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PGA Pro Richard Perkin shows you a great exercise to help fix your golf swing. This series of ‘How To Golf Videos’ will really help you improve your golf game.
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How to Play Golf: How to maintain your height, clear your hips and hit it sweeter
X-Drill:
Here’s an exercise which will help with 3 potential faults in your golf swing. The first is going to help maintain your height through the ball, the second will help you clear your hips through the ball and squaring the club face. Finally it will help anyone who throws their shoulders over the top, producing a slice shot.
The first thing you need is good posture while doing this exercise. If you’re unsure about your posture or if it’s not quite correct watch this video:
Set up with good posture, from there put the club across your arms so that the handle is facing forward and going through the handle-like part made by your arm (across your biceps). The club head faces backwards across your other arm and keep your hands placed on your chest.
Turning your upper half away from the ball (and your lower half a little bit), maintaining the correct height, what you should see is in your eyeline is the handle going straight through the golf ball. This means you’ve kept your height.
If you go too low on the way back you will see that the handle much lower than the golf ball, if you rise too high in the golf swing you can now see the handle is much higher than the golf ball.
From this good position turn your body into the ball, clearing your lower half, you should see the club head is pointing straight to the ball. To help with the clearing of the hips you’re looking to see a line of 3; your head, club head and your right knee all going straight through the golf ball.
To finish the exercise turn your body all the way round so your hips face the target so the club is parallel to the ground and your weight is in your front foot.
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Want to learn more about golf?
Have a look at some of our other great videos
How to Play Golf – Stop Slicing the golf ball –
How to Play Golf – Grip the Club like Tiger Woods –
How to Play Golf – Not Topping the Golf Ball (strike it like the pros) –
How to Play Golf – Improving your Putting –
How to Play Golf – Getting the Perfect Posture –
How to Play Golf – X-Drill, Maintaining your height during your swing –
How to Play Golf – In the Bunker, Getting out of the sand –
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