Posture

I gave two hours tuition to some juniors at the club yesterday and I was reminded of how important posture is in how well you play golf.
You must be balanced when taking your posture. Your weight cannot be too much on the heels and not too much on the toes. A great exercise for helping you to get into the correct posture position is as follows;

1. Take your normal grip on the club with your feet hip width apart for an iron shot.


2. Hold the shaft of the club parallel to the ground with the butt of the club pointing approximately at your belt buckle. Let your arms hang out from your body.


3. From there bend forward keeping your legs straight until the club head touches the ground. When you do it be sure to let your bottom go backwards. Your weight will go on to your heels.


4. Now flex your legs and your weight should move to the balls of your feet.


5. There is a great way for you to check you are in a fairly good position and that is to hang your golf club down from the centre of your shoulder. It should brush your knees when just left hanging straight down. See below. The picture is taken from David Leadbetter's book "The Golf Swing".

Work on your posture. Different shapes and sizes of people will look different, but if you use this exercise you will have a great chance of being in a good position.

Cheers

Maurice