What Is A Golf Down Swing Squat (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Is A Golf Down Swing Squat (Video) - by Pete Styles

So a few considerations if you are to start looking and making this down swing squat, this idea that we are going to load the power and the down swing and then drive up through the swing. First thing to consider is it might not necessarily work with all of your shots, generally speaking it’s going to work better and be more pronounced as you get to your bigger clubs. Certainly with your shorter irons, we wouldn’t be hitting chip shots with any necessarily visible down and up motion, pitch shots likewise. It's going to start happening the more you get through to your mid irons, your longer irons, your hybrids, your fairway woods and ultimately your driver. And you probably see a bigger down swing squat with your bigger clubs and particularly something that’s teed up, where the vertical height of your swing is not as important as, let's say an iron or a wedge when it’s placed straight from the floor.

The next thing you might consider that you’re able to do this down swing squat is actually create more power due to the silly ground forces that you use, rather than standing flat footed on the floor and turning. It’s actually the sense that you build power, particularly to the inside of your trailing knee and then you push up through that trailing knee as you drive your hips, and your hips can turn quicker into that motion. Well another consideration that all the golfers find when they do this position is that they are actually to drop the club a little bit more behind them until certain extend avoid a slice. So generally speaking, a golfer who will squat into the down swing -- we’ve seen this a lot with McIlroy, squats in here, drops the club behind him, has quite a shallow angle of attack. Yes he’s got to work hard as he comes through here to hit the golf ball but the squatting right knee and therefore the extending right knee is really working well to help him square the club face up. Conversely a golfer who doesn’t do this might just get a bit hands and arms in, getting a bit thrown over the top and not really using their hips enough. So if you want to try and draw the golf ball a little bit more -- generating a little bit more power, you might have a feel at least down swing squat, an extension through the ball is a great way of achieving that extra distance. 2016-07-26

So a few considerations if you are to start looking and making this down swing squat, this idea that we are going to load the power and the down swing and then drive up through the swing. First thing to consider is it might not necessarily work with all of your shots, generally speaking it’s going to work better and be more pronounced as you get to your bigger clubs. Certainly with your shorter irons, we wouldn’t be hitting chip shots with any necessarily visible down and up motion, pitch shots likewise. It's going to start happening the more you get through to your mid irons, your longer irons, your hybrids, your fairway woods and ultimately your driver. And you probably see a bigger down swing squat with your bigger clubs and particularly something that’s teed up, where the vertical height of your swing is not as important as, let's say an iron or a wedge when it’s placed straight from the floor.

The next thing you might consider that you’re able to do this down swing squat is actually create more power due to the silly ground forces that you use, rather than standing flat footed on the floor and turning. It’s actually the sense that you build power, particularly to the inside of your trailing knee and then you push up through that trailing knee as you drive your hips, and your hips can turn quicker into that motion.

Well another consideration that all the golfers find when they do this position is that they are actually to drop the club a little bit more behind them until certain extend avoid a slice. So generally speaking, a golfer who will squat into the down swing — we’ve seen this a lot with McIlroy, squats in here, drops the club behind him, has quite a shallow angle of attack. Yes he’s got to work hard as he comes through here to hit the golf ball but the squatting right knee and therefore the extending right knee is really working well to help him square the club face up.

Conversely a golfer who doesn’t do this might just get a bit hands and arms in, getting a bit thrown over the top and not really using their hips enough. So if you want to try and draw the golf ball a little bit more — generating a little bit more power, you might have a feel at least down swing squat, an extension through the ball is a great way of achieving that extra distance.