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A simple way to feel where your trail hip is during the backswing. Place a shaft, a chair, your bag, or any other object just outside your right hip. Then, practice making backswings without letting your hip bump into the object. If you hit the object, then you know that you swayed to the outside of your foot and the feeling will let you stop mid-swing.
Tags: Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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This drill is object outside of your right leg. It's an oldie in kind of a goody.
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If you sway, what ends up happening is your pelvis shifts to the right and you move
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to the outside of your foot. So placing an object like a shaft in the ground,
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you can even put your golf bag here. Just something that will give you a little
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bit of kind of a spatial barrier will prevent you from swaying and allow you to
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feel like you stay a little bit more centered over the golf ball. So I've just
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got the shaft in the ground with the little Tyler trainer. You'd be able to
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make back swings and if you sway, I can feel when my leg hits into it. If I'm
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doing this slowly, deliberately, and paying attention to what I'm actually
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working on. If I rush through it and I just barely tap it, I may miss out on it.
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So be tough on yourself and don't set up with six inches of room between your leg, get
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pretty close to it so that if you shift into it even a little bit, you'll be
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aware that you made that mistake. It'll help you create a little bit more
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centered pivot without the sway, which would help with solid contact and potentially
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distance.
