Will Using The Single Plane Swing Improve Your Golf Swing?

The golf swing is the most over analyzed athletic motion in all of sports.  Millions of dollars every year is spent developing new technologies in an attempt to improve your golf swing deficiencies.  For years, information on the single plane swing has been scarcely available to the general public’s  knowledge. If you’ve been playing golf long enough, you’ve realized that there is something missing in your own golf swing.  Some days it’s good, but most days it’s really bad. You go from one swing tip to the next, but nothing ever works for more than a couple of golf rounds.

With the single plane you don’t just use your arms and shoulders in regards to using the same swing plane. It’s a golf swing where the mind and body work  together on the same swing plane.  It’s the easiest golf swing to memorize. It not only will fix any bad swing faults you might have, but you’ll find that you have more accuracy and control over any golf shot you ever wanted to master.  It’s also a proven fact that using this swing by older golfers, there is a lot less pulled muscles and strains.  Senior golfers can now enjoy playing a lot longer into their twilight years.

It’s not a secret that with age comes a decline in physical capabilities especially in your golf flexibility. The biggest and most noticeable changes is in the backswing.  This can rob you of massive yards off the tee, and the golf swing flaws will occur due to lack of flexibility in your hips. The end results caused by bad swing flaws is hooking or slicing of the golf ball.  For most golfers this will happen to all of us during a golf round where we have no idea what happened or where the bad swing flaw started?   Swinging from over the top is a downswing movement with the upper body getting way  ahead of the lower body.  During my last two golf rounds this smothering of tee shots has happened too  me as well, because physically I’ve not been working on my conditioning and strengthening workout programs.

How many times have you been the shortest hitter off the tee?  What is the main cause for an ever shortening backswing? The golf swing is a rotational movement, it is critical to be able to turn your shoulders at least 90 degrees, while your hips only turn 45 degrees. This is impossible if you have physical limitations in your torso and upper body.  Main golf swing flaws will occur due to lack of flexibility in your hips.  At the top of your backswing, you’ll have very little turn in your hips and shoulders. This poor position will cause your right leg to become inhibited, and not produce the power to drive through your downswing. It is so lacking in dynamics that the beginning of your downswing looks almost like your takeaway. Hip swaying hinders your hip rotation. Swaying of the hips causes a chain reaction of improper balance that effects your total golf swing.  So as you can imagine, you can’t do anything but lift your arms and shoulders. This causes a very steep backswing plane and eventually a very steep downswing plane. If your shoulders could only turn back a couple of inches,  then your problem with lack of distance off the tee could be improved.

Swinging over the top in your golf swing can cause a whole host of swing faults. If you are hitting a bad slice or some smothering pulls, the problem may well be that you are lunging at the ball and not keeping your head behind the ball. However, it’s likely you are making some other mistakes, probably with your grip and alignment. Keeping your head behind the ball at impact, especially with your driver, will take the really poor swings out of  your game. However, many swing faults cannot be fixed until you address this fatal downswing movement  in your golf swing. When it comes to later holes, and the physical tiredness feeling creeps into your golfing mindset, you’ll  begin to press for that extra distance. Your timing goes first, off-track from your regular tempo. It is sometimes impossible for golfers to fix this on their own.  Are these faults caused by changes in your golf swing or from a physical feel standpoint?

A pulled hook will go left instead of going right like the pull slice. It starts left and goes even more left with a hook ball flight. This is caused by a closed clubface at impact. The compensation will be to hold on at impact, not releasing the club causing a block right or slice. A pull goes left on a straight line, and keeps going on that line the entire way. This ball flight is hit with a square clubface, but again with the over the top golf swing. Making sure your alignment is parallel to your target line may fix this immediately. At least with this ball flight, you know where the ball will land.

The correct movement should be the initial movement in the downswing. In coordination with the shoulders your weight shifting should be happening in the  lower body.  One of the main causes of this swing fault is lack of strength in your core area. If your core is not strong enough, you will not be able to keep your upper body inactive at the start of the golf swing. That is why for many golfers, it is much easier physically to just have the upper body doing most of the work for you. This results in more hand and arm swinging in conjunction with your shoulders doing most of the rotational movement. With just a couple of simple exercises for your core, you can dramatically improve this situation. With this new found core strength, you’ll be able to initiate the downswing with your lower body, while keeping your upper body and shoulders from prematurely coming over the top.

