Golf swing..our way!

On Sunday when KJ Choi was beaten by a 18 year old Korean to win the MMO 2010, me and my usuaal gang of golfers played at KLCC. This time Halim joined the likes of Munir, Bangdolah, Bojai, Atek, Aa, Sharol and Yob in the early morning tee-off accompanied by 2 ungraded caddies. Yob wanted to be known as AK, not Anthony Kim but A Khairudin! we will wait for him to buy the belt buckle first.

Once again I was asked to do a photo-shoot of everybody's tee-off which I did and want to show them here. This time I have captured the swing sequence at the follow through and how amazing they all look alike...

Happy golfing while I work on the other swing capture!

The Golf Swing..the professional way!

On Saturday I went with Razak and his son Arief to watch the Maybank Malaysian Open 2010 at the KLGCC. I reached the club at 10.00 am and already has to park the car at the nearby Sime Darby Convention Center, more than 1 km from the KLGCC gates. The organizer provided shuttle though..a brand new Hyundai Starex to carry people from the parking location to the club and vice-versa. We have simple breakfast of roti canai and nasi lemak at the club and saw a lot of caddies and their masters also having breakfast there, we sat next to Mark Haastrup from Denmark.

I started to walk around at 11.00 am and watched several players at the practice green and then went to watch Mark's tee-shot at hole 10 at 11.35 am together with David Horsey of England and Darren Back of Australia. Man...they were fantastic golf swing from three of them and I managed to capture Mark's swing before the marshall spotted me. I was at the viewing galley about 30 meter away.

First thing I noticed the pros hit the ball really hard..I am sure they could managed 112 to 115 mph club speed easily, their posture at impact and the extension of the arms after impact and the balanced finish were the major different from my friends swing and my swing..our swing were anywhere from 86 mph to 95 mph with some of the bigger size friends like Atek, Yasni, Sharol , Munir and AK getting 110 mph! See Mark's swing here!

i went on to watch KJ Choi's and T Jaidee at the practice putting green and then proceed to the 1st Tee Box just in time to watch Chinnarat Padungsil, Matthew Griffin and Peter Lawrie launched the golf balls 250 meter down the fairway! The rest of the day I followed the last three groups of KJ Choi, Thongchai Jaidee and the leader then Rhys Davies.

It was an exhausting golf learning experience for me to see them tee-off, hit approach shot, pitch shot, bunker and putting. In the end the heat was too much for me on this Saturday and I left after 12 holes and I have probably walked 4 km already!

The Golf Swing..a never ending story!

I have played golf without any proper coaching, in the early days when golf magazines and free internet instructions were rare..I just self taught myself into swinging the club. Those days were gone and I played golf to kill those leisure times available to only bachelors..

Then I started to read golf instruction from golf magazines, acquired knowledge from free internet lessons and getting tips from fellow golfers and absorbing all the tips from the self-proclaimed golf gurus at the driving range! But all those information got lost in between holes...every weekend the swing changed. How can I make a good swing if I have to remember all the tips like keep the head steady, slow takeaway, don't forget the wrist cock, check the club at parallel,maintain the L shape, complete the back swing..and now the down swing, initiate with the lower body, shift left for weight transfer and rotate the hip, do the reverse C, release at impact, follow through and finish high..aaahh, that was picture perfect and I duffed the shot!

It seemed like golf swing is very complicated because golf instructors never stop discussing about it for the last 25 to 30 years. We don't find such discussion in badminton, table tennis, tennis, baseball etc. maybe there were no wrist cock required hehehe!

Here are some photos of my friends golf swing..all without proper coaching, they enjoyed their golf game just as much, happy golfing.