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Astralis practicing upper body awareness.

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Many golfers lose sense of where their upper body is in space.

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And there's a few different times that this can happen,

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but practicing with a little bit of visual spatial feedback

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can help you dial in where your upper body is,

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or other parts of your body as well.

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So for this one, we're going to focus on where the sternum

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or the neck or your head is, depending on what you feel

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controls all that space.

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So the tour average is that the upper body shifts off the wall

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only a half inch to an inch.

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So it's very little shift.

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That would be, if here's my upper body,

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that's about an inch off the wall.

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So many golfers in a misguided attempt

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to really load up onto the trail side,

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either shift their body during the takeaway

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where their upper body is well over the wall,

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or they stay centered.

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And then when they go to set their arms,

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they tend to shift off the wall that way.

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So having a little visual spatial awareness

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can help either of those backswing flaws.

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There's a major downswing flaw as well,

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which would be an upper body lunge.

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Many golfers get loose track of where their upper body is,

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usually because of their release pattern

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getting a little scoopy or having more of a flip.

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And so they lunge that upper body well ahead of the golf ball

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so that they hit it so that they can hit the ball solidly.

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But it prevents you from doing a few key things.

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When your upper body gets that far forward,

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you're almost always gonna have a really steep angle of attack.

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And so many golfers shallow it out by scooping with the wrist,

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but it prevents you, or the other one

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that they'll shallow it out with is having more of the extension

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or a lack of rotation.

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So they'll kind of lunge forward like this.

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It really prevents having body rotation.

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It would be very hard to be in front of the ball

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and wide open without getting unplayably steep.

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So if you lunge too much,

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it's gonna disrupt your road-re sequencing.

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So this little training aid, it's just an alignment stick

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and I've got a pool noodle on it.

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The pool noodle is optional and you can see in the wind,

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it's actually not as helpful,

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but it makes it easier for you to see where this is on camera.

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And for many golfers, I'll use this pool noodle

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just because it's soft, it's not very threatening.

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And it takes up a little bit more space visually

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so it's easier to feel where I am.

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But I can either train nine to three

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where basically I'm staying on top of it

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during the back swing and on top of it,

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during the downswing.

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While still trying to use good mechanics,

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so while still trying to use my body,

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I don't wanna stay on top of it

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and just swing with my arms.

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I wanna still use my body,

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look, you know, pushing the right foot,

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pushing to the left foot, but while my upper body

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stays more centered.

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Then I can take that up to full swings

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or three quarter to, you know,

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L-D-I, length swings.

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But having this still kind of as a visual reminder

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of where I wanna keep my upper body in space.

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So you'll see that if I were to exaggerate

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some of these flaws, you'll see,

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if I shift well off the ball,

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I'm gonna have a tendency to hit way behind it

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or the very least, I'm gonna tend to see

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to have early arm movement

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because while my body is trying to get back

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into a playable position, it'd be really hard

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to delay and kind of maintain some of that good

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downswing loading.

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The other one would be more of the

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forward lunge where I'm not gonna shift as much

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during the backswing, but I'm gonna really go forward

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during the downswing.

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And you'll see, I tried to flip and get it up in the air,

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but it usually has a low, low lunge,

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unless we'll try to duplicate that one more time.

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I have a few students who do it beautifully,

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but they're working with something like this as well.

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So if I lunge forward, I've really got to flip

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and release this more behind

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and really get those arms going soon.

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So you can see, you got a little bit more height

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that way disconnected with my arms and lunge forward,

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but it cost me a significant amount of distance

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and it wasn't the most solid feeling strike,

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at least not to me.

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So now, just for good measure, we'll do one more good one.

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I'm gonna keep this spatial awareness here.

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For me, I have to be more careful during the downswing.

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I don't have a major problem swinging off the ball,

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but some of you may feel that that upper body

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has to stay a little bit more centered

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in order to keep this visual in the same space.

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So keeping that upper body in a good location

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is one of the fastest ways to improve your low point control.

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And it's sometimes easier than working on the release,

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which is the other major way.

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So use this if your turf contact,

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your low point control is out of a whack,

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especially if you have too much of a sway off the ball,

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or a lunge during your downswing.