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- Hello there.
Adam Bazalgette, founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
Today's subject,
how to tilt your shoulders in The Golf Swing.
Three drills,
and we're talking specifically in this video
about the backswing,
but the way the shoulders move (Inhales)
gives people fits a little bit.
I'll give you three drills
and also some reference points along the way
so that you know what you're trying to do.
It's a touch more complicated with golf posture
than it would be standing up maybe
for a tennis stroke or something like that.
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Not that some tennis strokes on down by the ground,
but I'll show you those things
and I think it'll help you.
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Well as a nine on,
roughly in the middle of the green,
not too bad a shot.
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Let's look at this tilt
of the shoulders in the backswing.
In theory, it's simple, right?
If you stand up and just turn,
your shoulders are built (Inhales)
to go at right angles to a spine
to go around your spine,
but it isn't so simple in golf
and the reason is you're adding hip bend,
you're adding a bend to your access.
If I get this little coat hanger out,
I'll show you a little example of this.
Let me come up a little closer to the camera.
Here's you looking down the golfers line
for a right handed golfer.
That head can move all over the place.
Once you introduce that bend
and from the front view just the same,
the access doesn't stay stable,
once you've added this angle.
That's what gets people into difficulties.
Lets have a look at a couple of great players
and we'll get out here
and see if we can help you out.
Here is two golfers
and like most of us would like to emulate.
There's Rory Mcilroy on the left
and of course a younger version of Michelle Wie
back in her early led better days on the right.
Let's have a look here.
So Rory Mcilroy, there's his backswing.
Now he moves around just a wee bit,
but if I at least have an estimated line
of his spine angle there,
his shoulders are pivoting perpendicular
or round that spine (Inhales) beautifully there.
We'll take him to the top.
Yeah, perfect job then.
Now let's look at Michelle Wie.
Like many great players,
her head, her spine actually gets a little near the ground.
Her head goes down slightly,
and even though the hat twists the touch
that access though,
that has stayed in the same spot.
So as I say, not quite as easy
as you might think to do,
but we'll jump in here with some drills,
see if we can help.
All right, first drill that I like.
And listen, I've tried this with a lot
of people in actual golf lessons
and I find for most people it's pretty helpful to them.
So get your golf posture the best you can.
Just put your arms out.
Now we're not pivoting with the arms,
we're pivoting with the upper trunk
or the torso here.
Get your arms roughly like that.
And as you pivot,
your arms should be about on right angles to your body.
Pretty easy do if you just look at it in a mirror
and as you start to do that
you'll get a sense of how this,
it doesn't feel like when you do that
there is a much different stretch in that trail side.
That right side, rib cage gets longer.
Hip gets a little bit taller.
This I believe will really start
to get you the right feel.
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Lee Westwood on the left,
terrific bull striker Grant Waite on the right long time
to a player from New Zealand teacher now,
but one of the really good ball strikers in his day.
Just watch Grant's upper body relative
to the trees and the horizon and everything.
Very stable, slight tiny wobble,
but very stable.
And with these sorts of players,
you'll notice a pretty acute angle there
between the upper body and the lower body.
And you'll notice there's significant tilt across the belt.
They don't all look exactly the same,
but those are the kind of looks you'll want
to see in your backswing when you look at it on your phone
or on film.
So you remember when I held the coat hanger up here
as I swiveled it from this angle,
the head would kind of swivel back that way
or what would be the head at the end of the coat hanger?
Get your pivot.
Just get your arms across your shoulders like this.
Make the best backswing you can make.
Look at it in a mirror would be ideal.
Now hopefully it looks just like you want it
to look the same way as we had with the pros
and when you had your arms out,
but frequently it won't (Inhales).
And what you want to do is you wanna
remember you're now adding side bend.
It would be the same thing
as bending this way with your body at the top.
So if you look up there and you see,
hey, I look a little tall here,
a little to level across the belt, just hold it.
Tilt to your left ear
and left shoulder down towards the ball
till you get much more of an acute angle
and more (Inhales) belt bend.
This was a problem that played me
in my golf swing from my early years in golf,
more than just my early years for that matter.
I was only ever told,
" Hey, you're not getting your left shoulder low enough.
"Keep that right hip against the wall."
This sort of stuff.
I didn't know what side bend was,
so I found it difficult.
I was standing there trying to strain
to get the shoulder down.
You shouldn't have to feel that
if you have the appropriate amount of side bend,
it all sort of takes care of itself.
Trick is a course.
Do it where it blends in very gradually
and that side bend blends in gradually
and your back swing
until you get the look you're looking for,
which is the look those pros had.
All right, final drill.
Get your head up against the wall.
You can use a golf cart for instance.
I'm going to do that
and here's the things you're looking for.
So I feel my head just touched this canvas,
top of the back of the golf cart,
and as I pivot,
what I'm going to feel is do I feel that stretch?
Do I feel the ability to stay back against it?
What's missing?
In some people's cases, they stretch so much,
they topple this way.
So again, you've got to figure
that it isn't that difficult when you don't have a club
and you've got a reference like your head,
you've got to do that
until you can feel like your access stays pretty still.
You're bent over the bowl,
you've got enough shoulder tilt from this angle,
I'm telling you, five or 10 minutes
carefully in front of a mirror
or against the wall doing these drills,
you'll start to get the field
unlike always don't take shortcuts.
Don't just race out there
and start belting full shots trying
to put things in
till you've worked on a little at the house.
This isn't that difficult.
Once you know what you're doing
and a good pivot,
proper shoulder tilt in the backswing,
centered access nice and stable,
will really help you be a more consistent ball striker.
We hope that helps you with
how to tilt your shoulders in the golf swing.
Hope those three drills are useful for you.
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