Senior Golfer 3 - Posture - Do your best (Video) - by Pete Styles
Senior Golfer 3 - Posture - Do your best (Video) - by Pete Styles

So we often talk about how important posture is to the golf swing. But if you've got a senior and who's been playing golf for a long time and has started to adapt his golf swing to a pull posture position, it can be very difficult to manipulate the back out to a perfect posture position particularly if they lived their life in a slump or kind of keeled forward body position. So we're going to try and emphasize the best possible posture you can make with your normal sort of every day posture that you currently have.

So, again, I'm going to bring David back in. He's going to settle to the golf ball one more time with his 7-9. Taking a good address position. And then we can see a little curve in the top of the back here, a little bit of a slump in the mid section of the back. So, if we go to the nose, chin and bellybutton exercise. So, David, stand up nice and tall, club goes against the nose with chin and the bellybutton, standing up as tall as you can with your head back and then we’ll tilt forward and bit by bit lower yourself down into a good posture so you end up looking down at the golf ball.

As you can see as David does that, his back straightens out quite nicely. And when you feel like you're a good position, you can go ahead and bring the club down to your normal grip. Working as best you can to maintain that posture. Now, if you can try this at home and just see what that feels like as you do that, you might feel it quite painful, quite uncomfortable. If that's the case, stop and adapt it slightly. Do less aggressive sort of straight back position, but the best you can possibly manage with that posture position.

And for a lot of golfers, they actually play with that position, and it will hurt their back less, it will give them less stress, less tightness during the rand of golf with that posture position. You can relax there for me. That's looking good. You can ease your back there.

Any pain in the lower back there or does that feel OK?

David: I'm fine.

Male Speaker: OK. So if you can try that next time you're down the driving range, or even just at home in front of a mirror, try and improve your posture the best you can without titling forward exercise, and I hope that works well for you.

 2012-09-18

So we often talk about how important posture is to the golf swing. But if you've got a senior and who's been playing golf for a long time and has started to adapt his golf swing to a pull posture position, it can be very difficult to manipulate the back out to a perfect posture position particularly if they lived their life in a slump or kind of keeled forward body position. So we're going to try and emphasize the best possible posture you can make with your normal sort of every day posture that you currently have.

So, again, I'm going to bring David back in. He's going to settle to the golf ball one more time with his 7-9. Taking a good address position. And then we can see a little curve in the top of the back here, a little bit of a slump in the mid section of the back. So, if we go to the nose, chin and bellybutton exercise. So, David, stand up nice and tall, club goes against the nose with chin and the bellybutton, standing up as tall as you can with your head back and then we’ll tilt forward and bit by bit lower yourself down into a good posture so you end up looking down at the golf ball.

As you can see as David does that, his back straightens out quite nicely. And when you feel like you're a good position, you can go ahead and bring the club down to your normal grip. Working as best you can to maintain that posture. Now, if you can try this at home and just see what that feels like as you do that, you might feel it quite painful, quite uncomfortable. If that's the case, stop and adapt it slightly. Do less aggressive sort of straight back position, but the best you can possibly manage with that posture position.

And for a lot of golfers, they actually play with that position, and it will hurt their back less, it will give them less stress, less tightness during the rand of golf with that posture position. You can relax there for me. That's looking good. You can ease your back there.

Any pain in the lower back there or does that feel OK?

David: I'm fine.

Male Speaker: OK. So if you can try that next time you're down the driving range, or even just at home in front of a mirror, try and improve your posture the best you can without titling forward exercise, and I hope that works well for you.