Downswing - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Downswing - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video golf tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you the way to best start your golf down swing in order to improve your consistency and distance of your golf shots. Firstly working on the transition area, we will talk you through the movement of the lead hip and how it shifts and turns towards the target area. This in turn will allow you to drop your arms to keep the golf club in a shallow position that is further behind your body which will lead to a better swing path and improved golf shot.

We quite often see an area of confusion for some golfers in the downswing once they take it all the way to the top the kind of feel confused. They have read about the posture they read about the set up and they read about the grip they, and then we just tell em hit it and they go oh well that's all well and good Pete but how how do I do that. Definitely you know it's the transition from the back swing into the downswing and how do we start I think is the key. That that word transition is a cracking word to explain isn't it? Because the clubs moving one way and I know I've got to get it to go down the other way. How many good back swings do we see ruined in transition? So Matt is going to give us an idea of how we can start the downswing so not starting from the top. How do we start this downswing in the most efficient and consistent matter? OK yes so one of the things that we'll see you know in a lot of lessons and I would imagine you see all this a lot as well is once you've got that we've been good now we're going to start the transition by throwing our hands at the golf ball we think we're going to hit this way so we are going to chuck it over the top and we know that leads to a lot of faults. Now it's a pretty common thing and you might even be conscious of that and your own golf you go that's me see myself do that on camera or my mates tell me I do that. How do I stop it exactly? So it's actually understanding where we started from which part of the body are we going to start transition and if you were to watch all good golfers what you see is something where it actually starts from the ground up the downswing now. So it's not that we're using our hands to throw it over as we start what I like to get at with my pupils to do. Is to stand and if you see from the face on here now it's actually just leave the club here into your back swing position and have a little bump just a tiny bump of this lead hip going towards a target. So here you know we have a little lateral movement where we get toward target here it's not that my body freezes and I throw my hands.

That would be the bad one where we go over the top and we see you know a lot of out to in the big slices generally every decent player wants or you see is from the ground upward. So we feel even if it's like a slight push off your trail foot into your lead foot we're going to be here and it's just getting this lateral movement there. So from here now one of the things and one of the fads of the moment is shallowing the club. If we were to get this little bump that you'll see on the camera behind that my club shaft actually falls a little bit shallow. If I were to start it with my hands from here we see that it gets into this steeper position. Nobody likes that steeper position do they? No it can lead to some faults and I will have to make a lot of manipulations on the way down to try and correct that. So that all comes from this transition if we can get the transition right hopefully we're going to be able to deliver the ball better. So once we've got this movement of more moving the lead hip towards the target we then need to turn the body. The body is going to come next it's not the arms and hands are actually the final piece of the puzzle. So as we're up here we're going to get a little bump and then we're going to get some turn and this right or the trail elbow is going to gather into our side here so as we come down with a little bump some turn a little bit of gather and then I'm able to deliver this club towards the ball in a better manner. That looks like a very good impact position from a good top position you managed to come down in the right way to impact which is important.

Why do you think the struggle with that sometimes why we see so many over the top motions? Why do you think most magazine articles talk about throwing over steep? Why we're not going to right yet? Well you know we're playing the game and we hold on to the club with our hands the balls actually out in front of us every other sport we play generally we're reacting to something you know the balls coming at us we're still to it face on as where here, and also the thought of trying to generate some power you know if you think I'm going to hit this golf ball now instead of swinging the golf well we've got a swing or a hit. I'd like to class it as so we get some of the here right I'm going to hit it now and to do that I'm going to go aggressively. Yeah you're right I'm back here from the top of the place as soon as we do that I hit that right shoulder get thrown over and all of a sudden we're in that position as well like we say when we see the good play it's more of a swing. Body falls down and then throw away into a good position into the follow through when you do that it looks a lot smoother it looks like a swing not a hit. Can you show us one of those in full speed? Just so we can see and maybe if you can just sort of overemphasize the lateral motion of the hip here just so we can really take a good look from front on. OK so we are going to get a hip going first turn and then arms falling down and it be something where. Good swing, although as opposed to the one where we get the body freezing it's all from the top as we go through it. Look move very body led so that's how we can transition up motion down from the top. If you can spend some time possibly on the driving range rather than the golf course trying to re-sequence your swing to make sure you're not getting steep and coming over the top to make sure you're at the bottom and the hips hopefully that's a great way of improving your transition and your hip action in your golf swing.

