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Control Your Backswing Pivot to Improve Consistency

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand how to keep your head stable during the backswing
  • Feel the correct amount of weight shift into your right leg
  • Develop spatial awareness for a more structured pivot movement

In this drill, you'll learn how to maintain your upper body position during the backswing using a wall for feedback. This will help you develop a more centered pivot, leading to better swing mechanics and improved ball striking.

Video Transcript
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This drill is working on your backswing pivot and making sure that your upper

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body is not drifting too much off the wall. In order to do so, you're going to

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use a wall as a feedback device. So, similar to what we did in the impact drill

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,

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you were able to use the wall to kind of see in space where your head was. We

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're

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going to do the same thing. So, if you had a line right up against your head,

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or

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just slightly off, let's say it's an inch off my head, when I do a good one-

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piece

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takeaway, and then backswing, my head would barely touch the wall if at all.

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The tour average is somewhere around 1-2 inches of shift into the right leg. A

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lot of golfers that try and overload into that right side end up either swaying

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or

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losing their posture in the backswing like so. So, I'll show you with the wall

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and you'll be able to see from the behind view how I'm able to make a

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backswing without letting my head hit the wall. So, you just get into your golf

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posture so that it's just off your head a little bit, and then you're going to

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make your full backswing, and you'll notice that my head barely shifted and if

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anything just touched this wall. So, shift like so, and then when you can come

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00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:19.360
down as you're working on your transition, you can focus on your head more less

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00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:24.760
staying in that position and not drifting too far forward. So, using the

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corner of the wall will help you understand the spatial awareness of where

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your upper body and your head will be when you make a good centered pivot in

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the backswing.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Control Your Backswing Pivot to Improve Consistency

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand how to keep your head stable during the backswing
  • Feel the correct amount of weight shift into your right leg
  • Develop spatial awareness for a more structured pivot movement

In this drill, you'll learn how to maintain your upper body position during the backswing using a wall for feedback. This will help you develop a more centered pivot, leading to better swing mechanics and improved ball striking.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.760
This drill is working on your backswing pivot and making sure that your upper

2
00:00:04.760 --> 00:00:08.440
body is not drifting too much off the wall. In order to do so, you're going to

3
00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:14.000
use a wall as a feedback device. So, similar to what we did in the impact drill

4
00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:14.000
,

5
00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:18.960
you were able to use the wall to kind of see in space where your head was. We

6
00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:19.320
're

7
00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:24.170
going to do the same thing. So, if you had a line right up against your head,

8
00:00:24.170 --> 00:00:24.680
or

9
00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:29.520
just slightly off, let's say it's an inch off my head, when I do a good one-

10
00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:29.760
piece

11
00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:36.660
takeaway, and then backswing, my head would barely touch the wall if at all.

12
00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:42.480
The tour average is somewhere around 1-2 inches of shift into the right leg. A

13
00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:47.520
lot of golfers that try and overload into that right side end up either swaying

14
00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:48.960
or

15
00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:53.880
losing their posture in the backswing like so. So, I'll show you with the wall

16
00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:58.360
and you'll be able to see from the behind view how I'm able to make a

17
00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:02.040
backswing without letting my head hit the wall. So, you just get into your golf

18
00:01:02.040 --> 00:01:05.440
posture so that it's just off your head a little bit, and then you're going to

19
00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:09.320
make your full backswing, and you'll notice that my head barely shifted and if

20
00:01:09.320 --> 00:01:14.920
anything just touched this wall. So, shift like so, and then when you can come

21
00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:19.360
down as you're working on your transition, you can focus on your head more less

22
00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:24.760
staying in that position and not drifting too far forward. So, using the

23
00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.920
corner of the wall will help you understand the spatial awareness of where

24
00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.520
your upper body and your head will be when you make a good centered pivot in

25
00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:34.000
the backswing.
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