Years ago, I learned an excellent analogy for swinging the golf club, and then I added my two cents to it.
I was working with Jim Estes, an instructor here in Maryland, and he compared swinging a golf club to an underhand throwing motion.
At one time or another, many of us will stand along a creek, pond or river, pick up a flat rock, and try to skip it across the water.
That is the same as the underhand throwing motion Jim compared the golf swing to.
I thought this was really good because it helps to simplify in our mind how to swing a golf club with a motion that is somewhat similar to what many of us learn as a child.
We often make the swing so complicated, and this is why many people struggle. Yes, it is a complex athletic movement, but so is throwing a baseball, overhand or underhand.
Since you will skip a stone with your strong throwing arm, I thought I would pair that up with throwing a frisbee with your weak arm.
When we do that, we wind up as we would in the golf swing, then start the throw by turning the hips first, and we simply unwind and release the frisbee toward the target with an extended arm.
The only major difference between doing that and the golf swing is that we are bent over when swinging a golf club.
The result was a video I put together years ago titled “The Golf Swing is like Skipping Stones and Throwing Frisbees.”
You can watch it below.
