Senior Golfer 1 - Left toe splayed for easier turn, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Senior Golfer 1 - Left toe splayed for easier turn, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

As a PGA qualified golf coach for the last 13 years, I've spent my days working on people's golf swings. And obviously I have a preferred method of how to swing a golf club in the sort of movements that you should try and make for maximum efficiency and the best results out here on the golf course. But I'm also very aware that golf has come in all different shape, sizes, ages, injuries, different body type, different body movement. And I adapt my coaching in everyday to try and sort of built the best of what we have in a particular golfer and granted that I'm not given Tiger Woods as a raw material everyday that I can sort of say, '"Well, Tiger let's try and swing the golf club this way." You know I have to work with the individuals and in this online series sometimes it might come across that I'm doing a very much of a one stop fit sort of cure that you've got to try and do this.

Well, I'm going to try and answer some of the question now the people would have from maybe golfers who have slightly less than perfect flexibility or slightly less than perfect physical shape. And also golfers as they age in their careers the golf may have to change to a certain degree. I'm going to actually bring a model now and – gentleman called David is going to help me out now. And David is a 13 handicap golfer, he's been playing for over 20 years, but I think you'll appreciate that over a certain age, golfers don't have perfect shape, perfect flexibility so it's maybe better that David can sort of help us explain and show through some of the movements that you may find as a golfer. I'm going to start off with some movements that I would often describe that you should be able to do, but if you don't feel you can, there would be things that we could help you out to encourage you to do it the best you can with what you've got. So David, you want to jump onto the mat for me now please.

Take your normal address position, so this is where the 7-9 a normal address position to the tee with the 7-9. I'm actually going to start by looking down here with the stance and the feet. Now for older golfer, I'd often encourage them to have their right foot quite square and straightforward, so just bring the toe round and slightly for me here, but actually splayed the left toe, the front toe for the right-handed golfer splayed out the good sort of 10 or 15 degrees. So, on a standard range mat aiming up towards the top left-hand corner of the range map. Now by having the toe turned out quite a long way maybe a bit further sort of standard sort of PGA Tour professional, having the left toe turned out on this create a nice, stable platform to swing from and actually little bit more sort of flexibility and opening up of the left hip and the left thigh. So if I get David now to swing through to the proper follow through position, holding enough balance position. Now the left toe works to age you balance and actually open that left thigh and left hip.

Thanks very much, you can relax that now down, David. Okay, thank you. And just jump off the mat again that's great. So as we open up that left side and turn through a little bit more it should give you a little bit more flexibility particularly if you struggle with your front hip, having the toe turned in could feel like it's blocking you a little bit. So to help you get through the golf a little bit better, if you feel like sometimes you land upon your back foot a little bit, splayed that front foot, turn through, and stand nicely tall on that front leg and hopefully that will help you get through the golf ball a little bit more easily.

 2012-09-18

As a PGA qualified golf coach for the last 13 years, I've spent my days working on people's golf swings. And obviously I have a preferred method of how to swing a golf club in the sort of movements that you should try and make for maximum efficiency and the best results out here on the golf course. But I'm also very aware that golf has come in all different shape, sizes, ages, injuries, different body type, different body movement. And I adapt my coaching in everyday to try and sort of built the best of what we have in a particular golfer and granted that I'm not given Tiger Woods as a raw material everyday that I can sort of say, '”Well, Tiger let's try and swing the golf club this way.” You know I have to work with the individuals and in this online series sometimes it might come across that I'm doing a very much of a one stop fit sort of cure that you've got to try and do this.

Well, I'm going to try and answer some of the question now the people would have from maybe golfers who have slightly less than perfect flexibility or slightly less than perfect physical shape. And also golfers as they age in their careers the golf may have to change to a certain degree. I'm going to actually bring a model now and – gentleman called David is going to help me out now. And David is a 13 handicap golfer, he's been playing for over 20 years, but I think you'll appreciate that over a certain age, golfers don't have perfect shape, perfect flexibility so it's maybe better that David can sort of help us explain and show through some of the movements that you may find as a golfer. I'm going to start off with some movements that I would often describe that you should be able to do, but if you don't feel you can, there would be things that we could help you out to encourage you to do it the best you can with what you've got. So David, you want to jump onto the mat for me now please.

Take your normal address position, so this is where the 7-9 a normal address position to the tee with the 7-9. I'm actually going to start by looking down here with the stance and the feet. Now for older golfer, I'd often encourage them to have their right foot quite square and straightforward, so just bring the toe round and slightly for me here, but actually splayed the left toe, the front toe for the right-handed golfer splayed out the good sort of 10 or 15 degrees. So, on a standard range mat aiming up towards the top left-hand corner of the range map. Now by having the toe turned out quite a long way maybe a bit further sort of standard sort of PGA Tour professional, having the left toe turned out on this create a nice, stable platform to swing from and actually little bit more sort of flexibility and opening up of the left hip and the left thigh. So if I get David now to swing through to the proper follow through position, holding enough balance position. Now the left toe works to age you balance and actually open that left thigh and left hip.

Thanks very much, you can relax that now down, David. Okay, thank you. And just jump off the mat again that's great. So as we open up that left side and turn through a little bit more it should give you a little bit more flexibility particularly if you struggle with your front hip, having the toe turned in could feel like it's blocking you a little bit. So to help you get through the golf a little bit better, if you feel like sometimes you land upon your back foot a little bit, splayed that front foot, turn through, and stand nicely tall on that front leg and hopefully that will help you get through the golf ball a little bit more easily.