Practicing The Golf Down Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Practicing The Golf Down Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

Those eagle-eyed views will now appreciate my bag has joined – this one rather than over there is now over here, and it’s here to help me out, it’s here for an exercise and a tip to help with my understanding of my weight shift and my balance. And this bag is here to understand how I should turn into my left side and not slide into my left side. So a fault we see with quite a few golfers, as they're driving into the golf ball, they’ll shift too far to the left. The left leg won’t restrict them and they will follow through as a right handed golfer anyway, and I will slide through this way, might mean my hip will be too lateral.

So what we could do here is bring a golf bag or even an alignment cane, you could stick that into the floor, just something firm against your left hip for the right-handed golfer. So I set up here, bring the ball into position. Now as I make my swing, I want to feel I move away, turn to my right, but I don’t really slide away from the bag, it’s more just the fact that I am rotating will bring me a little bit away from the bag with my lower leg. Now as I balance swing, as I transition, I move back towards the bag but then I straighten my left side up and I restrict my hip motion, before I hit the bag, so as I swing up and through, I can still move on to my left leg. There is very little weight on my right leg, if I keep turning through, but I haven’t pushed into the bag this way. Then you really don’t want to go knocking your bag over so it's quite a good exercise to keep you backing away from it. If you are really struggling, you keep knocking your clubs over and that’s going to be a problem. Take the alignment cane, stick that in the floor and just bump up against that or more importantly, try not to bump up against it, but at least that would not keep knocking the clubs over, but if you're really serious about this and you don’t want to damage your clubs too much, you will learn to make a swing, but it’s a full swing but it hasn’t involved the lateral motion. If I move away, you can see the bad swing here would be too much of this other than the falling into it, so too much lateral sway is going to involve hitting the bag. So bring your bag into your left hip, set up to the golf ball, learn to turn through but not actually knock the bag over. And that’s a great little exercise, so you don’t have to sway your hips too much into the golf ball, you can learn to turn your hips a lot more. 2016-04-15

Those eagle-eyed views will now appreciate my bag has joined – this one rather than over there is now over here, and it’s here to help me out, it’s here for an exercise and a tip to help with my understanding of my weight shift and my balance. And this bag is here to understand how I should turn into my left side and not slide into my left side. So a fault we see with quite a few golfers, as they're driving into the golf ball, they’ll shift too far to the left. The left leg won’t restrict them and they will follow through as a right handed golfer anyway, and I will slide through this way, might mean my hip will be too lateral.

So what we could do here is bring a golf bag or even an alignment cane, you could stick that into the floor, just something firm against your left hip for the right-handed golfer. So I set up here, bring the ball into position. Now as I make my swing, I want to feel I move away, turn to my right, but I don’t really slide away from the bag, it’s more just the fact that I am rotating will bring me a little bit away from the bag with my lower leg.

Now as I balance swing, as I transition, I move back towards the bag but then I straighten my left side up and I restrict my hip motion, before I hit the bag, so as I swing up and through, I can still move on to my left leg. There is very little weight on my right leg, if I keep turning through, but I haven’t pushed into the bag this way. Then you really don’t want to go knocking your bag over so it's quite a good exercise to keep you backing away from it.

If you are really struggling, you keep knocking your clubs over and that’s going to be a problem. Take the alignment cane, stick that in the floor and just bump up against that or more importantly, try not to bump up against it, but at least that would not keep knocking the clubs over, but if you're really serious about this and you don’t want to damage your clubs too much, you will learn to make a swing, but it’s a full swing but it hasn’t involved the lateral motion. If I move away, you can see the bad swing here would be too much of this other than the falling into it, so too much lateral sway is going to involve hitting the bag.

So bring your bag into your left hip, set up to the golf ball, learn to turn through but not actually knock the bag over. And that’s a great little exercise, so you don’t have to sway your hips too much into the golf ball, you can learn to turn your hips a lot more.