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Try a Free Live AI Golf Lesson →The Three Main Golf Swing Releases
Many people think there’s only one way to swing the club, one way to release the club, one perfect impact position, etc., but it’s simply not true.
If you look at the golf swings of the great golfers over the past 100 years, you’ll start to see what Henry Cotton identified as three different types of golf swing release, which are:
Each type of release has its own key characteristics that dictate a lot of other aspects of the golf swing. If you want to analyze exactly which release pattern your swing naturally tends toward, an AI swing analyzer can identify your tendencies from video in seconds.
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We’re going to talk about all three releases today, and explain how they work within the Rotary Golf Swing.
The first release we’re going to talk about is the easiest one, and one that is well suited to many golfers. It’s called the Slap Hinge Release.
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