If we’ve now established that lot of the fault of the pulled shot comes from the position of the body during the impact phase and the fact that the bodyweight is leaning too far back and coming across the ball and a golfer that leans back will generally come outside the line across the ball back creates the pull. The issue is not always just what happens in impact; it’s actually a lot what happens before that at the top of the backswing that creates the problem. So we want to talk about setting the stage in a perfect backswing, so as we swing the club up to the top we want to set the stage in a perfect position to allow everything to work down through the ball through its best, best area through the ball, to hit the best results.

If we have a problem during the backswing, particularly with our balance, that can create the issues that we see in impact while we’re swinging across the ball. So particularly the issue is good balance of the top. If I swing to the top, I want to maintain some good balance. Now my bodyweight here is going to be slightly into my right side but it’s in a nice position in my right side, so actually on the instep of my right leg. It isn’t too much on the heel and it definitely isn’t too much on the little toe. We often see golfers that are leaning back at impact are actually leaning back at the top of the backswing, so they got this idea of turning to the right a bit too strong. They sway over here, get onto the little toe and can never move back off this side here. So we get too much bodyweight on the little toe.

So good balance of the top of your backswing is crucial for a good impact position coming down to stop that pulled shot. The other issue might be the right side flex, particularly the right knee flex. So from a good address position I like to turn up to the top and maintain some right knee flex to make sure that my bodyweight can move back to the left. What we often see with golfers who lock their right leg, not just straighten their right leg but lock the right leg, golfer locks that right leg, the bodyweight often goes to the little toe.

So goes out to the little toe and also the heel of the foot here and the hip going back here, the knee locking up pulls the bodyweight onto the heel. From here it’s very difficult to engage the downswing and to drive the legs, so the downswing there becomes led by the upper body which again throws the club over the top across the back of the ball and we’re leaning back. So leaning back is the issue. How do we correct that? We correct that with good balance and good flexed knees on the backswing to then drive through meaning you shouldn’t be leaning back at the point of impact which should stop the pull of the golf shots.