[Siliespiriulk]

When I think of the word swing I think of something swaying around at least a bit. As I watch Steve Stricker "swing" today I see him "turn" the club back, then "turn" it back through. No wasted swinging motion. I notice my daughter's coach uses the word turn more than swing.

While it doesn't roll off the tongue the same way, I think I'm going to start saying "golf turn" instead of "golf swing".

But not always in quotation marks.

Kevin

I think that "turn" is a better term than swing. But if you consider your spine as a gate post and your arms and the club as the gate, then the gate "swings" around the post, so in that sense, "swing" is an appropriate term.

But from the point of view of what kind of image I'd rather have in my head as I'm about to play a shot, the image of me "turning" around that post is much more realistic and far more dynamic than an image of something just swinging on a hinge.

So my answer would be that "swing" isn't really a misnomer, but that "turn" is definitely a better way to think of it.


-JP