David Thomas on Spine Angle (Video)

David Thomas from the PGA of Australia has a drill to help you learn how to maintain your backbone angle the identical at some stage in your backswing.

The drill itself is pretty plenty self-explanatory. But I want to talk a chunk approximately the ball position during the drill, for the reason that it's not what you would possibly anticipate.

David says to vicinity the ball approximately 1.Five meters away from you, contrary the inner of your proper foot.

• First of all, for you lefties, that will be your left foot.
• And for all my American readers who, like me, don't think in meters, 1.5 metters is roughly 5 feet. Yes, that's much too far away for you to actually hit the ball during a swing!

But that's the point here. Your hands and arms Grasp from your shoulders, and you aren't aiming your hands and arms at the ball. Rather, you're aiming your shoulder line at the ball. And that line will be shallower than your swing plane.

Yes, I know it's counter-intuitive. We are so used to thinking about swing planes that we regularly neglect that there's more than one plane in a golf swing. The shoulder aircraft is perpendicular to your backbone perspective; your swing aircraft is steeper.

This drill will assist you discover ways to preserve your backbone perspective at some point of your backswing and no longer get up. Standing up at some stage in your swing will purpose you to mis-hit the ball at effect, and we do not want that!

It's a easy drill that you could do inner, on every occasion you have got a spare moment. Furthermore, you may try this drill quick whilst out at the course during a round if you need to check your spine perspective. In my e-book, that is an excellent drill.