Tightening Up Your Golf Back Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Tightening Up Your Golf Back Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

This tip could be called “How your right knee can stop you skying the golf ball” and that might seem a little bit far-fetched. How can my right knee stop me skying that? But this is the chain reaction that happens within a golf swing; this is how everything is linked together. We understand from right from the start of this little section of videos that we sometimes sky the ball because we get too steep and we get too steep because we get too long, and we can’t get too long because the right knee cannot support us in the backswing. So there’s the link to how the right knee us skying the ball.

So anything golf swing, if I’m swinging back and my right knee washes away and locks back too much and goes this way during the backswing locks out, it’s not going to support me very well. If I do that so I swing back and I get too long in this position I’ve over swung. If my right knee was a bit better and a bit more flexed. I’d probably be more here but I’ve gone too long and I'm going to cross the line in this position. And then you have to come down pole; a little bit too steep. I’m going to get my body weight too much on my left leg chopping down on the ball. As I chop down on the ball, the leading edge of that driver runs in towards the ball, hits the top and shoots in to the air a little bit too much. So what I’d much rather do with my backswing here is support my right knee in a better position to not have it locked out and then fill a shorter backswing steering and I get through a good position at the top, I can then turn nicely through impact, square everything up and have that nice big balance follow through position and that’s how controlling your right knee on the backswing can help you to stop skying the golf ball. 2016-07-27

This tip could be called “How your right knee can stop you skying the golf ball” and that might seem a little bit far-fetched. How can my right knee stop me skying that? But this is the chain reaction that happens within a golf swing; this is how everything is linked together. We understand from right from the start of this little section of videos that we sometimes sky the ball because we get too steep and we get too steep because we get too long, and we can’t get too long because the right knee cannot support us in the backswing. So there’s the link to how the right knee us skying the ball.

So anything golf swing, if I’m swinging back and my right knee washes away and locks back too much and goes this way during the backswing locks out, it’s not going to support me very well. If I do that so I swing back and I get too long in this position I’ve over swung. If my right knee was a bit better and a bit more flexed. I’d probably be more here but I’ve gone too long and I'm going to cross the line in this position. And then you have to come down pole; a little bit too steep. I’m going to get my body weight too much on my left leg chopping down on the ball. As I chop down on the ball, the leading edge of that driver runs in towards the ball, hits the top and shoots in to the air a little bit too much. So what I’d much rather do with my backswing here is support my right knee in a better position to not have it locked out and then fill a shorter backswing steering and I get through a good position at the top, I can then turn nicely through impact, square everything up and have that nice big balance follow through position and that’s how controlling your right knee on the backswing can help you to stop skying the golf ball.