The Impact Zone of Your Golf Swing

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Kensey Snyder on behalf of Expert Village. We’re going to talk about the impact zone. We’ve taken our club up to the top and now we’re going to come down into the impact zone. From here you can see the hands are in front of my chest and my job really is to turn, I turn my body and along with my hands and arms we transport the club into the impact zone somewhere in this fashion. So as I move from here to here, you can see my hands are going to appear as if they’ve crossed over, most of the weight is shifted onto my front leg which for right handed golfers is the left and from there I can start the move up into the top of the backswing. But it’s very important when you come down as you’re shifting your weight is to turn, it’s like a body blow, it’s like a punch, you do not stand there and not move your body, you have to turn through the shot. Most professional golfers are anywhere from 30 to 60 degrees open with their lower body when they hit it. the amateurs I deal with are 0 to 10 percent, so it looks like this when you’re hitting it. you can see there’s no power in that, it’s all a flick of the wrist. You want to hold the club back and you can see how far back it is compared to my hands and from here, turn as hard as I can with the lower body and the upper body past the impact zone. "