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A Repeating Golf Swing and How to Get One

Good golf is not played by hitting great shots, but by minimizing the number of bad shots you hit. To play better golf, it isn’t always necessary to improve your swing. All you might need to do is learn to use your best swing more often.

One way to do that is to hit hundreds of balls every day, but unless you’re a competitive golfer, who has the time? You can swing the club at home whenever you want, though, and that’s just as good. Take fifteen minutes to swing the club 120 times in this way, in this order:

20 normal swings
20 swings with the left hand only
20 normal swings
20 swings with the right hand only
20 swings with the feet together, heels touching
20 normal swings

Step back after every swing, and set up anew each time. This gives you extra practice at getting into your setup, and prevents you from getting into a groove you can’t repeat on the course. Strive for a calm finish after every swing, and don’t rush. Calm your mind and give each swing your full attention.

Before you swing, pick a spot on the ground and make sure the club swings back through that spot on a line toward a target. Just swinging isn’t good enough. You’re training your swing to follow the correct path away from and back through the ball.

The objective of the one-handed swing sections is to isolate that hand and arm to teach it how to move during the swing. This is also a good way to build strength in your golfing muscles, especially when you swing with your left arm only.

When you do the one-handed swings, swing the first time with two hands and stop at the top of your backswing. This is to remind yourself of where the swing is supposed to take you. Take off the hand you won’t be using and complete the swing. For all subsequent one-handed swings, set up with both hands, take off the one you’re not using before you start the swing, and make the entire swing with that one arm.

In the feet together section, there will be some lower body movement, but the point is to minimize that movement so you can concentrate on your arms and upper body turning together.

Strive to make all the swings in a particular section the same. Resist the urge to experiment by adding something extra here or there. By making 20 identical swings, you make great strides in learning to repeat that swing. The only way you’ll build a repetitive swing is, well, to practice the same swing over and over.

Question: How do you make sure you’re practicing your best swing and not grooving a poor one? The one-handed and feet together sections take care of that. Unless you do things right, you just can’t swing one-handed, and in the feet together section, you’ll fall down if you’re making mistakes.

Do this exercise at least once a week and parts of it daily. By the time the exercise is over, your swing will be smoothed out and repetitive, light and powerful. Since this exercise involves making a lot of swings in a short time period, you might want to work up gradually to doing all 120. Stop if you begin to feel sore, especially in your lower back.

As for the clubs to use, you can use just one club for the whole thing, or change clubs with every new section. When you’re having trouble with a particular club, doing the exercise with it alone will help the two of you become friends.

If you do this exercise at the range, hit a ball with every tenth swing to keep up your interest. No more often that that, though. This is a swinging exercise, not a ball-hitting exercise.

If you can’t get to the range, you can do this exercise inside the house with a 7-iron, and adjust your posture to simulate swinging longer clubs. Swing a club inside the house? Not to worry. I’m six-foot-six and can swing a 7-iron in a room with an eight-foot ceiling, without hitting the ceiling. And my wife’s OK with it. (I married well.)

I do this 120 Swings Exercise several times each week. If I slack off, I can tell the difference, and when I get back to it, I just tick off one good shot after another.

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