The posture you have when you set up
to the ball is even more important than aiming. What, before
you yell at me, yes. Aiming of course is important, but it
does not have as much of an effect, the contact, but your direction, consistency and happiness on the
course. I'm gonna aim towards that. Stick over there. Okay.
It's 180 yards. All right. I'm gonna point my club face
at it, but I'm aiming way left. And you think how on earth can a
golf shot go that way? All right, because you are more than
capable to auto, correct? To adjust, to make the tiny adjustments.
So where's this ball gonna go? Yes. All right. I'm aiming my club
face over there. You might say, but what if I'm not? What if everything
is just pointing miles, right? Look what I can do.
I can swing around and it ends up at
the target. Who is this lesson for? Well, if you recognize
any of these swing faults, You might be looking in
all the wrong places. Can a posture really have that
much effect? Well, yes, it can. Especially when so many of you tend to look something like this
standing too far away from the ball, having too much weight
in the heels at set up, and the other one is not necessarily
being too bent in the knees, but having your dairy air, your backside, really sticking out and being
sort of hunched over too much.
And all we want to do instead
is have a dynamic setup. What does that mean? It means a setup that is gonna
help you deliver the club in a more athletic, effortless
manner with consistency. And I'm gonna show you how I don't
often reference tour pros because really they're kind of irrelevant for the
most part for the majority of you, but we can look at the way
the best plays in the world, set up to the ball to have the power and
consistency that they're after that you are after you can see from
the back of his Tuhi backside, whatever you want to call it is
more or less in line with his heels.
It's a lot more athletic.
And what this does, it helps the swing initiate itself
to wind up, to create power, but it helps the transition
more than anything else. The transition going from the
top of the swing back down, being able to use the ground in a
more athletic manner is crucial. You might be thinking this is
boring. It's just about set up. How can it have that much effect? Well, I promise you if we're sticking the butt
out and reaching over and bent over too much, it is so much easier to flip the
hands through cuz we are not using the legs. We're not able to sort of fire
everything that easy.
But when you start, if you wanna think of it
as a more upright position, what happens is as you swing back,
when you make the transition, you can now actually get into
this athletic sort of move. And that transition that you want,
this is what's going to leverage power. This is where effortless power comes
from. This is where as you swing through, you create room to deliver the
club. If you are always out here, you don't really have the room
because it's not a dynamic movement. So we have to sort of prep to
wind up, then deliver through, to make the room and swing, cuz it is gonna make the swing
feel so much more effortless to make sure you hit this
setup every single time.
I want you to take your normal address, but with an alignment stick or even a
club and put it on the back of your bottom here and allow it to just sort of hang
down without sort of thinking about it too much. I want you to notice
where is this line hitting? Are we all the way back here?
Are we too much inside that way? We want it to try and be about here. And the other checkpoint we want
to do is as we sort of have the torso a little bit taller, kind of hanging a bit more supported by
the pelvis here.
We're not in the heels, we're on the balls of the feet and we
notice the difference and we can check it by allowing our arms to hang down. And just in the sort of armpit
here are they in line with the top of the knees, the balls of the feet. That's the lines that we're looking
for. And you can use a stick. You can use a camera, even a mirror at home to start
finding your sort of balance point.
So you start to register.
This is where I need to be. The way I suggest you kind of get into
the placement is standup tool bend at the hips just a little bit
and a slight fix in the knees. Let those arms hang down.
It's not that much movement, especially if you're used to being
sort of quite bent over or the backside sticking out too much, but just get your club stick
just to notice where you are. It is the most simplest
checkpoint you can have, I know it's annoyingly simple,
but I promise you do it. Every single shot you have and
you will be more consistent. Now, if you want another really easy
tweak you can make to your setup, that will have such an impact on how
easy it is to get through the ball on every single shot.
Check out
this video. It is a tiny tweak, but very powerful, very effective.
Just like this posture. One is..