Jack Nicklaus Spine Tilt At Address For Power Golf Shots (Video) - by Peter Finch
Jack Nicklaus Spine Tilt At Address For Power Golf Shots (Video) - by Peter Finch

It’s not a bad thing to do to look at the very best place in the world and say what are they doing well. And if you are looking at the best place in the world you can’t look past Jack Nicklaus. Analyzing the positions that Nicklaus had in his setup and throughout his swing can be very, very useful to help you within your own gate. Although when you have a look at Nicklaus and you have a look at other great players what you certainly need to understand is they did things in their own way. So you have to look at a swing and say, what are the good things to take from this, and what are the things I should probably leave alone. Now one of the things you should certainly take forward is how Nicklaus gets himself set up when he's hitting powerful golf shots, and how he's moving his spine into a certain position.

You'll notice when Nicklaus gets setup a shot, I've got hybrid here but we're going to use it as a bit more of a 3-wood slash driver example, ball position forward in the stance just inside the left heel. What you'll notice with Nicklaus and this is the same throughout all the shots is that he has a very, very big spine tilt over to the right-hand side. Now this doesn't mean that he's producing a lot more weight on his right-hand foot. It just means that his weight is nice and central. And then he tilts his spine, so it's a long way off to the right hand side. Now you'll notice in Nicklaus’ swing that, that remains a constant throughout the whole technique. So although it's an quite exaggerated position to address with that tilt away to the right sound side, as he turns up to the top of the golf swing that classic kind of left heel lifting up his spine angle is maintained. As that left heel plants down and he moves into the point of impact, that spine tilt again is maintained. It is a solid part of his setup and it's a constant part of your swing. And he moves his whole technique around that point. What it allows him to do with the drives because his ball position is a long way forward, he's maintained that spine angle behind the ball, and hit upon the shot. And as the ball position moves further back with the irons, it allows him to maintain that solid position. But again his hands is a little bit further ahead of the ball. So still produce that ball first and to have contact. And it’s something that you see with so many of the world's great players having a constant spine angle. 2016-08-25

It’s not a bad thing to do to look at the very best place in the world and say what are they doing well. And if you are looking at the best place in the world you can’t look past Jack Nicklaus. Analyzing the positions that Nicklaus had in his setup and throughout his swing can be very, very useful to help you within your own gate. Although when you have a look at Nicklaus and you have a look at other great players what you certainly need to understand is they did things in their own way. So you have to look at a swing and say, what are the good things to take from this, and what are the things I should probably leave alone. Now one of the things you should certainly take forward is how Nicklaus gets himself set up when he's hitting powerful golf shots, and how he's moving his spine into a certain position.

You'll notice when Nicklaus gets setup a shot, I've got hybrid here but we're going to use it as a bit more of a 3-wood slash driver example, ball position forward in the stance just inside the left heel. What you'll notice with Nicklaus and this is the same throughout all the shots is that he has a very, very big spine tilt over to the right-hand side. Now this doesn't mean that he's producing a lot more weight on his right-hand foot. It just means that his weight is nice and central. And then he tilts his spine, so it's a long way off to the right hand side. Now you'll notice in Nicklaus’ swing that, that remains a constant throughout the whole technique. So although it's an quite exaggerated position to address with that tilt away to the right sound side, as he turns up to the top of the golf swing that classic kind of left heel lifting up his spine angle is maintained.

As that left heel plants down and he moves into the point of impact, that spine tilt again is maintained. It is a solid part of his setup and it's a constant part of your swing. And he moves his whole technique around that point. What it allows him to do with the drives because his ball position is a long way forward, he's maintained that spine angle behind the ball, and hit upon the shot. And as the ball position moves further back with the irons, it allows him to maintain that solid position. But again his hands is a little bit further ahead of the ball. So still produce that ball first and to have contact. And it’s something that you see with so many of the world's great players having a constant spine angle.