Golf Swing

Golf is an outdoor sport, which involves individuals with clubs in their hands, balls as their weapons and holes as their targets. The battle is won when one completes 18 holes in the game, in accordance with the games rules.

A single play is called as a Round. Golf is one of those few games, which is not confined by a specific playing area.

The rich man's game is a little complex to understand, learn and play; but if you're seriously up for it, then you're in for some big money. So, let's look at one of the most important aspects of golf-play, the Golf Swing.

A Golf Swing, in a broad sense, is the rotation of the player's body, while he's aiming at accelerating the club head and hitting the ball with it. The first swing of the game starts at the teeing box.

A teeing box is an area marked for initiation of the first shot of the game, called as the tee shot.


How to do it right

The golf swing works on the principles of Physics, and can be a good example for people studying angular motion.

By a right handed player, the golf swing would be done somewhat like this : A backswing towards the right, a downswing, while hitting the ball, towards the left, and the follow through.

Left handed golf players are very few. In fact, many left handed people prefer to play golf using their right hand. If you learn this basic, you've completed the first step in learning golf.