Backswing

He closed with a par, getting a break when given relief on his second shot because his backswing was affected by a tree stake. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Duffers like me know you can't ground your club in a hazard, but knowing that brushing a reed on your backswing is a penalty, with no effect on the outcome of the swing, is to have a sturdy grip on the Rules of Golf. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When slicing the golf ball, it is likely that you will experience trouble with the initial stages of the backswing, which is you are leaving the correct plane early. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tebow said eliminating the loop or "backswing" in his motion only took a matter of weeks and now he's adjusting his footwork for the three -, five - and seven-stop drops he'll be making in the NFL. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When the clubface was open—a foundation of the Haney swing is the fanning of the club on the backswing, meaning tremendous forearm rotation was needed on the way back to the ball—the result was the right-to-right ball fight that had come to plague Woods and was painfully evident in the final round at The Players. ❋ Robert Lusetich (2010)

Among his big revelations, he says, is that there is no such thing as a "backswing" in golf. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among the many celeb golfers interviewed during CBS 'Pebble Beach coverage Sunday, NFL star Peyton Manning suggested he'd feel more comfortable "if someone hit me in the back after I finish my backswing." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Talking trash during an opponent's backswing would be as accepted as talking trash in basketball. ❋ John Paul Newport (2011)

Freese swings at one so hard that he hits Torrealba on the wrist with his backswing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The most memorable tennis bleeds suspense until the very end—those final games, when every backswing feels like a final breath, and every safe passage across the net is a relief. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

Instead, a large hand catches my forearm mid-backswing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, what follows is bankruptcy and divorce, because there is always a backswing to everything. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

He is a national treasure now or he will be until the first camera goes off in his backswing. ❋ Lawrence Donegan (2010)

I've just been making a few changes and getting way too steep on my backswing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"People that struggle with putting, especially outside 12 feet, often take the same backswing every time but then surge forward faster for longer putts," he says. ❋ John Paul Newport (2011)

He picked up the sledgehammer again in both hands and raised it high above his head, the head of the hammer sinking well below his shoulder blades on the backswing—and he brought it forward, throwing all of his weight behind it, feeling the burn and tug of his muscles as his arms brought the thing down. ❋ Ann Wahlman (2011)

But it is fair to argue that occasionally Barkley — like when he freezes repeatedly in mid-backswing — offers a glimpse of what it might be like to hit a golf ball while being zapped by an alien's ray guns. ❋ Unknown (2009)