Senior Golfer 6 - Allow a small front knee flex to aid full turn, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Senior Golfer 6 - Allow a small front knee flex to aid full turn, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now, here, David's going to try and make a backswing, but I'm going to hold the club in between his knees and just see how this backswing looks now. So go ahead and turn away. And you see, it's a very restricted turn there, and there's already quite a lot of pressure on the golf club. Come back down again. Turn and make that turn again but no leg action at all here, no leg action and turn. So his shoulders are really struggling to rotate pass the -- pass the golf ball if the legs aren't allowed to be used. You can bring that down and relax again for a second.

So all we see here is golfers a certain age, we like to let them use their legs. For most golfers, they'd use a bit of leg action, but of hip action. If we try and restrict, because that creates power and consistency. But the golfers of certain age who are losing that flexibility, if we don’t allow any leg action, the shoulders barely turn and would barely let the club come back at all.

So, from watching the golfers on the TV, people like Woods and McIlroy particularly, very strong at turn in their chest against their legs. But don’t try and emulate that, you'll just find your swing get shorter and shorter.

So, if you want to allow that left knee to move in a little bit, that will allow the shoulder to come around a little bit more. So if we now allow David to go ahead and make his full backswing. So, from the tee peg, a full backswing position. This time, just focus on what the left knee does and see how the left knee kind of moves in towards the golf ball a little bit here allowing this flex which allows the hip movement, but ultimately, that allows the shoulder rotation.

So, whatever you feel you need to just move a little bit to get the shoulders around, that's fine. I don’t really like too much left heel lift. Now, if you find that you've got a natural hip problem or back problem and you need to let your heel lift into the air, that's OK. But minimize it as much as possible. Thanks. You can relax that down, David.

Try and avoid, if you can, having that kind of tiptoe, tiptoe, we don’t really want to see that in a golf swing. We want to build as much power and stability in the backswing. If it requires knee moving in, OK, heel up a bit, OK, but not too much up and then too much up on the other side. Golf swing isn't meant to be symmetrical; it's building power and releasing power. If you need your knee movement to build power, we'll allow it, and then release through to a nice big full finish.

So if you're struggling with back problems or hip problems, allow the left knee to move in and that will keep you hitting the ball nice and far, and hopefully nice and straight too.

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Now, here, David's going to try and make a backswing, but I'm going to hold the club in between his knees and just see how this backswing looks now. So go ahead and turn away. And you see, it's a very restricted turn there, and there's already quite a lot of pressure on the golf club. Come back down again. Turn and make that turn again but no leg action at all here, no leg action and turn. So his shoulders are really struggling to rotate pass the — pass the golf ball if the legs aren't allowed to be used. You can bring that down and relax again for a second.

So all we see here is golfers a certain age, we like to let them use their legs. For most golfers, they'd use a bit of leg action, but of hip action. If we try and restrict, because that creates power and consistency. But the golfers of certain age who are losing that flexibility, if we don’t allow any leg action, the shoulders barely turn and would barely let the club come back at all.

So, from watching the golfers on the TV, people like Woods and McIlroy particularly, very strong at turn in their chest against their legs. But don’t try and emulate that, you'll just find your swing get shorter and shorter.

So, if you want to allow that left knee to move in a little bit, that will allow the shoulder to come around a little bit more. So if we now allow David to go ahead and make his full backswing. So, from the tee peg, a full backswing position. This time, just focus on what the left knee does and see how the left knee kind of moves in towards the golf ball a little bit here allowing this flex which allows the hip movement, but ultimately, that allows the shoulder rotation.

So, whatever you feel you need to just move a little bit to get the shoulders around, that's fine. I don’t really like too much left heel lift. Now, if you find that you've got a natural hip problem or back problem and you need to let your heel lift into the air, that's OK. But minimize it as much as possible. Thanks. You can relax that down, David.

Try and avoid, if you can, having that kind of tiptoe, tiptoe, we don’t really want to see that in a golf swing. We want to build as much power and stability in the backswing. If it requires knee moving in, OK, heel up a bit, OK, but not too much up and then too much up on the other side. Golf swing isn't meant to be symmetrical; it's building power and releasing power. If you need your knee movement to build power, we'll allow it, and then release through to a nice big full finish.

So if you're struggling with back problems or hip problems, allow the left knee to move in and that will keep you hitting the ball nice and far, and hopefully nice and straight too.