Regardless of your handicap and experience, checking your golf swing is something that all players should do regularly. Ensuring that the key fundamentals remain a priority, like having the perfect golf grip or the correct ball position every time, will help to maintain your consistency and give you the best chance of shooting lower scores.
In this article, Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Alistair Davies shares five simple swing checks, as well as his expert tips, so that you can carry out your own golf swing MOT…
1. Rotate And Relocate: The Tailbone Drill
This is all about the rotation and extension of your body through impact and into the finish. Place an alignment stick through your belt pointing down to the ground. Your goal is to make sure you rotate and relocate by getting the stick past the ball’s address position in your finish.
This drill highlights how well the centre of your navel – your tailbone – is moving through impact and how well you are transferring your weight from trail side to lead side. If you move on to your back foot through the ball, the alignment stick won’t get past the ball’s address position – a tell-tale sign that you’re hanging back, maybe in an attempt to help the ball up.
2. Alignment: Empty Ear Process
Measuring how much you have to rotate your head to see the target is an easy way to self-check your alignment. Rotating your head as though you’re wanting to tip something out of your right ear gives you a better perception of where you’re actually aiming than simply looking over your shoulder.
Using this ‘empty ear process’ and rotating your head to check your alignment can highlight if your aim is out, as the amount of rotation needed will indicate whether you’re aiming too far right or left. If very little head movement is needed, you’re aiming too far left; if excessive head movement is required, you’re aiming too far right.
Will Zalatoris using an alignment stick on the driving range in preparation for a tournament
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3. Correct Takeaway: Torch Beam Drill
In this takeaway drill, visualise a torch beam coming out of the butt end of your club. The beam should stay pointing at your belly button as you start the swing, rather than pointing to the target too soon via excessive early use of the wrists.
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