Posture
PRE ADDRESS POSITION
ADDRESS POSITION
To hit a solid golf shot one must have good posture in preparation for a position at address and in our address position before beginning Symple Swing.
Posture is so very important as it is the simplest thing to not do right which then puts you in a no win situation before the swing starts.
PRE ADDRESS POSITION
1st - assume an athletic position which in any sport is knees slightly bent with your back straight and shoulders back which is 'critical' because so many golfers "hunch their shoulders" over the ball which makes your head go down and gets your chin down too close to your chest. This in turn prohibits one from keeping your head still through the backswing. Visualize your head and chin down close to your chest so in your backswing the front shoulder has to contact or touch your chin making you move your head to allow a full shoulder rotation in your back swing. So by keeping your head and chin up at address allowing for a full front shoulder turn going under chin you can and must keep your head still to contact the ball cleanly. This is the biggest cause of FAT SHOTS AND TOPPED SHOTS - fat shots are caused by the head moving back changing the bottom of your arc, where the clubhead hits the ball and you hit behind the ball because you have moved (your head) back.
Subsequently you feel yourself moving back and now you move forward resulting in too much upper body movement and you top the ball as you raise up thru the hitting zone. So it is imperative that you stay still as your upper body rotates around your spine and with your head still enabling you to hit the ball correctly. By the way your lower body with knees slightly bent stay that way throughout the swing also, do not change your back knee bent position throughout the swing. The back knee stays slightly bent, do not straighten the back knee at the top of your backswing either, stay on the same plane as you post your weight into your straight or solid front leg. This gives your a powerful position in your lower body much like a power home run hitter in baseball. Watch any highlights of home run hitters on tv and you will see exactly what we are talking about.
So start with feet shoulder width apart (then adjust as your address the ball) keeping your weight on the balls of your feet - not on heels
Bend your knees slightly in an athletic position
Stick your butt/hips back to allow your spine to be straight
Head is up / chin is up / spine is straight / shoulders are back – not curved in or hunched
ADDRESS POSITION - ready to address the ball and go thru your pre shot routine. (As you hold your club in your front hand - left hand for righthand golfers)
Keep good posture from head to feet and reach out with your front arm (left arm for right handers) and try keep this arm as straight as the shaft as you stand up as tall as possible. So you feel like the from the clubface behind the ball up the shaft, straight left arm up to your shoulder is strong and powerful (even in chipping).
As you grip the club with your back hand don't let that change your posture
Now go thru your pre shot routine of 'THE grip' / square and flair / rockand lock / back knee in / etc.
Practice or check yourself in a mirror - from the front and the sideweight on 'balls of feet'
• knees bent
• hips/butt extend back
• spine straight/shoulders back
• head up/chin off chest/room for front shoulder to rotate for backswing keeping head still throughout the swing arms extended (hands up if you will not having to bend over to swing club around body)
Good posture will produce more powerful and repeatable swings - one because your optimun bio-mechanical swing plane will be produced with the large muscle groups in the upper body doing the work and two it will give you the consisentcy needed to produce good shot after good shot (keeping head still etc) by using Symple Swing fundamentals
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Symple Swing Posture
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Posted - May 23 2005 : 10:28:42 PM
