is actually swing in and up the proper amount. I use video to illustrate the point and they can see it for themselves what they are actually doing. I hope this helps. I went to the University of Tennessee. GO BIG ORANGE!!

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