Golf Swing Thoughts: How to Choose the Right One
Every golfer has stood over the ball with a head full of instructions: keep your head still, turn your shoulders, don't sway, release the club. Too many thoughts make the swing stiff and mechanical…
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Alignment Stick Drills: 10 Ways to Improve Your Golf Swing
Alignment sticks are among the cheapest and most useful training aids in golf. These simple, flexible rods help you check aim, ball position, swing path, swing plane, hip movement and putting stroke…
The Golf Swing with Limited Flexibility: Adaptations That Work
Golf instruction often assumes a flexible, athletic body: a big shoulder turn, a full wrist hinge and a high finish. But many golfers, especially older golfers and those with stiff backs or hips…
How to Fix Early Extension in the Golf Swing
Early extension is one of the most common faults in golf. It happens when your hips move towards the ball during the downswing and your upper body stands up, losing the posture you set at address…
How to Stop Skying Your Driver: Causes and Fixes
A skied drive, sometimes called a pop-up or a "rainbow", flies high and short, often leaving a white mark on the top of the driver head. It loses huge amounts of distance and can damage the crown of…
How to Stop Hitting Fat Golf Shots: Causes and Fixes
A fat shot, also called a heavy or chunked shot, happens when the club hits the ground before the ball. The turf slows the club, the ball comes out weakly and falls well short of the target. Fat…
Hip Rotation in the Golf Swing: How to Turn for More Power
Watch a powerful golfer and you'll notice that the hips lead the way. They turn in the backswing, start the downswing and are already open to the target at impact, while the arms and club follow…
Golf Swing Video Analysis: How to Film and Check Your Swing
What you feel in your golf swing and what you actually do are often very different. You may feel that you are making a full turn or keeping your posture, but video tells the truth. With a smartphone…
How to Fix a Push and a Pull in Golf
A push starts right of the target and keeps going straight right. A pull starts left and keeps going straight left. Unlike a slice or hook, there is little curve, which tells you something important…
Golf Swing Plane Explained: One-Plane, Two-Plane and Your Swing
"Swing plane" is one of the most-used phrases in golf instruction, and one of the most confusing. Simply put, it describes the angle and path the club travels on around your body. A club that swings…
Golf Follow-Through and Finish: Why It Matters and How to Do It
The ball has gone by the time you reach your follow-through, so it is easy to think it doesn't matter. But the finish is the result of everything that came before it. A balanced, complete finish…
Golf Weight Transfer: How to Shift Your Weight Correctly
Good golfers finish their swing balanced on their lead foot, with almost all their weight forward and their trail heel up. Many club golfers finish with their weight on the back foot, falling…