Shoulders In The Golf Swing
There is one aspect of the swing that if golfers got it right would hit the ball much farther and straighter, and that’s the shoulders in the golf swing. The shoulders are the biggest moving part in the swing and generate a maximum amount of torque and clubhead speed.
Just picture your shoulders at address, then how far they go to get to the top, then again how far they go to not only come back down to impact, but the rotating all the way through to a full finish. I think you’ll agree to me that they move more than any other major body part in the golf swing.
Take a look at Tiger Woods BIG shoulder turn with minimal hip turn. His shoulders rotate more than 110 degrees while his hips don’t even get to 40 degrees. That’s a HUGE amount of core torque and power.
I know we’re all not Tiger woods, and the older we get the harder it is to maintain enough flexibility to make a full shoulder turn let alone minimizing hip turn. But we can do our very best with simple golf swing stretches and training drills to make it better.
In a future article, I’ll talk more about what exactly the shoulders do in the golf swing.
