In this video I will be talking about your stance/posture before making a golf swing. This is very crucial in a players ability to gain mobility and consistency in their golf swing. I will be talking about drills and methods on how to correct your posture so that you can give yourself the best chance at a repeatable golf swing.
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In this week’s video, you’re going to learn about your posture at a dress and how to make it absolutely perfect because there’s no real excuse since you’re standing over it. You haven’t made any movements yet. So, your setup is so important that it’ll set you up to make the most consistent swing possible and make it easier for you. So, let’s get into it. Okay. So, I’m going to go over some points from the side view first. Okay. Okay. And then from the front view. So now when it comes from the to the to the side view, the first thing I kind of mention to players is to consider where they’re displacing their weight toe to heel. Okay. We obviously don’t want it too much into the heel because you can, as you see, when I’m doing that, my butt kind of pushes beyond my heel too much. I’ll tend to have a lot more bend in my knees. Okay? And opposite, if I get too much weight in the toes, my hips will tuck under me and I’ll tend to curl my upper body to to look something like this. So, you got to start with your weight pretty much in the center of your foot. Pretty much where I’m putting my my club here, just for a visual. Next, you want to make sure that you have a slight bend in your knees. Okay? So, you’re getting into this athletic position. Um, if someone were to be passing a ball to you from the front, you’re ready to kind of catch it. Number three is from that athletic stance, you want to make sure that you’re bent from the hip. We don’t want to curl from the upper body or from the shoulders. We want to make sure that we’re bent from the waist or the hip and just a little bit. Okay. And then from there, you just want to let your arms hang down. Okay? So, you’re just see my arms are totally limp. They’re just resting pretty much directly below my shoulders. And that’s pretty much where I’m going to hold it. Pretty much right there. What you have to consider in this position is the shape of your back. Okay? Your posture. So, the first thing that I see with a lot of players, including myself, sometimes, but um I see people what have what’s called an S posture. So, they’ll have an arched lower back and then a rounded upper back kind of like this. Okay? So, the issue with that is that since you have a an arched lower back, that creates a lot of tension there. So, when you make some rotation, it makes it a little bit harder for you to do that. If you’re in this position, the way to fix it is if you look at your belt line, okay? You want to feel like you’re tilting your belt or your hip kind of up. So, you’re kind of, if you imagine my hip as like a bucket of water, you don’t want to you’re pretty much dumping the water out right now. So, you want to actually curl your your hip upwards. Okay? So, that you can see how that straightens out my lower back a little bit. Now, next is if you have a rounded upper back, you want to bring your chin up towards you a little bit. That’ll help to straighten out your upper back a little bit as well. It’s okay to have a slight round a slightly rounded upper back. You don’t necessarily want your shoulder blades pinched together, okay? Cuz again, that’ll cause a lot of tension and make things feel really restrictive, okay? So let your shoulder blades out and relaxed, but you just got to bring your chin up a little bit while you have that flat lower back. You have your hip tucked a bit bit more under you like this, tilted forward. So that should allow your your back to seem a lot more neutral and eliminate that kind of S posture there. Now the second type of posture that I see is what’s called a C posture. So it’s kind of the opposite. So you have your lower back kind of curled and your upper back really curled. Okay. So, kind of looking like this. So, in this case, you want to make sure that you do the opposite with the hips. You if if your hip or your belt belt line is a bucket of water, okay, you want to feel like you’re dumping the water out just a little bit. And then again, you still want to make sure your chin is a bit taller, bit more in towards you. Okay? So, we’re just looking for that neutral spine at the start. So, with a neutral spine, that’s going to give you the least amount of resistance with with your lower back and make it very, very a lot more easier to actually rotate yourself when you’re making a back swing. With these things in mind, the last thing to consider is how you’re lining up your feet, your shoulders, your hips, and your forearms at a dress. So, for example, where I have the club face pointed, I have my feet positioned pretty much parallel to that. Okay. Now, a lot of people that come in, they have their hips kind of pointing left, their shoulders really, really like too open. Okay? And you can see my forearms are also misaligned. So, you want to make sure that your shoulders, your forearms, your hips, and your feet are all kind of parallel to where you’re pointing the face. So, it’s good that I have this mat here, but you can kind of see I want to make sure that my hips are are closed enough to where it’s kind of parallel to my feet. My shoulders are parallel. And when it comes to the forearms, it’s okay to see a little bit of your lead forearm ahead of your trail forearm. Okay? So, we don’t want to have the case where your trail forearm is is kind of ahead of your lead forearm. Okay? So, again, that’s going to set you up to make it more difficult to turn. These players will tend to want to take the club more outside during the back swing, things like that. So, making sure that your shoulders are square, your forearms are square is going to make rotating again a lot easier to do when making a back swing. All right. So, two simple exercises that you can do to get in the right posture is you can grab one club. And the first thing I’d like to do is you can put this right up against your body like this. Okay? So, you can