This excellent golf backswing drill is simple but very informative. It will help you get a feel for your swing path and whether you’re swinging the club on too flat or too steep a plane.
- Find an area where you can use a wall to check the path of your backswing.
- Take your set up so that your backside just touches the wall as you set up to the ball. You may want to grip the club at the opposite end (near the club head) to avoid damaging your club or the wall.
- Take the club away until the club head is roughly hip height. Ensure that the club is parallel to the wall and parallel to the ground at this level. This will help you spot an inside or outside takeaway position.
- Continue to the half way back position. The club should touch the wall at or around head height.
- If it touches the wall at hip, chest or shoulder height, you are taking the club back too much on an inside path.
- If the club doesn’t touch the wall at all or way above head height, you are taking the club back too much on the outside.
Another drill is to use a highway cone marker :put it in line with your stance at three feet distance (approximately )and swing outside when going back in your backswing and inside when coming down in your downswing
This is excellent stuff. I will keep these tips and refer to them when my swing goes south. Thanks
Practice your swing in front of a window pane.Extend your arms the utmost when going back as if you were pulling a mop along the ground .Push your left shoulder forwards and turn on the right foot while lifting your arms until your hands are above your right shoulder .Keep your wrists utterly loose .You’re done with the backswing
Looks like a whole lot of “positioning” going on in your backswing Mbwa! Think more of the motions needed in your backswing.