Hands

What are the hands doing during the action of making a golf swing? I have been pondering over this since I started wondering what an efficient swing in golf is. There are concepts floating around that are enough to confuse a cow to climb a tree.

Let’s be subjective, prejudiced and selective in choosing about all these theories that make sense. In a good control swing, it is said that the hands should be in front of the torso at all time. Though what is “in front of torso” from back swing to follow through? I initiated a back swing, bringing the hands slightly to my right (for a right hander), at the same time I started rotating my torso with shoulders square facing to the right. What did my hands do at this point? I keep them in place in front of me. If isolating hands movement from the rest of the body, what I did with the hands relatively is I simply brought my hands up, collapsed them at my right elbow and raised them up above my right shoulder, with left hand much more extended than my right hand.

On the downswing, I do the same thing, I keep my hands in front of me at all times, I started bringing my hands down from my right shoulder, bring them back to where I started initially at stance. On the follow though, I bring my hands up again and raise them above my left shoulders (at this phrase it is done passively). In other words, isolating hands from body movement, I simply do a U-shape raising hands up and down from right to left shoulders. Pairing this movement with rotation from torso turning, I then created a swinging motion, I rotate to the right while raising the hands to the right shoulder, I rotate back to the middle while dropping the hands and I rotate to the left while raising the hands to the left shoulder. I do not swing hands left and right and I do not do bend torso up and down through out the golf swing.

When I look at torso rotation with hands motion together in a whole piece, I will see a smooth swing path and in sync motion of golf swing. The hands are not doing more things than necessary and the torso is not rising more than it should.