Traditional pre-shot guidelines of square stance, square knees, hips, shoulders, clubface, and two knuckles showing at address can be helpful, but achieve little to insure proper hand, wrist, and clubface positioning at impact.
Hands, wrists, and forearms can easily rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise in addition to the wrists hinging vertically and horizontally during a swing. The clubface angle in relation to the target line can easily change as the hands, wrists, and forearms rotate.
Golfers at all skill levels must constantly guard against improper hand, wrist, and forearm rotation during a swing, and especially at impact. Current alignment guidelines do not provide a solution other than "timing" to explain how hand and wrist position changes from address to impact.
It's time to expand golf's fundamentals to include a method for synchronizing the key variables of potential hand, wrist, and forearm rotation with clubface alignment at impact.
Dynamic Pre-Shot Alignment provides a technique for more consistent positioning of the hands, wrists, and forearms at address and impact. The technique can greatly reduce the need for a golfer to rely on their ability to control such rotation during a swing, and synchronize it with a desired clubface alignment at impact.
In addition to providing more consistent hand, wrist, forearm, and clubface positioning at impact, Dynamic pre-shot alignment helps to keep the club on a proper path during the backswing and forward swing.
Undesirable rotation can allow the club to easily travel above or below the swing plane, or too far inside or outside on the backswing. Such variation in swing path requires re-routing of the club during the forward swing in addition to the need to point the back of the leading hand at the target at impact.
Golfers are often seen swinging the club back to waist high in order to check the clubface alignment as part of a pre-shot routine. The clubface can easily be open, square, or closed due to the fact that traditional fundamentals allow for an excess of hand, wrist, and forearm rotation.
Dynamic Pre-Shot Alignment helps insure that the clubface angle at waist height on the backswing is correct for the type of shot being executed.
Comparison of Baseball and Golf Swing Planes
Jack Nicklaus used the baseball swing to show how easy it is to visualize a level swing path at waist height rather than a golf swing on an incline plane. Here is a video to show how Dynalign Dynamic Pre-Shot Alignment can improve both the swing path and clubface alignment in relation to the swing path.
Dynalign Produces Stabilized Clubface During Backswing from Dynalign Golf on Vimeo.
Dynamic Pre-Shot Alignment is an integrated technique, and can be used to improve alignment for putting and chipping as well as full shots. One basic pre-shot alignment technique can be used for all golf shots. To learn more visit dynaligngolf.com
