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.

The Right glute, left glute drill promotes weight transition and power without spinning the hips. This also promotes keeping the butt back so that the arms have room in the swing - they don’t get stuck. Additionally, this drill helps encourage covering the ball with the chest.

I tend to stand up in the downswing. Moving my hips forward, instead of the butt back, will cause contact closer to the heel of the club - the dreaded shank. It will also mess up the plane.

In addition, in it’s purest form, transitioning into the left side should be accompanied with a feeling of the chest going down a bit with the weight into the left heel - like a clam shell pivoting a bit closed.

Remember, Johnny Miller said, “Keep your C”. Rotary swing calls it the clamshell drill. The average golfer calls it, “Keep your head down.” Whatever you call it, the key is you want to feel that your chest is staying down and at the ball on contact - ball strike. I personally have a tendency to stand up at contact. Naturally moving the apex of the swing up and away from the ball will cause me to hit the ball thin. So stay down!

The pros spin their hips to get crazy power but they practice 24/7 hitting maybe 10 times the number of balls we do. At some level this just comes down to being satisfied with a consistent 200-250 yard drive instead of an occasional 275-300 yard drive.

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