You confused about how the left shoulder
works in the golf swing? In this next video i'm going to show you exactly how
the left shoulder works in the golf swing and the difference between pros
and amateurs so you can start doing it right. Let's dive in.
Right, let's dive into this left shoulder for the backswing. So typically with
amateurs with that left shoulder in the backswing it will move up and what it looks like
left shoulder moving up gets you very tall gets you further from the golf ball
and you need to do a lot more to strike the golf ball solid.
So that left
shoulder moving up is a very common amateur mistake. So what
should you be doing? Well this is what the pros do with their left shoulder in
the backswing. As they go back that left shoulder, it stays low. They
maintain that lovely tilt that they had at set up and it stays low which gets them in a
better position in their backswing to then make their downswing. So
for you I want you to think about left shoulder low as you make your backswing
and that is a really nice pro move.
So from the face on it looks a
a bit like this left shoulder low now tying into that
another great way of looking at the left shoulder this is what amateurs do so
from face on. this left shoulder it doesn't move far
enough across you
and around so like this position here it's too much of an armsy swing the left
shoulder so it looks something like this this is a left shoulder move for an
ambush you can see there i haven't rotated much i've just used my arms to finish the
back swing so what do the pros do with their left shoulder well they do the
exact opposite as you'd expect you'll see here they get the left
shoulder right under that chin
now that's a great reference point for you even if you can't make a full back
swing think about getting that left shoulder under your chin in the back
swing have a look at this even if i go to here
i've still got that left shoulder under my chin
and that's a great spot for you to then continue on and make the rest of
your golf swing let me know in the comments below can you relate to any of
those left shoulder moves and if you've tried any of those have they helped you
out drop a comment down below all right let's look at this left
shoulder and the golf swing pros this is amateurs let's look what amateurs
do wrong in this downswing this is something i used to do all the time and
i was never told in the beginning and it makes a huge difference in your golf
swing so typically amateurs this left shoulder
in the downswing as you get to the top that first move down that left shoulder
will go up like this you can see my hips move forward upper body tilts back i get into this
awkward position where i've just got to flip my hands to hit the golf ball so
what do the pros do that makes them so good
key move left shoulder as they get up here it moves
down and across i'm going to cover something
important about that across move in just a moment but for now
the key move for you is down it's got to go down it doesn't
go up it's got to go down so from this this angle here will show
it again and it helps you
by going down helps you shallow out that golf club helps you come more
from the inside to the golf ball as well so keeping that left shoulder down at
the start of the downswing is a powerful move and so is this next
one now tying in with that last one about
the left shoulder the amateur mistake is
that that left shoulder when they start their downswing in this position here it
kind of it almost like it gets stuck on their chin or stuck on their chest and
it and just stays there and again it causes you to flip and use
a lot more arm movement so it kind of feels like it's stuck into that chin
position here and makes it very awkward to make your
downswing so the pros they simply again do the opposite so
that left shoulder it gets
away from the chin so that's a great way of thinking about if you jump in front
of a mirror or a video camera which is what i encourage you to do feel like
that left or lead shoulder gets away from your chin
as soon as you start that down swing feel like it gets away from the chin you
can see that gives me freedom and space to swing my arms through
and really strike that golf ball solid now there is one more key about this
left shoulder that you need to know and it's coming up
all right the final part of this left shoulder movement in the downswing which
is incredibly important is how it
where it basically finishes up it ties in with those first two parts but
typically what you'll see with that left shoulder
with the amateurs is when they swing back here
it doesn't because it lifts up so quickly like this and gets stuck under
the chin it stays back relatively in the center of my body it
might look something like this now
a great checkpoint for you and again this is where mirror and video come into
play is when you make that downswing feel
like that left shoulder gets right on top of that lead foot you can basically
draw a straight line straight up there let me show you what
it looks like as we get up here as it moves down
and we get to impact you'll see that left shoulder should be
roughly somewhere in the same line as your
as your lead leg your foot you can draw a line basically up your
up your shoulder let me show you and it comes across
in that sort of spot there it's often called getting in sort of straight
alignment getting your your legs and your shoulder in neutral
joint alignment it's something you see all the best
players doing especially with their irons driver they'll be a little bit
more tilted back a little bit more further
back but with irons in particular you'll see them they've got that left shoulder
or lead shoulder stacked over that lead leg and that's
because they're trying to compress the
ball and they're trying to get more pressure
into that left side and they're in that sort of spot there
and that's how they hit that ball first divot second
all because they're getting that left shoulder in that great spot now i've got a special bonus for you
coming up now of a pro golfer this is not one you want to miss
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this is robert rock so i want you to keep an eye on that left or that lead
shoulder as he makes his backswing here you can see he's keeping that left
shoulder down as he makes this back swing and he's getting those shoulders
on a beautiful tilt and staying in posture
now from face on you can see here that left shoulder you can see he's moving it
across slowly and it will end up underneath his chin
as he makes a beautiful full turn to the top of the back swing
as he starts down that left shoulder will move down and across and it'll get
into that beautiful neutral joint alignment position that i spoke about
before so now you know how to move your left
shoulder in the golf swing and you know the difference between pros versus
amateurs now this video here and this video here they're going to help you out
even further with the right shoulder movement in the golf swing so make sure
you check those out if you haven't already like this video if you have any
questions anything that didn't make sense please drop it down below see you
next time.