In our quest for golf perfection, we often find ourselves dissecting the golf swing into its countless components and positions. However, there's a crucial aspect of the swing that even experienced players sometimes forget - the golf swing is an interconnected, seamless chain of movements. The positions in the swing are a reaction to motion not the drivers of the motion.
When you slice your clubface is open at impact. To fix this, you need to begin with the basics of gripping the club and good wrist action. Golfers will often overlook these fundamentals for swinging the golf club. This is the one of the first things good players learn.
As we move further into the fall season, this is an important time to keep your golf skills sharp during the off season to ensure a successful return to the course next spring. Here are a few tips to help you keep your swing going during the off-season:
Everyday household items can make good swing training aids.
We all want to get better at golf, right? Regular golf drills help improve mobility by enhancing flexibility, strength, and range of motion in relevant muscle groups. This translates into a more fluid and powerful swing, enabling you to achieve better accuracy and distance on your shots and prevent injuries.
Incorporating a regular cumulative mobility routine into your training a few minutes each day will go a long way to better golf. You'll experience enhanced flexibility, reduced risk of injury, reduced aches and pains, not mention improve your swing without hours on the range!
The golf swing is meant to be flowing motion, a connected chain of events, move the club away from the ball, move it through the ball position to send it to the target. Simple, right?
As you play golf, one of the key elements you need to focus on is maintaining the body-swing connection. This connection is often overlooked and taken for granted but as we age many golfers begin to struggle with consistency and loss of distance.
The appeal of movement-based drills lies in their simplicity. By focusing on fundamental movements, you can build a strong foundation for your golf swing.
Did you know that over 50% of your strokes come from 100 yards in? That’s why it’s so important to master chipping and pitching fundamentals. These skills are the backbone of a strong short game but did you know they also significantly impact your full swing technique?
Without a solid foundation, your swing becomes unpredictable and inconsistent and can take a toll on your mental game. By working on the fundamentals you’ll develop a sound swing that repeats day in and day out.
The most important things to do in the off-season: 1. Indoor drills - 2. Mobility Exercises - 3. Mirror Practice - 4. Strength Training - 5. Stay Active - 6. Work with a coach
Fix your slice with a simple drill to square up your clubface for straighter shots.
Low back pain is the most common injury for golfers. Changing your lower body action and foot work can help alleviate and prevent the persistent back problems.
Practice these golf drills to keep you moving, improve your mobilty and your golf swing motion.
Standing too far away causes you to bend over too much causing your arms to separate from the body, this results in poor, weak inconsistent contact.
For golfers, lower back pain is often the result of tight hips and tight upper back or thoracic spine. These ffective mobility drills will help eliminate your back pain and improve your swing.
The biggest physical challenge faced by golfers entering their 40s and 50s has to do with the posture they’ve developed over their lifetime. The way to correct postural issues is to address compressed fascia and restrictions, which is the root cause.
If you have pain and mobility restrictions in your feet, ankles, knees or hips, this drill will help you improve your footwork to get your body moving in the correct sequence of motion to generate speed, consistency and power.
Classic quote from the legendary Ben Hogan from one of his epic video lessons from yesteryear, some 60 years ago or more!
Improve your body pivot and sequence of motion to swing the golf club on plane. This golf drill helps with your technique and your mobility at the same time.
The golf swing is a naturally flowing dynamic sequence of movement, your impact position and resulting ball flight are a reaction to this movement…they are not the movement itself! If you want to change your ball flight you need to change how you react and move!
Many golfers struggle with their game simply because they don’t have consistency or a simple way to swing the golf club. They haven’t yet learned the “right way”.
Do you want to drive the ball farther? Many golfers think you have to swing harder and faster to do that. You don’t!
Want to play better golf? You have to move better. Simple as that. To move better you need good mobility...
Do you often take the club back thinking you’ve made a good backswing…but in reality you’ve just swung your arms back and haven’t rotated your core? Then you come through on the downswing only to hit a weak, poor shot?
Good footwork is so important for a good swing. All good players know it and work on it.The average golfer…well not so much.
Many golfers often will struggle with their pivot and turn because they lack mobility or they try to overturn and force the body turn. This affects consistency in your swing.
There are many reasons for this type of pain when we golf…but in many cases the main cause is a lifetime of poor posture, improper breathing and sedentary lifestyle. Yes, that’s right! It comes down to 3 simple things…posture, breathing and inactivity.
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