Persuasive Essay About How To Play Golf

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THE FIRST SWING
Golf has been a sport for many years, but is it recommended to younger students like football or volleyball is in high school? How many teenagers actually know how to golf? Golf is sport that is highly underestimated, because it has the repetition of being an activity that older people or rich people play. I want readers to know how to actually play golf and how much fun it is like I did and that starts by learning the proper grip, and staying with it. Do not change because it doesn’t “feel good,” or that you have a friend that is pretty good, and does it differently, etc. Use the proper grip until it does “feel good.”
Learn the proper swing. This should happen before you ever try to hit a golf ball, but it almost never does. …show more content…

Speed, not muscle, produces ball distance. You do not want a “hard” swing, you want a fast at impact swing. Generated acceleration with multipliers is what we want. Building a torsion spring from our body is what we are trying to accomplish, along with weight shifting. Torsion springs differ from tension and compression springs by building resistance with clockwise against counter clockwise circular motion. Weight shifting is primarily accomplished by pivoting the hips around the right leg, and the shoulders, arms, and club around the forward leaning spine. Not by consciously shifting from foot to foot. We don’t want much lower lateral movement, we want torsional circular movement. Envision wearing white slacks inside a fifty five gallon barrel and rotating without touching the greasy side walls. The left and right shoulders along with two straight arms and wrists forming a triangle, start the back swing along the seven o’clock to one o’clock plane. At the same time the left arm approaches parallel to the ground, the club shaft should be cocking back and up ninety degrees by the wrists while the left arm rotates and continues back and up. The hips and left leg will begin to rotate and bend with the resistance from the left straight arm and naturally folding right arm. It should be noted, that the arms do not swing around the torso or the spine. Envision the arms attached to a round disc and the disc attached to the center of the chest and free to rotate. As the resistance in your body builds and the back swing has not totally stopped or completed, slowly start rotating the hips and left knee back toward the left. Do not make a conscious effort to accelerate the club and hands in the down swing, or to un-cock and rotate the wrists near the bottom of the swing. Let your sub-conscious do

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