Swing on Plane with Stand Bag Golf Drill (Video) - by Pete Styles
Swing on Plane with Stand Bag Golf Drill (Video) - by Pete Styles

So here's a really great tip to help you understand and develop a really nice swing plane. Now there are lots of little different toys and tricks that you can get to help you with this sort of thing maybe one of the big hoops, the x plane hours or maybe even the shaft's sticks that you stick into the floor. But I've developed this little idea here with the golf bag. I position my golf bag--my stand bag and actually the stand bag will sit at the similar angle that's required for when you swing--you're swinging with about a six iron is going to be about the same swing plane.

So I've positioned my golf ball just out in front of the stand bag here and when I take my normal stance now--if I swing back correctly the club will pass just over the top of the bag, run up the shaft of the bag--run up the line of the shaft over the top of the bag there and finishing this key position where we club--points at the camera and the club had sets on top of my hands.

If I was to take the golf club too steeply here, the club would go away from the bag and I will have a big gap underneath it that tells me I'm too steep. And clearly if I swing too flat, I'm going to hit into the bag at various points as I try and get the club to go behind me which we know is too flat for a swing plane. So normal size stand bag, position it so the golf ball sits just out behind it, particularly if it's got a pocket on like this one just out behind it. And then just take the club back and just check the various heights how the shaft runs just over the top of the bag. And then pretty much hugs the bag on the way back down again into the golf ball.

Now you'd have to be a little bit braver than me to actually go ahead and hit golf balls with the bag there but it's a great way of checking your swing plane if you've got a six iron and a stand bag to help you.

 2012-04-13

So here's a really great tip to help you understand and develop a really nice swing plane. Now there are lots of little different toys and tricks that you can get to help you with this sort of thing maybe one of the big hoops, the x plane hours or maybe even the shaft's sticks that you stick into the floor. But I've developed this little idea here with the golf bag. I position my golf bag–my stand bag and actually the stand bag will sit at the similar angle that's required for when you swing–you're swinging with about a six iron is going to be about the same swing plane.

So I've positioned my golf ball just out in front of the stand bag here and when I take my normal stance now–if I swing back correctly the club will pass just over the top of the bag, run up the shaft of the bag–run up the line of the shaft over the top of the bag there and finishing this key position where we club–points at the camera and the club had sets on top of my hands.

If I was to take the golf club too steeply here, the club would go away from the bag and I will have a big gap underneath it that tells me I'm too steep. And clearly if I swing too flat, I'm going to hit into the bag at various points as I try and get the club to go behind me which we know is too flat for a swing plane. So normal size stand bag, position it so the golf ball sits just out behind it, particularly if it's got a pocket on like this one just out behind it. And then just take the club back and just check the various heights how the shaft runs just over the top of the bag. And then pretty much hugs the bag on the way back down again into the golf ball.

Now you'd have to be a little bit braver than me to actually go ahead and hit golf balls with the bag there but it's a great way of checking your swing plane if you've got a six iron and a stand bag to help you.