Taking The Upper Body Tilt To The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles
Taking The Upper Body Tilt To The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles

So once you have started to engrain the Colin Montgomerie upper body tilt on the driving range, a couple of hundred balls, a couple of hours with the practice on the range it’s now time to take it out into the golf course. Before you do that you have just got to temp your expectations a little bit. It’s quite a big change to take onto the golf course, you’re not always going to see your best golf straight out the gate which is sometimes a bit difficult thing to swallow. You know you will probably put a couple of hours with the practice into this on the range. You go on the golf course, you don’t play your best golf straight away. The feeling might be that I will dump that change and I will go back to how it was swinging.

But if you have worked hard on this change and you can see the benefits on the range, you are going to now start to see these benefits on the golf course. A couple of key things when you go out and play, firstly play a score free round. Don’t go out there with a score card in your hand playing in the club competition. Those changes just put more and more pressure on your game and a pressurized environment of having a score card in your hand can only make it worse. So go out nice and relaxed on your own you know with a couple of mates that are not playing too much -- for too much money and hopefully you can make these changes stick. The next thing on the golf course is just to take some nice big deep breaths before you set up to the golf ball. We don’t want to run up to the ball with too many swing thoughts in our head particularly when we are making changes. You don’t want to get too tense to the ball. Particularly this change is a nice, languid smooth rhythm. So an extra couple of big, deep breaths beforehand will just get into you that Colin Montgomerie mindset. The next thing when you are playing with this is just to expect a bit of inconsistency to start with. It’s quite a big change here. We’ve changed the whole way you stand to the golf ball, the whole way your spine angle is going to move through the golf ball. So you are probably going to expect a little bit of inconsistency particularly in terms of how you strike the ball and the direction the golf ball goes. That’s why it’s important to playing that in that score-free, quite relaxed environment. And if the changes don’t work initially on the golf course head back to the range, a couple of hours of more practice and then bring it back out to the golf course again but always try and bring it back out in that relaxed environment. And hopefully with those changes in mind you will be able to incorporate that Colin Montgomerie spine tilt into your longer golf swing. 2016-08-17

So once you have started to engrain the Colin Montgomerie upper body tilt on the driving range, a couple of hundred balls, a couple of hours with the practice on the range it’s now time to take it out into the golf course. Before you do that you have just got to temp your expectations a little bit. It’s quite a big change to take onto the golf course, you’re not always going to see your best golf straight out the gate which is sometimes a bit difficult thing to swallow. You know you will probably put a couple of hours with the practice into this on the range. You go on the golf course, you don’t play your best golf straight away. The feeling might be that I will dump that change and I will go back to how it was swinging.

But if you have worked hard on this change and you can see the benefits on the range, you are going to now start to see these benefits on the golf course. A couple of key things when you go out and play, firstly play a score free round. Don’t go out there with a score card in your hand playing in the club competition. Those changes just put more and more pressure on your game and a pressurized environment of having a score card in your hand can only make it worse. So go out nice and relaxed on your own you know with a couple of mates that are not playing too much — for too much money and hopefully you can make these changes stick. The next thing on the golf course is just to take some nice big deep breaths before you set up to the golf ball.

We don’t want to run up to the ball with too many swing thoughts in our head particularly when we are making changes. You don’t want to get too tense to the ball. Particularly this change is a nice, languid smooth rhythm. So an extra couple of big, deep breaths beforehand will just get into you that Colin Montgomerie mindset. The next thing when you are playing with this is just to expect a bit of inconsistency to start with. It’s quite a big change here. We’ve changed the whole way you stand to the golf ball, the whole way your spine angle is going to move through the golf ball. So you are probably going to expect a little bit of inconsistency particularly in terms of how you strike the ball and the direction the golf ball goes.

That’s why it’s important to playing that in that score-free, quite relaxed environment. And if the changes don’t work initially on the golf course head back to the range, a couple of hours of more practice and then bring it back out to the golf course again but always try and bring it back out in that relaxed environment. And hopefully with those changes in mind you will be able to incorporate that Colin Montgomerie spine tilt into your longer golf swing.