Swing Talk

In this case, when I say “parallel”, I’m talking about the relationship between the club shaft and the ground at the top of the back swing.  Most of us have been taught, or read, or heard that the “textbook” position in a traditional golf swing is for the club shaft to be parallel to the ground at the top.

Unfortunately, many golfers lack the flexibility to achieve this position.

Now, the obvious answer to that is to work on increasing flexibility until [...]

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Of course, I’m referring to the widely accepted fundamentals of the golf swing:  Grip, Alignment, Stance, and Posture, or GASP for short.

Most of us have probably heard that these are the fundamentals of the golf swing.  We’ve been taught that without a proper grip, alignment, stance, and posture, we can’t hope to be decent golfers.  The question is: what is proper?

Recently, I watched the Stack and Tilt instructional DVDs created by Mike Plummer and Andy Bennett.  In one of the [...]

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