Main Cause Of Shoulder Turn Too Short Golf Swing Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles
Main Cause Of Shoulder Turn Too Short Golf Swing Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles

The backswing motion of your golf swing is the part of the golf swing where you have the ability to generate the most amount of power. So turning back this way although we’re not actually hitting the ball, we are winding up and we’re creating power ready to deliver that power in a fast way into the back of the golf ball. Now if you don’t load up correctly with your upper body you’re going to be coming short of power in the down swing. So the best way of loading up and generating power is rotating the upper body as far to the right as you can and trying to get at least 90 degrees of shoulder rotation. We quite often see golfers during their backswing don’t get anywhere near that 90 degrees shoulder rotation and then during the downswing they don’t have the power that they should have.

So a great way of checking that you’re giving yourself enough shoulder rotation; lay the club across you shoulders here, tilt forward to your golf position and turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, and you should get to a point where the club points at least at the ball if not slightly behind it. You should be able to do that without it hurting, without it feeling too awkward, and actually without lifting the left heel or the left knee too much. If as you come back round here it gets a bit stiff, and the left foot and the left knee starts to come round that would be a sign of inflexibility. And it will be well worth doing some sort of seated rotations, so basically just the same motion we’ve done but sitting down. Sitting down locks out the lower leg then you can start to turn your body. Warming up like that would be good before you go and play golf, or simply the exercise we’re doing here, turning, looking in a mirror, turning back through looking in a mirror, trying to keep the body quite still but trying to keep the rotation quite big. That’s a great way of allowing yourself enough chance to turn. The other thing I like to see in the backswing is give yourself time. If you make a very quick swing and then you just bring the club back and then hit it, you barely gave yourself enough chance to rotate your upper body into the swing. So as you are making that backswing just count to three to allow the shoulder to come round. So we have one, two, three, now I’ve got my shoulder in position, now I can drive back down and accelerate. If I’m too quick in my backswing my shoulder hasn’t had a chance to come around, my arms are doing all the work, and ultimately you will lack power. So if you have enough flexibility you have enough time, the last thing is just focus on turning your back to face to the target. If your back faces to the target that should have generated enough of a shoulder turn that when you release that plenty of power, plenty of distance. Use the engine of your shoulders and your upper body to drive the ball further. 2014-03-28

The backswing motion of your golf swing is the part of the golf swing where you have the ability to generate the most amount of power. So turning back this way although we’re not actually hitting the ball, we are winding up and we’re creating power ready to deliver that power in a fast way into the back of the golf ball. Now if you don’t load up correctly with your upper body you’re going to be coming short of power in the down swing. So the best way of loading up and generating power is rotating the upper body as far to the right as you can and trying to get at least 90 degrees of shoulder rotation. We quite often see golfers during their backswing don’t get anywhere near that 90 degrees shoulder rotation and then during the downswing they don’t have the power that they should have.

So a great way of checking that you’re giving yourself enough shoulder rotation; lay the club across you shoulders here, tilt forward to your golf position and turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, and you should get to a point where the club points at least at the ball if not slightly behind it. You should be able to do that without it hurting, without it feeling too awkward, and actually without lifting the left heel or the left knee too much. If as you come back round here it gets a bit stiff, and the left foot and the left knee starts to come round that would be a sign of inflexibility. And it will be well worth doing some sort of seated rotations, so basically just the same motion we’ve done but sitting down. Sitting down locks out the lower leg then you can start to turn your body. Warming up like that would be good before you go and play golf, or simply the exercise we’re doing here, turning, looking in a mirror, turning back through looking in a mirror, trying to keep the body quite still but trying to keep the rotation quite big. That’s a great way of allowing yourself enough chance to turn.

The other thing I like to see in the backswing is give yourself time. If you make a very quick swing and then you just bring the club back and then hit it, you barely gave yourself enough chance to rotate your upper body into the swing. So as you are making that backswing just count to three to allow the shoulder to come round. So we have one, two, three, now I’ve got my shoulder in position, now I can drive back down and accelerate. If I’m too quick in my backswing my shoulder hasn’t had a chance to come around, my arms are doing all the work, and ultimately you will lack power. So if you have enough flexibility you have enough time, the last thing is just focus on turning your back to face to the target. If your back faces to the target that should have generated enough of a shoulder turn that when you release that plenty of power, plenty of distance. Use the engine of your shoulders and your upper body to drive the ball further.