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March Golf Tip: How do the golf pros make it look so easy?

Ever observed a professional golfer and wonder how they make it look so easy? It is because the professionals are able to swing with less tension producing a more fluid swing. Every person who has played golf has experienced tension in their golf swing. Tension can show up in a player’s grip, shoulders, legs…basically it can be present anywhere.  Try this drill during your next practice session to see how fluid your swing is.

Take your seven iron and make a few swings without much focus on anything in particular, just simply hitting balls.  While you are hitting balls hum to yourself as smooth as possible from the start of the swing to the finish.  If your humming becomes strained, increased, or changes in pitch this is evidence of tension in your swing.  By listening to the changes in your humming, you can gain awareness of where tension creeps into your golf swing.

This awareness of where your tension is will give you the focus necessary to extend the fluidity in your swing from start to finish.