Golf Backswing Tips To Cure Over The Top Golf Swing

One of the most common swing faults is an over the top golf swing. This fault causes 2 major mishits. One is the dreaded slice, the other is a hard pull. This is all dependent on the club face at impact. This issue is so common many books have been written on how to cure a slice. And yet, golfers are still struggling to fix it. I've got some of my own opinions on this topic, and will give you a few tips that relate to the proper golf backswing.

You see, the backswing is where alot of things can go wrong. So just imagine, the first 12 inches of your golf swing actually ruining your consistency, accuracy and even power. This is exactly the result if you don't get your backswing correct.

The first tip I want to give you is to take your hands out of your golf swing!

This has ruined my game for many, many years, and I didn't even know it. I've taken dozens of lessons; some from the so-called guru's, never to hear anything about my hands upon initial takeaway of my swing.

Once you get the proper grip, you take the club back in "one-piece", with the shoulders taking the club back, not your hands. Continue to turn your shoulders until the club is parallel to both the ground and your toeline. This is where you slowly begin to let your right elbow bend, which now brings the club up to the top of the backswing. This whole time, you are not consciously doing anything with your hands and wrists. Thing of them as almost frozen; they can't move.

This may feel awkward at first, and you may struggle to hit a solid shot, but in a short period of time, you will start making the kind of contact on the ball you've never done before. After you've been able to make good contact, then, and only then, may you take a look at what your wrists are doing during the backswing. But, you still should not be doing anything with your wrist cock until your hands have passed your right knee, so that is about the first 2-3 feet of takeaway.

Watch any pro golfer and you'll soon see there are similarities with all of the takeaways and backswing, and the key is to move the club back in one-piece, with no independent moving parts of your hands, wrists or even elbows.

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