Using the Ground Effectively for a More Powerful Golf Swing
- Give Your Swing a Little Push. While this is an article about golf, let’s take a quick detour and talk for a moment about baseball.
- Building a Solid Stance. If you are going to use the ground to your advantage in the golf swing, and you can’t dig yourself a hole for your back foot, ...
- Lower Body Drive. ...
- Making the Ground Work for You. ...
Full Answer
What does the lead leg do on a golf club?
Done correctly, your lead leg will straighten and post up at impact, which will allow your right side to fire through and your arms to extend and swing past your body. This is the recipe for maximum clubhead speed and power.
How to straighten your lead leg?
Instead of sliding your legs through impact, push hard off the ground so that your legs straighten and your body weight moves more up than forward. This move is similar to a basketball player going up for a rebound or a standing broad jumper using the ground to explode off his feet. Done correctly, your lead leg will straighten ...
Can you push up off the ground?
Unfortunately, this forces the upper body to hang back and the knees to collapse, which prevents you from creating any leverage with the ground—you can’t push up off the ground if your weight is sliding forward. What’s more, your arms tend to get pulled into your body, which keeps you from extending them through impact.
