Pete Finch – PGA Teaching Pro
When you are looking to build a very successful golf swing sequence, all the things that we’ve spoken about can be broken down into individual segments. However, if you look to hit a successful golf shot, thinking about 7 to 8, 9 to 10 different moving parts within that golf swing, is very difficult to do, and it is not something which I would advise to do all at once.
If you are struggling with a certain part of the sequence or just a takeaway, the arm movement, the weight transfer, the shoulder turn, whatever it may be, focus on them individually and don’t try and work on them at all the same time. However, if you want to get that general feeling, if you want to get the general gist of what a good weight transfer, what a good sequence will feel like, you can use a simple approach of just focusing on the shoulders and the hips or more directly and even more further down into the middle of the chest and the belt buckle. Now, what you want to be seeing when focusing on the middle of the chest and the belt buckle to give you that good sequence but to keep it nice and simple is on the way away from the ball, on the way back from the ball, is to turn away and get the chest facing away from the target, really, really simple, get that chest facing away from the target. Now, what that will do, it will allow the upper body to rotate back until it stops into this position. If you move the chest further around, so it’s pointing up and off to the right-hand side, you’ve turned too far. So, it’s turning the chest back, so it’s directly away from the target. Then on the weight through, all we want to be doing is moving through and turning the hips and turning the belt buckle, so they are pointing just slightly off to the left of the target. What this will do, it will allow the shoulders to turn back and it will allow the hips to turn through fully. And it can shoot you off from wall there all the chatter that is associated with the golf swing about all the sequence. So, it’s getting set up and this is not easy to do on the course and focusing on analysis well, so in that set of position, middle of the chest away, and then the hips towards the target. And you can see here I’ve turned so fully on the weight through, that my belt buckle starting to face slightly off to the left-hand side. If that’s the case, then don’t restrict it. Let it go over that. So, that’s a simple way that you can break that sequence down and make it a little more simple to use on a driving range or ideally on the course as well. 2016-11-01When you are looking to build a very successful golf swing sequence, all the things that we’ve spoken about can be broken down into individual segments. However, if you look to hit a successful golf shot, thinking about 7 to 8, 9 to 10 different moving parts within that golf swing, is very difficult to do, and it is not something which I would advise to do all at once.
If you are struggling with a certain part of the sequence or just a takeaway, the arm movement, the weight transfer, the shoulder turn, whatever it may be, focus on them individually and don’t try and work on them at all the same time. However, if you want to get that general feeling, if you want to get the general gist of what a good weight transfer, what a good sequence will feel like, you can use a simple approach of just focusing on the shoulders and the hips or more directly and even more further down into the middle of the chest and the belt buckle.
Now, what you want to be seeing when focusing on the middle of the chest and the belt buckle to give you that good sequence but to keep it nice and simple is on the way away from the ball, on the way back from the ball, is to turn away and get the chest facing away from the target, really, really simple, get that chest facing away from the target. Now, what that will do, it will allow the upper body to rotate back until it stops into this position.
If you move the chest further around, so it’s pointing up and off to the right-hand side, you’ve turned too far. So, it’s turning the chest back, so it’s directly away from the target. Then on the weight through, all we want to be doing is moving through and turning the hips and turning the belt buckle, so they are pointing just slightly off to the left of the target. What this will do, it will allow the shoulders to turn back and it will allow the hips to turn through fully.
And it can shoot you off from wall there all the chatter that is associated with the golf swing about all the sequence. So, it’s getting set up and this is not easy to do on the course and focusing on analysis well, so in that set of position, middle of the chest away, and then the hips towards the target. And you can see here I’ve turned so fully on the weight through, that my belt buckle starting to face slightly off to the left-hand side. If that’s the case, then don’t restrict it. Let it go over that. So, that’s a simple way that you can break that sequence down and make it a little more simple to use on a driving range or ideally on the course as well.
