Making A Compact Golf Swing Your Own (Video) - by Pete Styles
Making A Compact Golf Swing Your Own (Video) - by Pete Styles

Any time that you’re trying to make big fundamental changes to your swing, I think it’s really important that you break it down into stages, so you don’t try and sort of tackle the whole cake in one piece, in one go, but you cut the cake into pieces and you deal with one piece at a time. And in terms of this idea of making a more compact Nick Faldo type golf swing. I think it’s going to be really beneficial if you can get yourself either a mirror or a video camera to actually watch the individual movement you’re trying to make. The reason there is a lot of these movements you’re not really going to be able to see for yourself until you look from either the front end off and down the line, so if I’ve got my video camera set up here, what I’d be able to do is make some alterations to my swing and then go back and review it, or ideally it would actually be to have a mirror in front me and I could just watch myself do it live. There’s a couple of things I’ve been looking for firstly as I’m setting up to the golf ball and making swings, I’d want to make sure that my left foot remains largely planted and stable throughout the whole swing, we wouldn’t want to see the left foot lifting and then going back onto the floor. That would not be a compact stable golf swing.

The next stage I’d encourage you to look at is focusing on the position of your right elbow, making sure your right elbow sits nice and down and low and compact. So I’d be swinging to the top and looking at my right elbow, my right elbow is below my right shoulder as a right handed golfer I’d be happy with that, rather than my right elbow getting too high this is not connected or compact. Likewise, from down the line here swinging back, check my right elbow is good, don’t want to see it up too high here. And other chances I’d be looking for from the front on position would be the lateral movement in my swing. I wouldn’t want to see my head swing back too far and I wouldn’t want to see that then accommodated by two active leg drive in the downswing, so head swing back and a very aggressive leg drive into the downswing is not what we classed as a compact swing. I’d rather see steady head, steady legs and a nice turn through but not getting too aggressive, not getting too many moving parts. So think about this whole swing feeling as being less moving parts, more compact nature to the whole swing. So as I set up to hit one now with those simple things in my mind, I can go ahead make a good clean contact from the back of the ball and I really felt like that my golf swing didn’t have too many moving parts, there wouldn’t have been too much to go wrong with that swing. Time after time, under pressure out on the golf course, if I can incorporate that Nick Faldo compact golf swing, I can hopefully start to emulate some of his results. 2016-08-18

Any time that you’re trying to make big fundamental changes to your swing, I think it’s really important that you break it down into stages, so you don’t try and sort of tackle the whole cake in one piece, in one go, but you cut the cake into pieces and you deal with one piece at a time. And in terms of this idea of making a more compact Nick Faldo type golf swing. I think it’s going to be really beneficial if you can get yourself either a mirror or a video camera to actually watch the individual movement you’re trying to make. The reason there is a lot of these movements you’re not really going to be able to see for yourself until you look from either the front end off and down the line, so if I’ve got my video camera set up here, what I’d be able to do is make some alterations to my swing and then go back and review it, or ideally it would actually be to have a mirror in front me and I could just watch myself do it live. There’s a couple of things I’ve been looking for firstly as I’m setting up to the golf ball and making swings, I’d want to make sure that my left foot remains largely planted and stable throughout the whole swing, we wouldn’t want to see the left foot lifting and then going back onto the floor. That would not be a compact stable golf swing.

The next stage I’d encourage you to look at is focusing on the position of your right elbow, making sure your right elbow sits nice and down and low and compact. So I’d be swinging to the top and looking at my right elbow, my right elbow is below my right shoulder as a right handed golfer I’d be happy with that, rather than my right elbow getting too high this is not connected or compact. Likewise, from down the line here swinging back, check my right elbow is good, don’t want to see it up too high here.

And other chances I’d be looking for from the front on position would be the lateral movement in my swing. I wouldn’t want to see my head swing back too far and I wouldn’t want to see that then accommodated by two active leg drive in the downswing, so head swing back and a very aggressive leg drive into the downswing is not what we classed as a compact swing. I’d rather see steady head, steady legs and a nice turn through but not getting too aggressive, not getting too many moving parts. So think about this whole swing feeling as being less moving parts, more compact nature to the whole swing. So as I set up to hit one now with those simple things in my mind, I can go ahead make a good clean contact from the back of the ball and I really felt like that my golf swing didn’t have too many moving parts, there wouldn’t have been too much to go wrong with that swing. Time after time, under pressure out on the golf course, if I can incorporate that Nick Faldo compact golf swing, I can hopefully start to emulate some of his results.