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 circular and 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 lower body quickly snaps down to swing to the finish.  The hands just hold on to the chain.  The motion of the upper body, the lower body, 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 lower body, 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 point on the inside of the tips of the little fingers = the hands
• The bottom of the right rib cage = the upper body
• The front right hip bone = the body

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 the Fingers,” and “How to Feel Rhythm” documents what to feel to create an efficient golf swing. ,

The bottom of the right rib cage (the upper body), the front right hip bone (the lower body), and the inside of the tips of the little fingers (the hands), stretch up during the back swing.  At the top of the swing, the bottom of the right rib cage (the upper body) continues to stretch up as the front right hip bone (the lower body) quickly “bounces” down to swing the club down and up to the finish.  The inside of the tips of the little fingers (the hands) continue to stretch up to just hold on.

Have patience to wait to feel the sequence of the bottom of the right rib cage, the front right 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