Lesson #1
February 10th 2020
Here is the before and after of the right hand position. This will really help you hit down into the ground more often.
The trail hand dominance test established that your trail hand grip should be on the side and a little on top of the grip. This is the dominant way your left hand will apply pressure so we want the grip to work with these natural tendencies. This is a good drill where you just put your trail palm on the grip in the correct position and then apply force from setup position into after impact and into the finish. This is a good way to feel where the swing direction needs to go to be more natural.
This is your ideal golf posture. You can always check it by touching your thigh with your right hand to see how below or above the knee it is. It always should have your fingertips touching the top of your knees with your arms fully extended. To make sure you don’t stand too close to the ball and crowd your hands you can check it by trying to make your right hand pass back and forth between the grip and your body. If it’s too close your hand will struggle to consistently pass through the space.
Little visual to help you see how to play pressure from the trail hand during the delivery.
I briefly touched on this because it will be covered more in our next lesson but I wanted to start the process. There are multiple ways to pivot your torso and hips in the golf swing. This test figures out your body’s dominant pivot side. You can pivot off your front leg, both legs to stay centered, or your back leg. Majority of consistent swings use either front leg or both legs. Using the back leg requires a forward thrust back to the lead side which creates more of a “throwing” type swing which was a dominant style back in the Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus days and leads to back injury. We want a more rotary swing with an anchor point to swing our arc and consistently hit the ground in the same spot. As you can see in your test your dominant pivot is in the center, just needs some cleaning up. The green lines are what I would change which is a straighter trail leg, almost like a post to brace against, in order to open your hips more on the backswing and create a more rotary action. Ideally a centered pivot would stay on the red line in the first frame from setup down into impact. Keep up the good work, see you soon!
-Tim