Set Up For A Good Golf Swing Transition (Video) - by Pete Styles
Set Up For A Good Golf Swing Transition (Video) - by Pete Styles

So understanding the importance of transition is a really key thing but the next objective is to understand which bit should I be working on? Which is the most important area for me to be looking at? Because obviously at this point in your golf swing is your transition, you change direction. Nearly every part of your body is moving in some way and one part affects the next part and it’s a chain reaction.

So the keys that I want you to look for in transition, the first thing is, good quality balance. We know that throughout the golf swing, you got to try and be balanced but as we change directions that balance becomes even more crucial. And we see often lot of golfers that they get out of balance as they change direction and then their balance is going to be off for the whole swing and ultimately they will be stepping off the ball forwards, backwards, left or right whatever it might be. So when you’re making your golf swing, just make sure you get to the top of the swing here and you feel like you’re fully in balance. Then start your dance swing and again, you should feel fully in balance. Anytime you get to here and you feel out of balance, you know you can’t end well within the swing. The second area I’d like to concentrate on is making sure that your rear elbow to the right elbow for the right handed golfer is nice and tight into the body as you start the transition. And again, this goes back to probably one of the biggest faults for the golfers to transition is where they come over the top which is the right elbow moving out away from the body too much at that point. So we take it nicely to the top in a good position and then throw it over. And the right elbow as you can see here is moved away from my body. Transitional checkpoint would be to the top, pull in and make sure that the right elbow is tight. I can’t get my left hand any higher up here because my right elbow is in a good position as I deliver the club downwards onto the golf ball; my right elbow is a lot tighter. So good balance and a good dropped, pulled in right elbow position. Now one other thing we want to work on through the transition here is making sure that we are good to the top, the right elbow pulls in nicely here and we maintain our knee-flex. As a golfer, if we get to the top on our knee as it turns out here, we could find that it affects the balance, could find that if affects the right elbow position, I’m definitely gonna screw it with my weight shift. So as I drive across to the golf ball from here, I can’t push off enough if my right knee have locked. Now I stressed the locked part because it’s okay for your rear leg to be straighten. We see a lot of good golfers flex their knees to start with. Their rear knee would straighten slightly but I would avoid that locked position. Once that leg drops back and locks out, we’ll tend to find the body weight go to the outside of that rear foot. Very difficult for them to push forwards. So as we go to the top if the leg locks out, we can feel it quite little to push across often getting stuck behind the golf ball and having a poor transition. So keeping the right elbow in, good balance, good right or rear leg position as you start your transition and you should we well on your way to improving that technical and quite important part of your swing. 2016-05-05

So understanding the importance of transition is a really key thing but the next objective is to understand which bit should I be working on? Which is the most important area for me to be looking at? Because obviously at this point in your golf swing is your transition, you change direction. Nearly every part of your body is moving in some way and one part affects the next part and it’s a chain reaction.

So the keys that I want you to look for in transition, the first thing is, good quality balance. We know that throughout the golf swing, you got to try and be balanced but as we change directions that balance becomes even more crucial. And we see often lot of golfers that they get out of balance as they change direction and then their balance is going to be off for the whole swing and ultimately they will be stepping off the ball forwards, backwards, left or right whatever it might be.

So when you’re making your golf swing, just make sure you get to the top of the swing here and you feel like you’re fully in balance. Then start your dance swing and again, you should feel fully in balance. Anytime you get to here and you feel out of balance, you know you can’t end well within the swing. The second area I’d like to concentrate on is making sure that your rear elbow to the right elbow for the right handed golfer is nice and tight into the body as you start the transition. And again, this goes back to probably one of the biggest faults for the golfers to transition is where they come over the top which is the right elbow moving out away from the body too much at that point. So we take it nicely to the top in a good position and then throw it over.

And the right elbow as you can see here is moved away from my body. Transitional checkpoint would be to the top, pull in and make sure that the right elbow is tight. I can’t get my left hand any higher up here because my right elbow is in a good position as I deliver the club downwards onto the golf ball; my right elbow is a lot tighter. So good balance and a good dropped, pulled in right elbow position. Now one other thing we want to work on through the transition here is making sure that we are good to the top, the right elbow pulls in nicely here and we maintain our knee-flex.

As a golfer, if we get to the top on our knee as it turns out here, we could find that it affects the balance, could find that if affects the right elbow position, I’m definitely gonna screw it with my weight shift. So as I drive across to the golf ball from here, I can’t push off enough if my right knee have locked. Now I stressed the locked part because it’s okay for your rear leg to be straighten. We see a lot of good golfers flex their knees to start with. Their rear knee would straighten slightly but I would avoid that locked position. Once that leg drops back and locks out, we’ll tend to find the body weight go to the outside of that rear foot. Very difficult for them to push forwards.

So as we go to the top if the leg locks out, we can feel it quite little to push across often getting stuck behind the golf ball and having a poor transition. So keeping the right elbow in, good balance, good right or rear leg position as you start your transition and you should we well on your way to improving that technical and quite important part of your swing.