Posture

Posture:

You’ve got to get posture set in a way that sets you up for consistent strikes that get up in the air.  A good player checks his/her posture daily.  Think of it as conditioning.  Posture relates to the ground, the ball, and the club.  If you don’t set up correctly it sets a bad theme for the rest of the swing.

  













Drill 1:

Lay club flat across back

Bend from the hips

Drill 2:

Touch the top of your knee with the right hand to get set in the correct lean over the ball (make sure to bend forward from the hips).  

Examples of some bad postures:

Too much rounding in back, causes lack of power.  You have to over rotate to make a larger backswing which causes more problems (See overrotation/ overswing section)

Too much knee flex and weight too much on heels causes shoulders to be stacked on toes.  Promotes the over the top swing.

Too leaned over, points the grip below the belt buckle.  Leads to inconsistent strikes and a flat swing path. 

This demonstrates coming out of your posture/ spine angle on the backswing.  This fault will cause you to come over the top, because the shoulders must be pointed fairly steeply at the ball at impact in order to make solid and consistent strikes.  

When you turn flat you change your orientation to the golf ball by becoming further away from it (Standing up).  Then on the downswing you will have to lunge out and over the top to get the ball back to impact leading to inconsistent strikes and large pulls and pull slices.

 You want to keep that tilt towards the ball on the backswing.  This will make it easier to turn through on plane and even route the club in to out.