Cease struggling together with your backswing and stability through the use of this straightforward 2-club drill for the right swing width.
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Welcome to Shaving Strokes, a GOLF.com collection during which we’re sharing enhancements, learnings and takeaways from beginner golfers similar to you — together with among the velocity bumps and challenges they confronted alongside the best way.
If there’s one factor that I routinely wrestle with in my golf swing, it’s my rotation.
Possibly it’s the previous baseball participant in me — the place I wanted to make use of fast motions within the batter’s field to hit a shifting object — however anytime I stand over the ball, I’m too quick in my transition as I come to impression. This typically leads to my fingers trailing, the clubface dragging and opening, resulting in lots of my photographs spraying to the precise (as a right-handed participant).
My golf swing sequence is out of whack. Right here’s how I’m fixing it
Positive, among the points may be cured by merely slowing down and specializing in my sequencing, however after taking a lesson with GOLF High 100 Trainer Joe Plecker, there was an excellent simpler repair: my ft positioning.
Within the video beneath, Plecker analyzes the place my ft are at handle, and demonstrates how a 2-club cross drill can decide their correct width — creating extra depth within the rotation and backswing for higher shot outcomes. Test it out and take a look at it for your self.
Use 2 golf equipment to find out the right ft place within the golf swing
Till I took this lesson from Plecker, I by no means actually thought twice about the place my ft must be within the swing. I simply kind of setup over the ball, saved them about shoulder-width aside and swung.
However Plecker gave me the chilly arduous fact after witnessing only one tee shot from me.
“I see one thing in how your ft are positioned right here,” he stated. “[How you currently are] is just too slender, and your toes are pointed in entrance.”
My first thought? How the hell have I performed golf for almost 30 years and this straightforward problem has by no means been mounted? After getting over that actuality, Plecker continued — and at last helped treatment the issue.
“I’m going to take two golf golf equipment and I’m going to cross them. Now put your left foot there, after which your proper foot on the opposite facet,” he informed me. “Put the shaft [of the club you’re holding] throughout your thighs, and attempt to flip again until that shaft matches the one [on the ground].”
The picture beneath exhibits how this could look.
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Throughout my first try, it was a wrestle to line up the shafts as a result of the place of my ft have been too slender. That is the place Plecker made some changes to widen my stance to create extra depth in my backswing.
“Make your stance slightly wider, flare your proper knee and foot out, and now flip once more into the backswing,” he stated. “It [has to feel] slightly simpler, and your proper foot [the trail foot] stays on the bottom.”
Plecker then requested me to take the brand new stance and hit one other drive, which produced an unimaginable consequence, with me bombing it 260 yards down the center.
“That’s the way you’re purported to pivot,” he stated. “Anytime your ft get into a special place, you’ll really feel sways or much less flip or out of types. However it is a nice drill to examine your stance and examine your pivot.”
So if you happen to’re like me and infrequently wrestle together with your rotation, do this 2-club cross drill earlier than your subsequent spherical to shore issues up and really feel how your pivot must be. Higher photographs ought to quickly comply with.
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