The Most Overlooked Move in the Golf Swing Happens Before You Start

Most golfers are searching for fixes during the swing…
But what if the real issue is happening before you even take the club back?
In this video, Stuart Cartwright from Good Golf Coaching reveals the most overlooked move in golf – a position and process that happens before the swing even begins, yet influences everything that follows.

From poor contact to inconsistency and lack of distance – the root of many swing issues starts right here.
If you’re serious about better ball-striking, more control, and effortless power, this is the lesson you can’t afford to miss.

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📍 Chapters:
00:00 Intro – Why This Pre-Swing Move Matters
01:15 The Big Mistake Most Golfers Make
03:08 The Key to Great Address Positioning
05:22 How This Impacts Your Swing Plane & Sequence
07:40 A Simple Drill You Can Use Right Now
09:10 Final Thoughts & Takeaway

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I had a golfer come to me yesterday and I made a few changes at a dress that are so so simple to do and it had a huge impact on their back swing. But not only did it have an impact on their back swing, it really changed the way they struck the golf ball. They really moved their club path from the inside and started drawing the golf ball. So, I really felt that I wanted to share this with you because it was such a simple change at address that had a huge difference. Now, this golfer in their back swing really had a sway off of the golf ball. So, as they took the golf club back, this lower half shifted to the right. And because of that, as they shifted to the right, the implication of that shift to the right is that it really moved their spine towards the target. Their setup was encouraging this. And when it encourages the spine to tip towards the target, what that will tend to do is cause a club path to swing outside in. And when the club path at 8.7 outside in, not my best striker in the world, all of a sudden we’ve got a problem. If we’ve got a club path that’s swinging aggressively to the left because the spine is tipped to the left, that path that swings to the left is going to really cause you to do a couple of things. First of all, it’s going to cause the golfer to really compromise their arm action, how their arms work through the shot. Now, if you’ve got a club path that’s swinging to the left, if you were to release that club on this line here and un unload it, you can see how aggressively left that golf ball went. So all of the time the path is going to the left, the golfer has to start to hold the club face off so that you don’t miss it a long way left. Now this golfer had a fantastic grip. The left hand was in really good position. And if you haven’t checked out my grip series videos, go take a look there because that’s going to really lock down your grip and get the face to your golf swing in great order. So, what we did to start to change how that spine works in the back swing, I simply got them to set up to the golf ball and feel how their left hip moved forwards. I got them to put their hands out to the side so that their fingertips were the same distance from the ground. Now, I bumped their left hip forwards and all of a sudden, can you see my lead hand has lifted up and my trail hand has moved towards the floor. At this point, I now started to get the golfer to feel a bit more pressure into their left hip. And it made them feel like their hip line had a slight inversion where their left hip was higher than their right hip. Their left shoulder was lined up with their left ankle and the left hip. And then because of that, it enabled me to get their club shaft lent more forwards. This had a huge impact on the way they immediately moved their hip action on the way back. As soon as they started to take the golf club away, this right hip started to move inside. It really started to change the way the golfer used their feet. It rotated the hip and now all of a sudden, look at the difference in the spine angle. The spine angle is now laid away from the target. And this is crucial because when you get the spine angle laid away from the target, all of a sudden that path line will start to attack itself more from the inside 11°. Now, the more that spine angle moves away from the target as we make a back swing, what it will have the opportunity of the golfer to do is to start to have this space here that gives the golfer to do what they need to do with the grip. Now, if you haven’t checked out my video series on the broom, these videos down here, they’re going to really change the way you think about moving that handle on the way down. pulling it forwards. I know, I know it’s a biggie, but I’m going to leave those videos to give you those insights. So all of a sudden we had this left hip forwards, this grip forwards, this shoulder in line that now gave the golfer the opportunity to start to keep their low point, the base of their swing more centered compared to where they started, which was more hip tucked back away from the target, spine length forwards, which encouraged them to be very short in turn. shorting turn and a lifted arm swing which made them cut across the back of the golf ball. Setting yourself at a dress is crucial for giving yourself the opportunity to move around the golf ball in an effective manner. Then what we got the golfer to do is a very simple drill that encourages more hip rotation in the back swing. So I’ve now got the golfer set up with the hip further forwards. I now put them in a position where their right foot or their trail foot pulled up to their lead foot. Now all of a sudden they can feel how their spine was tipped away from the target. And what I wanted to get them to do is now to start to feel how their right foot would encourage them to go back into that old motion. So their left foot stepping to the right all of a sudden made their hips block themselves off. I wanted them to feel how the left foot in a back swing is so easy to push a golfer off the ball. After getting them to do that, I then wanted to get them to feel how all of a sudden using their right foot in their back swing open their hip up. So now I got them to step to the left and now they could feel how their left side started to feel like it had more pressure at the top of the back swing. So their left leg started to feel like it received the load as they got to the top. So when they stood up to the golf ball with this hip forwards, shoulder forwards and grip forwards, now they started to use that right foot to encourage more hip turn, get the spine away from the target, which started to get that ball drawing back to the target. That right foot became a pusher. That hip forwards grip forwards all of a sudden got them way more loaded at the top. spine away from the target, hip towards the target, right foot had pushed in their back swing, which gave them room to get this golf club moving in a really nice direction and from the inside. So all of a sudden, a very simple setup change inspired me to feel their way into using their feet differently, which opened up their hips, got their spine more laid over, and coupled with a really, really good grip that you can find up here, it put some power back into their golf swing, their path move from the inside, and it will now allow me to start to change the way their arms work. Hopefully that’s been insightful. 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