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Research reveals secret of perfect swing

New research claims to have scientifically proven the best technique to be used when swinging a golf club.

Robin Sharp from Surrey University has conducted a stud using a computer model, which used the following points of rotation - the shoulders relative to the spine, the arms relative to the shoulders and the wrists relative to the arms.

He told the BBC that as well as the old adage that 'its not all in the wrists', the same could be said of the arms.

Sharp explained: "Generating too much arm speed too soon causes an early release, with the club-head reaching its maximum speed before it arrives at the ball.

"The optimal strategy consists of hitting first with the shoulders while holding back with arms and wrists and, after some delay, hitting through with the arms. At release, the wrists should hit through."

Sharp studied three professional golfers' swings as part of his research - Bernard Hunt, Geoffrey Hunt and Guy Wolstenholme - using high-speed footage from the 1968 Ryder Cup.

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