Practice Your Golf Swing Take-away (Video) - by Pete Styles
Practice Your Golf Swing Take-away (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now if you have one of your mates to laugh at you while you are practicing something on the driving range, this tips for you, you know, this drill really makes you look a little bit awkward, but it’s a great drill to help with your understanding about your weight shift. So, you’ve understood what the weight shift should be, it should be starting 50-50, very little weight shift happening in the back swing and then lots of weight shift happening in the downswing as we drive through. But we still see a lot of golfers that when they set up the golf ball, their first motion away from the golf ball, literally their first three or four feet away from the ball ruins their weight shift.

This right knee kicks out this way as the club comes back. The left knee will turn in and we will get golfers in this quite awkward, top of the back swing position where it is very difficult for them to drive back to the left successfully, so this exercise is one that will really help you and like I said, this feels a little bit awkward, certainly looks a bit awkward, but I want you to get it from this position and drive your knees in together, and when you push your knees in together. Firstly you are not going to want to make a full swing with this motion, you just want to pitch the ball out with a short swing, but with my knees pushed together here as I turn, I don’t really feel like I can sway, it’s a great way of stopping a sway or even a reverse pivot, because I don’t want to move either way. My thighs are quite vertical, my knees are pushed in and locked and they’re not really going to want to go either direction. So now as I make a swing, I feel very neutral and then I can make my turning through. Now the turning through side of things isn’t going to look great, because again your weight shift doesn’t want to move, but what a brilliant exercise to stop you swaying or reverse pivoting in your backswing. So setting up from this side, normal set up, normal position, throw the Ds in and try and make a little turn, and you really do feel super restricted. It's a good exercise for shortening your golf swing actually as well, because again a long swing is often accompanied with a sway and an over rotation. So, knees in together, shorten the swing, stabilize the golf swing, just make sure your mates don’t see you or else they’ll start laughing at you. 2016-04-15

Now if you have one of your mates to laugh at you while you are practicing something on the driving range, this tips for you, you know, this drill really makes you look a little bit awkward, but it’s a great drill to help with your understanding about your weight shift. So, you’ve understood what the weight shift should be, it should be starting 50-50, very little weight shift happening in the back swing and then lots of weight shift happening in the downswing as we drive through. But we still see a lot of golfers that when they set up the golf ball, their first motion away from the golf ball, literally their first three or four feet away from the ball ruins their weight shift.

This right knee kicks out this way as the club comes back. The left knee will turn in and we will get golfers in this quite awkward, top of the back swing position where it is very difficult for them to drive back to the left successfully, so this exercise is one that will really help you and like I said, this feels a little bit awkward, certainly looks a bit awkward, but I want you to get it from this position and drive your knees in together, and when you push your knees in together. Firstly you are not going to want to make a full swing with this motion, you just want to pitch the ball out with a short swing, but with my knees pushed together here as I turn, I don’t really feel like I can sway, it’s a great way of stopping a sway or even a reverse pivot, because I don’t want to move either way.

My thighs are quite vertical, my knees are pushed in and locked and they’re not really going to want to go either direction. So now as I make a swing, I feel very neutral and then I can make my turning through. Now the turning through side of things isn’t going to look great, because again your weight shift doesn’t want to move, but what a brilliant exercise to stop you swaying or reverse pivoting in your backswing.

So setting up from this side, normal set up, normal position, throw the Ds in and try and make a little turn, and you really do feel super restricted. It's a good exercise for shortening your golf swing actually as well, because again a long swing is often accompanied with a sway and an over rotation. So, knees in together, shorten the swing, stabilize the golf swing, just make sure your mates don’t see you or else they’ll start laughing at you.