hi guys its Aimee for those of you who are just picking up the game of golf
I have prepared a series of lessons for beginners I will walk you through step
by step from setup grip all the way to making full swings so if you keep up you
will end up with the best-looking golf swing on the golf course
so when you first come to my golf lesson I will show you how to take your setup
so today I'm going to kind of explain the setup in detail so let's go ahead
and get your feet shoulder width apart that is called the stance we're
basically going to be using 7-iron until you get your full swing so this is a
good sized stance for a seven iron shoulder-width apart I don't want you to
have your feet perfectly parallel to each other or too far apart and make a
too big of a V you can form where your toes are pointing straight forward you
can kind of open them maybe five degrees if that so it looks more kind of a
comfortable neutral stance okay so you have this dance down now when you go
ahead and take your setup we're going to do two things we're going to bend over
from the hips and then we're going to go ahead and bend your knees so we're I
want to do the bending over first and then the knees second so don't try and
bend your knees first let's go step by step so I want you to go ahead and make
an X and put your hands on your shoulders like this and you're going to
take your stance and with your back straight you're going to go ahead and
Bend from your hips this way when you're doing this there's three things you have
to be careful of first thing is when you're bending over I don't want you to
slouch like this and make a C curve in your back this is called a C posture if
you have this posture and you start making swings you're either going to
injure your back or you won't be able to make a full turn so you don't want your
back to be round but you don't want to overdo it and put like too much curve in
your back when you bend over because then that's called an S posture
when you have an S posture it limits your turn so you really want to keep
your back as neutral as possible and bend over this way second thing you have
to be careful is when you're bending over you want to have a check point so
you're not a lot of people don't bend enough right so let's just say this is
the clock right here twelve o'clock six o'clock three o'clock nine o'clock right
so I want your head to point anywhere between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock so kind
of like this not too upright like this but it feels like you're gonna tip
over okay and the third part you have to be
careful is a lot of people that when they bend over they stick their hips
backwards and they end up putting their weight in the heels you do not want to
do this because once you start swinging if you have your weight in the heels
there's force pulling you backwards and it's going to pull you back and you're
gonna lose your set up angles when you're swinging you don't want to do
that so you want to feel like you're leaning forward your knees aren't bent
yet so it's gonna feel like you're gonna tip over that's normal so you're gonna
bend over so you want your weight leaning forward so when you start
swinging you can stay down in your angles easier that way so when you bend
over there are three things you have to pay attention to you have to make sure
your back was nice and straight it's in neutral position and when you bend over
make sure your head points between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock and the weight
should be not in the heels but in the front part of your feet this way so if
you understand those three let's move on to your knees okay
so when you bend your knees there are three things you need to pay
attention to the first one is I don't want you to bend your knees to feel like
you're sitting down I want you to bend your knees forward so you feel like
press you're pressing into the balls your feet so if you take a look at your
foot you know where the big toe is right below it is where that round part is the
ball of your foot so you're going to bend over and when you bend your knees
you're going to bend your knees forward and put pressure into the walls your
feet see the difference between bending them forward versus sitting down so when
you do this correctly you will feel the pressure in the balls your feet in your
upper thighs and low back but if you bend too much or you feel like you're
sitting down you're gonna feel most of your pressure in your knees which is
wrong right so I want you to check that pressure and when you have that right
second point you have to be careful with how you bend your knees your knees
should point forward so it's kind of in the same angle as your toes a lot of
people actually do bend your knees inward or outward if you do this
actually restricts your hip turn especially for ladies ladies have
wider hips compared to men so we tend to have our knees going inwards a little
bit you have to be careful even if it feels like you're kind of spreading your
knees out a little bit make sure you match your knees so they're going in the
same direction as your toes and third one is when you bend your knees let's
see you're bending over and you bend your knees make sure your torso bending
over is deeper compared to your knee angle so a lot of you do actually set up a
little bit this way because this is a little bit more comfortable but if you
do this what happens is you're so upright you're not going to have
consistent ball strike or you won't be able to put enough power into the ball
either so you really want to be bent over with left knee bent one thing you
can do in the mirror to check this is you can take a golf club and well you
take your set up and you gotta drop your club from inside your armpit like this
and what the club's gonna do is it's gonna go touch your front part of your
knee and it's gonna end up in either in the balls your feet or middle of your
feet it I mean this really depends on how big your feet are and how good your
balance is and so when you drop the club if you don't have it right you're
sitting down a little too much you see how the knees are way in front of the
club we don't want this we want to make sure the club goes through the front
part of your knee into the balls your feet or middle of your feet so today I
gave you six different points for your setup angles when you bend your torso
over we want the back to be neutral we want the head pointing between 1
o'clock and 2 o'clock and we want to make sure the weight is more in the
forward rather than in your heels when you bend your knees you want to bend
your knees forward not a lot just a little bit and put pressure into the
balls of your feet and you want to make sure your knees are going the same
direction as your toes and then when you bend over make sure your
torso this hip angle is deeper versus your knee angle I know there's a
lot but I want you to keep repeating these check yourself in the mirror and
that way you get more comfortable with the correct set up position so that way
next time I can show you the correct body movements so I hope you're able to
follow along and I'll see you guys in the next lesson