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The ideal sequencing for the stock full swing is the lower body moving first, then the core, then the shoulders, then the arms and hands. Many amateurs turn everything together, and others even start with their arms. It can be useful to exaggerate the movement at first, and if you exaggerate the lower body initiation, it will often feel like the body has finished turning by impact. This can give a visual of where your body should be that may be different from where your brain thinks it should be.
Tags: Impact, Drill, Intermediate
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This drill is finished turning your body by impact.
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Now this is a great drill to work on sequencing and the feeling of the lower body or the core
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initiating and leading the bulk of the downswing.
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What can be very problematic for a lot of golfers, especially with driver, especially with the longer
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clubs, is to have the arms and shoulders control more of the early part of the transition,
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where they're getting kind of, it's a feeling of kind of a chopped motion, it's a feeling of
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pushing with this right side, but it's a feeling of going with my arms straight from the top of
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this wing.
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So to combat that, we're going to get used to the body creating a lot of rotation before we
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may contact with the golf ball.
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So to figure out where my numbers should be, I'm going to set up and I'm going to take the
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club across my shoulders and then I'm going to rotate so that my chest is facing out
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towards the target.
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It's very similar, it's the merry-go-round drill.
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Now while my chest is out towards the target, I'm going to make sure that my shoulders
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stay relatively square, kind of like so.
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Now my goal is if I was doing a 9-3 or if I was doing a full swing would be to get my body
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to there before my arms extend through the shot or the way that it can feel is if I was
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still here at impact with not a lot of body rotation and then finished my swing, you could
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see that I turned a good 45-50-60 degrees from impact into the finish.
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The goal in this concept or the goal in this drill is to try and have all your body rotation
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happen before you may contact with the ball so that when you release, it's pretty much
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just your arms and your shoulder blades that are finished in the swing.
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It's not actually what's going to happen, but it's a good feeling for a lot of players
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to feel like that body has contributed more of its speed during the early part of the
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downswing instead of the arms.
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So again, you're going to set up to the ball, turn as much as you can until you're at the
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end of the hip and feeling stuff in your core.
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That's as much as I can get and then my goal is to try to get back to there before my arms
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extend and it'll help give you a good idea of where your body should feel like it is through
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impact if you're going to be leading with your body during the early part of the downswing.
