How to Overcome Inertia in The Golf Swing

An important principle to understand to help your golf swing is overcoming the law of inertia.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Golf club
• basic knowledge of principle of inertia
• drills to help you on the right track

1. To overcome Inertia in the golf swing you need to know two basic laws:
   1. An object at rest will stay at rest until a force is imparted to set it in motion.
   2. An object in motion will continue in motion in the same direction at basically the same speed until a force is imparted to change it.

2. This relates to the golf swing because during a golfer's set up the club is at rest. Then the golfer imparts some force to his swing to set it in motion. The golf club will continue to swing back until another force is imparted to stop it and then start it in motion again in the other direction.

3. Our body wants to maintain a natural state of equilibrium or balance as directed by our inner ear. Our body senses this on our back swing and will naturally redistribute our weight to overcome this by stopping and redirecting the club in the reverse direction on the down swing.

4. To properly utilize this natural tendency and not fight it will help you in overcoming inertia in your golf swing and even use it to your advantage.

Tips & Warnings

• The most important keys to controlling inertia in your golf swing are good balanced set up, proper grip, transfer of weight from back swing to down swing, and proper release of club to a balanced finish.
• A good drill to overcome inertia in the golf swing is the step drill starting with your feet together and swinging the club back to the top while stepping toward the target with your front foot allowing you to transition the force of the club properly from back swing to the downswing.

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[DenaEBolton]

on 3/2/2009 Am trying to learn this stupid game! (My husband is a golfer.) Need all the tips I can get! Thanks! 5*