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Actually when I took some golf lessons before, one of the pros told me to work on my baseball swing to help smooth out the plane and my weight shift and it did help considerably. He said to take the baseball swing and pivot at the hips to increase the angle of the swingplane and use that to sweep the ball (we were working on the driver at the time)
Seems that many good golfers I know in terms of both distance and accuracy, were or are baseball players. The weight shift, staying behind the ball, the pivot and the eye hand coordination all come in to play. As long as you maintain a good golf grip vs. the baseball bat grip, you should actually see some benefit. Of course I am assuming you are still a young buck and your body can take all of this activity. I would be out of commission after one game.
Good Luck.
yes, facts have told us it is! many good golfers are good in playing baseball.
I wouldn’t worry about it. While there are many similarities between the two swings, there are also many differences and one probably won’t have an effect on the other.
Yeah, I’m not quit sure how this myth got started, but I’ve been around golf my entire life and have heard this 100′s of times. “The golf swing and the baseball swing don’t mix!” As a junior golfer it had me so paranoid that I wouldn’t even play baseball with friends.
In the last couple summers I’ve been playing in a softball league. I really enjoyed going to the batting cages: I probably spent $200 on tokens just taking pitches. What I found out is that working on the batting swing was actually very beneficial to my golf swing. It helped to shallow out my plane which has been an ongoing problem my entire life.
So just like me, you have probably heard the one swing will mess up the other. Don’t believe it! It is coming from well intentioned, though misguided, people who believe that the swings don’t mix, when they actually have a lot in common.
The mechanics of a swing are the same whether you are playing baseball or teeing off. Posture, address, grip, back swing, swing plane, ball contact, follow through, etc. You will hear all these terms in a training session on both baseball and golf. Only exception you will have to be careful about, baseball requires quick reflex and a better hand – eye coordination. golf is more of disciplined swing with control. do not swing your club like a baseball bat and vice versa. but the strength training and techniques from base ball will generally benefit your golf swing. otherwise, go out there and enjoy both games.
No….in fact it improves the golf swing. But if you need some free tips on how to create a perfect swing, see the site below. It has some good info.
Playing baseball definitely messed up your swing because they have two conflicting view points of swinging the bat/club. In baseball, you’re taught to throw your hands and butt of the bat directly at the ball: short and quick. In golf, you’re taught to keep a straight arm for majority of the swing and come around to the ball with a rounded approach, opposed to the straight approach of baseball.
yes because they are two totally different plains of motion
A good golf swing will help with your baseball swing.
If you started playing golf first that is.
A baseball player trying to play golf is bad ju-ju.
Why you ask? Well, in a good baseball swing, the back shoulder lags behind creating a power stoke for a heavy item. If your carry this to a golf swing, what will happen is a drive that screams down the fairway, then takes a right turn Clyde so hard that it might even U-turn on you and come back at you on another fairway.
I played baseball for 7 years before I started playing golf, and I had a major problem with SLICING! MAJOR PROBLEM!
On the other hand, playing golf first will work better for you.