Keeping posture during your golf swing

Have a look at the video for a summary of a recent 1 hr lesson.  The player in the video had a couple of very common swing faults – Loss of Posture in the backswing, and Flat Shoulder Plane.  We worked on the swing drill “Reverse Merry Go Round” to provide the feeling of maintaining his spine angle as he rotated in the backswing.

This lesson can be of a help to anyone with the following faults:

– Loss of Posture.

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– Flat Shoulder Plane.

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– Early Extension.

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– Fat and Thin Shots.

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– Thin and Topping Shots.

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– Can help Increase Accuracy.

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Transcript

Good lesson for anybody who struggles losing their posture during the backswing. Use this player as an example highlighting his pelvis with the line, highlighting his head with a couple of lines. You’ll see clearly here in the backswing, his head will move away from the golf ball. His chest moving away from the golf ball as his pelvis moves towards the golf ball. This is what I would class as loss of posture. That’s with his six iron, the club gets longer and heavier. You can see here how again, this increase his head chest, really works away, pelvis gets closer. This creates a few faults. The club gets out of position. The left shoulder gets high. You’ve also got a flat shoulder plane, another fault from this. And from this downswing sequence, will be difficult. What goes up must come down. You can see a loss of body angles through the ball as well. So, if this might be you, I’ve got a simple drill. I call it the reverse merry-go-round. And simply hold the driver by the grip end across your chest, the driver pointing toward the target and learn to pivot, rotate your body keeping your posture angles; your stomach behind you, your chest in front of you. It’s not necessary, but I put something for him to focus on hitting because this allows the club head to go down. If he was to lose his postural angle, simply that club head could be not swinging on that plane if his stomach was forward and his chest was back. So, a simple exercise to learn how to feel rotating in your postural angles. This player took to it quite quickly. You can see almost instantly, he’s able to swing, rotating in his angles. It helps him with his downswing sequence, helps to get the club in a better position, improvement in his shoulder plane. Also for this player, the most important thing is,to help him hit the center of his club face more often. If his posture is staying more consistent, he can hit the center of the club face more often, more consistently. So, if you struggle with any of these faults, loss of posture, flat shoulder plane, [inaudible 00:03:21-23] strike, even downswing sequence, you might want to check, are you losing your posture in your backswing. I’ve got a little, video on my YouTube and on swingstation.com to help you understand what is loss of posture.