Shift Your Weight Correctly During The Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Shift Your Weight Correctly During The Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if we now understand that the head position needs to be quite stable throughout the swing, one of the key areas where people lose that stability and actually get their head in the wrong position is going to be in the transition from the top of the backswing to start the downswing. And for a lot of golfers where they find the mistakes is actually the positioning of their left side, their left knee, their left hip particularly. So we’ve got ourselves a good address position, we turn nicely to the top and we get into a nice place here, but if you feel that you’ve lunged into the golf ball, your head has moved too far forwards and you’ve become off balance particularly to the falling over the front side after you’ve hit the shot. There is a real risk that your left side wasn’t strong enough, wasn’t positioned well enough to take the increased weight that it was about to have. So we’ve got ourselves in a good address position, we turn to the top, the right side has got the body weight here, we are going to go 40% on the left side. As we start to turn into the left side, the left side is going to start taking 89% of the body weight, with a sort of transition that’s moving into the left side and also coming backwards. And if your left knee is not strong enough, your left knee gets stuck here, your head starts to go over, then more body weight piles onto the left side.

The left knee ends up collapsing and we fall into it, very classic sort of lunging position. Its going to cause a lot of shots, heavy shots, even some top shots and a few shanks caused by that lunging position. So to help us keep the left side in position and help us therefore to keep the head back a little bit, its quite important that from the top, the left side works correctly in a straightening and backwards motion, so the left knee starts to straighten up, the left hip starts to go backwards and we end up in a position with the head slightly behind the golf ball at impact, and this left side is braced so I can move on to it and I can sort of post onto it, we talked about hitting against a post, so we post up against that left side into it, and posting rather than lunging through. You see I have a vertical line up here, I can post against that line rather than lunge through that line, and that’s going to help keep my head in a good position and keep my head back rather than allowing my head to drop too far forwards with a lunge. So a simple mirror drill or a video camera from the front, like mine camera is positioned here, that would help encourage me to stop lunging at the golf ball, but to post up onto my left side, keep my head sitting behind the golf ball to improve my ball striking and improve my consistency most importantly. 2015-10-19

So if we now understand that the head position needs to be quite stable throughout the swing, one of the key areas where people lose that stability and actually get their head in the wrong position is going to be in the transition from the top of the backswing to start the downswing. And for a lot of golfers where they find the mistakes is actually the positioning of their left side, their left knee, their left hip particularly. So we’ve got ourselves a good address position, we turn nicely to the top and we get into a nice place here, but if you feel that you’ve lunged into the golf ball, your head has moved too far forwards and you’ve become off balance particularly to the falling over the front side after you’ve hit the shot. There is a real risk that your left side wasn’t strong enough, wasn’t positioned well enough to take the increased weight that it was about to have. So we’ve got ourselves in a good address position, we turn to the top, the right side has got the body weight here, we are going to go 40% on the left side. As we start to turn into the left side, the left side is going to start taking 89% of the body weight, with a sort of transition that’s moving into the left side and also coming backwards. And if your left knee is not strong enough, your left knee gets stuck here, your head starts to go over, then more body weight piles onto the left side.

The left knee ends up collapsing and we fall into it, very classic sort of lunging position. Its going to cause a lot of shots, heavy shots, even some top shots and a few shanks caused by that lunging position. So to help us keep the left side in position and help us therefore to keep the head back a little bit, its quite important that from the top, the left side works correctly in a straightening and backwards motion, so the left knee starts to straighten up, the left hip starts to go backwards and we end up in a position with the head slightly behind the golf ball at impact, and this left side is braced so I can move on to it and I can sort of post onto it, we talked about hitting against a post, so we post up against that left side into it, and posting rather than lunging through. You see I have a vertical line up here, I can post against that line rather than lunge through that line, and that’s going to help keep my head in a good position and keep my head back rather than allowing my head to drop too far forwards with a lunge. So a simple mirror drill or a video camera from the front, like mine camera is positioned here, that would help encourage me to stop lunging at the golf ball, but to post up onto my left side, keep my head sitting behind the golf ball to improve my ball striking and improve my consistency most importantly.