One key to proper leg action in your golf swing first happens by distributing your body weight 50/50 during address. Excluding shorter shots, players should transfer between 2/3 or 3/4 of their body weight to their lead foot at the top of their backswing. Transferring your weight between legs like this makes for a gentler overall sequence which will assist in maintaining your posture and also take less of a toll on your body.
Despite having a high degree of influence over the success of our golf swing, proper leg action appears to be one of the least instinctive techniques that any golfer can develop. Because of this, leg action often needs to be trained and developed during a series of focused golf lessons.
Paul Gorman implements a variety of methods to instruct players to effectively utilize their legs during golf swings, often with the use of unconventional swing aides like medicine balls and pool noodles. Despite being unorthodox in nature, Gorman has found such swing aides to be highly effective in creating proper swing posture and effective leg action throughout his student’s golf swings.
Many players are plagued by poor positioning and posture at the top of their backswings. Instead of turning to their right side and allowing the proper transfer of body weight, many golfers remain still and flat footed throughout the entirety of their swings. In more extreme cases, golfers tend to shift their body weight into the direction of their target during backswings, which then causes them to fall back on their right side during impact. This issue often roots in the locking of their right knee which instructors refer to as a reverse pivot.
Players must remember that all leg action that happens below the belt acts as a foundation for their entire golf swing. This foundation must be wide enough to compensate for all of the movements that make up your swing while shifting body weight between legs in a balanced manner. While leg action from left to right during a golf swing can be expected and even encouraged to a degree, any up and down movement in our legs will be detrimental to the overall success of the resulting shot.
Our right knee should maintain consistent levels throughout the swing. Any flawed motion in the right knee will result in alterations to the height of our hips and shoulders, and can also cause excessive sideways movement throughout the entirety of our golf swing.
Through the methods described in this golf lesson, players can build and maintain proper leg work in their golf swing which will result in fundamentally better shots as a result.
00:00 Med Ball Golf Lesson
00:17 Assessing Golf Swing Leg Action
01:00 Maintaining Leg Work During Your Swing
01:20 Using a Medicine Ball to Correct Your Swing
02:51 Pool Noodle Swing Drill
03:15 Right Leg Placement During Golf Swings
03:53 Relaxed Leg Action
04:37 Why The Medicine Ball Drill Works
06:55 Take a Lesson from Paul Gorman
