I'm going to show you the easiest swing
for senior golfers, heck this will even work if you're only 18. Does your golf
swing look like this or you play with someone that looks like this? All upper body, all hands and arms
swinging the golf club. Somewhere over the years you've been told to keep your
lower body quiet but the problem is when you keep this lower body quiet it
restricts your golf swing. It doesn't have flow doesn't have momentum
puts a lot of strain on your joints. Now this is fine for the best players in the
world they have the flexibility in that to really wind their body up and swing through
with power. But as we get older it's not as easy.
So i've
always loved looking at the old classic swings you see them like your
Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholas, your Johnny Miller even Seve. You see them moving
their legs getting a lot more active. It's a lot more free-flowing. Now for you
that's going to make it a lot easier to free up how your shoulders move you can
get a better turn a bigger turn ultimately get more power in your golf
swing. Because i'm guessing you've been losing distance over the years
and you're trying to get it back and you just don't know how. So the first thing
you need to do is free up those hips so
at the moment if your hips are staying
really rigid and still
as you make your swing if they're
looking something like this
they've hardly turned at all i want you
to really feel
feel those hips rotating as you make
your back swing
now if you have some sort of injury or
there's some reason why you can't move
them as much as you used to
there's some things you can do the first
thing you can do is flare out that trail
foot instead of having it pointing more
straight on
towards you and the c era there
have it pointing more on a degree
angle you'll notice straight away
that freeze your body up
to make a bigger backswing now you don't
have to swing
all the way to the top here degrees
if you can only swing to there that's
fine but you need to free up those hips
so they rotate
which enables then your shoulders or
your upper body your torso
to rotate a lot more freely
just by flaring at that trail foot now
if that's not quite enough you're still
not finding you're getting the rotation
you're after it's another thing you can
do
you can lift that lead heel
off the ground so it looks something
like this
off the ground like that players like
bubba watson um molinari does that as
well all the older players i mentioned
earlier they all lift that lead heel
off the ground because it frees up the
hips
you free up the hips you free up the
upper body
you're able to turn easier
you're getting a lot more power in your
swing so from this angle here
i want you to really free up those hips
and let them rotate don't keep them
stationary and still don't let them feel
restricted
let them turn let's flare at that foot
and let's let everything turn
and through
and again we can lift that you probably
can't see the lead heel from this angle
but i'm going to lift it up
and i can feel my upper body just having
no problems at all turning
and swinging through
with a lot less restrictions it's more
free-flowing less likely to get any
injuries
and you're going to gain more power more
distance out on the golf course now for
the downswing i want you to focus on two
areas for me talked about flaring out
that trail of that right foot in the
backswing now the downswing if you're
struggling to get your body rotating and
getting those legs
moving because at impact this is the
s e for driver iron or hybrid you want
those legs rotating open really want those legs to be actively
rotating open so you can get through
like this
most of the processing on tv they get
that massive rotation at impact yes they are flexible but if you can
move your hips correctly
you can get into these
these great spots here no problem at all so flare out that lead foot we talked about
the backswing for the downswing flare
that lead foot out
i know that will restrict you to a certain degree in the back swing but you can flare out both these feet
and that will help
get more rotation
more speed
more speed
through the golf ball now the second
thing and i think the most important
sometimes a bit of a challenge for
golfers but it is incredibly important
it has some great benefits for you and
that is
feeling your lead shoulder and your lead here going down at the start of your down swing so it'll look like this
so as we go to the top of our backs we
want lead shoulder lead hip
going down just as you start your down swing down
what that does it gets your
shoulder stacked on top of your hip on
top of your foot keeps everything in neutral joint alignment so that when you get through the impact
you're right there you're stacked over it that's how you compress it you get more distance more power and more accuracy
so that's the feel i want you to do i'll
do that again
it is challenging and you'll probably find when you first start doing this you may hit a few pulls
but stick with it
just takes a bit of practice
left shoulder left hip down
stick with it and then through
as i said you may hit some pulls you may hit some smother hooks to the left and you'll think this doesn't work but stick with the process it does take a bit of
practice
let's show from this angle here we're going to go to the top here we'll go left shoulder lead hip down keep those wrist angles particularly
that trail
wrist down there and then through it is a really powerful move i've been
doing this myself really focusing on it
the last few years my ball striking has improved immensely right through the bag with all the golf clubs
just for that one feel now how i want
you to practice this is doing slow rehearsals you can even do it as part of a pre-shot routine if that works for you
make your back swing nice and slow
i'm just going to go lead shoulder lead hip down there and just do little pumps
little pumps and then through really powerful moves practice it over and over and stick with the process even if you start hitting
those poor shots keep doing it and with more repetition you'll become a lot better at it your ball striking will improve
so we're going to go here i'm going to
go pump pump and through powerful move it'll not only work for
senior golfers it will work for any age golfers any handicaps help you lower those goal scores now important video coming up that ties in
with this because this talks about how
the shoulders move in the golf swing talks about how they don't turn as much as you think and you need this whole upper body
moving really powerful stuff make sure you watch it i'll see you on it