Improve your Posture with Simple Setup Method, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Improve your Posture with Simple Setup Method, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

So, as you address the golf ball, one of the biggest differences between what we class as a good fundamental address position were we can actually revolve around the posture. So, if I stand to the side for a second, you've got to pitch it there. That's a good set position. It looks nice and athletic. It looks stacked over my knees and my hips and my feet, ready to make a nice rotational movement around the relatively straight spines. My spine, can say the same however, if I set into the golf ball, same distance away, same ball position but then just slump. It was completely different. It's a lot weaker. It looks like I'm going to be less involved in hitting a nice aggressive golf shot to a certain extent, it looks a bit less confident as well. And then the problem here is I've tilted from my waist rather than tilting for my hips.

So, a great checkpoint for you would be to set yourself up in a good address position here ideally with a mirror or my camera so you can look at yourself. Head and shoulders nicely back, so you feel like you're standing tall, almost like you're standing at attention and then just tilt at the hips, pushing the bum back until the club settles itself just behind the ball. Then, a little knee flex, just a small flex to the knees and then just relax there so your spine is nice and straight and you should be relaxed. You shouldn't be too tense or tight but it shouldn't also be slumped and comfortable and hunched like this position might be. It should be quite disciplined to hold yourself in that position and then rotate around that posture and that should encourage you to be more consistent and actually hit the ball a little bit further as well.

Try that and I hope that helps you.

2012-05-30

So, as you address the golf ball, one of the biggest differences between what we class as a good fundamental address position were we can actually revolve around the posture. So, if I stand to the side for a second, you've got to pitch it there. That's a good set position. It looks nice and athletic. It looks stacked over my knees and my hips and my feet, ready to make a nice rotational movement around the relatively straight spines. My spine, can say the same however, if I set into the golf ball, same distance away, same ball position but then just slump. It was completely different. It's a lot weaker. It looks like I'm going to be less involved in hitting a nice aggressive golf shot to a certain extent, it looks a bit less confident as well. And then the problem here is I've tilted from my waist rather than tilting for my hips.

So, a great checkpoint for you would be to set yourself up in a good address position here ideally with a mirror or my camera so you can look at yourself. Head and shoulders nicely back, so you feel like you're standing tall, almost like you're standing at attention and then just tilt at the hips, pushing the bum back until the club settles itself just behind the ball. Then, a little knee flex, just a small flex to the knees and then just relax there so your spine is nice and straight and you should be relaxed. You shouldn't be too tense or tight but it shouldn't also be slumped and comfortable and hunched like this position might be. It should be quite disciplined to hold yourself in that position and then rotate around that posture and that should encourage you to be more consistent and actually hit the ball a little bit further as well.

Try that and I hope that helps you.