A chair can be a great tool to cure your premature aging.
Knee flex is essential in the golf swing. With the right amount, you can increase your ground forces and add power to your swing. But like everything in life, too many good things can have a negative impact. In this case, excessive knee flexion limits your landing rotation and often forces you to early extension or rise out of your hitting stance, robbing you of power and even creating contact problems.
So how do you know how much knee bend you should have? With this simple chair workout from Chris Como, a GOLF Top 100 Teachersyou can be sure you have the right amount of knee bend to produce a powerful swing.
Pull up a chair to better understand what your hips and knees should be doing in your golf swing.
Como chair drill
Place it in the chair, the seat in front of you, as you would for one spin drills. Keep your knees close to the edge of the seat, no more than an inch apart. Then, with your arms across your chest, swing back and through, avoiding the kneeling chair.
This instant feedback teaches you the proper amount of knee flex to have in your swing. With enough, you will miss the chair. But, with too much, your knees will collapse in, towards the ball and clip the chair on the way through.
The three-time major champion says this is ‘essential’ for solid contact
Maddie MacClurg
Once you’ve figured that out, Como says to try his next workout progression to get a little more dynamic.
Start by giving yourself more room, this time by standing up in the chair with your knees about four to five inches away from the seat. Roll back and then, as you start down, Como says to feel your knees come closer to the chair. As you go through the stroke, feel yourself lift up and your knees come off the chair.
“It will help you get that bend in the knees that you see a lot of great players have,” says Como.
He explains that it will also help you learn to drive both feet through the shot while your upper body stays down, which he says is essential to creating a body compression movement where your chest is over the ball. .
According to Como, you’ll know you’ve nailed it if your feet end up close together, almost touching, on your follow through.
