One Plane Golf Swing Verses Two Plane Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
One Plane Golf Swing Verses Two Plane Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

So looking at a one plane versus a two plane golf swing, you’ll often find that a two-plane golf swing is the more common version, a swing where the club comes up on one line and comes down on a slightly different line. But it’s worth the caveat to notice that a lot of the downswing planes aren’t actually the right way. You know golfers have two plane swings, but they have one plane coming up and then the second plane is over the top which is like a reverse two plane swing, which is probably the most common sort of bad shot that people hit, the slicing golf shot. We then got a two plane swing going the wrong way. We want to make sure if you have a two plane swing, that it’s a backswing that’s slightly steeper and a downswing that’s slightly flatter. That would be the correct two plane swing. And often golfers that are slightly taller, and stand a little bit close to the golf ball, have this two plane motion and that’s better suited to them. Golfers that generally are little bit shorter in stature and stand a little bit further away from the golf ball generally have more of a one plane swing, it’s a little bit more bent over from the hips and it’s more around and back.

So it’s more of a one plane action in this phase here. For you to understand which is the better swing plane particularly for your game, you’ve got to notice first what does your current swing plane look like. It’s very difficult to see this using a mirror, you know where the camera is there, if I had a mirror I could see it coming up and down, but could I generally see what happens during the actual swing? It might be that I get a bit of false impression of what it looks like by checking it in my practice swing, yet when I actually hit a golf ball, the swing plane might change a little bit more. So what I’d encourage you to do is get it videoed, either go and see your local PJA golf professional and get somebody at the back with a camera to see it, or if you’ve got a decent quality phone camera or a decent quality video camera, get one of your mates to video it. Try and set the camera up so it’s straight down the line, have got a club here for my intended target line, so I can check the camera square to that. And then I can see what my swing plane looks like, as I go ahead and hit some shots. Hit half a dozen shots, if you’ve got software that you can load that swing up to you can actually start drawing lines on there and freeze frame at certain positions. If you haven’t got that maybe you can just see within your video footage does the club drop on to a different line, does it get thrown over to a different line which is the reverse two plane which is the fault, or does it come up and down on exactly the same swing path line? So have a little look, work at what your current swing plane is, and then we can work out which is going to be the best swing plane for you moving forwards. 2015-10-14

So looking at a one plane versus a two plane golf swing, you’ll often find that a two-plane golf swing is the more common version, a swing where the club comes up on one line and comes down on a slightly different line. But it’s worth the caveat to notice that a lot of the downswing planes aren’t actually the right way. You know golfers have two plane swings, but they have one plane coming up and then the second plane is over the top which is like a reverse two plane swing, which is probably the most common sort of bad shot that people hit, the slicing golf shot. We then got a two plane swing going the wrong way. We want to make sure if you have a two plane swing, that it’s a backswing that’s slightly steeper and a downswing that’s slightly flatter. That would be the correct two plane swing. And often golfers that are slightly taller, and stand a little bit close to the golf ball, have this two plane motion and that’s better suited to them. Golfers that generally are little bit shorter in stature and stand a little bit further away from the golf ball generally have more of a one plane swing, it’s a little bit more bent over from the hips and it’s more around and back.

So it’s more of a one plane action in this phase here. For you to understand which is the better swing plane particularly for your game, you’ve got to notice first what does your current swing plane look like. It’s very difficult to see this using a mirror, you know where the camera is there, if I had a mirror I could see it coming up and down, but could I generally see what happens during the actual swing? It might be that I get a bit of false impression of what it looks like by checking it in my practice swing, yet when I actually hit a golf ball, the swing plane might change a little bit more. So what I’d encourage you to do is get it videoed, either go and see your local PJA golf professional and get somebody at the back with a camera to see it, or if you’ve got a decent quality phone camera or a decent quality video camera, get one of your mates to video it.

Try and set the camera up so it’s straight down the line, have got a club here for my intended target line, so I can check the camera square to that. And then I can see what my swing plane looks like, as I go ahead and hit some shots. Hit half a dozen shots, if you’ve got software that you can load that swing up to you can actually start drawing lines on there and freeze frame at certain positions. If you haven’t got that maybe you can just see within your video footage does the club drop on to a different line, does it get thrown over to a different line which is the reverse two plane which is the fault, or does it come up and down on exactly the same swing path line? So have a little look, work at what your current swing plane is, and then we can work out which is going to be the best swing plane for you moving forwards.