Swing Plane Golf Drill #4: Back-to-wall Drill (Video) - by Pete Styles
Swing Plane Golf Drill #4: Back-to-wall Drill (Video) - by Pete Styles

One of the things that’s difficult about the swing plane position is it’s very dynamic, and it moves a lot, and it’s very difficult to work out where you are in open space, and whether you’re on plane. So if we can use a fixed object like a wall to clarify where your club should be on the swing plane, it’s actually easier to use a wall than just sort of second guess where it is in the open air.

If I look at you from side on here as I bring the golf club back, the club head will cross behind my butt cheeks here, and that will then be the throw this thing back in my whole body when it crosses that line.

So if I can utilize a wall to sit behind me, I can then work out how high the club is when it hits the wall. If you don’t damage your golf clubs or more probably damage your wall, just spin your golf club over, hold the top end, and use the grip to touch the wall.

So I’m going to sit back here now, and just sit back against the wall, and take my normal set position. I’m not really leaning on the wall. I’m just letting the wall rest behind me. And then make my back swing. And then as I turn back on proper plane at hip height, the club is parallel to the wall. The club isn’t hitting the wall yet but it’s not pointing away from the wall. The club points bang on parallel with the wall.

And then follow that plane up using good wrist hinge, and the club should just touch the wall about level with the top of my head. That’s the first time the club will start to actually come behind my body, would be around about head height.

So I’m touching the wall with my butt cheeks here just resting against the wall. I lift the club up and it hits just above my head up to here in the top of the back swing position. If I’m too flat and I’m below the ideal plane line, I hit the wall very early. And if I’m too steep, I might hit the wall higher up or actually never hit the wall at all as I bring the club too much up away from the wall in too steep a back swing position.

So the ideal plane for you would be to just hit the wall around about head height. So a good set up, turn, and hit the wall around about head height. So from this position, as I take my normal stance, if the club goes behind my hips too early, it’s too flat. I would have hit the wall. Learn to bring the club parallel to the wall at this point, up so it hits just above head height, then goes behind me a little bit more and sort of through the wall.

So just practice half swings with the club upside down touching the wall just above head height. That’s a great practice exercise using the wall to confirm where your swing plane should be. Swing it more on plane for straighter golf shots.

 2012-11-29

One of the things that’s difficult about the swing plane position is it’s very dynamic, and it moves a lot, and it’s very difficult to work out where you are in open space, and whether you’re on plane. So if we can use a fixed object like a wall to clarify where your club should be on the swing plane, it’s actually easier to use a wall than just sort of second guess where it is in the open air.

If I look at you from side on here as I bring the golf club back, the club head will cross behind my butt cheeks here, and that will then be the throw this thing back in my whole body when it crosses that line.

So if I can utilize a wall to sit behind me, I can then work out how high the club is when it hits the wall. If you don’t damage your golf clubs or more probably damage your wall, just spin your golf club over, hold the top end, and use the grip to touch the wall.

So I’m going to sit back here now, and just sit back against the wall, and take my normal set position. I’m not really leaning on the wall. I’m just letting the wall rest behind me. And then make my back swing. And then as I turn back on proper plane at hip height, the club is parallel to the wall. The club isn’t hitting the wall yet but it’s not pointing away from the wall. The club points bang on parallel with the wall.

And then follow that plane up using good wrist hinge, and the club should just touch the wall about level with the top of my head. That’s the first time the club will start to actually come behind my body, would be around about head height.

So I’m touching the wall with my butt cheeks here just resting against the wall. I lift the club up and it hits just above my head up to here in the top of the back swing position. If I’m too flat and I’m below the ideal plane line, I hit the wall very early. And if I’m too steep, I might hit the wall higher up or actually never hit the wall at all as I bring the club too much up away from the wall in too steep a back swing position.

So the ideal plane for you would be to just hit the wall around about head height. So a good set up, turn, and hit the wall around about head height. So from this position, as I take my normal stance, if the club goes behind my hips too early, it’s too flat. I would have hit the wall. Learn to bring the club parallel to the wall at this point, up so it hits just above head height, then goes behind me a little bit more and sort of through the wall.

So just practice half swings with the club upside down touching the wall just above head height. That’s a great practice exercise using the wall to confirm where your swing plane should be. Swing it more on plane for straighter golf shots.