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Posture With A Tail

This drill is a simple check for your hip hinge at set up. If you are lowering mostly with knee flex, then your tail will point between your feet. If you are hinging at the hips, then the tail from the club will point a few feet behind you.

Tags: Set Up, Drill, Beginner

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This drill is posture with a tail. So a fun little visual for getting into good setup

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posture is making sure that you've hip-hanged. I talk about finding your hips and making

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sure that you've hip-hanged. Well, an easy way to visualize that is if you were to take the club

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and place it across your chest or stomach, so it's vertical just like so, and then you were

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to hip-hinge, you can see that basically I would have a tail sticking out behind me somewhere

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along here. If I were to place it along my back and do the same thing, hinge, you can see that

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tail sticking out back there. A lot of golfers will tend to sit more into their knees like so,

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and now you can see my tail is basically sticking straight between my legs as opposed to pointing

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at least a few feet behind me. So this is a great little visual that you can use to practice your

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setup position and making sure that you're bending from the hips keeping your spine and

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good alignment as opposed to bending from the knees and sacrificing your hip alignment. So when you're

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getting good setup posture, make sure you have a tail.

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