Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
When we are talking about swing plane one of the first conversions we need to be having is what your current swing plane looks like. For a lot of golfers because their current swing plane happens behind them they are focused on the golf ball they aren't really seeing what the swing plane looks like. Maybe if they do that doing it in a mirror in the back swing of a practice swings about looking in the mirror checking all the positions Oh yeah that's exactly how it looks on the telly but then when they actually swing the club it might be slightly different. So it's probably worth while having a mate hold your video phone or getting a camera set up as I've go down the line. So you can see your positions on a couple of key areas that we're looking for to check on the state the shoulder flatness of your back swing plane 1st thing would be the position of your left arm and your left arm particularly the top of the back swing. Now I would have to suggest that if your left arm is below the level of your right shoulder. So effectively the arms a flatter than the shoulders a steeper that would be classed as a flat swing. So if we swing to the top and draw a line from the shoulder bone to the wrist bone and that's lower than the shoulder to shoulder line here this would be classed as a flat back swing. On line would be good would be steep steep good.
That's quite a good way of understanding whether your back swing is flat in the 1st instance one of the thing we could check for is the position of the club during the take away phase of the swing. So from a good address position as we go ahead and take the club back away from the ball at this point here we want to imagine where the club head starts the point. Now if I'm in this phase I would argue a lot of. This would be an on line or on plain back swing and this would be a quick way of analyzing. That would be to take something like an alignment stick and hold it down some got these began sticking out at the bottom there. So you can see that then go ahead and start my swing. Now I would say that if the stick here the Gulf ball or the ball to target line then the club is nicely on line if the stick points horizontally across the driving range this way that I must be 2 flats and if as I swing back the club points down at my feet this way I'm very steep. So if we're flat and flat here chances are we've got a goal swing particularly in the box there's no saying downswing is going to the downswing might be different but if you've got a flat spot something you need to be aware of then you can make an action point for changing that if you decide that you need to improve your flat back swing.
2017-04-28 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
When we are talking about swing plane one of the first conversions we need to be having is what your current swing plane looks like. For a lot of golfers because their current swing plane happens behind them they are focused on the golf ball they aren't really seeing what the swing plane looks like. Maybe if they do that doing it in a mirror in the back swing of a practice swings about looking in the mirror checking all the positions Oh yeah that's exactly how it looks on the telly but then when they actually swing the club it might be slightly different. So it's probably worth while having a mate hold your video phone or getting a camera set up as I've go down the line. So you can see your positions on a couple of key areas that we're looking for to check on the state the shoulder flatness of your back swing plane 1st thing would be the position of your left arm and your left arm particularly the top of the back swing. Now I would have to suggest that if your left arm is below the level of your right shoulder. So effectively the arms a flatter than the shoulders a steeper that would be classed as a flat swing. So if we swing to the top and draw a line from the shoulder bone to the wrist bone and that's lower than the shoulder to shoulder line here this would be classed as a flat back swing. On line would be good would be steep steep good.
That's quite a good way of understanding whether your back swing is flat in the 1st instance one of the thing we could check for is the position of the club during the take away phase of the swing. So from a good address position as we go ahead and take the club back away from the ball at this point here we want to imagine where the club head starts the point. Now if I'm in this phase I would argue a lot of. This would be an on line or on plain back swing and this would be a quick way of analyzing. That would be to take something like an alignment stick and hold it down some got these began sticking out at the bottom there. So you can see that then go ahead and start my swing. Now I would say that if the stick here the Gulf ball or the ball to target line then the club is nicely on line if the stick points horizontally across the driving range this way that I must be 2 flats and if as I swing back the club points down at my feet this way I'm very steep. So if we're flat and flat here chances are we've got a goal swing particularly in the box there's no saying downswing is going to the downswing might be different but if you've got a flat spot something you need to be aware of then you can make an action point for changing that if you decide that you need to improve your flat back swing.
