Building A Consistent Golf Game With Balance
A few years back, I got an email from one of my golf newsletter subscriptions talking about this fellow named Tracy Reed. The following day several others also sent me emails talking about the same person who had developed this phenomenal approach to the golf swing. Since I now had recommendations from several sources I decided to check it out more thoroughly. Boy am I glad that I did.
The introductory video that I watched had an interesting feature to it that I had never seen or heard about. Tracy gives a thorough explanation of the value of balance in the golf swing and what he says makes a tremendous amount of sense. Before I heard Tracy’s ideas my standard approach to the golf swing was a rushed address and a hasty swing which was rarely a deliberate setup with an in balance stance.
After viewing this small piece of information I went out to the course to give it a try. As someone who rarely broke 90, my swing was inconsistent, my setup routine was non-existent and my drives and fairway irons rarely went as far as they should have. The balance aspect was the root cause of most of my problems. In a word, I was “SWAYING.”
I would move over onto my right side in my back-swing, usually too far. Then struggle on the downswing to get back to center to hit the ball, much less have any sort of weight transfer to my left foot for a proper finish. On top of that my timing was poor and my wrist cock was expended before the club had even passed 9 oclock on the downswing.
Tracy’s simple counsel was to start with a balanced stance, that you settle into so that you truly feel balanced. Then tilt your upper body slightly toward your right or non target side. In other words instead of moving there in your back-swing you start out there. This puts you in a position to take an efficient back-swing without moving your weight outside of your back foot enabling you to focus on transferring your weight onto your front side.
There is no magic or hocus/pocus here, when you start your swing in balance and stay within the parameters of the balls of your feet the weight transfer occurs naturally. The consequence is that you are able to deliver maximum power to the ball. The results are immediate, your swing improves immensely. The timing takes place naturally and your body co-operates by spending it’s energy swinging through the golf ball instead of trying to regain your lost balance.
If you add to this a good setup routine in which you insure a correct grip, insure that correct muscles are engaged (every time you address the ball) and a short mental/visual check-list (where do you plan to land). You will have given your self a chance at curing the most common complaint that golfers have. Which is: Golf Consistency!
That is what I discovered. Those two simple video’s on Tracy’s site showed me how to setup in balance, how to swing in balance and finish with my weight transferred to my target side foot. The swing became repeatable because the steps to get into balance were repeated every time and this made the results predictable. I did not have to change my grip, or change my swing or add anything new. I simply learned how to setup in balance and stay there through-out the swing.
Tracy spent 20 years developing and refining his technique to come out with Golf Swing Control . The issue of staying in balance is the beginning of building a consistent golf game, once that is mastered the game becomes much more exciting as you can now focus on mastering the ability to draw or fade the ball at will. When you have learned to craft your shots you can then move on to learning how to control your golf focus to get even more consistency into your golf game.
You can opt in to see the two video’s that I mentioned at http://ultimategolfsystem.com I won’t make any outrageous claims as to decreased strokes for your game, for each golfer it will be different. I can tell you however, that having a predictable golf swing is priceless.
