What are Golf Swing Fundamentals?


Published: March 3, 2026

If you're working on your golf swing, what is the number one thing you should focus on? Well, hopefully the answer is the fundamentals, right? Everything in life that you've learned, you learned the fundamentals first. I talked about driving a manual transmission — you learned how to press the gas and slip the clutch. Those are fundamentals taught the same way to help you learn how to drive. Now, with golf, name five fundamentals of the golf swing.

I'll wait here. I'll give you a minute. Okay. You probably can't because

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Nobody seems to agree on what those fundamentals are. To me, golf swing fundamentals must meet a strict definition. By definition, a fundamental has to be primary, has to be the origin, has to be central, and has to be absolute. Those are the four criteria according to Webster's for what a fundamental really is. The antonyms of that are: consequential, secondary, peripheral. And those are the things most golfers actually focus on. What do I mean? Let's think about one thing people consider a golf swing fundamental — but isn't by definition — and that's swing plane. I talked about swing plane earlier. Swing plane by its very definition is NOT a fundamental of the golf swing. Now you may think I've lost my mind. "How could this idiot say that swing plane is not a fundamental when I watch golf on TV and that's the first thing pundits do — draw lines with the telestrator and talk about swing plane this and swing plane that?" Well, by its very definition, what is swing plane? It happens in the periphery. It's literally peripheral. So it can't be central, right? Central would be the body. The club is swinging around the body.

Is it the origin of movement? No, the origin of movement

Is the body, because the club can't do anything by itself. So it's certainly not

The origin of where that movement is coming from.

It's happening in the periphery. And lastly, it's completely consequential on what your body does. Swing plane does not happen because the club does something independently. I tried to create a swing plane just by moving the club and it didn't do anything, because swing plane is completely consequential of how the body moves. The real fundamental of the golf swing — the way to fix your swing plane — is to fix what your body is doing. If you're swinging over the top, the fix lies in understanding pushing versus pulling, axis tilt, and how that shifts the swing plane and the horizontal swing path. Those are the things you have to fix. And that's what RotarySwing addresses. We don't do bandaid fixes. We don't try to fix your swing plane by manipulating the club and telling you to put it here, feel like you're swinging short, or make a half swing. None of that stuff works — it's nonsense. To fix those things, you have to fix what's happening at the center, what's primary, what's the origin of movement. Using an AI swing analyzer is one of the fastest ways to see whether you're actually working on the fundamentals or just chasing peripheral symptoms. The GOAT Drill system is built around exactly these true golf fundamentals — teaching the body how to move correctly so that everything peripheral, including swing plane, ball flight, and impact position, naturally falls into place. When you fix those central, primary things, that's how you fix your golf swing. And that's how RotarySwing can guarantee you'll become the best ball striker you ever dreamed of when you follow our online system.

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