Should I feel like I lift the golf club during the back swing? Now on the back swing, the club travels away from the body and it rises on an arc until it reaches a high point at the very top of the golf swing. Now what a lot of players do struggle with, is as they move back from the ball, is picking the club up too soon. What you want to be feeling like, is rather than lifting the club up into the air, that as your arms travel back, you turn that the club is making its own way, to the top of the golf swing in a natural manner. It’s going to be very hard for you to turn the shoulders back, extended the arms away without the club lifting into its natural position.

So actually keep the club low, and keep it tracking to the ground, is a very, very hard move to make and it will take conscious effort. If you get set up to this ball, you turn away using the shoulders, extending the club in the arms away from the ball and then continuing to extend the arms up to the top of the swing, the club will lift naturally into its correct position. You don’t need to add any extra lift on there, because what will often happen is the hands will get disconnected from the body, or the arms will just become too high at the top of the swing. Just allow them to move naturally and then club should lift into a perfect position on it’s on without any extra help needed.