Swing change Part 2

Old Flatter Shoulder Turn

So after my change to the posture that I discussed on my earlier blog the next step in my swing adjustment was to adjust my shoulder movement in my backswing.

Partly due to the excessive lumber curve in my posture and partly just bad habits my left shoulder tended to move back on the backswing with a immediate movement to the left and also coming up as I swing back. This caused two major issues. Firstly it meant my head and upper body moving to the right, it also meant that my shoulder plane became too shallow. This gave my swing a weight shift that was caused by my upper body, as opposed to through the movement of the hips and pelvis.

The first thing that I need to do with the change was to sort out the first movement away from the ball. Before I would initiate my backswing with an immediate turning of the body and pushing away of the left shoulder.  The feeling I needed to get was that of my shoulder remaining in position for the first couple of feet of the backswing, and then getting it to work down, and under my chin.

Secondly in order to stop my shoulder over turning I have to keep head centred with my face on the ball. Before I would rotate my head about 25’ to the right on my backswing. Now I need to have no head rotation, this limits my shoulder turn dramatically.

New Shoulder Position

At first it feels as if my swing is really steep with a lot less body turn.  I am struggling with how my weight shift is going to happen. But there is more than enough to work on for the time being. I love the look of my compact backswing, but can’t really feel how I’m going to generate power. It is close to the feelings I had when I was experimenting with the Stack and Tilt motion. This does change soon. I’ll be discussing how in a blog in the near future, and the movement is a revelation in my game.

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