Glutes

Weight Shift - sit to square

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Proper lower body engagement enables consistent contact. Above all, learn to get the weight to the front side.

In many sports, imitation of athletic moves is apparent. For example throwing a baseball obviously looks better to shift weight to the forward foot. In golf this is not as intuitive nor obvious. Too often we want to get our feet as wide as possilbe and hang back on the back foot. This may feel good but it is not good for the golf swing.

All too often we hit the “big” ball (the earth) before we hit the “little” ball (golf ball). Per the other basics learned to this point, the apex of the swing is directly below the lead shoulder (for right handers that would be the left shoulder). So the physics suggests that the bottom of the swing is going to be directly below the left shoulder. In order to hit the little ball before the big ball, we need to advance the apex or left shoulder just in front of the golf ball because we want to hit the ball before the turf. The resulting divot begins where the ball was and continues towards the target.

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