Does your head move off the ball in the backswing? Watch this video to fix it: https://rotaryswing.com/c4/112539-how-to-fix-the-3-most-common-backswing-faults
Do your shoulders turn to flat in the backswing? Does your golf club go inside your hands during the golf takeaway?
Fix it using the FEEL of the greatest golfers of all times (GOATs).
The GOATs “felt” that they pushed the club back with the lead side and hand, but when most golfers do this their heads move off the ball.
But, if you learn how to push tension free like I talk about in the video above your head will stay centered, the club will stay outside your hands and your shoulders will turn steep.
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All right guys it’s time for the next goat Theory update and I’ve got some really cool stuff I’m going to show you a really really simple way to fix the three most common back swing problems and those are flat shoulder turn your head moving off the ball and the club
Going inside and all three of those things are directly related so let me show you where I’m at right now with what I’m working on with all my research you’ll see my takeaway is very similar um we’re basically moving from much the same place and i’ I’m going to talk
About where that is and what that’s all about in just a moment but uh you a lot of things that are similar you can see I’m a little bit more laid off looking at the top than tiger and so but that makes it really easy to shallow the club
He’s probably trying to hit a cut here but uh hard to know for sure uh downswing stuff is still a work in progress for sure but we’re uh we’re certainly getting into the uh the ballpark here and there’s a lot of cool stuff that I’ve been able to use with my
Students to help them understand really simple things about how to move their body in a different way to get better results really really quickly and all through feel so let me talk about that real quick with our favorite golf student uh Alton here all right let’s
Take a look at the three most common swing faults in the back swing and how to fix them with one simple feeling so I’ve got Alton up here some of you guys have followed along with him he’s 89 years old he’s still out there chasing it man he’s out there doing the grind
Practicing every day I love it he is a golf fiend but but he demonstrates all three of the most common swing faults that most golfers struggle with in Perfection here if you look on the right you’re going to see the club going way inside his hands right so we’re already
We’ve already got the club kind of buried back here and of course you can see that his head has now moved almost a foot off the ball and this is going to cause his shoulders to turn really flat in fact his shoulders are almost give or take almost horizontal to
The ground so from here we’ve got some work to do we’ve got to get our head back you know move it almost a foot and he does an amazing job quite frankly if you look at he’s actually hitting the ball in the center of the face can’t use
His body for power but he’s moving as well as he can doing as well as he can but from a very difficult position this is a really really hard thing to recover from when your head moves off the ball your shoulders are flat and the club goes inside and all three of these
Things are directly related one can cause the other they kind of all cause each other but now let’s take a look at what I did with him to go and get him feeling something completely different so now you’re going to see him at the top of his swing on the right here and
On the left wildly different right now you can see when he swings really flat and gets a lot gets his head lean away off the ball he’s got a lot of axis tilt away from the ball now his spine is going to stay what we would call in
Flexion which is just kind of curv this way here he’s actually starting to get into extension a little bit when you’re in flexion it bumps your hips out this way so you can’t really load into that right leg you can’t drive off of it for
Any power and so we’ve got all sorts of things that that are going on here here his head’s actually staying centered he’s loaded into his right leg you can see his lower body looks way closer to a tour Pro’s lower body than he did over
Here and this is all just giving him one simple feeling which is what I’m going to share with you in just a moment so if you struggle with your head moving off the ball your shoulders being flat your arms getting deep the club getting deep
Behind you let’s take a look at how to fix that with one feeling all right before before I show you how I got Alton into this position let’s look at what Tiger Woods felt that he did in his swing if you recall Tiger’s book back from the early 2000s how I play golf
This is an excerpt from that where he says one of my key thoughts is wide at the top I push my left arm away from my head as far as I can and my right arm goes right along with it and on the next page he says as you stretch your left
Arm away from your body so he’s talking a lot about the lead side in his golf swing for his back swing and then there’s one more clip here there should be a healthy feeling of tension and resistance down your left side at the top now take a look at these two images
From the book and you can clearly see he has really pushed that left shoulder across his body under his chin what we’d call protraction and from here you can see it even more look at the space between his left shoulder and the side of his head versus his right shoulder
And the right side of his head it’s wildly different now let’s take a look at another goat watch how Bobby Jones takes the club back and what would you say he’s doing here it looks pretty clear that he’s maintaining the cupping in the left wrist and pushing the left
Hand back while leaving the club basically behind at a dress now let’s listen to him describe how he took it back the club must be swung back and not merely picked up by the hands and arms and the thing which makes it a swing is it pushed backward by the left side and
Arm so interestingly Bobby Jones and Tiger Woods arguably two of the greatest players of all time both describe their back swings as pushing from the left hand or the left side now let’s hear the other final great goat Jack nichas describe how he thought of the back
Swing through a great majority of the rounds of golf that I’ve played in my golfing career one thought has really dominated my thinking and that is complete the back swing what you want to do is make sure that you use all the elements of the golf swing and that
