Golf Swing Basics

Though Musselburgh, Scotland is home to The Old Links, oldest golf course in the world, golf is rumored to have begun in the Netherlands in 1297. After seven hundred years it still follows the same basic premise: hit a ball into a hole using a stick; the person who hits it in the hole with least number of tries wins the golf game.

Today a golfer may have any number of sticks, called clubs, made up of wood, graphite, or titanium. And each club has a specific use depending on the type. Yet golf is a game more of finesse than brute force; it’s not as straightforward as it sounds. For example, it is important to hit the ball far, but if you end up in the trees, you can’t win. Straight and steady is key in this sport of subtlety. Regardless of the quality of golf clubs you may purchase or the strength you put behind them, in order to truly master the game of golf, you must learn how to swing consistently well.

In this free golfing tips video series, learn how to do just that. Our PGA golf expert will show step-by-step how to improve your golf swing by focusing on key areas of golfing technique. Lessons include proper grip and posture, the backswing, the downswing, tempo, and golf club angle. Practice these golf tips and lower your handicap this weekend.

"Expertvillage.com, Bryan Pemberton from the Reserve at Spanos Park and today we are going to talk a little bit about the golf swing. What we will do is cover the grip, your posture, your alignment, the actual golf swing and motion of the golf swing things and some of the things you can actually do to improve your game as far as your drills and some of your flexibility things. A couple of things that make up a golf swing again we will talk about the grip, the posture, your alignment. What we are going to look at is making sure to get this golf club somewhere pointed at the target at the top of your swing. Again you are going to see all kinds of swings that really your basic, basic golf swing is being able to get the club from here to there in an amount of time that actually we are talking about the golf swing and really the golf swing is really the ability to get the club from this point to that point and you are going to add a lot of things to that. We are going to add a full turn, weight shift, get the club up to the top of the big shoulder turn and then we are going to unload and get the club looking this. One of the basic things in golf is if you really want to feel this motion to that motion and that really is the basis of the golf swing."