3 Golf Swing Styles – Coverage to Navigate the Golf Jungle

There are many different way to swing a golf club but I’ve pretty much narrowed it down to 3 golf swing styles in golf to simplify our understanding of this.

The Old School Swing

It actually comes in two variations but I keep it as one here in this article.

Long story short, it’s about unleashing and stimulating centrifugal force in the downswing to make the club pull you forward in the motion. Through doing this with abstract old school intentions you can bypass loads of loads of difficult mechanics. It’s about using the influencers of centrifugal force to your advantage, e.g. club rotation.

Nicklas was taught Power first and Accuracy second and there’s so much goodness in that teaching style.

Unleash the beast first = get centrifugal force going.

If left unmonitored you will start hooking the ball quite massively = second step comes in.

You guide the beast = you provide follow through intentions that caters to blade control and the hands continued momentum all the way to the finish position.

Advantage? In my opinion very easy to achieve (easy on the brain) and with the right follow through intentions you create a kinder motion to the body. It’s my favorite style because of old school bias and what I teach in the FMM Project.

The Modern Push Based Swing

This is to my understanding derived from the Golfing Machine’s hitting protocol and heavily inspired by the work of Mr O’Grady. Especially in the 90s his teachings would influence more blade control and slight manipulation of the swing arc to induce as much blade control as possible.

A very cool swing style that have influenced a vast majority of modern teaching.

It works roughly like this. Put your blade slightly shut in the backswing (to match the spine), deliberately hold onto lag through the flying wedge (trail hand wrist hinge) and then intentfully rotate your body through the shot.

Awesomeness? Yes

Challenge? You need to be able to think mechanically and withstand the sidebends that comes from the enforced shaft lean.

The Baseball / Sling Swing

Somewhere in the early 2000s this swing style entered golf. My opinion is that this is created for even more blade control and to actually bypass the whole “release difficulty”. You shut your face in relation to the old school release and just delay it all the way to after the golf ball.

Long story short – you open up your body like crazy in relation to the arms and this creates the sling. Then the arms wish to race back and you’ve created a shut face (inspired by arm rotation and wrist hinge) to accomodate this very delayed release. You actually don’t hit at all. You sling.

Super potent and super cool but also quite difficult to achieve (in my opinion). Seek out real experts (not me) if you wish to venture down this path and quite honestly – only do it if you’ve played baseball and have the motor pattern already.

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