Sometimes if you are watching golf on the TV you’ll often hear the commentators talking about one and two plane golf swings, particularly if there is a golfer that’s featuring in the tournament who actually has a one plane swing, probably the most famous exponent of this at the moment who’s playing some great golf, is a guy called Matt Kuchar. Very tall guy, Matt Kuchar, but he has a very flat one plane golf swing. So difference between one plane and two plane. A two plane golf swing will often be something that comes back relatively steeply in an upwards position and then drops in and flattens out a little bit. I guess Jim Furyk is the biggest two plane golf swinger. In fact there’s probably more than two planes going on in the Jim Swing. It’s out here and then big loop in back in here. A lot of golfers have a much shallower two plane motion up on one angle and a slight dip in. But somebody like Matt Kuchar works very hard on a one plane swing where the club comes around and back on exactly the same line, what we actually see is the backswing would be classically be described as quite flat, particularly for somebody like Kuchar who’s a very big guy, but if you are a two plane – sorry if you are a one plane swinger of the club, what you need to do is make some adjustments in your swing.

So the first thing for Matt, is very tall guy, really big tilt over, bends over an awful lot here, then he tales the club back with quite a big shoulder turn, but the club comes around his body quite flat, it doesn’t come out, comes around here to the top in a classically flat position, and then dives back into the golf ball on exactly the same line it went up on. And that will be described as the classic one plane, the up and the down planes are the same, it doesn’t separate and deviates. Now if you want to have a go at a one plane swing, or improve your one plane swing, here’s a nice little tip for you. What I’ d suggest you do is take a towel or even something slightly smaller than that like a golf glove and tuck it underneath your left armpit, really trap it in here against the side of your body. Then go ahead and take your set up. And just try and move that club away from the ball without letting this left arm come away from your body as the glove drops out when that happens.

So we keep it nice and tucked up here and swing it back and swing it back and swing it back further. And the further back you can go with that, the better because that is showing that you got a nice one plane action. If you were to make the classic two plane motion from here, you might feel like the club came back a little further to the outside more in line with the camera, the glove would then drop out of the space. But a one plane backswing is going to keep the glove trapped in here, to the top and then come back a little bit more from the inside. So have a little mess around, maybe get your swing on video from down the line and see whether you are a one plane or two plane golfer and then try and stick to one of those areas with the glove underneath your left arm to help improve that one plane swing.