In many cases, a wayward golf shot is not the result of a bad golf swing but rather golf equipment that doesn't fit you correctly which means that even with a great golf swing, the golf ball will still go in a different direction that you intended. Often being rewarded with a good golf shot just requires getting fitted properly with the right golf equipment.
Getting golf equipment that is fitted correctly for you takes into consideration these 3 primary factors:
1. The shaft length, stiffness and kickpoint: maintaining the right spine angle and knee bend is important and if you're taller for example and leaning over too far, longer shafts may be in order. Sometimes adding just a ¼" to a ½" in length can make all the difference for the above average height golfer. The stiffness can affect your distance and whether you draw or fade the ball and the kickpoint can affect affect your distance and trajectory of the golf ball.
2. The size of the grip: when your fingers wrap around the grip, the tips of your fingers should just barely touch or nearly touch the heel of your palm. If your finger tips poke into the heel of your palm or have a larger gap than a 1/8", then your grips are the wrong size.
3. The golf club lie angle is the most important consideration: the sole of the club needs to be flat on the ground at impact with the clubface being square to the target. A toe high impact makes the ball go left and a heel high impact makes the ball go right. Having the sole of the club flat on the ground at address doesn't mean it will be that way at impact with the golf ball because the centrifugal force straightens out your left arm while the weight of the toe of the club head flexes the shaft upward in the middle of the shaft which points the toe a little farther away from you at impact as the toe of the club pulls away from you. At address, the toe needs to be up just a little, around a ¼" or so to start with in order to compensate for these 2 factors. If elevating the toe upward at address by pushing the shaft down makes the club handle feel like it's too low and you're stooping over too much, then you need a club with a more upright lie angle. Club heads can be bent to change the lie angle by someone experienced in custom fitting clubs.
Swingweight may or may not be an additional factor for you. To explain swingweight as simply as possible is to say that it is the feeling the weight of the club head when you swing it. Two clubs can be identical in their total weight but one club head could feel heavier than the other when you swing them because it has a higher or heavier swingweight. A heavier swing weight up to a point will swing easier and be easier to control than a low swingweight club head. Many people have the opinion that it's not really important to get a specific swing weight as much as it is that the entire set of clubs matches. For example, a popular swing weight in men's clubs is a D2. As long as the set is no more than one swingweight off, then the clubs will all feel the same in your hands and they will feel like they swing the same.
The problem with not having fitted golf clubs if you are a golfer with the wrong size of golf equipment is that you'll assume that the bad shots are the result of a bad swing and then you'll start to alter your swing to try to compensate in an effort to hit good shots. What that can do is take a perfectly sound golf swing if you already have one and make you swing incorrectly in your effort to try to make the golf ball go where you want it to while using the wrong golf equipment.
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