What Should My Body Weight Do During The Golf Swing? (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Should My Body Weight Do During The Golf Swing? (Video) - by Peter Finch

What should my body weight do during the golf swing? Now your transfer of weight as you swing the club back and you’re swinging the club through is very important for a number of reasons, not only as far as distance is concerned but also consistency of strike. Without correct transfer of weight throughout the golf swing, both of these are quite difficult to achieve. Now maybe in a kind of pass day a lot of people wanted to transfer a lot of weight over to their right side, and then move it back to the left. However, the more you move off the ball, the more you have to move back on to the ball as you come through impact. Is a lot easier to keep your weight relatively central, as you swing, and it’ll improve the consistency of your strike. During the back swing, if you think of your swing center as the middle of your chest about here, you want to be turning back, and trying to keep that point relatively central. So turning back to the top of the back swing and keeping it quite centered on the ball. Now what will actually happen if you complete a correct back swing, you’ll stay centered but a little bit of weight will just transfer over to this tight knee. Only about 55% or so there that you don’t want to be swinging a long way off the ball. So about 55% on to that right knee but it’ll pretty much look like you’re staying quite central.

Now during the down swing is precise to the opposite. You want to be rotating those hips and just bumping about 55% of your weight on your front side. Staying centered and allowing the hips to turn and just that slight transfer of your weight will allow you to actually strike down on the ball and move the hips through correctly, but it will lead to a lot more consistency because there’s not a big movement back and there’s not a big movement through. What you don’t want to be doing is like I said you don’t want to be turning back and putting your weight on your front foot, but you then also don’t want to be turning back and then leaning over towards the target because this will cause a very steep angle of attack or it’ll cause you to rock on to the back foot through impact, which will cause again an inconsistency of strike but also a loss of distance, because your body weight is moving in the wrong direction. So your weight transfer throughout the golf swing should remain quite centered, and then after you’ve hit the ball, move up and forward all the way onto that front foot. So a slight transfer back, a slight transfer through, and then a nice position here at the top of the swing, bouncing on that back toe facing down towards your target. So next time you’re practicing just focus on staying quite centered, and then just allow your body to come through after impact, and hopefully, you should see a more consistent ball strike. 2014-08-19

What should my body weight do during the golf swing? Now your transfer of weight as you swing the club back and you’re swinging the club through is very important for a number of reasons, not only as far as distance is concerned but also consistency of strike. Without correct transfer of weight throughout the golf swing, both of these are quite difficult to achieve. Now maybe in a kind of pass day a lot of people wanted to transfer a lot of weight over to their right side, and then move it back to the left. However, the more you move off the ball, the more you have to move back on to the ball as you come through impact. Is a lot easier to keep your weight relatively central, as you swing, and it’ll improve the consistency of your strike. During the back swing, if you think of your swing center as the middle of your chest about here, you want to be turning back, and trying to keep that point relatively central. So turning back to the top of the back swing and keeping it quite centered on the ball. Now what will actually happen if you complete a correct back swing, you’ll stay centered but a little bit of weight will just transfer over to this tight knee. Only about 55% or so there that you don’t want to be swinging a long way off the ball. So about 55% on to that right knee but it’ll pretty much look like you’re staying quite central.

Now during the down swing is precise to the opposite. You want to be rotating those hips and just bumping about 55% of your weight on your front side. Staying centered and allowing the hips to turn and just that slight transfer of your weight will allow you to actually strike down on the ball and move the hips through correctly, but it will lead to a lot more consistency because there’s not a big movement back and there’s not a big movement through. What you don’t want to be doing is like I said you don’t want to be turning back and putting your weight on your front foot, but you then also don’t want to be turning back and then leaning over towards the target because this will cause a very steep angle of attack or it’ll cause you to rock on to the back foot through impact, which will cause again an inconsistency of strike but also a loss of distance, because your body weight is moving in the wrong direction. So your weight transfer throughout the golf swing should remain quite centered, and then after you’ve hit the ball, move up and forward all the way onto that front foot. So a slight transfer back, a slight transfer through, and then a nice position here at the top of the swing, bouncing on that back toe facing down towards your target. So next time you’re practicing just focus on staying quite centered, and then just allow your body to come through after impact, and hopefully, you should see a more consistent ball strike.