What Are The Key Elements Of My Footwork During A Good Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Are The Key Elements Of My Footwork During A Good Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

What are the key elements of footwork during a good golf swing? Now the feet play such a major role in the swing because they’re your only connection to the ground and therefore all your energy and all your power will be drawn up through them. If they are a little bit kind of loose or they’re not quite moving in the right way, the golf swing will suffer as a whole as a result. So if you do want to make sure your feet are moving in the right way, just follow these following kind of checkpoints. As you get set up to a normal shot, so, this is just a normal 7-Iron shot I’m trying to hit; I’m not getting my weight too much on the front foot as I would a punch, and I’m not kind of leaning back as I would if I want to hit a very, very high shot; my weight is nice and even on each foot.

As you take the club back what you want to be finding is a little bit of weight transfer moves over on to the right side. So a 50% kind of each between each foot I’d address but as you move back more weight transfer is on to the right side until the top of the swing about 60% of your body weight is concentrated on the right foot. Now my left foot here has stayed planted. If you want to get a little bit more turn, if you’re not quite as flexible, you can allow that left heel to rise, but make sure that 60% of your weight is on your right side as that left heel comes up. However, if you don’t need to, keep that left foot nice and planted. So we swung back, we’ve got that weight moved about 60% over to my right side, and then what I need to do is start to power through the ball. So the first thing I’m going to do is move my foot and my weight from my right to my left side, so I transfer weight on to the front foot. From there my hips begin to turn and I really start to power off my right side. Now normally what happens at impact is that right foot will have rolled slightly or it will come up slightly on to the toe as the hips move into impact. As the hips move into impact, as the right foot either rolls or comes up on to the toe, it powers through; it continues to turn and it continues to rise up until the finish position where that right toe is down into the ground. So what you want to be seeing is a good combination of weight transfer, power and turn. If you can get those movements in, we’ll hopefully hit a very, very good shot. So 50% to begin with, moving 60% over to my right side, then powering through turning, allowing the right heel to rise and then finishing in a nice full follow through. Throughout the through swing the left foot should stay nice and planted and nice and secure. 2014-10-17

What are the key elements of footwork during a good golf swing? Now the feet play such a major role in the swing because they’re your only connection to the ground and therefore all your energy and all your power will be drawn up through them. If they are a little bit kind of loose or they’re not quite moving in the right way, the golf swing will suffer as a whole as a result. So if you do want to make sure your feet are moving in the right way, just follow these following kind of checkpoints. As you get set up to a normal shot, so, this is just a normal 7-Iron shot I’m trying to hit; I’m not getting my weight too much on the front foot as I would a punch, and I’m not kind of leaning back as I would if I want to hit a very, very high shot; my weight is nice and even on each foot.

As you take the club back what you want to be finding is a little bit of weight transfer moves over on to the right side. So a 50% kind of each between each foot I’d address but as you move back more weight transfer is on to the right side until the top of the swing about 60% of your body weight is concentrated on the right foot. Now my left foot here has stayed planted. If you want to get a little bit more turn, if you’re not quite as flexible, you can allow that left heel to rise, but make sure that 60% of your weight is on your right side as that left heel comes up. However, if you don’t need to, keep that left foot nice and planted. So we swung back, we’ve got that weight moved about 60% over to my right side, and then what I need to do is start to power through the ball.

So the first thing I’m going to do is move my foot and my weight from my right to my left side, so I transfer weight on to the front foot. From there my hips begin to turn and I really start to power off my right side. Now normally what happens at impact is that right foot will have rolled slightly or it will come up slightly on to the toe as the hips move into impact. As the hips move into impact, as the right foot either rolls or comes up on to the toe, it powers through; it continues to turn and it continues to rise up until the finish position where that right toe is down into the ground. So what you want to be seeing is a good combination of weight transfer, power and turn. If you can get those movements in, we’ll hopefully hit a very, very good shot. So 50% to begin with, moving 60% over to my right side, then powering through turning, allowing the right heel to rise and then finishing in a nice full follow through. Throughout the through swing the left foot should stay nice and planted and nice and secure.