![]() ![]() ![]() I started learning golf back in 1972 when Jack Nicklaus was still dominant. Here’s a teacher showing how to keep hips closed while extending the right arm. I can see how sliding will fix a fat shot or help with slicing the ball. By getting the secondary axis tilt, this will cause a drop of the shoulders, tilt the spine away from target and then the club has to come from the inside. The right arm extension or “throwaway” this will enable the slicer flatten his/her plane thus enabling a more in to out path but it does so at the expense of holding lag. So they recommend sliding laterally which will cause a secondary axis tilt. Second, they believe that the worst shot golfers suffer from is a slice with the villain being rotation as the main cause of swinging over the top which then makes the downswing steep and the path to be directed too far left or out to in.If the body is shifted laterally or toward the target enough that will move the left shoulder in front of the ball and that would eliminate the chances of hitting a fat shot. First they believe that the bottom of the swing arc or low point control is dependent upon the positioning of the body (left shoulder joint in particular) at impact.The promoters of lateral movement have a couple of very good reasons for wanting a slide in the downswing. So why is that? Is it that teachers clearly do not see with their eyes despite thousands of YouTube videos of great PGA tour golfers and golfing legends that are posted for free? Or do these teachers buy into a method and spread the scientology to everyone that they come in contact with? Let’s take a look at this debate with open eyes and see why everyone promotes what they do. But while the instruction points toward sliding, the best golf swings we see today and in yesteryear are or were not doing it this way. Golf is clearly entering this debate with virtually all instruction (and even training) pointing toward the linear or lateral or sliding movement methodology. Linear (Lateral) vs Rotational Golf Swingīaseball has had a long running debate over whether a linear or rotational hitting style is better. ![]()
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