All the best ball strikers turn around a centred head, but it isn’t as simple as just trying to keep your head still. In this video, PGA Professional Jack Backhouse explains how to keep your head still in the golf swing.
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Why A Steady Head Is So Important
The best ball striker of all time is not Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, or even Moe Norman, but instead is actually a machine built to test clubs that goes by the name of iron byron.
This machine strikes the ball out of the centre of the face every time and always makes clean contact with the golf ball, so there must be some principles that we, as golfers, can learn from this sweet spot-smashing robot.
Iron Byron swings a club with a straight arm, around a fixed point, which means the club returns down to the ground in the exact same place every time, which is what us as golfers also should be trying to do.
The fixed point in our golf swing is our head. If we move our head to the right or left, or up or down in the golf swing, we have to compensate for this movement somewhere else in the golf swing, which inevitably results in poor shots and inconsistency.
Our goal in the swing should be to make as big a turn as possible whilst keeping our head as still as possible, and to do this we must understand how to tilt, extend, and turn.
