How To Eliminate The Sway In Your Golf Swing
Swaying in your backswing can lead to poor contact on golf shots and a lack of power and distance in your golf game. A sway is defined as moving your pelvis or hips laterally away from the target in your backswing. That lateral push away from the target with your pelvis will require a certain amount of slide back towards the target in order to hit functional shots.
Swaying in the backswing also limits how much your hips can turn, making it more likely that you will have a steep backswing and most likely, an over the top downswing. The lack of rotation in your swing with the lower body will significantly decrease your potential for power and speed. Golfers who rotate their lower body and turn the hips 45+ degrees in the backswing very rarely, if ever have sway with their lower body and have a lot of potential for power and consistent ball striking.
In this video, it will help you be able to identify if you have sway in your golf swing and it will also give you two corrections that can be done at home or in the gym and one correction that you can do while you are hitting golf balls on the range.
The correction that can be done on the range and only requires an alignment stick. Place the alignment stick into the ground and angle it so that when you set up the ball, the end of the alignment rod is touching your trail hip bone. The goal is to make a backswing and turn to the top without having your trail hip hit the alignment stick. If you hit the stick then you swayed in your backswing!
As with every golf swing drill, this can be over exaggerated. You may find your hips moving too much towards the target in your backswing and you may find your pressure too much on your lead leg. Keep in mind that you should be able to turn your hips about 45 degrees and shift your pressure into your trail heel. Hope this helps!