In order to improve your golf swing, you need to attempt to match the arms and shoulder planes throughout the swing, rather than trying to match them up during just the downswing. A golf swing that relies far less on timing and synchronizing, and employs a more natural rotary swinging motion. This single plane swing has been followed very closely by Ben Hogan in his book, “The Five Fundamentals of Golf.” There are many great examples of single plane golfers today on the P.G.A. Tour. Tiger Woods spent most of 2004 converting to a single plane swing with the help of Hank Haney.

The Natural Golf Swing System simplifies the basic golf swing and provides golfers with a chance to score better. It’s based on the golf swing fundamentals of Canadian Hall of Fame golfer Moe Norman. He’s widely regarded as the game’s best ball striker. With our population aging and seniors moving to warmer climates, golf continues to be the sport of choice.  It can be a relaxing exercise for those who have passed the point for more extreme recreational activities.

The Natural Golf swing eliminates much of the head and body rotation of conventional swings and creates a simpler, easier to learn,  more natural motion.  They have found out through many research tests of the system that older golfers including super seniors, that the Natural Golf swing tends to eliminate shear force on the muscles and vertebrae in the lower back.   In a conventional swing there is a much more tork to the turn on the down swing through the lower half of the body through impact. For seniors, Natural Golf’s upright stance and single-axis plane swing is much easier on the lower back. The non-tapering grip on Natural Golf clubs is much easier on golfers with arthritis since they grip with their palms, rather than their fingers.

Natural Golf has been selected as one of the Top 25 Golf Schools by Golf Magazine  for the last three years, and is the fastest growing golf instructional program in the nation.  Through its golf schools and clinics, informational tapes and equipment, Natural Golf has converted over 300,000 avid golfers and beginners.

Natural Golf allows seniors to play more with less discomfort and fewer aspirins. Although it won’t cure what may be ailing the older golfer. Many golfers who have been forced to give up the game will find that the Natural Golf system does give them a second chance to enjoy the game they truly love.

With 54 Tournament wins,  over 40 course records and three tournament 59′s,  Moe offers his thoughts on golf and life.  Get an understanding of one of golf’s shyest and most reclusive geniuses.  In this video he talks about the Natural Golf Technique, what it takes to win in golf.  His insights into the mental game approach that made him the celebrity he has become today.

Get inside the mind of the man who developed his Natural Golf game to the point of perfection in this newly edited videotape.  Moe Norman Golf Legend:  Golf Clinic.  A clinic on the basics of the Natural Golf technique by the world’s first Natural Golfer and golf’s best ball striker, Moe Norman.  His golf clinic is as unique as the genius of the man.  Moe shares over 60 years of golf wisdom with admirers and fans from all over the world as he demonstrates the techniques that led him to be proclaimed the world’s greatest ball striker.

Natural Golf Certified Instructors give you a step-by-step analysis of Moe’s swing.  Moe explains his grip, stance and swing,  which delivers the most accurate results of any golfer. Even when he is hitting with a driver from a divot!

Improve your golf swing with hints and tips from the world’s first Natural Golfer and golf’s best ball striker.  Learn the critical short game secrets from the best ever!  The short game is perhaps the most critical aspect of the golf game, yet the least practiced. The video features segments on play from 100 yards and 50 yards, sand play, around the green and putting. Hosted by touring professional and Natural Golfer, Todd Graves, this is a great video to add to your Moe Norman collection. Learn The Single Plane Mechanics With Moe Norman by clicking the following link to add to your own  golf  library collection. Moe Norman Golf Legend (Collector’s Edition)

If you would like to know more about how to shorten your golf swing, but increase accuracy and distance. Bobby Eldridge’s DVD for Seniors is a great place to start. He will show you how to reduce the pressure in your golf swing to make the game more enjoyable. For Senior Golfers Only!

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