Improve Downswing Transition with Simple Golf Drill (Video) - by Pete Styles
Improve Downswing Transition with Simple Golf Drill (Video) - by Pete Styles

Here’s a great little tip for you if you're struggling with your swing transition and you often find yourself leaning back after you hit the golf ball. We’re going to set ourselves up with a driver so the normal ball position for the driver up against the left instep, ball on a nice, high tee peg and a good wide stance. But then leaving the golf cub where it is, bring your left foot back across to your right foot especially for the right-handed golfer and have the ball well by the golf club way in front of your body. Then go ahead and make your normal backswing and as you get to the top, shift your left foot back to its original position and then bring the golf club down in your normal swing action. By making that very aggressive step back across with your foot, you also shift your hip and a lot of body weight back into that left-hand side. That's a very aggressive downswing movement in that transition phase. It stops you turning onto your back foot and then staying on your back foot and hitting it off the rear leg so setting ourselves up, shift the foot across. Make the swing, step and move through the golf ball. When you get it right, you have this sort of effortless, smooth motion and that golf ball is going for miles without a great deal of effort because I had that sort of little run-up into the ball there I could really feel my body weight moving across. So if you feel that sometimes you get caught on your back leg and you're leaning back on the golf ball and you don’t have an efficient transition, maybe that little checkpoint there, that little swing tip. We’d move the left foot across to the right foot, swing back, step and move into the golf ball. Use that as a drill next time you're on the driving range. Then go ahead and hit some normal shots and feel how that transition across should be a little bit quicker, a bit more dynamic and hopefully that will help you hit the golf ball a little further as well.

2012-09-17

Here’s a great little tip for you if you're struggling with your swing transition and you often find yourself leaning back after you hit the golf ball. We’re going to set ourselves up with a driver so the normal ball position for the driver up against the left instep, ball on a nice, high tee peg and a good wide stance. But then leaving the golf cub where it is, bring your left foot back across to your right foot especially for the right-handed golfer and have the ball well by the golf club way in front of your body. Then go ahead and make your normal backswing and as you get to the top, shift your left foot back to its original position and then bring the golf club down in your normal swing action. By making that very aggressive step back across with your foot, you also shift your hip and a lot of body weight back into that left-hand side. That's a very aggressive downswing movement in that transition phase. It stops you turning onto your back foot and then staying on your back foot and hitting it off the rear leg so setting ourselves up, shift the foot across. Make the swing, step and move through the golf ball. When you get it right, you have this sort of effortless, smooth motion and that golf ball is going for miles without a great deal of effort because I had that sort of little run-up into the ball there I could really feel my body weight moving across. So if you feel that sometimes you get caught on your back leg and you're leaning back on the golf ball and you don’t have an efficient transition, maybe that little checkpoint there, that little swing tip. We’d move the left foot across to the right foot, swing back, step and move into the golf ball. Use that as a drill next time you're on the driving range. Then go ahead and hit some normal shots and feel how that transition across should be a little bit quicker, a bit more dynamic and hopefully that will help you hit the golf ball a little further as well.