Fixing the BIGGEST Backswing Mistake with a piece of paper

Swaying off the ball is the biggest backswing mistake golfers make. It stops your trail leg from extending and prevents your hips from rotating properly. This destroys your ability to generate power ultimately leading to poor ball striking.

In this golf lesson, PGA golf pro Kerrod Gray and Hugh Marr demonstrate how to fix the biggest backswing mistake using just a single piece of paper.

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Chapters ⛳
0:00 Introduction
0:35 – How to swaying moving off the golf ball
2:55 – Best drill to stop swaying in the backswing
5:20 – Backswing drill progression
7:44 – Video takeaway

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let’s talk back swing Hugh okay specifically Trail leg yep pressure shifts how the pelvis is moving yep we see a lot of players get to the top of the Swing right here yep now we got a funky little disc down on the ground paper plate no expense spirited carrot cost you a lot yeah we’re rolling out all the big guns for you talk to me about this and how the player who does keep this Trail knee Flex for too long too much pressure shift to the outside of their Trail foot how can they improve this position and why should they well number one power and speed number two being able to get the club to hit the ground in the right place y uh number three it’s actually pretty good for keeping healthy aside from anything else uh I mean it’s one thing we see with all standards of player that lack of pelvis turn pelvis shifting off to the right A lot of people are trying to keep their the right leg for a right-handed player bent uh that’s a concept issue if you’re going to turn your pelvis then the right leg’s got to straighten right just slightly digress on that for the fact of if you’re standing up dead straight in the golf club was level with the ground you would move that club around you yes it wouldn’t look like you would have this Trail leg straightened nearly as much as if you have the pelvis Bend or the front Bend element down into the position which then positions your pelvis in such a manner that as you make that same movement and turn for you to stay on this incline you must so if we were to take a cross-section of your body right uh that’s your pelvis so literally through the belt line so if your pelvis is sat like that which it is not in a golf swing it’s sat like that then the pelvis has to turn this way which means the pelvis Works back and up yeah that’s quite important here correct that effectively that angle in the pelvis needs to be maintained as you’re moving back so if that’s your right pelvis joint to start the end of the red line on this as that turns back it’s going up and around and around yeah and if we were to not do that for the player who does keep this back knee flexed we’ll see that through tent of still trying to send the ball long way they would tend to have a pressure shift which sends too far out to the trail foot correct from here they can’t turn generally well you’re asking a part of the spine to turn that doesn’t turn so Lumber spine bottom of the spine there is no mobility in that correct okay and that becomes very high injury risk for a lot of players particularly those that are less healthy yeah and you’ll see as an effect of that usually the arms will lift the Sha is going to get Steep and then you’ve got the double whammy of them trying to save it in one way or another through knees dragging towards the Target or a lot of right side B using the hands so correct paper plate is going to save a lot of backs underneath the uh right foot Trail foot so if you turn your pelvis appropriately and get the right leg straightening out you will feel that plate squeeze into the floor and spin a little bit that way okay now you want to talk Ground Force reaction MH you have now created pressure through your right leg okay you’re now in a position to generate your Optimum power and speed okay now if you compare that to a bad move feel like I’m about to fall over you don’t you’re not creating any pressure against the floor bad move okay no so set up again for me and as I do this just explain why it’s important to apply pressure into the ground well basically a pressure into the ground is a key component for generating power and speed remember power and speed are not the same thing you need to create power first to then generate speed okay so if we’re creating Force we have to react to something the only thing we can react to here is the ground we can’t we can’t create force from fresh air that’s why it’s so important that the trail leg Trail foot functions in this way yeah yeah yeah absolutely so setting up here and we’ll demonstrate the good version here you can see that’s spinning out now the reason that’s moving in that direction I feel a lot of my pressure going into the InStep of my trail here which would be about appropriate yeah yeah now this at what stage should it start to then change basically the earlier the better so if you do have a player of Stenson for example who shifts quite along this this way and I guess from P1 to P3 if you like he’s very good at centering it pretty early so it’s okay to move this way but at some point you’ve got to reenter it so you will see there’ll be people that say well so and so moves to the right in the back swing yeah but then watch how he reenters Rory would be a pretty good example yeah very effective at reentering and generally the more powerful players as they go this way they recentering Sy yeah they extend more they have this reentering which allows them time to then move back into this flexion where they’re applying more pressure and then Translating that energy into the ball interesting to note if a lot of players at home just actually videoed what their back foot was doing you would be able to see so much like if they just sent us their back foot we’d be able to tell them exactly what their pelv if I had a dollar for every time I’ve got my camera right up close to to a back foot we see this one all the time correct and then this one here in the down swing with the right uh heel coming off the ground so which again is a product of not using the ground properly or creating that pelvis rotation Trail leg extension in the back swing yeah correct so we always love to blend this into a drilling exercise that um players can use uh layering it on top so they can start off a slow speed and then build up y to be able to manage and hit some shots so after we’ve hit our movement here in the back swing and I’m feeling a slight rotation of that plate I feel a lot of pressure being squeezed into that back foot what are we doing from here going Towing it through now you’ll probably find if you’re using the ground really effectively that as you start to swing it through the plate will spin behind you yeah okay that’s you pushing from the trail leg the right leg laterally and then vertically I did a lot of work with uh Dennis sales over in the US and he does uh a lot of study on Gears and works with players and he had a couple of Sliders they were actually bedroom sliders underneath couch and that sort of thing and uh we were doing a lot ofensive me yeah exactly that extra 2 pound I’m too cheap so as we’re spinning this plate here uh in the back swing then we’d be moving and we were doing a lot of this correct yeah okay so specifically for those players at home who are keeping this Trail KNE Flex for too long pressure shifting out if you videotape yourself at home guys you will see this quite distinct look of a lot of foot uh roll and rotation in this direction here as opposed to what we see in this model here where my trail leg is extending I’m feeling like I’m putting a lot of pressure under there’s going to be a slight rotation of that plate as well as we get to the top and then going through and Swinging lovely and then would you advise players hit golf balls with the plate I’m going to use this as a dry drill with the majority of players dry drill meaning they don’t hit if you’re hitting off mats I don’t want you falling over and injuring yourself yeah I want to cave out with a couple of things that you can you can use this to identify your Optimum back swing length okay so with a lot of players that are less mobile old guys like me that when you get to a point with the pelvis is turning right foot squeezing right leg straightening the minute you get to the point where you start to lose contact through that foot you’ve gone too far and there is no benefit to trying to lengthen your back swing if that is happening so it’s a great way of identifying where your Optimum back swing length sits and just to reiterate this is very much a dry drill yeah because I don’t want people writing me R posts about how they’ hurt themselves exactly and and exactly like you said it’s it’s not so black and white binary there is an amount where you could do this too much and then the pelvis begins to lift and then we start to see that’s your uh that’s basically how you you keep an eye on that correct is that staying in control of the floor okay so I’m going to do one more of these just to get a feel in the practice thing then I’ll move in and hit a shot see how that ball comes out yeah such a great awareness really feeling it shift back into the trail heel a lot of variations of this that you can see with like a tennis ball so on so forth this works great way more expensive than the other training AIDS as well Chuck that out of the way H it down there thanks for watching this video YouTube thinks that you would benefit from watching this one next so click that card and it could be the tip that you need to take your game to the next level I’ll see you next time