Backswing Swing Plane Drill by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Backswing Swing Plane Drill by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

Often golfers create problems for the down swing if the backswing is not correctly on plane. During this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will talk you through a process of having the golf club shaft pointing directly at the Golf ball and ball to target line during the golf backswing. This intern should allow you to create an on plane golf swing during the backswing phase, which in transition should encourage a more on plane down swing and ultimately straight at golf shot.

When we're looking at some of the best golf swings in the world what we will tend to see is that generally they're swinging more towards the plane. Now if we were thinking about the plane of the golf swing what is it what we're actually talking about Pete? Well I think plane is going to be talking about what happens from the golf ball to the back swing and then back down again often described by the angle or the line of the club, and I think when you talk about you know the best swings and the ones that are most statically pleasing to the eye. It's the one that is the most on plane you ask people you know do you like Jim Furyk skull swing not so much like his pay check yes very much so very much so the swing maybe not. We're looking for more of a symmetrical sort of looking swing aren't we where all the angles or the lines and matching all throughout the golf swing. I think they're the ones that look the simplest and often they would be the ones that are more repeatable day in day out in a more consistent fashion and hopefully that the swings that that golfer is going to aspire have to produce straighter more consistent golf shots. OK so I'm going to give you this one extra club here and I want you to give us a little bit of a drill that we can do with this golf ball that can help us get us more on plane. Perfect thank you for the golf club I've also taken the liberty of sticking a tee peg just in the butt end of my golf club there just does a little mark to just help the camera see what we're looking for.

I've got my ball I've got my target line down here I'm going to place my club quite carefully as an extension of my ball to target line there and if we can just imagine for the time being that the line extends all the way to target all the way back all the way and then to the camera and off into the distance and that's my ball to target line. I'm going to try and trigger my swing to follow as much of the ball the target line as possible. Because your first checkpoint here Pete what is going to be that you know your grip your hands the club head Where are we going with this? I get the feeling now that obviously the club is pointing at my balls the target line as the club moves away it points largely down the ball the target line. All of the sudden the club is now lifting up the floor club keeps pointing on the ball to target line all the way through here points nicely at the camera which don't forget my balls target line runs under the camera and the club is taking a good on plane back swing line back away from the ball. Where would be the first check point you look to would it be halfway back top of the golf swing. We see it around about here I'd want to see that when I look at my my club against the camera or maybe the camera was a mirror I shouldn't really see my hands because the club is in the way. This way I would feel is what the club is outside the line and like wise this one would be inside the line. So I'm looking to set the club back on plane on line I can't see my hands from the camera's view that would be on plane actually. So where would we go from here then? Taking the club we are slowly going to start to put in a bit of wrist hinge to initiate some wrist change here and now we start to use the tee peg that sticking at the bottom end of the club.

This starts to hit that same ball to target line so I want to trace a line almost imagine as a laser pen coming out of the bottom end of the golf club that points on that shaft and follows that shaft all the way through to the camera there, and then most importantly much Matt we will come back down again on that same ball to target line delivered to impact all the way through. Now watch this one the butt end that tee peg catches it with that ball to target line and follow that through again so it's amazing how much of the golf club in the head and the butt end points on that ball to target line throughout the whole swing. If I'm on plane if I get off the plane the club points now here near that ball to target line. The tee peg doesn't point to the ball to target line like those of point or the target like wise to flat in here not on both the target pointing back they're coming in here going over there no not spending much time pointing at both target line at all. Yeah it doesn't look like very symmetrical swing when as you're doing that when you've got the one where you've gone through those checkpoints is that what I tend to see from that it just looks like something where you're moving in sort of a big circle around your body. That would be the aim it would be a efficiency of making that nice big circular motion as opposed to Jim Furyk motion the sort of in up and over that we classically see. As a club golfer we want to try and follow more on plane more efficient motion I would feel. Excellent so some fantastic points therein a really great drill as well as you mentioned I think if you can get a mirror behind you when you go to the range or even taking a video with the smartphone your iPad whatever. It may be you'll be able to see the sort of checkpoints you're going through and the more you're working towards them I think we're going to get a more on playing golf swing and seeing some more consistent shots as we're going through our golf game.

