Mark O'Meara Pro Golfer Simple Swing around tilted spine, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Mark O'Meara Pro Golfer Simple Swing around tilted spine, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

I’ve spent a lot of my lessons showing the golf swing. Possibly for the first time and have that first lesson. We video that swing. We play it back and they see what they like to look at in that swing.

For a lot of people, the first thing they notice and possibly they incorrectly, they don’t like this position is the fact that their shoulders tilt. A lot of people say to me, “Oh, I’m leaning back there. I can see my shoulders tilting. I don’t like that position, but I want to get my shoulders level.” And that’s the wrong way, I’m afraid. You should have shoulder tilt quite naturally when you set up to the golf ball, your shoulders should tilt and we want to encourage that and a really nice play to watch in terms of getting the shoulder tilt right is something like Mark OMeara.

As we setup to the golf ball here, left hand for the right handed golfer goes to the top. The right hand has to grip low down. Now I can’t do that with my shoulders level. I have to let my right shoulder dip down a little bit pointing my left shoulder into the air. Do not try and level your shoulders out. Practice in front of the mirror. See how your right shoulder dips and if you allow your right shoulder to dip, you’ll probably see a little bit of spine angle tilt as well. So the spine angle through the middle of my body is not vertical and straight, it’s slightly tilted back, setting my left hip slightly in front of my left shoulder and likewise my right shoulder slightly back. So that is a good address position.

We maintain that spine angle backwards tilt to the top. So at the top of my swing, I’m leaning away from the target. If I was to setup with my shoulders level and my spine angle vertical, and turned, I could beget, could be sort of getting a little bit too much left sided and my back swing for a classic looking golf swing. So I’ve got a shoulder tilt. I’ve got spine angle tilt turn away from the golf ball correctly. And this is where OMeara generated a lot of his power. He stays behind the golf ball with his open body. Drives his lower half of the body towards the golf ball very quickly. Keeps his head down and behind the golf ball through impact and impacts the ball there with a very similar spine angle to how he started. So his spine angle is slightly behind the ball that’s dressed and his spine angle through impact still slightly behind the golf ball as he hits it then he lets his head and his spine angle come up to a nice big finish.

So if you’re watch your golf swing for the first time, or you’re watching yourself in the mirror, don’t be afraid of having a little bit of right hand low spine angle tilting, that’s to be encouraged. Your right hand is lower on the grip. Your left shoulder should be high. You can turn back behind the ball utilizing that spine angle turn. If you’re not sure how that should look, look at Mark OMeara’s golf swing and try and copy that.

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I’ve spent a lot of my lessons showing the golf swing. Possibly for the first time and have that first lesson. We video that swing. We play it back and they see what they like to look at in that swing.

For a lot of people, the first thing they notice and possibly they incorrectly, they don’t like this position is the fact that their shoulders tilt. A lot of people say to me, “Oh, I’m leaning back there. I can see my shoulders tilting. I don’t like that position, but I want to get my shoulders level.” And that’s the wrong way, I’m afraid. You should have shoulder tilt quite naturally when you set up to the golf ball, your shoulders should tilt and we want to encourage that and a really nice play to watch in terms of getting the shoulder tilt right is something like Mark OMeara.

As we setup to the golf ball here, left hand for the right handed golfer goes to the top. The right hand has to grip low down. Now I can’t do that with my shoulders level. I have to let my right shoulder dip down a little bit pointing my left shoulder into the air. Do not try and level your shoulders out. Practice in front of the mirror. See how your right shoulder dips and if you allow your right shoulder to dip, you’ll probably see a little bit of spine angle tilt as well. So the spine angle through the middle of my body is not vertical and straight, it’s slightly tilted back, setting my left hip slightly in front of my left shoulder and likewise my right shoulder slightly back. So that is a good address position.

We maintain that spine angle backwards tilt to the top. So at the top of my swing, I’m leaning away from the target. If I was to setup with my shoulders level and my spine angle vertical, and turned, I could beget, could be sort of getting a little bit too much left sided and my back swing for a classic looking golf swing. So I’ve got a shoulder tilt. I’ve got spine angle tilt turn away from the golf ball correctly. And this is where OMeara generated a lot of his power. He stays behind the golf ball with his open body. Drives his lower half of the body towards the golf ball very quickly. Keeps his head down and behind the golf ball through impact and impacts the ball there with a very similar spine angle to how he started. So his spine angle is slightly behind the ball that’s dressed and his spine angle through impact still slightly behind the golf ball as he hits it then he lets his head and his spine angle come up to a nice big finish.

So if you’re watch your golf swing for the first time, or you’re watching yourself in the mirror, don’t be afraid of having a little bit of right hand low spine angle tilting, that’s to be encouraged. Your right hand is lower on the grip. Your left shoulder should be high. You can turn back behind the ball utilizing that spine angle turn. If you’re not sure how that should look, look at Mark OMeara’s golf swing and try and copy that.

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