This is how you keep your swing healthy when you get older

The golf lessons are constantly developing, but the best advice is the test of the time. In timeless tips, we emphasize some of the greatest advice that teachers and players have given on the pages of the golf magazine. Today we return to our edition of July 1981, in which Johnny Miller announced how he changed his swing to keep his body healthy. For unlimited access to Full Golf Magazine Digital Archive Insidegolf Today; You enjoy a value of $ 140 for only 39.99 $/year.

Golf is a game that can be played for a lifetime – but that doesn't mean that you can always swing. When we get older, our body change and these changes can make certain movements from our youth almost impossible.

This is a truth that every golfer faces one or another. Even if you are now a bomber, as soon as you have reached retirement, you cannot touch 120 miles per hour of ball speed. But that does not mean that you cannot be successful on the course if you get older. You only have to make the required swing adjustments.

Already in 1981 the former US Open winner Johnny Miller joined Golf magazine And shared some of his best tips to keep his swing – and the body – healthy while he was old. Follow them and their golden years could be their heyday.

Johnny Millers key to keep her swing healthy

A lot was talked about my “new” golf swing and how well I played with it. Actually, it is not “new” in the strict sense of the word. There is nothing revolutionary. However, it is new to me because it is a departure from the way I have swung the club in the past.

Most of the changes in my swing came due to the changes in my body. When I was younger, I was extremely flexible and my legs were the strongest part of my body. But when I got older, I lost some suppleness (like almost everyone) and got stronger from the waist. I think my break -in was to a high degree of trying to carry out my “old” swing with my “new” body.

The “new” swing is the product of many thoughts and experiments and errors. And in the same way as it helped me, it can help many amateur guns who are not as smooth as they were or would like. That's how it works.

Get away

The first change I made was in my with me. Until recently, I experimented with Fanning The Club Open while taking away, as Gary Player does. And before that I used an early set of the wrists in my early tours. This helped me to establish an upright backstroot level from which I could put the shaft on the downturn level with my suppleness. Finally, I decided to start again in one piece, a coordinated movement of the arms, shoulders, hands and the club while holding the Claphace Square. This method is the easiest and best for golfers of all levels.

Backstroke

The changes in my back swing were actually corrections of the errors I had developed. When I was younger, it was one of my best backswing keys to feel like I got behind the ball in the back. With the degree of flexibility I had at the time, I was able to stand behind the ball while I was still a good, full curve. But when I increased weight and strength in my upper body and lost some suppleness, this key led to a “wrong” backstop. In fact, I didn't turn. I was moving my hips and the upper body on the side to the right and raised my arms up. This movement brought the club up, but there was no spit on the muscles of the upper body. This is a guilt of many golfers that are stiff or heavy.

I corrected the error by working on staying more than the ball than I turned during the back swing. The feeling of this time reminds me of this old guide: “Feel as if you are turning in a barrel during the back swing.” The result was a real return, with improved use of the large and strong muscles of my upper body instead of a wrong curve. If you have developed a false curve due to the experiment to get behind the ball, try the following: Take the address behind the ball so that your head is slightly of the ball to the right, and then the full body application from there.

Downturn

One of my favorite keys in my recent days was “stay behind it and hit him.” I was flexible enough to do that effectively. But this key was becoming less and less effective in time, and I started to push long shots out of the line. The thrust was the shot that really fueled my slump, even though I didn't make every shot so much. I hit most of my shots well, but on one or two keyholes, one round, I would be nervous, the pressure hit and landed with a double bogey. That led to many 73 and 74s.

I stumbled through the solution for this error about two years ago when I played near my house on the Silverado course in Napa, California. I wanted to see how far I could hit the ball by moving forward instead of holding back during the downturn. I met a shot when I moved hard on my left side and the ball went about 15 meters directly to the place where I was aiming. I thought: “Gee, I'm sure I can do it better.” I met another shot and tried to move to my left side. The ball was legally just about 20 meters, where I aimed. From this experience I learned that when I tried to stay behind the ball, I could hang on my right side again. As a result, I couldn't get through the ball with my arms. This caused the prints.

I also found that I couldn't push the shot too far to the right as long as I brought back a solid withdrawal to the ball and that the ball did not go to the right as long as I did not transfer the train. As it turned out, the solution was the opposite of what I thought for the first time. This movement made my swing look a little different. Since it is more oriented in the upper body, my right side comes higher than before. But that's a property that I now share with many other fine swingers. And with this type of swing, my head does not drop the way it used to be. All in all, it is a simpler, more repeatable and therefore more reliable downturn.

No matter how his method, every good golfer has a good shift in weight. Practice to take a solid step to your left side to start the downturn and you will hit straight and longer shots.

Follow

I always thought that the episode was the result of the swing that came before. And as you can see here, my successor reflects the changes that I made in my swing. As a result of the firm movement on my left side at the beginning of the downturn, my weight has completely shifted to my left foot. In fact, this is one of my new follow-through keys, which has the feeling of moving my entire weight on the small toe of my left foot at the finish line. Before that when I held back, I ended my weight between my right foot and my left heel. Now my weight has shifted so completely to the left side that when I can re-draw my right foot from the floor when I use the 4 iron through the wedge.

The other change in my follow-through is that I don't have as big in my back as before. When they get older, it becomes increasingly difficult to finish “reverse C” in this large position. If you get through the ball with the right side and swing more with your upper body instead of the legs, it leads to a straight back below.

Use these keys as checkpoints for your own follow-through. If you use the feeling of the right finish, make it easier to implement the movements that precede it.