Will Creating A Fuller Turn In My Back Swing Add Distance To My Golf Shots (Video) - by Peter Finch
Will Creating A Fuller Turn In My Back Swing Add Distance To My Golf Shots (Video) - by Peter Finch

Will creating a fuller turn in my back swing add distance to my golf shots? In a golf swing you need a good back swing turn to be able to generate a pent of power. It’s all about winding up the body, about coiling around and turning around so you’re building up the energy and the potential speed to actually deliver that club into the ball. When you’re turning a way from the ball, there are a couple of key checkpoints that you need to hit, because you can turn too much. If you turn too much then you’ll lose a lot of the control in the golf swing. And if you lose control in the golf swing, then no matter how much power you put into it, it’s not going to go off line. It’s often a lot better to be 250 yards down the middle of the fairway than 300 yards into the water hazard. So you need to kind of get the combination of turn and control together.

So, there are a few checkpoints that you need to make sure that you are actually turning fully. The first thing we can do is get set up into a nice strong position and try and make sure that are hips and are knees stay nice and steady as we rotate our shoulders and our body. At the top of the back swing you really want to be seeing the shoulders have rotated; the left shoulder to be turned underneath the chin and the middle of the back to be facing down towards the target. With the lower half you want to be keeping that nice and steady. If you turn too much, often the hip will spin out over rotate and the right leg will straighten. You do want a little bit of flex and a little bit of play in that right knee. If you aren’t the most flexible golfer in the world as you turn it will straighten a little bit, but just try and keep a little bit of a flex in there. So, what you kind of generally want to be seeing, a great way to try and test your limitations is to keep the lower half as still as you can, keep some flex in that right knee, but then turn to the top until the point where that hip and that knee begin to straighten. That’s kind of like your boundary, your physical limitation. If you want to get more than that, you’ll have to work on a bit more flexibility and a bit more strength. So, keep the lower half nice and steady, turn the shoulders and rotate the body as much as possible whilst keeping the lower half as still as you can. As you can guess then working in combination, you’ll have a good kind of combination of the distance and of the control. We give that a go; lower half steady, big back swing turn, but know your limitations and don’t push it too far. 2014-11-19

Will creating a fuller turn in my back swing add distance to my golf shots? In a golf swing you need a good back swing turn to be able to generate a pent of power. It’s all about winding up the body, about coiling around and turning around so you’re building up the energy and the potential speed to actually deliver that club into the ball. When you’re turning a way from the ball, there are a couple of key checkpoints that you need to hit, because you can turn too much. If you turn too much then you’ll lose a lot of the control in the golf swing. And if you lose control in the golf swing, then no matter how much power you put into it, it’s not going to go off line. It’s often a lot better to be 250 yards down the middle of the fairway than 300 yards into the water hazard. So you need to kind of get the combination of turn and control together.

So, there are a few checkpoints that you need to make sure that you are actually turning fully. The first thing we can do is get set up into a nice strong position and try and make sure that are hips and are knees stay nice and steady as we rotate our shoulders and our body. At the top of the back swing you really want to be seeing the shoulders have rotated; the left shoulder to be turned underneath the chin and the middle of the back to be facing down towards the target. With the lower half you want to be keeping that nice and steady. If you turn too much, often the hip will spin out over rotate and the right leg will straighten. You do want a little bit of flex and a little bit of play in that right knee.

If you aren’t the most flexible golfer in the world as you turn it will straighten a little bit, but just try and keep a little bit of a flex in there. So, what you kind of generally want to be seeing, a great way to try and test your limitations is to keep the lower half as still as you can, keep some flex in that right knee, but then turn to the top until the point where that hip and that knee begin to straighten. That’s kind of like your boundary, your physical limitation. If you want to get more than that, you’ll have to work on a bit more flexibility and a bit more strength.

So, keep the lower half nice and steady, turn the shoulders and rotate the body as much as possible whilst keeping the lower half as still as you can. As you can guess then working in combination, you’ll have a good kind of combination of the distance and of the control. We give that a go; lower half steady, big back swing turn, but know your limitations and don’t push it too far.