Working On Your Golf Down Swing Squat (Video) - by Pete Styles
Working On Your Golf Down Swing Squat (Video) - by Pete Styles

Trying to make any new change to your golf swing, fit into your golf swing quickly, can be quite difficult. But this down swing squat is really one of those motions where you do need to take your time on the driving range to incorporate this change, rather than washing straight down into the golf course and trying to get it set up, trying to get it to stick on the first tee. Standing on the first tee thinking, "I've watched that video where Pete says I've got to do this, and I've got to stand up as I hit the ball", it's probably a bit of a recipe for disaster. So head to the driving rage or the practice ground, take your driver, take a good basket of fifth year or 100 golf balls, and just start to do this slowly and build it up. Now what we'd like to see to start with is you normal address position up to the top; and just feel almost in slow motion, the little showering of the shaft as you drop into your knees.

And then bringing those knees straight through as you come to, impact and set up to the impact position again; so up down, and up again to impact. And do that a few times, jus feel like you're training your muscles to learn that right motion. And then start to do it quite slowly but actually hit the golf ball. So we're going to go up, shallow, and then hit, and just see if you can tap the ball away. So we've got is up, down and hit, and pick the ball off the surface. Once you can do that at sort of 50% power; start to go 60, 70, 80, 90, 100% power. You've got to watch for your bad ones; your bad ones in generally are going to be height related. So it might be that you don't reach the club into the ground and you catch it fat; effectively that was just too much of the knee shallowing, too much of the knee bending, and not enough of heel. And of course the opposite to that is going to be topping the golf ball where you didn't do enough of the down; you did too much of the up, and you came over and hit the top of the golf ball. So let's just be careful with the vertical height issues between dropping and standing up too much, as you learn to do this new squatting drill on the driving range. 2016-07-26

Trying to make any new change to your golf swing, fit into your golf swing quickly, can be quite difficult. But this down swing squat is really one of those motions where you do need to take your time on the driving range to incorporate this change, rather than washing straight down into the golf course and trying to get it set up, trying to get it to stick on the first tee. Standing on the first tee thinking, “I've watched that video where Pete says I've got to do this, and I've got to stand up as I hit the ball”, it's probably a bit of a recipe for disaster. So head to the driving rage or the practice ground, take your driver, take a good basket of fifth year or 100 golf balls, and just start to do this slowly and build it up. Now what we'd like to see to start with is you normal address position up to the top; and just feel almost in slow motion, the little showering of the shaft as you drop into your knees.

And then bringing those knees straight through as you come to, impact and set up to the impact position again; so up down, and up again to impact. And do that a few times, jus feel like you're training your muscles to learn that right motion. And then start to do it quite slowly but actually hit the golf ball. So we're going to go up, shallow, and then hit, and just see if you can tap the ball away. So we've got is up, down and hit, and pick the ball off the surface. Once you can do that at sort of 50% power; start to go 60, 70, 80, 90, 100% power. You've got to watch for your bad ones; your bad ones in generally are going to be height related. So it might be that you don't reach the club into the ground and you catch it fat; effectively that was just too much of the knee shallowing, too much of the knee bending, and not enough of heel. And of course the opposite to that is going to be topping the golf ball where you didn't do enough of the down; you did too much of the up, and you came over and hit the top of the golf ball. So let's just be careful with the vertical height issues between dropping and standing up too much, as you learn to do this new squatting drill on the driving range.