3-Second Golf Swing Fix: Trail Knee Mistake You’re Still Making

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If you’ve been told to “keep your trail knee flexed” during the backswing, you may be sabotaging both your golf swing and your body. 🛑🏌️‍♂️ In this video, I reveal my 3-second golf swing fix and why straightening your trail leg (right leg for right-handed golfers) during the backswing is one of the most important moves you can make for injury prevention, swing power, and ball-striking consistency. 💪🎯

By learning how to align your trail knee properly with your leg bones, you’ll dramatically reduce stress on your joints, protect your lower back, and avoid many common golf-related injuries. ✅ This single adjustment helps you turn your hips and shoulders more fully, creating a longer, more powerful golf swing that naturally encourages an in-to-out swing path—perfect for hitting a controlled draw. ⛳🔥

Straightening your trail leg also supports spine extension in the backswing, keeps your low point ahead of the ball, and produces solid, repeatable contact shot after shot. Whether you’re looking for more distance, better accuracy, or pain-free golf, this trail knee move can transform your game in seconds. ⚡

In This Video You’ll Learn:

🩺 Why straightening your trail knee prevents common golf injuries

🔄 How it increases hip and shoulder turn for effortless power

🎯 The link between trail leg movement and an in-to-out, draw-biased swing path

📏 How to maintain low point control for consistent ball striking

⏱ The simple drill to master this move in just 3 seconds

⏱ Chapters / Key Moments:
0:00 – Intro
0:30 – The wrong golf advice for years
1:00 – Injury Prevention
2:14 – Foot Flare; your knees will thank you
2:54 – How to straighten the trail knee properly
3:21 – Additional golf swing benefits
4:40 – The Real Golf Fundamentals
5:08 – Recap
5:31 – Get my FREE Practice Plan

If you want longer drives, more consistent iron play, and a swing that will hold up for years without injury, this is a must-watch. 💥

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What if I told you there’s a way to make a golf swing that’s painfree? I promise you this fix can prevent injury and help with multitude of swing flaws within your golf swing. In this video, I’ll show you how tour pros actually move their trail knee and some of the things that you can easily do to fix your own golf game. Make sure to like, comment, subscribe below. Stick around to the end of the video to get access to my complimentary practice plan and my Patreon server. Let’s get to it. For years, golfers were taught as they took the club back to keep the right leg flexed as much as they can and coil the rest of their body around that. Now, this concept was known as resistance training because everybody thought the muscles were more like rubber bands and they thought that if they could do this, they could create a springlike coil that would snap their body back and generate club head speed. Problem is the knee is a flexion extension joint. Okay, when we keep it flexed, that puts a lot of strain on the outside and the inside parts of my knee. In addition, it hurts all the muscle groups around that knee, as well as the joint systems on the lower side, the ankle, and the upper side, the hip. When we create possible hip problems, we now generate a lot of spine problems and a lot of muscle problems in the core. That’s why I don’t like golfers to keep that knee flexed. So when we straighten this right leg in the back swing, we align the joint in line with the upper and lower leg and we take a lot of the need for flexibility out of your golf swing. We can rely on joint motion instead of muscle flexibility to hit the golf ball. If you take a look at some of the tour pros here to my left, you’re going to see some of them are going to straighten that right leg a lot. Some of them are going to straighten it a little bit depending on how much hip turn they want, but they understand that it’s safer to let that knee straighten when they turn instead of keeping it flexed. Golfers who keep it flexed nowadays, you take a look at a few of them that keep it the most flex and they’ve had back injuries or they fight back pain. So, to implement my 3-se secondond fix, first thing we have to do at address is we actually have to flare your feet outward. What this does is it allows the knees to work in line with the upper and lower leg and helps take pressure off the knee moving this direction. Okay. So, at setup, we’re going to take our setup. We’re going to have our feet flared outward anywhere from 10 to 20°. There’s a guy out there right now who just won the Canadian Open who stands with his feet like this. I would say that’s probably too much, but it works for him. We set up. We have the feet flared. As I take my club back, I want the right leg to straighten and the left knee to flex downward towards the ground. As I do that, my right hip pushes backwards and my hips actually begin to rotate on a tilted angle. What this does again is it helps prevent the need to stretch the muscles in the lower back that could potentially cause injury. Biggest advantage of this is it helps turn more, which helps my arms move more around me, giving me more of a draw bias golf swing. So for you slicers out there who struggle creating enough depth, this is a great place to look in your back swing is do your hips turn enough and does your right leg straighten enough so that you can get the arm more behind you. From a face on view, if I make this back swing and straighten my right leg, it helps keep my spine extension in the middle of my feet and allows my arms to go further behind me this direction, lengthening the swing arc and giving me more potential for power. In addition to lengthening the swing, it keeps the center of the spine in the middle of my feet, which also helps me keep the low point more forward. The more forward I can keep the low point, the more solid I can hit. So, we’ve built in more of a draw by turning the hips and straightening the right leg. That moves the arms around us. It lengthens the swing, which gives us more potential for power. And it helps keep our weight more centered in our back swing with the potential of moving it forward to hit the ball solid. This one move has helped us control all three dynamic fundamentals to the golf swing. hit the ground first, swing with enough power, and control the curve. So to demonstrate this, take our setup, straighten the right leg as we turn the hips. Nice solid draw. Ball’s going to land pretty close to the target line. All I did was turn my hips and straighten my leg. Straighten the right leg. You will definitely control the curve better. Your right leg straightening will help prevent back injuries, hip injuries, knee injuries, ankle injuries, muscle issues. I don’t want you to play with pain. Play pain-free. Straighten your right leg. Your golf swing will thank you. Make sure like, comment, subscribe below. If you haven’t already, go to my Patreon. Scroll down until you find my free practice plan. Check that out for an opportunity when you go to the range to actually work on the things in your golf swing that you need to work on. I appreciate you letting me coach today. Check me out next time on the Golf Tycoon.