Robin Symes, Author at SwingStation

How To Video Your Own Golf Swing (Smart Phone)

Using a smart phone to film your golf swing With the quality of the cameras ever improving on smart phones, and apps be designed to help golfers analysis their own swings, it is no wonder that when you look down a driving range these days nearly everyone is constantly videoing their swing. When I…

Backswing Start – Downswing Start

What starts the backswing and downswing What starts the backswing? Hips? Shoulders? Arms? Club? All moving together? What starts the downswing? Left knee? Left hip? Right hip? Arms? Shoulders? If you are with your golfing friends having a discussion about this, I’m sure you will see that there will be many different answers to…

Golf Tips – Fat-Thin-Slice-Hook

Fix fat, thin, slice and hook shots First be clear, I try not to recommend fast fixes too often to my students. Often, when you try a fast fix, you are adding a fault to your swing. To fix a fault, perhaps in the short term, your shot is better, but nearly always you…

Putting Tip – Every Putt Is Straight

Green reading tips I remember when I was a junior, playing in Ireland, I was on the putting green practicing one night at my home club. While practicing on a sloping putt, without much success, an older member of the club came up to me and told me “Every Putt is Straight”. Before I…

Short Game – Keep It Simple

Short game simple tips So often, when watching top players, we marvel at the way they go about hitting a driver, or the accuracy of their iron play, but more often than not, what separates these players from the mid field players is how they waste no shots playing the simple shots. When they…

Weight Transfer & Rotation

How turn and transfer your weight Spiral Pivot I believe there is a misunderstanding about the correct pivot and weight movement in the swing, and all the information that is available these days is not helping to make the concept simple. I think everyone knows that to create an efficient golf swing there should…

Downswing – Shoulders Too Fast

Cure your shoulders moving first in the downswing It seems that a very high percentage of the golfing world struggle with their upper body (Shoulders) moving too fast in the downswing. It is very common because it is a natural instinct to try to create power with our upper body, as we very often…

Lydia Ko Golf Swing

Lydia Ko’s golf swing in slow motion A Few Things To Know About Lydia Ko: If Lydia were not a golfer, she would like to work in the media or in broadcasting. Biggest passion outside of golf is cooking. If golf had walk-up songs, Lydia would pick Golf Boys 2.Oh Her only superstition is continuing…

Putting – Hit The Sweet Spot

Hitting the centre of the putter face What are the common things coaches talk about in lessons and articles about putting? Grip, putter path, aim, putt with your shoulders, passive wrists, etc. These are all important aspects of putting but something that is not talked about enough is striking your putts from the center…

Your Practice Plan

How to set your practice schedule I was bought up with the concept that it did not matter how long I spent practicing; rather, it was the quality of my practice that mattered. From what I have seen in Korea, players are bought up with the understanding that it is the quantity of balls,…