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downswing

downswing

2 6.9
The part of a golf swing when the club moves down toward the ball
  • noun
  • /ˈdaʊnˌswɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : movimiento descendente
  • To start the downswing with your lower body, train the movement, not the muscles.
  • Start the downswing
  • downswing and your arms
  • leg on the downswing

Examples

  • Well, it stands to reason that during the downswing you have to unhinge the wrists and reverse the rotation of the forearms.

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  • This is to be expected and is a good thing because if the clubface is too open on the downswing, you will never have forward shaft lean.

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  • I find the pause makes the downswing transition easier and more precise.

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  • She put a little something extra into her downswing.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Grip, stance, backswing, downswing, and putting it all together.

  • Done properly, either transition style sets the stage for "The Key to a Repeating Golf Swing," which is performed by every great player in the downswing.

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  • They both "pause" at the top of the backswing before starting the downswing.

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  • This causes a whip effect with early club shaft loading (shaft bend) as the downswing starts.

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  • The unhinging of the wrists and the rotation of the forearms in the downswing.

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  • As your club reaches the highest point, initiate your downswing by shifting your weight onto your left side.

Surface Forms

downswing singular
downswings plural

Morphology

downswing = swing (transparent) = down + swing

Direct compound 'down' + 'swing' naming the downward part of a golf swing, which is a literal, directly derivable combination. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Downswing comes from the parts down ('toward the ground') and swing ('to move back and forth'). In golf the downswing is the part of the swing when the club moves down toward the ball, so the name exactly describes that motion.