As a 25 year golf instructor, there are two important pieces of information that I consider every day as I teach new students and work with my regular clientele.
1). There are many DIFFERENT looking golf swings that are very effective,
2). Regardless of what a swing looks like, the players mannerisms, the player must be able to arrive at a functional impact position.
So, to me it is important that a student be able to understand and execute a position at impact that will produce an effective and consistent ball flight.
It seems to me then, that if you want to improve your golf swing or if you are starting out as a new player, you should become proficient at a “chipping” stroke, which for success depends on a perfect impact position. Or as Bobby Clampett, the creator of the “Impact Zone” puts it, you should teach from the “green, back to the tee”.
Perfecting your impact position in a “chipping stroke”, which is a small golf swing, allows the student a chance to become proficient at “impact”, the most critical time of a larger faster golf swing, in a small slow and deliberate training process.
When the “chipping” stroke is mastered the student can move on successfully to larger more sophisticated golf swings and produce consistent, correct impact positions and predictable ball flights.
Keith Haley Golf 