In lessons 1 through 8, I intended to provide you with the information you need to start building a golf swing.  In Lesson 8, I suggested that, once you have an understanding of the fundamentals, you should work on short shots first.

In this lesson, we go a step further to begin work on the full swing.  The video below discusses the 9 to 3 swing, which is essentially a half golf swing.

It is important to master the basics of this move in order to develop a repeatable swing that hits solid golf shots.

You want to start out at half speed with a sand wedge.  Your goal is simply to make solid contact each and every shot, while hitting the ball about 50 yards.

Once you are able to do that, you simply begin to increase the swing speed.  With each increase in speed, you should still make solid contact, with the ball going in the intended direction.

When you are able to make solid contact every time at full speed with this 9 to 3 swing, you can the move on to increasing the LENGTH of your swing.

The next step would essentially be 10 to 2.  In that case, if you are a right handed player, you would swing the arms in the back swing to the 10 o’clock position, and then to the 2 o’clock position in the follow through.

You can then also work your way up through the bag in this manner as well.  Once you are able to make consistent and solid contact with the sand wedge with a pretty full swing (most pros won’t go full tilt with the shorter irons), you can then move on to the pitching wedge, 9 iron, 8 iron, etc.