see an extended end um kind of past me here. So, what you want to do is if you have if you’re someone that like kind of curls your upper body and and don’t know how to bend from the waist, you’ll notice that that extended end, it doesn’t go kind of you can’t see it behind me. Okay? But if I were to bend from the hip, you can almost see that I’m creating a little bit of a tail. Okay? Uh back there. So, that’s kind of what you want to see. So, that’s a good exercise to know if you’re bending successfully from the hip. Okay. Again, you’re thinking about getting your weight kind of in the center of your foot, just a slight bend in the knees, but this exercise is to give you a sense of how to bend properly from the waist or the hip. Okay? So, once you see that tail kind of behind you, then you can keep your posture there and just let your arms hang down. And that’s kind of where you’re wanting to hold it kind of right here. So, drill number two, okay, gets can be maybe a little bit more specific for um where your arm should be, but you’re just going to place the butt end of the club right into your belt, like your belt line, kind of right at your belt buckle, basically. Okay, you attach it there. And I’m gripping my hands just at the base of the grip. Okay? So that my my arms are still very, very straight. Now, from here, what I’m going to do is again, I’m just going to bend from the hip. Okay? so that my arms are hanging straight down. So once I’m there, then I’m just going to let the club out and that’s where I’m going to hold it right here. So again, you’re going to put that butt end right into the belt buckle, the belt line. You’re going to hold at the base of the grip with your arms fully extended. Okay? And then you’re just going to bend slowly from the hip. Again, keeping your weight in the center of your foot, you’re just going to bend a little bit. And then you’re just going to let the club out and that’s where you’re holding it. Okay? So that’s like two great ways to ensure that you get yourself in the correct posture. So now a couple points from the face on view when it comes to your setup position. Now with the ball here, the first thing is to note where the ball position should be. Okay? When you reference ball position, I always tell people not to reference your toes. The issue there is like say my toes are straight ahead. Yeah. So if you reference your toes, it appears in the middle right now. Okay. But if you unknowingly had one foot more flared than the other, okay? Or vi vice versa. Right now, the ball looks like it’s kind of left in my stance or forward in my stance. So, the instinct is people are going to shift over so that it appears to the middle of their stance, kind of relative to their toes. But in reality, if they were to straighten out your toes, you actually put that ball in the back of your stance. Even though you your your feet are flaring or whatever, the one part that doesn’t really move is the inside of your heels. Okay? So, I would want you to reference the inside of your heels when it comes to ball position. So, when you do that, you can see that if I reference it here, the that ball position is just slightly to the left of center, just a little bit. And this is for your irons. Okay? So with that bowl position slightly left, the second thing I I get people to take note of is just where you’re positioning your upper body versus your lower body. So if you reference the center of my chest, which would approximately be where my my the buttons of my shirt are, and the center of my hip, which would be where the belt buckle is, you never want to position your upper body ahead of your lower body. Okay? Kind of looking like this. So if you do that again, you’re going to restrict yourself in terms of how you rotate. A lot of these people will tend to tilt excessively. Their hands will kind of move away from them, things like this. So you always want to make sure that you’re positioning the upper body and lower body centers either directly on top of each other or if anything having your lower body center just slightly slightly ahead of your upper body center is okay. But again, never position the upper body ahead of your hip like this. Okay? So, use a mirror when doing this to kind of get a sense of how to position those centers on top. The next thing is about the shaft. All right. Now, a lot of people might pull their hands forward like this, but you only just need a slight amount of shaft. So, and this is just enough right here. You can see my my hands are pretty much right in line with the ball. Okay? or the the butt end is basically pointing to the inside of my lead hip kind of right in there. Okay. So, the more somebody will push that handle forward, you can see that that that changes how my body is bent, if you really push push this forward, you can see how that makes my upper body tilt more backwards. Things like this. Okay? And then the opposite is if you don’t have any shaft, if you have the hands back behind the ball like this, you’ll tend to move your upper body forward like this. Again, just a slight amount of shaft’s okay. And then the last point has to do with your feet, the the flaring of your feet. It’s okay if you have your toes pointed straight ahead. There’s no problem with that. Now, uh, a lot of people would recommend you to flare out the toes of both feet just just a little bit. You don’t have to look like this. Okay. But, you know, just uh just a slight flare on both feet just because when when you’re turning, it just puts a little bit less pressure on your joints. Okay. It just makes it a little bit easier and a bit healthier for your joints to to kind of rotate. All right? So, that’s something else to consider. These are the kind of main points that you want to make sure that you apply to your setup position again to give you the best chance possible of making a consistent back swing or consistent swing in general. Thank you guys so much for watching. Now, if you have any questions about this video, you can leave a comment down below. If you guys are interested in any online instruction for me, I will also have a link in the description box for you to check out the details. See you guys on the next one.
