Tom Long
Golf Professional
Use the following practise/warm up drill prior to play if you haven’t had time to hit balls on the practise range. It is a great way of training a better body rotation as well as loosening up the muscles in your body thus preventing injury.
- Grab your 5 or 6 iron and run the club across your shoulders behind your head as shown in photo 1 – hold the club at either end with each hand.
- Photo 2 Assume your normal/correct posture – this is critical in ensuring that your body behaves in the swing as it normally would.
- Photo 3 Rotate your body to the right so that the end of the club being held with your left-hand points to the ground in front of you. Retain some knee flex and feel as though your upper body is rotating against the resistance of your legs. This resistance is known as the coil which serves to store up power in the backswing.
- Now rotate your body to all the way to the left – through the impact position and into a full finish position. When doing this make sure that you don’t rock and dip – instead try and keep your shoulders turning on a level plane to that of the backswing. See photo 4.
This drill is great not only for loosening and stretching your muscles, but it also importantly engages your muscle memory into rotating your upper body on the backswing and through to a balanced complete finish position.
