So I guess the question for a lot of golfers now would be, “Well, why would I make this Colin Montgomerie tilt to my body? What benefit can that bring?”. But actually if you look at Monty’s swing and you see one of the key things that he does in his swing, he swings quite long and as we’ve suggested before, the tilt of the body allows for the longer swing. So that maybe is the clue to what some amateur golfers might be able to gain by making that body tilt. If you’re finding that as you’re turning back, you’ve been told to turn your shoulders away and get your body weight into your right side and you get to here and you’re not swinging very far and your spine angle’s really tilted away from target, sometimes golfers from here would get stuck on their back foot. So they have a short swing with poor balance and leaning back to much. So maybe that golfer that struggles with the length of the backswing could actually benefit from bringing that body weight more to the middle of their feet and creating a longer swing.

So you see that this swing here is quite short and a bit too far to my right as I tilt my body back up I instinctively swing longer and bring my body weight more back to the centre. So I’m not really swaying any differently, or not lifting my hands and arms differently, I’m just not tilting my spine back as much, I’m tilting my spine more to the left side. And what you’ll find with that movement is you will instinctively swing the club further. Now if a further backswing allows the club head to have a little bit more of a run up into the back of the ball, then it should be generating a little bit more power as we come down into the ball and therefore being able to hit the ball a little bit further. So the short leaning to the right swing might benefit from the Monty tilt to then allow a little bit more balance and clearance through the ball. So you can have balance, you can have tempo, you can have a longer swing by using the Colin Montgomerie body tilt golf swing.