Do you want to be able to instantly hit your drives 50 yards further? Do you want to be able to hit the golf ball as straight as you can point with hardly any practice? Are you looking for that elusive "secret"?

If this is the case, then you’ve come to the wrong place. My swing is based on fundamentals. There’s nothing new or revolutionary about the way I swing the golf club. I will try to present it in a manner that is easy to digest, and more importantly, in a way that will help you to FEEL the motion of the Swing.

The model for my swing is that of Colin Montgomery. To me, he represents one of the purest swingers playing today. Other pure swingers include Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, and Paul Stankowsky. Whenever I refer to the Swing with a capital "S" and italicised, I am talking about the "pure" swing. It may get annoying, but please bear with me. Every time you see the word Swing, I want you to think of the rope pendulum, which I’ll introduce next.

You’ll notice that all these players have one thing in common. Relaxed hands and loose wrists. The wrists work as a free hinge, like that of a flail. This allows maximum amount of energy to be transferred to where it matters most at impact: the clubhead.

That is the basis of my Swing. The flail is my model, and above players do this the best. This, to me, is the definition of a "pure swing". Minimum leverage (bending force) on the club during the downswing, and letting the centrifugal force whip the clubhead through. On the other end of the spectrum, we have the "hit". This is where the main focus is on exerting a bending force on the club from the top to release the angle between the arms and the club. While this method is workable (Peter Croker’s method is a good example), I find that I achieve more power and consistency with the "swing" rather than the "hit". This website is based on the swinging method, not the hitting method.

In the golf forums I participate in, it is evident that some people are black and white when it comes to "labelling" a particular swing. Hand swing or body swing. Push or pull. Left side controlled or right side controlled. My hope is that once you feel a pure swing, you’ll see that there is no black and white. Just different shades of grey. The hands and the body BOTH perform important functions during the swing. A pure swing is neither a push nor a pull ... it is a SWING. BOTH left and right sides perform important roles. Neither should dominate. You will feel many seemingly "conflicting" qualities. The Swing will feel light yet heavy, effortless yet powerful, slow yet fast. This kind of yin and yang, I believe, is an intrinsic quality of the Swing.

Colin Montgomery has an instructional video out called "Monty’s Stroke Savers" (highly recommended). In it, he describes how he has only ever had four swing thoughts. I think that speaks a lot about this kind of swing. Once you are able to feel it, and more importantly TRUST it, it is very repetitive and consistent. Rather than concentrating on body parts and positions, you’ll begin to feel the motion as a whole. The Swing is one, instead of a sum of multiple positions.

The challenge for me with this website is to convey the feel of a MOTION (right brain activity) via the English LANGUAGE (left brain activity). Thus I’ll frequently resort to exercises and drills. Again, let me urge you to actually DO these drills, instead of just reading about them. You simply can not just read about the feel of a motion. You have to FEEL it.

A typical instruction book divides the swing into stages: Address, Takeaway, Backswing, Top, Downswing, Impact, Followthrough. This, in my opinion, is not the best way to teach the golf swing, especially to beginners. This gives the false impression to the learner that the preceding stage has to be mastered in order to move onto the next. This kind of temporal division of the swing fits in well with the western society’s left brain orientation, but it is counterproductive when it comes to learning a movement like the golf swing. The swing has to be learned as a whole. That’s the only way you’ll feel the motion. Instead of learning the swing in bits and fragments, it’s better to start with a "mini-Swing" (i.e. chipping). This is easier to perform than a full Swing, thus should be more manageable for the beginner, yet he/she should be able to get a good, holistic feel of the Swing. From there the Swing can be extended. This is the approach I will take.