One Minute Golf Tips

Pause At The top

Any time there is a 'direction change on a single plane (like a pendulum changing direction at its top of swing) the clubhead speed is ZERO. It is STOPPED at the top. Stopped is certainly a pause.

We think that the discipline sought here is not to PAUSE but to 'Recognize the Top of Swing' so that we actually get there and, make a 'Full Swing' as opposed to the often ineffective 'Abbreviated' version.

Teachers at the IRGO Golf Academy have often observed swing's being critiqued as 'too fast'... 'slow it down'. I do not agree with this generally as such guidance has the real tendency to cause clubhead deceleration which can be worse than what is already in use. Even swing balance can be compromised.

An abbreviated swing naturally appears to be 'too fast' but primarily because the 'DURATION' is short....the swing does not take very long. Why? Because it did not swing to a comfortable top. When we make 'half a trip' it usually takes half as long. Certainly it's FAST!

A directly beneficial 'DURATION' improvement is to simply say AND when you feel the comfortable top of your personal swing. Make sure you get to the top in all 'Full Swings'.

Remember our trigger word sequence SWEEP AND SEE IT to the PIN.