The Golf Perfect Swing
What is a golf perfect swing? To be frank, its the golf swing that most of us don’t have.
Or at least don’t have with any consistency.
The golf perfect swing could be defined as that consistent swing that sends the golf ball the right
distance in the right direction - all the time!
The golf perfect swing operates efficiently whether you are using your driver or your putter,
whether the wind is howling or the sun beating down, whether the grass is long or short,
the greens fast or slow.
In short, the golf perfect swing is the swing you need to play your perfect round of golf.
In truth, it probably only exists in our imagination and dreams.
However, the quest for the perfect swing is something akin to the quest
for the holy grail. Anyone who has played more than a single round of golf will know
that the biomechanics of the golf swing have been dissected, bisected, deconstructed, reconstructed and analysed to death.
All of those activities have been undertaken, and continue to be undertaken, with a
single goal in mind - to define the fundamentals of a golf swing and then implement the perfect golf swing.
But perhaps we are seeking an impossible perfection when in fact most of us would
be ecstatic with a less than perfect swing that however delivered a marked
improvement on our present efforts. After all, don’t the pros - the Tigers, Ernies,Vijays and
Anikas of the pro tour,also go through phases of trying to improve their swings?
Their disadvantage of course is that, in terms of scores, they can’t really improve
that much, so perhaps consistency and longevity are their goals. Our advantage is that
most of us could probably lop 5 to 10 shots of our scores without being in danger of breaking par.
And that is where the attraction of the golf perfect swing lies. We KNOW that we could
do a lot better if only we could be more consistent and we know that, at the end
of the day, our inconsistencies are directly related to our swing.
So it is probably time to take another look at our definition of the golf perfect swing.
Instead of being a single entity, like the holy grail, perhaps, for us mere golfing mortals,
a golf perfect swing could be defined as the golf swing that allows us to make a marked
and consistent improvement in our game.