If you want to hit strong golf shots on a consistent basis, you need to have strong fundamentals. If you can’t get the simple pre-shots right, you have no hope of making a complex movement like the golf swing.
One of these pre-shot bases what you need to focus on is your stance, ie the way you stand when you address the ball.
GOLF Top 100 Teachers Tim Cooke sees behavioral errors from his students every day and it has a profound impact on their ability to make a consistent swing. One of the most common mistakes he sees is the trail leg bumping away from the target, which leads to all kinds of issues in full motion.
In an attempt to correct these set-up errors, Cooke uses a simple exercise where he has his students jump up and down on a stretch stick that is laid on the ground pointing down their target line.
“When I get down on the pull-up bar, I want to sit on the tripod of my feet,” says Cooke. “The big toe, the ball of the foot and the heel, I want them all to be on the ground so we can add some speed to the golf swing.”
If you want to try this yourself, place a stretch stick on the ground pointing down your target line and stand on top of it so that it separates the arch of your foot, favoring the front side of it. Now, just jump straight up in the air as if you were testing your vertical jump and try to get the seat back on the extension stick.
“When you land, you should feel weight in the tripod of your feet,” says Cooke. “And I can feel my hips and pelvis sit perfectly between my legs at address.”
If you’re someone who struggles to find the right stance at address, try this exercise. By incorporating some athleticism into your setup, you’ll put yourself in a much better position to make a consistent shot at the ball.
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