GOLF SWING BIO-mechanics EXPLAINED
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:14 am
Golf Swing BIO-mechanics Explained
This post is dedicated to all the people I’m ‘meeting’ for the first time, via the newly-joined GOLF BIOMECHANISTS facebook group.
BIO-MECHANICS involves two parts – the biological system (in this case the human golfer) and the study of that system in terms of mechanics.
The whole golf world talks of the 9 ball-flights, the 5 ball flight laws, the 14 preferences and the infinite principles (within which it’d probably be possible even to stand on one’s head and still make a ‘conforming’ golf swing!)
Then we talk of kinematics and kinetics of whole-system telegram number list movement – of the club (shaft plane or forces on it), of the body (swing-plane, centers of pressure and mass, sequential summation of forces, ground reaction forces and so on, ad nauseum).
However, amazingly, the whole world seems to believe that just by an understanding (and an ever more detailed study of) all of the above one can improve the ball-striking ability of golfers. Sorry, folks, not happening.
Think of all that you discuss as the EFFECT. Then think of the set-up and backswing as the CAUSE. Everything you do in the backswing, will have a downswing consequence.
OR think of the backswing as a collection of INDEPENDENT VARIABLES and the downswing as a (poor, helpless) bunch of DEPENDENT VARIABLES.
Truly, the only effect we need to know about is that the ball must be struck with maximum possible speed, on its inside right quadrant and below its equator. [ONLY if we want ideal impact - straight, far and high - of course!
This post is dedicated to all the people I’m ‘meeting’ for the first time, via the newly-joined GOLF BIOMECHANISTS facebook group.
BIO-MECHANICS involves two parts – the biological system (in this case the human golfer) and the study of that system in terms of mechanics.
The whole golf world talks of the 9 ball-flights, the 5 ball flight laws, the 14 preferences and the infinite principles (within which it’d probably be possible even to stand on one’s head and still make a ‘conforming’ golf swing!)
Then we talk of kinematics and kinetics of whole-system telegram number list movement – of the club (shaft plane or forces on it), of the body (swing-plane, centers of pressure and mass, sequential summation of forces, ground reaction forces and so on, ad nauseum).
However, amazingly, the whole world seems to believe that just by an understanding (and an ever more detailed study of) all of the above one can improve the ball-striking ability of golfers. Sorry, folks, not happening.
Think of all that you discuss as the EFFECT. Then think of the set-up and backswing as the CAUSE. Everything you do in the backswing, will have a downswing consequence.
OR think of the backswing as a collection of INDEPENDENT VARIABLES and the downswing as a (poor, helpless) bunch of DEPENDENT VARIABLES.
Truly, the only effect we need to know about is that the ball must be struck with maximum possible speed, on its inside right quadrant and below its equator. [ONLY if we want ideal impact - straight, far and high - of course!