[standaman]

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

[invasuant]

I'm the wrong person to ask since I'm finally learning to not use my arms, but yes, golf turn makes sense to me. It wouldn't have 6 months ago though.

[Britiobby]

+1 on Strickers "Turn". When he swings turns the driver it doesn't even look like he could hit it 200 yards. But he gets it to the center almost every time. (missed the fairway as I typed, lol). My favorite to watch with any club is Couples. Smooth and effortless!

[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

[deermealec]

People can call it turn, but despite all the talk of turn and other things, your arms are still moving the club/swinging the club.

[standaman]

People can call it turn, but despite all the talk of turn and other things, your arms are still moving the club/swinging the club.

I'd contend that within a connected swing, like Stricker's and others, that the arms and hands hold the club while they are being turned.

Kevin

[deermealec]

While true in some ways, the club starts on the ground and gets close to the top of their head. No body turn is doing that without swinging the club.

[9mm_fan]

+1 on Strickers "Turn". When he swings turns the driver it doesn't even look like he could hit it 200 yards. But he gets it to the center almost every time. (missed the fairway as I typed, lol). My favorite to watch with any club is Couples. Smooth and effortless!

love couples too ... he's the golfer i've most tried to model my swing after ... i think he's actually more of a "swings the arm/(club)" golfer than a "turns the body" golfer ...

[Grainiary]

I prefer "swing". To me "swing" indicates a more purposeful action/motion than "turn".

[Britiobby]

I don't know enough about the dynamics of a golf move, (how was that?). However, Couples has had a bad back for a lot of years. I wonder if it came from his swing? He seems so upright in the motion.

[iroxmxinau]

I always thought the golf swing referred to the club head.

[singleGirl]

Your body turns or rotates, but you swing the club. I don't see anything inherently wrong with either term. I've said swing for too long... not going to change now on a very tenuous point of semantics.

The feeling I want is to be swinging the club, so that's the term I'll use.

[w4WBthjv]

Your body turns or rotates, but you swing the club. I don't see anything inherently wrong with either term. I've said swing for too long... not going to change now on a very tenuous point of semantics.

The feeling I want is to be swinging the club, so that's the term I'll use.

^^^^ What he said. At least let's hope I'm not swinging swaying.