Walk Through Swing Encourages Good Rotation, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Walk Through Swing Encourages Good Rotation, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you try and generate the maximum amount of speed you possibly can on your down swing, you’d be aware that the golf swing is quite a big rotation action as it comes into the golf ball. You might actually feel that it would be helpful if you had a little step afterwards to generate maximum power towards your target.

Now in a golf swing we don’t classically recommend an actual step through, because we’d normally feel more balance and beneficial if we finish with our right foot on the ground on its tiptoe heel without actually walking forward. But if you swing without moving forward then you actually get a bit prone to the leaning back action maybe walking through is a drill; is a great way of actually help you rotate your right hip through the ball. So feel like you want to set up with a back swing coming through and let the right foot follow through to the mat in front of where your left foot is.

Once you’ve developed that in a practice swing, you should feel more comfortable actually hitting golf balls with that action, letting the right foot walk. And you can see that my follow through position here at my hip and my chest is the desired position in a normal golf swing that my right foot would not be back; that my hip would still be round. So it’s taking the foot from here and bringing it to here to help with the commitment rather than seeing that right hit drop back into a bit of a reverse pivoting type action. So feel that right foot wanting to follow you through will help you follow through to generate maximum power and good balance.

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So if you try and generate the maximum amount of speed you possibly can on your down swing, you’d be aware that the golf swing is quite a big rotation action as it comes into the golf ball. You might actually feel that it would be helpful if you had a little step afterwards to generate maximum power towards your target.

Now in a golf swing we don’t classically recommend an actual step through, because we’d normally feel more balance and beneficial if we finish with our right foot on the ground on its tiptoe heel without actually walking forward. But if you swing without moving forward then you actually get a bit prone to the leaning back action maybe walking through is a drill; is a great way of actually help you rotate your right hip through the ball. So feel like you want to set up with a back swing coming through and let the right foot follow through to the mat in front of where your left foot is.

Once you’ve developed that in a practice swing, you should feel more comfortable actually hitting golf balls with that action, letting the right foot walk. And you can see that my follow through position here at my hip and my chest is the desired position in a normal golf swing that my right foot would not be back; that my hip would still be round. So it’s taking the foot from here and bringing it to here to help with the commitment rather than seeing that right hit drop back into a bit of a reverse pivoting type action. So feel that right foot wanting to follow you through will help you follow through to generate maximum power and good balance.