Anyone who is struggling with the correct transition, changing direction from back swing
to down swing, and anybody struggling with their weight shift in their down swing, getting
their lower body leading the down swing then I think this is a good session for you.
A good player here. Obviously if I show you her swing you'll see that during the down
swing she finds it very difficult. Her arms, shoulders and hips all work very much together
in the transition. There is very little separation. The lower body should be leading the down
swing more than this through impact, not getting her left hip over her left foot and too much
width hanging back here on the right foot. This will reflect in her follow through where
she gets a little bit stuck, and this will cause her wrist to flip over in the follow
through. So the key point here is that in the transition she is not getting her weight
shifting back to her left foot.
I just want to show you [inaudible] got her arms out because what we're trying to do here
is create some movement in the swing, some transition, some separation lower body to
upper body, some weight shift to the left foot in the transition, and this is not done
by trying to achieve different positions in the swing. This is done by creating a different
movement connected with the rhythm of the swing, too. So this girl's just got a feeling
for this. There's a few other points to this, but we're just going to, in this lesson, focus
on the down swing.
So you can see she's getting a little feeling for the rhythm of the back swing, keeping
her arms in this position for a little longer as her lower body leads the down swing, separating
from upper body, weight getting pushed into her left foot, and then rotating through to
the finish. I had this player repeat this drill a few times, got a club in her hand
then just tried to simulate this same movement in a practice swing. Same rhythm, same movement
then we simply put a ball in and try to repeat this same movement.
New one on the right, old one on the left. Put the same line up from the left ankle.
We should be getting the left hit closer to that and the bouncing. We know the old one...
Sorry, apologies... I'll just switch that around.
Old one on the left, new one on the right. Nice, so just after going through the drill
a few times, getting a feeling for it, we're going to see rather than this hanging back
in the right foot, everything working together. Now we'll see more of a separation. Lower
body leading. Weight shifting to the left foot. That will reflect on impact. She can
release the club better at impact now because she's got more weight in her left foot rather
than having to force her hands to the left to make an impact because she's got too much
weight on her right foot. Then she gets stuck, body stops moving, club head keeps going,
gets a little bit flippy. Now she can keep moving through the shot controlling the club
face. It was almost like a fake follow through before. It was too much in her right foot
and then suddenly with release her body into her follow through. Here its one continual
movement in the down swing, making it much better contact with the ball and controlling
the club face.
So there wasn't anything too technical in this lesson. It was a rhythm. It was a movement.
If you're somebody struggling with these aspects of your own swing starting the down swing
correctly, getting some separation, getting some weight shift, give this exercise a try.
Start by just rotating your upper body, keeping your lower body stable. Then you add a little
bit of weight shift in the back swing and down swing, and then rotate your upper body
through to the follow through. Simple exercise. Get a feel for it. Make a few practice swings
and then repeat that same feeling with shots.