Here are a few tips that will help with a bad downswing if observed:
- At impact, keep your head still and don’t allow it to move whatsoever, if possible
- Allow your knees to be flexible, never lock them during the golf swing
- Hang your hands free as you swing for impact, keeping your eyes on the ball.
- Bend, not from the waist but the hips
- Always Ensure your back is straight with no curvature during the swing
- Have your grip tight and your right shoulder slightly beneath your left
How do you stay down when hitting a golf club?
Go to the top of your swing, and move the elbow in front of you. If you did it right, you will see the right wrist flex and the left wrist flatten. That means you have just put the golf club in a position from where you can “stay down” through the shot.
How to slow down your golf swing?
Repeat four times with a high arch and a smooth toss. Take a golf club in one hand and take a golf swing similar to the tempo you did with the softball toss. Repeat two or three times. Use two hands on the club and repeat the swing step. This is a drill to help you mentally learn how to slow your swing.
How do you maintain posture when playing golf?
As you’ll see here, maintaining posture is more about your lower body – keeping your “tush” back, away from the ball, in order to balance the golf swing. Once you learn how to use your lower body properly, “staying down” just takes care of itself, leaving you free to swing the golf club.
How to hit a Top Shot in a golf swing?
Go to the top of your swing, and move the elbow in front of you. If you did it right, you will see the right wrist flex and the left wrist flatten. That means you have just put the golf club in a position from where you can “stay down” through the shot. When many golfers first put this move into practice, they often hit some topped shots.
What happens if a golf club starts down too vertically?
But if the club starts down too vertical, a golfer only has two choices: to bail out or back up. Backing up is a term I have for when a golfer tilts his or her upper body away for the ball. It shallows out the shaft plane and helps them avoid hitting the ground.
How to move your right elbow in golf?
Your right (or rear) elbow has to move forward, more toward the target line. And you can’t move the whole unit, just the rear elbow (get up right now and try that, because it’s harder than it sounds). Go to the top of your swing, and move the elbow in front of you. If you did it right, you will see the right wrist flex and the left wrist flatten. ...
Why is bailing out an ineffective form of bailing out?
But it is an ineffective form of bailing out because it does not allow a golfer to apply as much force to the golf club. So how can you get the golf club on a angle that will allow you to swing aggressively through the ball, really going down and “getting it” like tour players?
Does Tiger Woods move his body down?
Most serious golfers have seen slow-motion video of Tiger Woods or some other tour pro who moves his or her body down in the moments before impact. Those players actually lower what is called their “center,” or upper body on the downswing. But rarely, if ever, do amateurs make the same move.