Would An Upright Golf Swing Suit Me (Video) - by Peter Finch
Would An Upright Golf Swing Suit Me (Video) - by Peter Finch

When you're looking to try and implement a swing technique, if you're looking to try improve your swing, it's always best basing a plane based idea, so movement of the swing around the body and the plane that it takes around first of all your height. Now a shorter player, so let's say a Ian Woosnam character for example, an exceptionally short guy, brilliant golfer but he used to swing the club pretty much right around his body. So he got set up in a very tall posture and move that club very flat around his body. Now the reason that he did that was that his spine angle was very upright. What you want to be basing plane around is spine angle, so if Woosie’s plane was very, very flat because his spine angle was very, very upright.

The people with generally the most upright golf swings and the most upright planes will be the tallest players who actually tilt over the ball the most. So in this case we're looking at someone like Robert Karlsson who is 6? 8? feet eight I think pretty much or Chris Wood the European tall player who is about 6? 5?. Very, very tall tilting over the ball and therefore because their spine angle is so much tilted over they can actually take the club away on a much steeper plane. Now if you're looking for a plane to actually suit your game, if you're a taller player the more upright swing may help. But if you're a very short player using an upright swing it may cause more problems than it actually solves. And also you need to be looking at the problems that are actually a power in your game. You say for example here in a massive raking hook from left to right, generally that will not come for an upright swing that will come from a flat swing. If you'll say hitting a really, really big kind of slice, you know all you're going to be wanting to change to an upright plane or you're going to be want to be changing to a round plane. I mean it's such a difficult question to answer without knowing your swing or without seeing your swing personally. But there are some tips and there are some drills that you can use to try and improve and to try and implement it. So let's have a look at what they are. 2016-06-15

When you're looking to try and implement a swing technique, if you're looking to try improve your swing, it's always best basing a plane based idea, so movement of the swing around the body and the plane that it takes around first of all your height. Now a shorter player, so let's say a Ian Woosnam character for example, an exceptionally short guy, brilliant golfer but he used to swing the club pretty much right around his body. So he got set up in a very tall posture and move that club very flat around his body. Now the reason that he did that was that his spine angle was very upright. What you want to be basing plane around is spine angle, so if Woosie’s plane was very, very flat because his spine angle was very, very upright.

The people with generally the most upright golf swings and the most upright planes will be the tallest players who actually tilt over the ball the most. So in this case we're looking at someone like Robert Karlsson who is 6? 8? feet eight I think pretty much or Chris Wood the European tall player who is about 6? 5?. Very, very tall tilting over the ball and therefore because their spine angle is so much tilted over they can actually take the club away on a much steeper plane. Now if you're looking for a plane to actually suit your game, if you're a taller player the more upright swing may help. But if you're a very short player using an upright swing it may cause more problems than it actually solves.

And also you need to be looking at the problems that are actually a power in your game. You say for example here in a massive raking hook from left to right, generally that will not come for an upright swing that will come from a flat swing. If you'll say hitting a really, really big kind of slice, you know all you're going to be wanting to change to an upright plane or you're going to be want to be changing to a round plane. I mean it's such a difficult question to answer without knowing your swing or without seeing your swing personally. But there are some tips and there are some drills that you can use to try and improve and to try and implement it. So let's have a look at what they are.