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The drill is where is your sternum pointing?

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a couple of linemen sticks and I'm going

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to go through some different parts of the swing to focus on where your sternum is pointing.

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Because I'm a big fan of training that ironman position and basically where is your sternum

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pointing compared to the golf ball when you may contact at impact.

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But what I tend to find is that many golfers benefit from focusing on where is that sternum

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pointing at other parts in the swing.

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Two areas that we're going to focus on in this swing are in this drill are the top of the

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backswing and the follow-through because where your sternum points reveals a lot about

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what's going on in the pivot and there's some common problems that you might be going

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up against that resolving or that are easier resolved by focusing on where that upper body

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is positioned.

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So basically I'm going to get into my setup position and then from here I'm going to make

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my backswing pivot.

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And now you'll notice if I have a good backswing shoulder plane then my sternum is pointing

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roughly parallel to the ground.

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I find that many golfers who circle with either swaying too much off the ball with their upper

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body or having a really short backswing these would be pointing down at the ground there

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and then most of their backswing is going to be created by lifting and maybe even bending

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your arms.

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A lot of golfers who tend to bend their arms to go to the top of the swing have the chest

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pointed way down and bending the arms is really the only way that they're going to get

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enough height where if you train a little bit more of this neutral pivot where the upper

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body stays relatively centered and has a combination of some side bend and some rotation

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and some extension that will get things pointing more horizontal.

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Now in the follow-through position we're going to try to point it even more up towards

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the sky.

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So here I am at the backswing.

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When I get into that first movement in the downswing you can see that this is going to

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increase in point basically back down towards the target line.

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I don't want to go this way initially, right?

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I don't want to go into side bends so this is pointing too much up there that's a form

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of early extension.

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So I'm regaining my flex, getting more into that left tilt and then through impact,

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my upper body is going to stay behind my lower body as I brace and so when I get in

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this follow-through position my lumbar spine and my body is supported by my abs but my

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chest is pointing just above the horizon.

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Many golfers who struggle with more of a scoop or a chicken wing or a bending of the

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arms.

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So I tend to have the upper body pointing more down there just like in the backswing and

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then the arms are what's creating more of the lift kind of like this.

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So we're going to get tilted this way up towards the top of the swing and then we're

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going to be coming through into impact where it's basically pointing slightly open and

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then getting into that follow-through position where this is pointing just above the horizon

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again.

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So that can give you a few little checkpoints that you can use when you're doing your pivot

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training at home and then you can take those concepts and the alignment sticks and apply

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them when you're practicing at the range.