by Louis Liem

Created on: April 15, 2011

Every professional golfer knows that it is important to improve your golf backswing. Why? This type of swing, which involves the backward portion of the swing from the ground to behind the head, has been a major factor towards scoring birdies, eagles, or even in rare moments, hole-in-ones. Popular professional golfers like Tiger Woods, Martin Kaymer, Phil Mickelson, and legends like Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus have been mastering their backswing throughout their professional careers because this move is the difference between success and slump in golf games.

Before you improve your golf backswing, learn the basic moves first. According to Maxine Van Evera Lupo’s book “How to Master a Great Golf Swing,” a backswing composes of basic moves: the forward press, pushing the clubhead towards the toe position, the wrist break, and the backswing finish. The forward press is defined as a slight front motion of the hands and knees made to perform positions. This basic backswing move is beneficial for the following reasons: straightening your left wrist, defends positions being made, and provides the golfer a speedy beginning on the backswing through keeping the legs mobile, and aid in making the right weight shift and proper footwork. Pushing the clubhead to the toe-up position determines whether positions will enable coordination different to the golf swing and whether positions will acquire the needed time to coordinate by how fast the swing is started. This move has various advantages: positioning the hands and clubhead on the correct swing path with a top swing arc, maintaining the clubface square, initiates a coil-recoil movement of the upper and lower body, enables natural band and wrist action, avoids a “flying” right elbow, and generates proper timing by avoiding a speedy backswing. The wrist break is a natural, linking motion between the body and the hands.

Mastering this move will bring benefits including maintaining the left wrist straight and the clubhead on the correct swing plane, enables proper hand action, creating clubhead speed through connecting the wrist break with the shoulder turn, and manages the initialization or halt of swing action. The backswing finish varies on the precision of the first three basic moves, although it simply composes of pushing the clubhead on by the toe-up position with a stable left arm. The benefits of finishing a backswing include: finishing a weight shift and shoulder turn,

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