Senior Golfer 8 - Work hard on maintaining posture in transition, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Senior Golfer 8 - Work hard on maintaining posture in transition, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

Another common complaints I often hear from older golfers, people with less flexibility, is how they start to top the golf ball, something they never use to do when they were playing golf in their youth and have recently started to top the golf ball. Some people also with back injuries. If you have a lower back injury, it can also cause a very similar issue.

So, from the side on angle here, taken the golf club to the top. We've kept this posture. We've got this nice position here. But it happens in the transition as you shift back into your left hand side as you try and get quite dynamic. Anything that's tight around the lower back and the hips can often cause you to start to stand up through the impact area. You lose a lot of your posture in the transition. So we want to make a nice turn down here and shift back across trying to stay in good posture. If you're tight in this area, often we’ll see the golfer stand up and hit over the top of the golf ball.

If I just bring David into position. We'll set you up to the golf ball around here this time, David. And if I just step back. You can make a proper backswing and stop, and holding it there. So from here, trying and work really hard in keeping the left shoulder down now and then working the right shoulder under your chin so that the right shoulder come around under your chin, and keep the hips back. So as David comes through the impact area -- now, keep turning through for me -- we're keeping the spine angle through here as we keep the posture. We haven’t lost it, and stood up into a follow through position. There you go. To a follow through now.

In the follow through, you'll often see the golfer stand up perfectly straight. That's fine. It's just a case of holding that posture for as long as you can through the impact area. Back around to the start again for me, David, into an address position.

So, whatever your spine angle looks like here at setup, you want to try and maintain hips back, right shoulder low through the impact area. And remember, the key point to that is in transition. So swing it nicely to the top in transition, stay right shoulder down, hips back, don’t let the body stand up and the hands fly away from the body too much, and hopefully work on that transition phase and that would help you get back to the impact position, proper contacts, less topping and less fatting of the golf ball.

 2012-09-18

Another common complaints I often hear from older golfers, people with less flexibility, is how they start to top the golf ball, something they never use to do when they were playing golf in their youth and have recently started to top the golf ball. Some people also with back injuries. If you have a lower back injury, it can also cause a very similar issue.

So, from the side on angle here, taken the golf club to the top. We've kept this posture. We've got this nice position here. But it happens in the transition as you shift back into your left hand side as you try and get quite dynamic. Anything that's tight around the lower back and the hips can often cause you to start to stand up through the impact area. You lose a lot of your posture in the transition. So we want to make a nice turn down here and shift back across trying to stay in good posture. If you're tight in this area, often we’ll see the golfer stand up and hit over the top of the golf ball.

If I just bring David into position. We'll set you up to the golf ball around here this time, David. And if I just step back. You can make a proper backswing and stop, and holding it there. So from here, trying and work really hard in keeping the left shoulder down now and then working the right shoulder under your chin so that the right shoulder come around under your chin, and keep the hips back. So as David comes through the impact area — now, keep turning through for me — we're keeping the spine angle through here as we keep the posture. We haven’t lost it, and stood up into a follow through position. There you go. To a follow through now.

In the follow through, you'll often see the golfer stand up perfectly straight. That's fine. It's just a case of holding that posture for as long as you can through the impact area. Back around to the start again for me, David, into an address position.

So, whatever your spine angle looks like here at setup, you want to try and maintain hips back, right shoulder low through the impact area. And remember, the key point to that is in transition. So swing it nicely to the top in transition, stay right shoulder down, hips back, don’t let the body stand up and the hands fly away from the body too much, and hopefully work on that transition phase and that would help you get back to the impact position, proper contacts, less topping and less fatting of the golf ball.