2018-11-16

Often golfers create problems for the down swing if the backswing is not correctly on plane. During this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will talk you through a process of having the golf club shaft pointing directly at the Golf ball and ball to target line during the golf backswing. This intern should allow you to create an on plane golf swing during the backswing phase, which in transition should encourage a more on plane down swing and ultimately straight at golf shot.

When we're looking at some of the best golf swings in the world what we will tend to see is that generally they're swinging more towards the plane. Now if we were thinking about the plane of the golf swing what is it what we're actually talking about Pete? Well I think plane is going to be talking about what happens from the golf ball to the back swing and then back down again often described by the angle or the line of the club, and I think when you talk about you know the best swings and the ones that are most statically pleasing to the eye. It's the one that is the most on plane you ask people you know do you like Jim Furyk skull swing not so much like his pay check yes very much so very much so the swing maybe not. We're looking for more of a symmetrical sort of looking swing aren't we where all the angles or the lines and matching all throughout the golf swing. I think they're the ones that look the simplest and often they would be the ones that are more repeatable day in day out in a more consistent fashion and hopefully that the swings that that golfer is going to aspire have to produce straighter more consistent golf shots. OK so I'm going to give you this one extra club here and I want you to give us a little bit of a drill that we can do with this golf ball that can help us get us more on plane. Perfect thank you for the golf club I've also taken the liberty of sticking a tee peg just in the butt end of my golf club there just does a little mark to just help the camera see what we're looking for.

I've got my ball I've got my target line down here I'm going to place my club quite carefully as an extension of my ball to target line there and if we can just imagine for the time being that the line extends all the way to target all the way back all the way and then to the camera and off into the distance and that's my ball to target line. I'm going to try and trigger my swing to follow as much of the ball the target line as possible. Because your first checkpoint here Pete what is going to be that you know your grip your hands the club head Where are we going with this? I get the feeling now that obviously the club is pointing at my balls the target line as the club moves away it points largely down the ball the target line. All of the sudden the club is now lifting up the floor club keeps pointing on the ball to target line all the way through here points nicely at the camera which don't forget my balls target line runs under the camera and the club is taking a good on plane back swing line back away from the ball. Where would be the first check point you look to would it be halfway back top of the golf swing. We see it around about here I'd want to see that when I look at my my club against the camera or maybe the camera was a mirror I shouldn't really see my hands because the club is in the way. This way I would feel is what the club is outside the line and like wise this one would be inside the line. So I'm looking to set the club back on plane on line I can't see my hands from the camera's view that would be on plane actually. So where would we go from here then? Taking the club we are slowly going to start to put in a bit of wrist hinge to initiate some wrist change here and now we start to use the tee peg that sticking at the bottom end of the club.

This starts to hit that same ball to target line so I want to trace a line almost imagine as a laser pen coming out of the bottom end of the golf club that points on that shaft and follows that shaft all the way through to the camera there, and then most importantly much Matt we will come back down again on that same ball to target line delivered to impact all the way through. Now watch this one the butt end that tee peg catches it with that ball to target line and follow that through again so it's amazing how much of the golf club in the head and the butt end points on that ball to target line throughout the whole swing. If I'm on plane if I get off the plane the club points now here near that ball to target line. The tee peg doesn't point to the ball to target line like those of point or the target like wise to flat in here not on both the target pointing back they're coming in here going over there no not spending much time pointing at both target line at all. Yeah it doesn't look like very symmetrical swing when as you're doing that when you've got the one where you've gone through those checkpoints is that what I tend to see from that it just looks like something where you're moving in sort of a big circle around your body. That would be the aim it would be a efficiency of making that nice big circular motion as opposed to Jim Furyk motion the sort of in up and over that we classically see. As a club golfer we want to try and follow more on plane more efficient motion I would feel. Excellent so some fantastic points therein a really great drill as well as you mentioned I think if you can get a mirror behind you when you go to the range or even taking a video with the smartphone your iPad whatever. It may be you'll be able to see the sort of checkpoints you're going through and the more you're working towards them I think we're going to get a more on playing golf swing and seeing some more consistent shots as we're going through our golf game.