Is we want to use our hands we want to use our arms and we want to use our body back and true oh it’s just using your arms your hands and your body all together and completing your back swing and that’s it that’s what I’ve been doing wrong this whole time gosh I’ve
Been making this so much more complicated than it really is isn’t it frustrating listening to these guys and then I played a clip not too long ago of tiger talking about well I feel one thing on my swing but a lot of times I look at on video I’m actually doing the
Opposite and he said that this was the same thing for other you know great players that he’s talked to over over the years so how are we supposed to learn from these great golfers now the golf swing is so incredibly complex that it’s hard to know which ways up or down
And these guys make it so simple and they just feel something and boom they have these great swing mechanics that we’re all chasing that is pretty challenging to try and figure out what’s actually happening what they’re actually doing in their swings and so I’ve spent all of this time trying to interpret
Between the lines what they’re saying versus what they’re actually doing and translating that into real world results for people who aren’t the greatest athletes in the world or the greatest golfers of all time and that’s what you saw with Alton so let me show you how I
Interpret what Tiger’s saying he did in his swing what Bobby Jones saying he did in his swing and even what Jack’s saying he did in his swing and show you how to fix these three most common swing faults so that you can at least have a back
Swing that is a tour Pro Caliber back swing and getting you to the point where you get rid of these three major issues so that you can actually play some really good golf if we were going to solve the three most common back swing faults with one simple feel this is what
I would recommend you do this is what I do with my students it’s really really simple I’m going to talk about it as a right-handed golfer so my lead hand when you listen to what the goats talk about they feel like they’re using the left
Side of their body and their left arm to push that club back when you apply that most golfers where they will push from their shoulders because they think of the golf swing as a shoulder turn talk more about that just moment but for now if you just did this you will lick all
Three problems in the back swing in fact you’ll actually lick 90% of the entire back swing to literally start looking like a tour pro by this one simple feel so all you need to do the amount of cupping that you have it addressed I want you to maintain that and all I want
You to do at first is push this back your hand and your wrist staying in this position to your Trail foot if I do this and I focus on just pushing this back not turning my shoulders so forget what you know about how the back swing should happen or what
We do in the back swing for right now I want you to keep it really simple and forget go for a second and just focus on pushing your hand back if I push my hand back what happens to my shoulder well my shoulder’s going down because I’m not
Pushing my hand across I’m pushing my hand back and I’m doing this with my lead shoulder if I put my hand on the club but my right hand you’re going to see that the club is easily going to stay outside my hands now it would never
Go in this way this would also cause my shoulders to be really flat we know we need our shoulders to be on a steeper plane matching up with our spine and so what I’m doing if I push this left hand back Club stays outside my hands my
Shoulders go down and my head naturally stays centered if I can continue this feeling of pushing this back to the top I’m in a great position I’ve killed every nearly nearly every single back swing fault that you’ve ever had in one simple feeling it’s just a matter of
Pushing this back now how you do this is the key and it’s up to you there’s lots and lots of different ways to do it the most common like people think about turning their shoulders they start trying to turn their shoulders in the back swing I think of it a little bit
Differently I think about protraction and retraction of the shoulders and using the momentum of the body to help get everything started but it’s my own personal approach because that’s how I attack the downswing is using these movements to set up how I believe the goats swing and the downswing so if you
Want to know more about how I teach my students and go more in depth on this uh if this isn’t quite enough for you or you want to understand how I approach it there’s a link down in the description below it’s free for all members of the
Site but if you think about just doing this one thing and you forget everything else you just think about pushing this left hand back you’re going to kill 90% of the back swing faults and you’re going to start to be able to naturally start coming down better because you’re
In a better spot at the top
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Hi Chuck: Wow, great video , something I have struggled with all my golfing career! Turning the shoulders was the root cause of my backswing problems too early in the backswing. Quick question: Are you suggesting us flat takeaway swingers not think about right shoulder back, but rather move the hands? Doesn't this encourage a handsy takeaway and early tension? Thanks again for all your work – Merry Christmas to you and yours and all the staff at Rotary Swing. Greg L.
Chuck. Its approach appears to be totally different than your Rotary Swing methodology where you initiate the backswing by moving the right shoulder back. Pull vs. push approach. Thoughts?
Sure sounds a lot like pushing from the left vs pulling from the right.
This is much simpler than the pull the right scap.
Chuck, best of the season to you and your staff. We (My wife and me) have been loyal members for years. Our feeling is that it is time to place some coordination to Rotary, what should we follow, the base original training regiments, Axiom or GOAT. Your confused loyal members.
This all said we do understand the left hand will automatically create rotation, and I have found less stress on the left shoulder and reduced reverse tilt and lean.
Best regards
Why am I not seeing the 2nd video anywhere? I am a member but can't find it. Help please
May want to read Hogan's book, Five Easy Lessons. He discusses this very topic in the backswing(e.g. the hands bring the left hip and shoulder to the right side…)
I've often found it interesting to observe the creases that appear in the golf shirts, especially at the back, how they can "mimic" the stretching of the back muscles…
Chuck…there is a video of Tiger out there somewhere talking about this exact thing. Definite goat theory!