(Air whooshing) – Hello there. Adam Bazalgette, founder
of Scratch Golf Academy. Today's subject, how to tilt your shoulders
in The Golf Swing. Three drills, and we're talking
specifically in this video about the backswing, but the way the shoulders move (Inhales) gives people fits a little bit. I'll give you three drills and also some reference
points along the way so that you know what you're trying to do. It's a touch more
complicated with golf posture than it would be standing up maybe for a tennis stroke or
something like that. (Inhales) Not that some tennis strokes
on down by the ground, but I'll show you those things and I think it'll help you. (Upbeat music) Well, if you're new to
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you with your golf game. Would appreciate that. (Air whooshing) (Inhales) Well as a nine on, roughly in the middle of the green, not too bad a shot. (Smacks) Let's look at this tilt of the shoulders in the backswing. In theory, it's simple, right? If you stand up and just turn, your shoulders are built (Inhales) to go at right angles to a spine to go around your spine, but it isn't so simple in golf and the reason is you're adding hip bend, you're adding a bend to your access. If I get this little coat hanger out, I'll show you a little example of this. Let me come up a little
closer to the camera. Here's you looking down the golfers line for a right handed golfer.
That head can move all over the place. Once you introduce that bend and from the front view just the same, the access doesn't stay stable, once you've added this angle. That's what gets people into difficulties. Lets have a look at a
couple of great players and we'll get out here and see if we can help you out. Here is two golfers and like most of us would like to emulate. There's Rory Mcilroy on the left and of course a younger
version of Michelle Wie back in her early led
better days on the right. Let's have a look here. So Rory Mcilroy, there's his backswing.
Now he moves around just a wee bit, but if I at least have an estimated line of his spine angle there, his shoulders are pivoting perpendicular or round that spine
(Inhales) beautifully there. We'll take him to the top. Yeah, perfect job then. Now let's look at Michelle Wie. Like many great players, her head, her spine actually
gets a little near the ground. Her head goes down slightly, and even though the hat twists the touch that access though, that has stayed in the same spot. So as I say, not quite as easy as you might think to do, but we'll jump in here with some drills, see if we can help. All right, first drill that I like. And listen, I've tried this with a lot of people in actual golf lessons and I find for most people
it's pretty helpful to them.
So get your golf posture the best you can. Just put your arms out. Now we're not pivoting with the arms, we're pivoting with the upper trunk or the torso here. Get your arms roughly like that. And as you pivot, your arms should be about on
right angles to your body. Pretty easy do if you just
look at it in a mirror and as you start to do that you'll get a sense of how this, it doesn't feel like when you do that there is a much different
stretch in that trail side. That right side, rib cage gets longer. Hip gets a little bit taller. This I believe will really start to get you the right feel.
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get down to the description box and get it while it lasts there as we get back to our subject, Lee Westwood on the left, terrific bull striker Grant
Waite on the right long time to a player from New Zealand teacher now, but one of the really good
ball strikers in his day.
Just watch Grant's upper body relative to the trees and the
horizon and everything. Very stable, slight tiny wobble, but very stable. And with these sorts of players, you'll notice a pretty acute angle there between the upper body and the lower body. And you'll notice there's
significant tilt across the belt. They don't all look exactly the same, but those are the kind
of looks you'll want to see in your backswing when
you look at it on your phone or on film. So you remember when I held
the coat hanger up here as I swiveled it from this angle, the head would kind of
swivel back that way or what would be the head at
the end of the coat hanger? Get your pivot.
Just get your arms across
your shoulders like this. Make the best backswing you can make. Look at it in a mirror would be ideal. Now hopefully it looks
just like you want it to look the same way
as we had with the pros and when you had your arms out, but frequently it won't (Inhales). And what you want to do is you wanna remember you're now adding side bend. It would be the same thing as bending this way with
your body at the top. So if you look up there and you see, hey, I look a little tall here, a little to level across
the belt, just hold it. Tilt to your left ear and left shoulder down towards the ball till you get much more of an acute angle and more (Inhales) belt bend.
This was a problem that played me in my golf swing from
my early years in golf, more than just my early
years for that matter. I was only ever told, " Hey, you're not getting
your left shoulder low enough. "Keep that right hip against the wall." This sort of stuff. I didn't know what side bend was, so I found it difficult. I was standing there trying to strain to get the shoulder down. You shouldn't have to feel that if you have the appropriate
amount of side bend, it all sort of takes care of itself.
Trick is a course. Do it where it blends in very gradually and that side bend blends in gradually and your back swing until you get the look you're looking for, which is the look those pros had. All right, final drill. Get your head up against the wall. You can use a golf cart for instance. I'm going to do that and here's the things you're looking for. So I feel my head just
touched this canvas, top of the back of the golf cart, and as I pivot, what I'm going to feel is
do I feel that stretch? Do I feel the ability
to stay back against it? What's missing? In some people's cases,
they stretch so much, they topple this way. So again, you've got to figure that it isn't that difficult
when you don't have a club and you've got a reference like your head, you've got to do that until you can feel like your
access stays pretty still.
You're bent over the bowl, you've got enough shoulder
tilt from this angle, I'm telling you, five or 10 minutes carefully in front of a mirror or against the wall doing these drills, you'll start to get the field unlike always don't take shortcuts. Don't just race out there and start belting full shots trying to put things in till you've worked on
a little at the house. This isn't that difficult. Once you know what you're doing and a good pivot, proper shoulder tilt in the backswing, centered access nice and stable, will really help you be a
more consistent ball striker.
We hope that helps you with how to tilt your shoulders
in the golf swing. Hope those three drills
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