If you watch any television and you watch the televised golf for the weekend, you’ll often hear the commentators, the announcers, talking about swing planes and how someone has a perfect swing plane and someone is above the plane or below the plane. To the untrained eye, it can be quite difficult to work out what a swing plane is and how that can relate to your own game. The swing plane is sort of the ideal path that we’d like the golf club to be swinging on. So if I can set-up for the side on-view here, I would normally draw a swing plane line from the heel of the golf club up through my body, just below my shoulder and keep going out to the back, and it would be that line that would try and get the golf club to swing along.

So if you ever watched a TV program or a video of someone’s golf swing or even your own swings, you video it on your phone and then you can draw the lines on with some of these apps these days, draw the line from the heel of the golf club, just below your back shoulder, and then try and swing the club up and down that line, and that would be swing plane. We then describe things as above the swing plane or outside the swing plane and below the swing plane, too flat. So we have steep positions, flat positions and then on-plane positions. That’s what we describe the swing plane as and the following section is going to be drills relating to how you can get your club to swing along the swing plane as much as possible.