Your set up and swing can make or break your swing in golf. Let us consider the basics of any good shot. Also we’ll see why it pays to always start right when setting up your golf shot.
It is easy to turn your body and relax your hands so you move freely through the swing, when you set up with your body in the right position and you grip correctly. However, if your set-up or grip is poor, or you fail to aim square at the target, you will need to compensate in your swing. This will make it less accurate and effective. Remember your body has three balance points important in the set-up. The balls of your feet are the first of these. Your lowest and highest vertebrae are the second and third. It is easy to rotate your body around its spinal axis and your swing feels free and fluid, when these balance points are correctly positioned. You will have to compensate in order to turn your body fully, making it very difficult to swing well if you set up with your balance points out of tune. For every error that you make in your set-up, you have to compensate with another error in the swing in order to make it work. Then you start experimenting with new ideas about the swing every time you play, and find more and more different ways of compensating. This can easily develop into bad habits. So avoid doing this.
So pay attention to your set up and swing when you play golf. This can make or break your swing.