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One of the hard things about golf is the fact that the ball is on the ground and we have to bend over to reach it. This bending can ruin some natural athletic patterns for a lot of golfers. Taking backswings while standing straight up and down can make you aware of the right muscles for making a backswing. You can then use that feel to help build a more consistent pivot when in your tilt.
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Tags: Backswing, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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This is real is horizontal back swing in them bend.
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So what can happen a lot is because we're bent over arms, right underneath our shoulders,
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we can dominate a lot of the movements of the back swing with some of the small muscles in our arms and neck.
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Well, one of the great easy ways to learn the proper movements and the proper feelings in your body is to bring the club up to waist height as opposed to swinging with it down on the ground.
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So horizontal back swing is basically you're going to hold the club straight up in front of you and then you're going to turn around as if you were almost playing baseball or loading up.
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Then from here from this turn position you're then going to bend so that your shoulders are pointing roughly in the direction of the golf ball and let the shaft kind of stay in the similar orientation.
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So this pointing roughly in the direction of the golf ball. So it'll would look kind of like that so you're up. You're going to turn and then you're going to bend.
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And what you may find, if you do this again, so turn and then bend what you may find is that your hands are much further away from you and that you've turned more in your core in your hips and your shoulders to create this backswing pivot.
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This is very helpful for golfers who kind of dominate the swing or the backswing with more of the arms and don't use a lot of the big muscles.
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What you can do is once you feel comfortable doing this little backswing and bend.
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Then you can do it facing or after you've kind of measured the right distance from the golf ball.
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So it would be turned and then bend and you can start to look at the spatial awareness or the spatial differences that you may see.
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Like you may find that most of the time, okay, that club is pointing way over there. My right arm is kind of pointing way back there.
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But if I do this backswing and bend, my elbows kind of more out in front of my body.
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So these important differences between your normal swing and what you're doing in this drill that's going to help you build the swing that you want so that it holds up on your on the golf course.
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I'll demonstrate it once your twice this way so you can see that little difference that I'm talking about.
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So if I make that backswing, right, this is in a good loaded position and then I bend and I just kind of let my arms do a little bit of that flattening Jackson five type movement.
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So one more time set up to the golf ball.
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That wasn't very good set up to the golf ball.
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There's a backswing and then there's a bend and it just gives me an appearance of where this arm is going to be in this space at the top of the swing.
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Because all of the times we lose track and it may end up feeling more like this and this can help you get a visualization of where your arm should be in space and how you're going to get there by making a proper pivot.
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You can do it by making a proper pivot.
