Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
The legs have an absolutely crucial role to play in today's modern golf swing; if we look at what the role that they have during the swing at set up they should be shoulder with the par, slight flex in the knees and really even with the weight distribution. That's 50-50 on both left leg and right leg but also 50-50 between the toes and the heels so really good balance. As you start your back swing the initial movement is all from the upper body. The legs should be very, very quiet during this phase of the swing, as we get to the top of the swing, we've now loaded the weight on to the right side, we should feel the weights on the inside and on the in-step of the right foot. And we may feel that the left knee is just starting to move in towards the right leg but this should be as restricted as possible. The foot should stay on the floor. Once we start the down swing we initiate that with the knees and with the legs so there's a lot of action here. We're going to turn the knees towards the target; we're going to start to shift the weight over to the left side. As we shift the weight over to the left side from the right we are turning the knees, turning the hips into the shot and into impact here. So by the time we get to impact, we've got a good 60% of the weight on the left, the right leg the knee is turned in towards the target and the heel is now lifting from the floor on the right side and there' also a rotation in that foot so the shoe lace is on the right side it's starting to point at the target as well. As we swing through we lock the left knee back, if we are in an athletic position the left foot will stay anchored and won't move at all and we've now got 95% of the weight on the left side as we completely rotate round to the target and finish with the belt buckle pointing at the target or even left of it. So that's what the leg should be doing in a modern golf swing.
2013-06-07 Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
The legs have an absolutely crucial role to play in today's modern golf swing; if we look at what the role that they have during the swing at set up they should be shoulder with the par, slight flex in the knees and really even with the weight distribution. That's 50-50 on both left leg and right leg but also 50-50 between the toes and the heels so really good balance. As you start your back swing the initial movement is all from the upper body. The legs should be very, very quiet during this phase of the swing, as we get to the top of the swing, we've now loaded the weight on to the right side, we should feel the weights on the inside and on the in-step of the right foot. And we may feel that the left knee is just starting to move in towards the right leg but this should be as restricted as possible. The foot should stay on the floor. Once we start the down swing we initiate that with the knees and with the legs so there's a lot of action here. We're going to turn the knees towards the target; we're going to start to shift the weight over to the left side. As we shift the weight over to the left side from the right we are turning the knees, turning the hips into the shot and into impact here. So by the time we get to impact, we've got a good 60% of the weight on the left, the right leg the knee is turned in towards the target and the heel is now lifting from the floor on the right side and there' also a rotation in that foot so the shoe lace is on the right side it's starting to point at the target as well. As we swing through we lock the left knee back, if we are in an athletic position the left foot will stay anchored and won't move at all and we've now got 95% of the weight on the left side as we completely rotate round to the target and finish with the belt buckle pointing at the target or even left of it. So that's what the leg should be doing in a modern golf swing.
