Perfect Your Golf Posture for a Consistent, Effortless Swing
Are you struggling with your golf swing? Too often golfers skip the basics by overlooking proper setup and starting posture. Instead of chasing quick fixes, mastering your fundamentals creates lasting improvement.
In this lesson, we’ll show you how proper posture—neutral spine, balanced weight, and relaxed shoulders—enables effortless turning and consistent ball striking. If you hunch over the ball or swing with your backside too far out, your swing mechanics suffer before you even take a backswing.
✅ What you’ll learn in this video:
How to check and adjust your starting posture before swing changes
Why a neutral spine and balanced stance make turning easier
Common mistakes: standing too far, bending forward too much, collapsing rounded shoulders, poor weight distribution, and alignment issues
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In today’s lesson tip, we’re going to talk about distance from the ball and correct posture. I’ll give you a couple little setup tips that will help you set up properly to the golf ball and improve your posture. A lot of golfers struggle with that. They’re asking, “How far do I stand from the ball?” You know, “Do I stand too close? Am I far enough away?” Or they start hitting the ball badly and their friend says, “Oh, you’re standing too close to the ball.” And then the next thing you know, the golfer standing miles away from the golf ball and they can’t swing or turn. You know, the posture is very important for allowing you to swing freely. And if you’re not in that correct posture, then it’s a lot more difficult to turn and pivot your body correctly. So, I’ll just demonstrate that for you. So, typically when the golfer stands too far from the ball, this is what we see. They’re they’re reaching for it. They got their backside sticking out. Their lower body gets arched. And when you’re too far from the ball, the hands are way out past your head too much. And now, when you swing, what’s going to happen? Well, your body’s going to want to rise up. It’s really difficult to turn from that position. So, typically this golfer will lose their posture as they go back or they’ll lose it as they come into the golf ball. It’s just too hard to turn from that position. They’re bent over too much. They like this. They got too much arch in the lower back. It’s almost impossible to swing the golf. And then the other posture mistake we see with golfers, they slump from their shoulders. They kind of get over it like this and they get closer to it and the hands are way down underneath them and the shoulders are slumped forward like this and that makes it tough to turn as well cuz your shoulders have been brought forward. you’re kind of hunched over, you know, just try that and see how that feels and then try to make a swing like you’re super restricted. And walking around all day, too, trying that, you know, like you’re not too going to feel too good or walking around with your backside sticking out, your lower back arched, not going to feel too good, you’re not going to move very well. And same thing for golf. It doesn’t work on the golf course. So, a simple posture tip first of all to help you feel that correct posture and it’ll help you with your hip hinge, too. A lot of golfers have trouble with that. They can’t really hinge too well from their hips. You know, it’s a mobility issue. Maybe been sitting too much or it’s just a technique issue as well. But a simple way to work on that, I take my driver here. I’m just going to set stand with, you know, golf posture, feet about, you know, hipwidth apart, you know, shoulder width apart. You know, everybody’s a little bit different, but get your feet set properly. And they’re they’re going to be turned out a little bit. They’re not perfectly square. And I’m going to take the driver and use this as a guide. So, I’m going to first take my stance. I’m going to take this club and put it up my back here. There we go. And I’m just going to try to get a straight line, you know, from my lower from my lower back up to my head. So, I’m reasonably straight. I’m not perfect. I’m not a robot or anything. And then I’m just going to practice tipping from my hips, keeping that club touching my head and touching my lower body there. And I just get this nice little hip hinge. So, this kind of wakes up the hips a little bit. It’ll kind of lengthen your spine a bit. You might feel it pull in the hamstrings, which is okay, but it shouldn’t be excessive. You’ll do about maybe 10 of those back and forth like that. Just kind of wake up that hip hinge. Now, if you’re really having severe trouble with that, there’s probably some mobility issues that you need to address. you might want to get an assessment for functional movement. But I’ve got a a really good functional uh overall mobility routine here on our channel. If you need that, you know, send me a comment and I’ll send you a link to that so you can find it easily. It’s a really good functional mobility routine that takes a few minutes to do every day that would really help you with that. So, when I get that hip hinge going and I can feel that, it’s a lot easier now to get myself into the correct posture and that correct distance from the golf ball. Now, what I can do is like I can set up again stand up straight and I’m going to hinge a little bit from the hips and I’m going to bend over enough till the tops of my fingers hit my knees, my kneecaps. And that gets me into the approximate right posture and setup for me to the golf ball like that. And you can see my hands aren’t way out here or they’re not shoved in really close to me. So that when I set up here now and the hands just hang out. They’re just hanging down beneath my head. Nice erect good posture to allow me to swing the club freely back and forth. And I can do that with different golf clubs just to get the right distance from the ball. And the and the thing you want to think about is that I’m going to try to set up the same way from club to club to club and let the length change and the lie change of each golf club move the ball farther away from me. So this way I don’t have to be overthinking it about oh driver here and wedge here. No, try to feel like you’re setting up the same way each time and let the club make the changes for you. So for example, got my driver here. I’m in my stance. Okay, I’m standing up. I’m just going to bend from the knees a bit. Bend down. Touch there. Arms out. Boom. There’s my distance from the ball. I’m in good posture. I’m not reaching for it. I’m just getting myself set up. And there’s the club head. There’s the driver head. And then I can do the same thing with the with the wedge. So, I’ve got my wedge here. I’ll do the same thing here. Okay. I’m just going to feel my posture here. Get set. Right. Okay. Okay, club out from me. Here I go. So, you notice the difference where the club head is. The club head’s closer to me, but I’m trying to set up in the same relative posture from club to club. And then let the club change make the change in your posture for you. So, so this way it’s a little bit more instinctive. So, practice that posture routine if you’re struggling with your setup. It’ll help you find the distance from the ball. Work on that hip hinge a little bit like that. It’s it’s a good drill for waking up that hip hinge. It’ll make your golf a little bit easier because now you’re in good posture. You can turn and move better. Makes the golf swing a little bit more effective and simpler. So, keep playing golf. Keep having fun. And we’ll see you again.
