Are You A Victim Of This Destructive Golf Swing Fault? Let Me Help You Fix It Before You Tee It Up This Weekend

An overswing is something many amateur golfers struggle with, but perhaps don't quite understand where it comes from and how destructive it can be to their game.

Learning how to stop overswinging can help to unlock untapped power, transform your ball striking and limit costly errors on the golf course.

In this article, PGA Pro and Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach John Jacobs shares the root causes and some simple strategies to cure your overswing in golf...

Overswing In Golf: The Cause And The Cure

People who tend to overswing lose the concept of how far the club travels in the backswing and think it’s neutral at the top or going back to the right position. A good way to remedy things is to try and feel that your left arm is travelling to no further than parallel from the ground. Swinging to what you feel is a half or three-quarter backswing length will often actually get you swinging to the correct length.

Having a poor hold on the club can also lead to an overswing. Aside from working on the perfect golf grip, one of the best things you can do is to shorten your left thumb to help support the club more. The tip of your thumb should be about half to three-quarters of an inch away from the tip of the knuckle on your forefinger. People who wear a hole in the thumb of their glove are often overswingers who have their left thumb too flat, so it just gives way at the top.

Understanding how to get a straight left arm in your golf swing is very important, as too narrow a backswing can also cause an overswing - with the left arm folding at the top rather than extending.

You need to swing as far to the right as you can without swaying your upper body. If you were to drop a golf ball from your hands as your backswing nears the top, as here, it should fall some way from your foot as you create lots of width, rather than close to it if everything is too narrow and your left arm has collapsed.