2018-11-09

In this video golf tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you the way to best start your golf down swing in order to improve your consistency and distance of your golf shots. Firstly working on the transition area, we will talk you through the movement of the lead hip and how it shifts and turns towards the target area. This in turn will allow you to drop your arms to keep the golf club in a shallow position that is further behind your body which will lead to a better swing path and improved golf shot.

We quite often see an area of confusion for some golfers in the downswing once they take it all the way to the top the kind of feel confused. They have read about the posture they read about the set up and they read about the grip they, and then we just tell em hit it and they go oh well that's all well and good Pete but how how do I do that. Definitely you know it's the transition from the back swing into the downswing and how do we start I think is the key. That that word transition is a cracking word to explain isn't it? Because the clubs moving one way and I know I've got to get it to go down the other way. How many good back swings do we see ruined in transition? So Matt is going to give us an idea of how we can start the downswing so not starting from the top. How do we start this downswing in the most efficient and consistent matter? OK yes so one of the things that we'll see you know in a lot of lessons and I would imagine you see all this a lot as well is once you've got that we've been good now we're going to start the transition by throwing our hands at the golf ball we think we're going to hit this way so we are going to chuck it over the top and we know that leads to a lot of faults. Now it's a pretty common thing and you might even be conscious of that and your own golf you go that's me see myself do that on camera or my mates tell me I do that. How do I stop it exactly? So it's actually understanding where we started from which part of the body are we going to start transition and if you were to watch all good golfers what you see is something where it actually starts from the ground up the downswing now. So it's not that we're using our hands to throw it over as we start what I like to get at with my pupils to do. Is to stand and if you see from the face on here now it's actually just leave the club here into your back swing position and have a little bump just a tiny bump of this lead hip going towards a target. So here you know we have a little lateral movement where we get toward target here it's not that my body freezes and I throw my hands.

That would be the bad one where we go over the top and we see you know a lot of out to in the big slices generally every decent player wants or you see is from the ground upward. So we feel even if it's like a slight push off your trail foot into your lead foot we're going to be here and it's just getting this lateral movement there. So from here now one of the things and one of the fads of the moment is shallowing the club. If we were to get this little bump that you'll see on the camera behind that my club shaft actually falls a little bit shallow. If I were to start it with my hands from here we see that it gets into this steeper position. Nobody likes that steeper position do they? No it can lead to some faults and I will have to make a lot of manipulations on the way down to try and correct that. So that all comes from this transition if we can get the transition right hopefully we're going to be able to deliver the ball better. So once we've got this movement of more moving the lead hip towards the target we then need to turn the body. The body is going to come next it's not the arms and hands are actually the final piece of the puzzle. So as we're up here we're going to get a little bump and then we're going to get some turn and this right or the trail elbow is going to gather into our side here so as we come down with a little bump some turn a little bit of gather and then I'm able to deliver this club towards the ball in a better manner. That looks like a very good impact position from a good top position you managed to come down in the right way to impact which is important.

Why do you think the struggle with that sometimes why we see so many over the top motions? Why do you think most magazine articles talk about throwing over steep? Why we're not going to right yet? Well you know we're playing the game and we hold on to the club with our hands the balls actually out in front of us every other sport we play generally we're reacting to something you know the balls coming at us we're still to it face on as where here, and also the thought of trying to generate some power you know if you think I'm going to hit this golf ball now instead of swinging the golf well we've got a swing or a hit. I'd like to class it as so we get some of the here right I'm going to hit it now and to do that I'm going to go aggressively. Yeah you're right I'm back here from the top of the place as soon as we do that I hit that right shoulder get thrown over and all of a sudden we're in that position as well like we say when we see the good play it's more of a swing. Body falls down and then throw away into a good position into the follow through when you do that it looks a lot smoother it looks like a swing not a hit. Can you show us one of those in full speed? Just so we can see and maybe if you can just sort of overemphasize the lateral motion of the hip here just so we can really take a good look from front on. OK so we are going to get a hip going first turn and then arms falling down and it be something where. Good swing, although as opposed to the one where we get the body freezing it's all from the top as we go through it. Look move very body led so that's how we can transition up motion down from the top. If you can spend some time possibly on the driving range rather than the golf course trying to re-sequence your swing to make sure you're not getting steep and coming over the top to make sure you're at the bottom and the hips hopefully that's a great way of improving your transition and your hip action in your golf swing.