Shifting Your Bodyweight In The Backswing Drill – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer
Shifting Your Bodyweight In The Backswing Drill – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain how every golfer should be creating a feeling of pressure building under their rear foot in step. This creates a correct weight shift in the backswing and therefore allows a returning weight shift in the forward swing. This move, however, should be conducted carefully as golfers should resist the temptation to feel like they are swaying in the golf swing. Matt and Pete will carefully lead you through this exercise utilizing a mirror to create feedback on how your body weight is shifting and building pressure which in turn will help all golfers hit a straighter, more accurate golf shot.

So there's some key elements to a golf swing Pete and one of those is the backswing and the movements we make in our backswing. So if we were to talk about the backswing a little bit and you're going to hit some checkpoints for us what would we like to see what wouldn't we want to say and if we are doing the wrong and doing the right what are we going to see from the shots that would happen if I do hit lease check point a good point that's a good point and so we talk about backswing. Yeah we talk about how a golfer turns and rotates in the backswing and specifically what they do with that upper body and lower body so I want a little bit of that without actually using the club as a normal club. I'm going to play for the club over my shoulder chest and suspect I'm going to hold my right hand down here just to show you where the club would be and you could see Matt to myself that position is lots of balance the 50 left and right foot. As I make my backswing is a rotation of my upper body so I am turning my shoulders as a minimum I was trying my shoulders 90 degrees unless I got a back injury flexibility issue but turning my shoulders trying to get around to 90 degrees. Now as I turn my upper body it has to have so many impact and influence over my lower body especially if you did stuff then there was sort of a split I would say it looks like you said 90 degrees with the back what would you say your hips are here because they are not 90, probably 45 degrees or less.

OK Now the knees are probably doing 20 or maybe even the ankles that are 5 degrees of turning so turning this has an impact all the way down. Right what I wouldn't want to do is to turn this and let everything fall on so kind ample if I turn my upper body on my lower body kind of came with me my hips of to nearly 90 knees my ankles have all gone what with our body weight here on the outside of my right was not balance and not consistent I don't think I could do that for long and then get started hitting that golf ball how I want to hit it. So I want to create this hurt but I want to caress her know what I'm going to cross the stable base OK So when you go to the driving range how that concept in your mind of hurting the of her body doing so over a stable platform now. Stable for me would be to keep the body weight on the instep of the right focus before you know rather than the outs that OK so big so not little top of the reform Yeah no good feeling there is that the knee doesn't go beyond the she likes Axel it's the right he goes beyond if you like my body weight must of got the show if you're doing this now to me you know I'm thinking that you know if there was an imaginary wall here when you were making you could swing and you feel almost turning inside this wall now every time you've made the pull want to look like you were going to go and break that barrier that means you went and made the back swing Yes So the knee goes out past the shoelace into the wall it's a sway and a very different again forward again OK And what will we see if you were swaying with the baseball contacts all I think you're exactly right I think we'd see a lot of heavy golf shots a lot of hiking the ground behind the ball Simply put if I was to have a running right with math at the range here I would push my body weight my biggest tell you of course all to get for yes if I put my body weight on my little cause it's far harder to go this way so if I start my downswing I want support to go forward to take a dip after the ball to get a good strike kind of comes from a good backswing position. If I can't push forwards yeah so with my little toe if I can't push forward I'm going into ground heavy, so I will get poor contact with the club ground out before the ball or top the ball and lean back.

That all stems from an incorrect loading and unloading of body weight. So a correct turn to load to press on the big toe to drive forwards off that big toe to create a better contact is how I'm going to get good contact on the ball without swaying from a little toe to keep my body weight on my big toe. Excellent on a really nice feeling that would be surprised if I'm in front of a mirror axle and so in a mirror just to say how would we do it if we weren't at the driving range what would it be we're looking ourselves and yeah probably in there our patio doors and get your reaction and I tell you what you can even do this in a shot so if you. The sunlight behind us you shot on the ground in front of something here her name being with your swaying what you're turning Yes you have an airplane camera make eye contact turn forward just make sure you don't sway out to the wall Yeah you're on definitely fantastic down if you do it becomes very apparent just watch and even just in your shoes you as you walk in there's a lot going on when you get any rungs you know it's real swaying as well when you're doing it right it looks very stable and very controlled like you're able to get back into a great position every time so thanks a lot of people's awareness when they have the awareness of what you have to do in their awareness of their body why it clicks and they get that thing that the that I wanted you know like it's not feeling gauge rather than sliding so very much by way of accidents Let's say you hit one off last fall is and you're going to feel that you're going to get this good turn and then we're going to see the door dry foliage into your lead for that was nice. Lovely golf shot really crisp I enjoy strikes that and you like to say your feet look very quiet to me until I get to the real driving motion of them in the backswing they look nice in control as you're going through the swing. So if you are looking to stop your swaying and create that backswing let's focus on our turn in the backswing we don't want to see that the weight is going into the outside of the trail foot. We want to say like Pete said there it's going into this big toe as we go there and we're staying centered and not sliding through the wall. We're then able to turn into a good follow through, and hopefully if you doing more of that you should see that you're getting more consistent shots and playing some better golf.

