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I have an overall question about my junior golfer.

Matt L · · Chandler, AZ
I have an overall question about my junior golfer. He's almost 9, been golfing for about 4 years and has done pretty well qualifying for US Kids Worlds for last 3 years and placing top 20 each year. He has a great feel of the game and I incorporate the dead drill and axiom into training and molding his swing. Well he's kind of got to a point of burn out with golf so we are taking a step back and only golfing every once in a while and not practicing as much. Starting in February (we live in AZ) he wants to try out some baseball. He can hit the ball real well, but my concern is focusing on baseball swing what it may do to the golf swing he has. Is there any advice Craig or Chuck you would give on how to keep the two swings in synch and be able to kind of switch back and forth? I know there are some key differences between the two, but I also feel like eventually he'll want to come back to golf and I don't want him to have to completely start over. Thoughts?

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Chris Tyler, Certified RST Instructor ·
Hi Matt, Chris here! We have plenty of baseball players that still can swing the golf club very nicely. In fact, I have 2 MLB players in my URG group as we speak and they have rock star golf swings. This is a tough position to be in for sure. There are some big differences in the mechanics of the baseball swing vs the golf swing BUT they both still use kinematic sequence, which is the most important part of all of it. Being that he is so young and he is still developing AND he his trying to take on new sports is very common at that age. I wouldn't worry too much about his golf swing being torn apart while he takes on baseball. When he does pick up a golf club and starts swinging again, send in his videos for us to review so we can take a look at it closely to see if there is any baseball disruption that we would try to move him away from. Hope that helps and good luck. Ct
Don U ·
I have only a simplistic understanding of the golf swing (joined RS a coupled months ago). But, I've coached college level baseball, so understand that swing much better. Hope this helps. The golf and baseball swings are fundamentally the same - playing baseball will not hinder your son's golf swing when he returns to that sport. Having played golf will probably help him in baseball. In baseball power comes from the lower body, through weight shift, hips pull while upper body and shoulders stay back, weight is posted up on the front leg, shoulders should remain square to the pitcher at contact, first move with the hands is back, etc. Yes, there are obvious differences...in baseball there is a stride forward, there's no shoulder rotation as the hands and arms move back, etc. FWIW (probably not much) the "rotational swing" in baseball (Bonds) is similar to the trail side dominant swing in golf. The "linear swing" in baseball (Trout) is similar to the lead side dominant swing. Again, I think your son will transition back and forth between sports quite easily...he could play both at the same time if he wants to. Don
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