Videoing your golf swing

Often, I see players filming their swing from the wrong camera angle. This can give you the wrong perspective of your swing.

To film your swing correctly, I want you to place the camera on a stationary surface, a tripod, ideally, and angle the camera so it’s parallel to the target line through the middle of your hands. A good tip would be to place an alignment rod on the ground underneath your hands, parallel to the target line.

When you’re filming your swing, try to make the image of you as big as possible, but not too big where you lose maybe the top of your backswing.

These days, Smartphones, the camera is a Smartphone, have become ever more suitable for filming a golf swing. But there are a couple of things you need to be aware of. Number one, I want you to place the Smartphone in a landscape view, horizontal to the ground. Normally, that would mean the record button will be on the right hand side. If you’re getting a friend to film your swing, again I want it waist high. A sand wedge – holding the phone on top of a sand wedge can help you get the camera waist high and also help to keep the image still.

The first camera angle I showed you is from down the line. This is what we would call “face on.” These are the two main camera angles in analyzing your swing. Again, I want the camera on a stationary surface, around about waist high. But this time the camera will be pointed in a 90 degree angle to your body line. That would be the same for a regular camera as well as a Smartphone.