Lesson #1
February 20th 2020
Hey Jim! Here’s a good way to find your body’s natural athletic posture for golf. Simply put your hands on your thighs with fingertips stretched and then bend from your hip joints until your fingertips reach the top of your knee. You should feel your butt move back and your knees flex slightly as seen you picture 2 and 3. Check it before each shot by taking your right hand off the club once you’re in setup and make sure your fingertips are touching the top of your knees.
Here is your swing before the lesson started. The goal was to learn how to hit the ground in the same spot every time in order to achieve the first rule of consistency.
Next, we tested your body to see how your right arm and hand like to move naturally. This test showed us that your right hand grip should always be on the side of the golf club. Don’t let it drift too far under or on top of the grip.
The video to the right is a great slow motion rehearsal of how your body should pivot in the back swing (watch the zipper line), and how your back foot should come off the ground much sooner than usual (even in this video it should be off the ground sooner onto the toes). So in simple terms think: centered pivot, clear the hips and get off the back foot. VERY IMPORTANT: When you practice you must do very slow rehearsal swings to make the changes last. If you go full speed and try and make changes…it will never work.
-Tim
Face on view again before the lesson started. I noticed and showed you on my V1 app how you move your head and pivot off the ball in the back swing which results in a sliding action on the down swing. This causes a “throw” motion with the club, rather than a “swinging” motion by anchoring yourself to your natural pivot point and rotating in posture around it.
We then use the “fishing cast” test to see if we need to adjust the left hand grip to match the new right hand position in order to obtain a square/neutral clubface.