Low And Slow for Connected Backswing - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler
Low And Slow for Connected Backswing - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler

If you want a connected backswing, we need to concentrated on taking the club back low and slow and that’s the best way of getting connected backswing. The best way of demonstrating this is to think about the shoulders. If we take the club away at the hands, naturally the club will not be low and slow, it’d be just picking the club up and going quite jerky, quite fly-away. If you actually take the club back and concentrate with the shoulders, just pushing the club away, you can see that club is much, much lower position to the ground compared of where we just were, so that will actually create a low and slow takeaway and that’s very, very important. Remember, it was the shoulders, the shoulders there were the key, that’s what was pushing it away.

We weren’t picking the club straight up or moving the body, normal setup, but from here push that club away with your left arm and you can see it’s nice, low and slow. A very, very simple way of doing this, rather than kind of concentrating on the mechanics of the swing is two things. The first thing is I’ve got a basket behind the ball. You can use a tee peg, just say six inches behind, and the whole idea to keep everything nice and slow is to actually just take that club back and as you take the club back make sure you just hit the top of that tee peg, not kind of battering it along the ground, but just touch that tee peg, that way we’ve got all the width, so we’re taking the club back sweeping it away.

So, I put the basket here, basically just to exaggerate things, so if I cut my club across the back of this ball and now I sweep it back, the basket get moving out of the way and I’ve got a lovely position, lots of width and you can see how slow and how deliberate that backswing actually was. So, low and slow for a connected backswing. One further tip is if you manage to get on the golf course in the morning and you’ve got a nice sort of morning due, well, the same thing applies. If you put the club on the ground behind the ball and you got due, the whole idea is to remove the due off the grass for the first six inches. It’s the same thing.

By removing that due you’re actually creating exactly what we did with the tee peg in the ground or with the basket, remove the due, the club goes back now, it’s coming back low and slow and it keeps everything nice and connected. That swing is so simple and so easy, so uncomplicated. Golfers complicate it enough. Go away, work on these tips and low and slow, it’s an absolute doddle.

 2013-08-07

If you want a connected backswing, we need to concentrated on taking the club back low and slow and that’s the best way of getting connected backswing. The best way of demonstrating this is to think about the shoulders. If we take the club away at the hands, naturally the club will not be low and slow, it’d be just picking the club up and going quite jerky, quite fly-away. If you actually take the club back and concentrate with the shoulders, just pushing the club away, you can see that club is much, much lower position to the ground compared of where we just were, so that will actually create a low and slow takeaway and that’s very, very important. Remember, it was the shoulders, the shoulders there were the key, that’s what was pushing it away.

We weren’t picking the club straight up or moving the body, normal setup, but from here push that club away with your left arm and you can see it’s nice, low and slow. A very, very simple way of doing this, rather than kind of concentrating on the mechanics of the swing is two things. The first thing is I’ve got a basket behind the ball. You can use a tee peg, just say six inches behind, and the whole idea to keep everything nice and slow is to actually just take that club back and as you take the club back make sure you just hit the top of that tee peg, not kind of battering it along the ground, but just touch that tee peg, that way we’ve got all the width, so we’re taking the club back sweeping it away.

So, I put the basket here, basically just to exaggerate things, so if I cut my club across the back of this ball and now I sweep it back, the basket get moving out of the way and I’ve got a lovely position, lots of width and you can see how slow and how deliberate that backswing actually was. So, low and slow for a connected backswing. One further tip is if you manage to get on the golf course in the morning and you’ve got a nice sort of morning due, well, the same thing applies. If you put the club on the ground behind the ball and you got due, the whole idea is to remove the due off the grass for the first six inches. It’s the same thing.

By removing that due you’re actually creating exactly what we did with the tee peg in the ground or with the basket, remove the due, the club goes back now, it’s coming back low and slow and it keeps everything nice and connected. That swing is so simple and so easy, so uncomplicated. Golfers complicate it enough. Go away, work on these tips and low and slow, it’s an absolute doddle.