My High Percentage Golf method focuses on the motion of the swing.  The golf swing is about using the arms and hands to swing the club away from the target and then swing the club in a continuous motion up to the finish.  An analogy for the golf swing is to watch a person swinging on a swing to see how to efficiently build and release energy using a swinging motion.  The following video shows people swinging on a swing.

As the person is swinging back, the upper body stretches up and the lower body stretches down, and the hands stretch.  When the person reaches the end of the swing back, the as the upper body continues to stretch back, the legs quickly swing down to swing the upper body to the finish.  The hands just hold on to the chain.  The motion of the upper body, the legs, and the hands allows the person to swing down and up to the finish.

Notice the patience at the end of the back swing to allow the motion of the upper body, the legs, and the hands build more energy that is released to swing the person to the high finish.  There is no thought of stopping the person at the bottom of the swing.  The focus is on allowing the person to swing to the finish.

Mapping the Golf Swing to a Person on a Swing

Since golf is not played by sitting on a swing, the way energy is built up and released using the swing analogy needs to be mapped to the golfer’s body.

• The hands
• The outside of the right front hip bone = the upper body
• The inside of the right front hip bone = the legs

How Swinging on a Swing Correlates to the Golf Swing Motion

The analogy will focus on what to feel in the golf swing and how it relates to swinging on a swing.  The feelings described in my golf blogs, “Feel an Efficient Swing,” “How to Use the Fingers,” and “How to Feel Rhythm” documents what to feel to create an efficient golf swing. ,

At the top of the swing, the outside of the right front hip bone (the upper body) continues to stretch up as the inside of the front right hip bone (the legs) “bounces” down to the right to trigger the swing of the club down and up to the finish.  The hands continue to just hold on.

Have patience to wait to feel the sequence of the outside of the right front hip bone, the inside of the right front hip bone, and the hands to cause the club to swing down and up to the finish.  This is counter-intuitive because it has nothing to do with hitting the golf ball, but everything to do with swinging the club.  The swinging on the swing video clearly shows that a sequential action is essential to creating an efficient swing motion.

Advocates of focusing on swinging the club to the finish:

• Dr. Kwon: “let the back swing mature and then let it go”Dr.
• Manuel de la Torre and Moe Norman: “swing the entire club to the end of the swing in one uninterrupted motion”
• Count Yogi: “continuously going upward”
• Others are Ernest Jones and Jim Flick