Shorter Golf Swing Drill 3 No leg movement (Video) - by Pete Styles
Shorter Golf Swing Drill 3 No leg movement (Video) - by Pete Styles

One of the issues with having quite a long golf swing is often people say to me, “I don’t know when to stop. I just keep turning, and turning, and turning. I never really hit the buffers and they can almost turn completely around on themselves and screw themselves into the floor.”

It’s important that your golf swing has a natural top. And the top of the golf swing can depend on your flexibility. So if you can keep your feet, your knees, your hips relatively stable, and you turn your upper body, your upper body will turn to a point where it gets a bit tight and that would cause the top of your golf swing to have a natural end to it. So depending on how flexible you are, depends on the length of your swing but no leg action, loads and loads of shoulders, and I get to a position here where I feel quite tight. The natural top for me is round about 2 o’clock.

However, if I was to make that same turn but collapsed my legs so my legs get far too involved, I turn, and I turn, and I turn, and I get stiff round about 2 o’clock. But I let my right knee straighten, my left knee collapse, and the left heel lift, I swing and then just keep going, keep going, keep going. And I lose all that natural sort of coil and tension at the top because my legs were misbehaving.

So if from this angle, I turn and I should be at 2 o’clock, if I let my legs collapse, I can go rightly where I am to 3 or 4 o’clock but my legs were too involved. So I’d like you to work really hard. If you’re trying to control the length of your swing and actually looking down here at the bottom and not at the top, and controlling what your bottom half does.

So if from a good set up position, feel like your body weighs 50-50, no leg action, no hip action and just try and really keep the legs solid. You can have a small shift into your right leg but no collapsing, or locking, or straightening of the knees and no excessive turning of the hips. And that should encourage you to swing short at the top rather than too long at the top. Forks on stable legs for stable back swing position.

2012-11-29

One of the issues with having quite a long golf swing is often people say to me, “I don’t know when to stop. I just keep turning, and turning, and turning. I never really hit the buffers and they can almost turn completely around on themselves and screw themselves into the floor.”

It’s important that your golf swing has a natural top. And the top of the golf swing can depend on your flexibility. So if you can keep your feet, your knees, your hips relatively stable, and you turn your upper body, your upper body will turn to a point where it gets a bit tight and that would cause the top of your golf swing to have a natural end to it. So depending on how flexible you are, depends on the length of your swing but no leg action, loads and loads of shoulders, and I get to a position here where I feel quite tight. The natural top for me is round about 2 o’clock.

However, if I was to make that same turn but collapsed my legs so my legs get far too involved, I turn, and I turn, and I turn, and I get stiff round about 2 o’clock. But I let my right knee straighten, my left knee collapse, and the left heel lift, I swing and then just keep going, keep going, keep going. And I lose all that natural sort of coil and tension at the top because my legs were misbehaving.

So if from this angle, I turn and I should be at 2 o’clock, if I let my legs collapse, I can go rightly where I am to 3 or 4 o’clock but my legs were too involved. So I’d like you to work really hard. If you’re trying to control the length of your swing and actually looking down here at the bottom and not at the top, and controlling what your bottom half does.

So if from a good set up position, feel like your body weighs 50-50, no leg action, no hip action and just try and really keep the legs solid. You can have a small shift into your right leg but no collapsing, or locking, or straightening of the knees and no excessive turning of the hips. And that should encourage you to swing short at the top rather than too long at the top. Forks on stable legs for stable back swing position.