On the golf course, I always hear “swing through the ball, not at it.” What exactly does this mean?
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April 23rd, 2011
by golfswinghelp
Question by delpais1000: On the golf course, I always hear “swing through the ball, not at it.” What exactly does this mean?
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Answer by llllllllllllllllll
draw an invisible line right behind the ball. then hit down squarly on the line. you dont hit hte ball…you swing thru the ball. itll be hrad at first, but your GIR will go up huge once your 100-180 irion game gets better.
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means swing through the ball not at it
It means repeat your practice swing. When you make that nice smooth swing, nice follow through, nice balance, with no ball in front of you. Swing through and hold your follow though.
It means, when you’re driving (usually your first shot, when covering a large distance), don’t smack the golf ball and then after hitting it, immediatly stop, but hit the ball and follow through with the club. It makes a difference.
Good luck.
It means that your swing should continue after the contact with the ball, not stop when you connect.
It means to bring your club down, hit the ball, and keep moving through the hit and as the ball leaves the ground you are continuing to finish your swing by bringing your club up and past the ground. Up into the air. Watch Tiger, he always finishes a swing with his club up in the air in front of his body and to the side. You go Tiger
The only way to really understand that phrase is to play golf. Then, the first time you get that perfect hit, you will understand.
It’s kind of a Zen thing.
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Another way I’ve heard it is “The ball just gets in the way.”
Some people (like me, every now and then!) think of the golf club as a hammer and the ball as a nail; or maybe like an axe swinging into a tree. They’ll just try to pound the club into the back of the ball, instead of making a smooth swing all the way to “The Pose”.
Edit: Looks like somebody is in a very grouchy mood again and is giving everybody a thumbs down!
Do not try to hit the ball, swing through it, the ball is just in the way of the clubface. Don’t chop at the ball or stop your swing at impact, you need to follow through with a smooth and powerful stroke. Good luck.
it means that when you hit the ball your swing is only half way through.
You should always continue with a solid follow through while keeping your head down. Of course you can talk all day about the “particulars” of the average golf swing but those are the major points I feel that allow for you to swing through the ball.
It means accelerate through impact.
A swing utilizes your whole body. Your whole body is involved in hitting the golf ball. Remember you are not trying to pick up the ball. Weight transfers from one side to the other, with your hips finishing at the target.
That the ball is not the target, it’s the flag. Swing with the feeling that you are not hitting anything on the way down like a ‘dry swing”. Repeat that swing exactly when you address the ball. And this applies to all the strokes especially putting.
Swing through the ball is the suggestion that you want to accelerate through your downswing and the past impact point before you start decelerating. That means that the fastest your club head will be traveling is shortly after your impact with the ball. By doing this, you will keep your swing on plane and will strike the ball more crisply. (The other thing associated with this is when you swing through the ball, you actually want to hit the ball first, then the ground…) On the flip side, if you swing “at it”, the suggestion is that you are stopping your swing at the ball, which typically results in mis-hits.
A lot of folks forget that the follow through is just as important as the pre shot routine. They tend to stop their swing virtually at impact.
Wow, lots of answers here. I’ll make mine short.
Your swing speed should be increasing even after you hit the ball.
Don’t slow down until the ball is launched and sailing down the fairway.