Why A Shallow Golf Swing? (Read This)

Benefits Of Shallowing The CLub

You came here to find out why to shallow up your swing. Well, there are four excellent reasons to get this into your game.

• Improves swing body rotation
• Aids in maintaining good posture
• Stabilizes the clubface
• Increases the ‘whip’ effect of the swing

When you practice your swing, try leading ever so slightly with your hips before rotating your shoulders. The motion of using your hips as the primary rotation point allows your torso to ‘pull’ your upper body along with the rotation of the swing.

The improved rotation of the body due to a practiced swing will help your body rotation and provide a basis for good swing posture.

A proper body posture is essential to avoid injury with your body, like a rotator cuff injury, for example. To prevent these sorts of injuries, proper posture during the swing is essential.

The next benefit of the shallow swing (but not too shallow) is its effect on the clubface. When the shaft’s lie angle is incorrect, the club’s face will face either the left or right, rather than on the directed path.

A correctly performed swing will allow for a clean lie angle, directing the clubface to the appropriate direction and angle relative to the ground for a more significant period during the swing than a steeper golf swing.

Maintaining the lie angle for a longer duration of the swing allows for a better chance of striking the ball at the club-face’s correct angle. In this sense, the swing increases the clubface direction’s stability for a more significant portion of the swing.

Lastly, but by no means of least importance, is the whip effect. Comparing the speed of a rotational swing with that of a whip, it is evident that a whip has a much higher-end velocity than that of a rotational swing.

Shallowing up your swing helps transform the clubs’ path from a circular (rotational) to a more elliptical (whip-like) path.

However, the correct route may indeed be more circular than oval when the angle the arms take during the swing relative to the shaft shows that the end of the swing acts almost like a whip.

The whipping like motion in the latter half of a shallowed swing adds speed and power to the clubface while, as mentioned, increasing the time the face is in alignment with your target intended direction.

The combination of increased strength and a larger window of accuracy for the face to strike the ball means a noticeable improvement in your golf swing and thus game.