The Single Plane Swing is an easy way to hit a ball towards your target and increase your enjoyment while playing golf. Years of teaching experience have shown me easier ways to communicate this simple swing method, a swing method brilliantly devised by Moe Norman, a Canadian Golf Hall of Famer regularly called the World’s Best Ballstriker (by Tiger Woods, Lee Treviño and other greats of the game).
To consistently hit the ball, you need to control three things:
1. Aim of the clubface at impact 2. Trajectory of the clubhead through impact 3. Power production without disturbing the numbers 1 or 2
Natural Golf offers you an easy way to control all three.
Fundamental #1 – Natural support
To control where the clubface is pointing at impact, we hold the club so that our forearms are in line with the shaft of the club.
This alignment emulates dynamic alignment at impact, which means the clubface will square up more consistently in the direction you’re hitting. This way, you’ll only have one thing to focus your attention on when golfing: the trajectory of the clubhead through impact.
Fundamental #2 – The Single Plane Configuration
To control the direction in which the clubhead swings (trajectory), we position the ball with our forearms in line with the shaft of the club and our upper arms above (on top of) the chest. This leaves your arms free to control the direction of the clubhead and torso rotation is minimized, allowing you to swing back and forth in virtually the same path or in a single plane.
From here you simply aim and drive the ball to your goal!
Fundamental #3 – Drive the ball to your target
We drive the ball with a club in the same way that we drive a nail with a hammer, using leverage as a source of energy. Leverage is obtained by allowing the wrists to function as a hinge so that we can release the weight of the clubhead in the direction we want to drive the ball, mostly driven by a simple independent action of the arm.
The advantage of the Natural Golf Single Plane Swing is that you can fully release the force of the clubhead past your body (as seen in these images by Moe Norman) without the need to twist or twist. This is because our setup places you in the direction you will most naturally return to during swing impact, with your arms aligned in the same plane as the shaft of the club. Your body stabilizes as you unleash the lever power in the clubhead through impact. Then simply follow the momentum of the clubhead, making for a balanced, stress-free finish.
So there you have it – With Natural Golf you can…
o Control where the clubface points at impact using natural clamping o Control clubhead trajectory using the single plane setup o Control clubhead speed using the stress-free power source of leverage to drive the ball towards its target.
If you haven’t already, give it a try!