When it comes to finding the right shaft for your golf club, we know how important timing is.
Based on how you swing the golf club, the shaft will be the timing mechanism that allows you to swing with your rhythm and tempo to hit the ball in the center of the club face.
In this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, host Johnny Wunder explained how baseball pitchers in Japan are taught to throw the ball can help you find what’s best for your game.
Wunder was explaining that he wants to figure out how players can get data and learn the right way to move around. The old theory is that fast players should generally have fast, fast tempos, while slow players are smooth and deliberate. He used the examples of Nick Price, a fast skater, and Fred Couples, a smooth skater.
He then called out what pitchers do in baseball.
“When you watch Japanese players throw a baseball,” Wunder said. “It’s full release one way and full release the other way. There’s no force. There’s no torque.
“The reason why they teach that, one is that it is easy for the human body, but it is easy for the human body to repeat that if there is no opposing force.”
So what does that have to do with golf?
However, just as they teach the right way to get repetitive motion in baseball pitchers, golfers can find the right timing and rhythm with the right golf clubs to help them make more repetitive swings.
“There’s a way to improve your input by making sure you’re looking for the right turns,” says fellow broadcaster Jake Morrow. “The process of figuring out what the right swings are is what Johnny wants to pursue right now. Defining what my best golf swing is and going into future putts, knowing what those numbers look like and comparing your swing data to that swing data is going to be an important part of moving forward.”
The idea is that you may hit the club well for par, but your swing action may not be the best in your game. That’s why if you take it out of the course, you end up putting another way into it and struggle.
But if you can make sure you’re making the perfect swing for your body, you can expect to do the same on the golf course.
For more from Wunder and Morrow, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped here, or watch it below.
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