2019-04-05

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain how every golfer should be creating a feeling of pressure building under their rear foot in step. This creates a correct weight shift in the backswing and therefore allows a returning weight shift in the forward swing. This move, however, should be conducted carefully as golfers should resist the temptation to feel like they are swaying in the golf swing. Matt and Pete will carefully lead you through this exercise utilizing a mirror to create feedback on how your body weight is shifting and building pressure which in turn will help all golfers hit a straighter, more accurate golf shot.

So there's some key elements to a golf swing Pete and one of those is the backswing and the movements we make in our backswing. So if we were to talk about the backswing a little bit and you're going to hit some checkpoints for us what would we like to see what wouldn't we want to say and if we are doing the wrong and doing the right what are we going to see from the shots that would happen if I do hit lease check point a good point that's a good point and so we talk about backswing. Yeah we talk about how a golfer turns and rotates in the backswing and specifically what they do with that upper body and lower body so I want a little bit of that without actually using the club as a normal club. I'm going to play for the club over my shoulder chest and suspect I'm going to hold my right hand down here just to show you where the club would be and you could see Matt to myself that position is lots of balance the 50 left and right foot. As I make my backswing is a rotation of my upper body so I am turning my shoulders as a minimum I was trying my shoulders 90 degrees unless I got a back injury flexibility issue but turning my shoulders trying to get around to 90 degrees. Now as I turn my upper body it has to have so many impact and influence over my lower body especially if you did stuff then there was sort of a split I would say it looks like you said 90 degrees with the back what would you say your hips are here because they are not 90, probably 45 degrees or less.

OK Now the knees are probably doing 20 or maybe even the ankles that are 5 degrees of turning so turning this has an impact all the way down. Right what I wouldn't want to do is to turn this and let everything fall on so kind ample if I turn my upper body on my lower body kind of came with me my hips of to nearly 90 knees my ankles have all gone what with our body weight here on the outside of my right was not balance and not consistent I don't think I could do that for long and then get started hitting that golf ball how I want to hit it. So I want to create this hurt but I want to caress her know what I'm going to cross the stable base OK So when you go to the driving range how that concept in your mind of hurting the of her body doing so over a stable platform now. Stable for me would be to keep the body weight on the instep of the right focus before you know rather than the outs that OK so big so not little top of the reform Yeah no good feeling there is that the knee doesn't go beyond the she likes Axel it's the right he goes beyond if you like my body weight must of got the show if you're doing this now to me you know I'm thinking that you know if there was an imaginary wall here when you were making you could swing and you feel almost turning inside this wall now every time you've made the pull want to look like you were going to go and break that barrier that means you went and made the back swing Yes So the knee goes out past the shoelace into the wall it's a sway and a very different again forward again OK And what will we see if you were swaying with the baseball contacts all I think you're exactly right I think we'd see a lot of heavy golf shots a lot of hiking the ground behind the ball Simply put if I was to have a running right with math at the range here I would push my body weight my biggest tell you of course all to get for yes if I put my body weight on my little cause it's far harder to go this way so if I start my downswing I want support to go forward to take a dip after the ball to get a good strike kind of comes from a good backswing position. If I can't push forwards yeah so with my little toe if I can't push forward I'm going into ground heavy, so I will get poor contact with the club ground out before the ball or top the ball and lean back.

That all stems from an incorrect loading and unloading of body weight. So a correct turn to load to press on the big toe to drive forwards off that big toe to create a better contact is how I'm going to get good contact on the ball without swaying from a little toe to keep my body weight on my big toe. Excellent on a really nice feeling that would be surprised if I'm in front of a mirror axle and so in a mirror just to say how would we do it if we weren't at the driving range what would it be we're looking ourselves and yeah probably in there our patio doors and get your reaction and I tell you what you can even do this in a shot so if you. The sunlight behind us you shot on the ground in front of something here her name being with your swaying what you're turning Yes you have an airplane camera make eye contact turn forward just make sure you don't sway out to the wall Yeah you're on definitely fantastic down if you do it becomes very apparent just watch and even just in your shoes you as you walk in there's a lot going on when you get any rungs you know it's real swaying as well when you're doing it right it looks very stable and very controlled like you're able to get back into a great position every time so thanks a lot of people's awareness when they have the awareness of what you have to do in their awareness of their body why it clicks and they get that thing that the that I wanted you know like it's not feeling gauge rather than sliding so very much by way of accidents Let's say you hit one off last fall is and you're going to feel that you're going to get this good turn and then we're going to see the door dry foliage into your lead for that was nice. Lovely golf shot really crisp I enjoy strikes that and you like to say your feet look very quiet to me until I get to the real driving motion of them in the backswing they look nice in control as you're going through the swing. So if you are looking to stop your swaying and create that backswing let's focus on our turn in the backswing we don't want to see that the weight is going into the outside of the trail foot. We want to say like Pete said there it's going into this big toe as we go there and we're staying centered and not sliding through the wall. We're then able to turn into a good follow through, and hopefully if you doing more of that you should see that you're getting more consistent shots and playing some better golf.