Weight Shift & Sliding Feet!

Swinging Looney

Quick query guys & gals!

How would you best describe the proper weight shift during the full swing. I'm really just interested in the feet.

My understanding is you should feel weight evenly distributed between your feet at the beginning with your weight pretty much under your laces, i.e. not towards the heels or toes. Then during the swing your weight moves to the inside of your back foot and then back to your front foot again. It should never move towards your heels or toes.

Right or wrong??! :rolleyes:

Also, I have a habit of dragging my back foot through impact, so that at the finish my foot has moved maybe 6 or 8 inches towards the target. Is this necessarily a bad thing??

Any help appreciated!!

uberwolf

your rear heel should be lifting through impact afaik, towards the target.

Swinging Looney

Yeah sorry, probably didn't get quite as detailed as I could have. Rear heel should have begun to lift just prior to impact. It should sort of roll towards the instep first and then the heel lifts and the foot rotates up onto the toe....???

stockdam

Dragging the back foot through impact is wrong (cos that's what I often do). I'm not sure what causes it but it's maybe the hips sliding forwards instead of rotating. You should finish with your back foot on its toes and the knee bent. If it slides along the ground then there's something wrong.

It could be that you are trying to hit the ball too hard and you are out of balance.........


http://progolferdigest.com/tag/right-foot/




Or maybe sliding the hips and not turning.........



http://www.golftipsmag.com/instruction/full-swing-quick-tips/turn-dont-slide.html




I'm not a teacher nor an expert so take everything I say with a liberal dose of salt.


A lesson should sort out what's wrong.

Adiaga 2

The dragging of the back foot on your follow through could be because your stance is a little wide to facilitate the hip turn though impact and to your finish? That's just my guess btw. You see it happening with MA Jimenez.

Swinging Looney

Thanks Stockdam.

In the process of looking for a new pro for lessons. Hopefully that will help sort it out.

Thanks for the tips! Off to the driving range now to see what I can change!

stockdam

Adiaga 2 wrote: »

The dragging of the back foot on your follow through could be because your stance is a little wide to facilitate the hip turn though impact and to your finish? That's just my guess btw. You see it happening with MA Jimenez.

Good point. I know I have a tendency to stand a bit too wide at times.

Sionnachster

In plain graphics terms your weight distribution should represent a straight line from your right heel, finishing at your left toes. If you imagine the face of a clock the line would run from 5 to the 10 approx.

Hard to describe here without drawing a double axis but hopefully you get the jist.

This is what the pro told me recently which was distressing as I wasn't achieving that at all but felt I was swinging really well....

Swinging Looney

Sionnachster wrote: »

This is what the pro told me recently which was distressing as I wasn't achieving that at all but felt I was swinging really well....

I must say that this is the one thing that drives me mad about this game. A few months ago I had really poor consistency but felt very comfortable with my swing. Now that I've spent a few months working on things, I still have the inconsistency but now my swing feels like really hard work!!

The problem recently is that every now and again I hit an absolutely perfectly struck shot with a ball flight that I could not fault and a swing that feels as natural and effortless as could be - which makes me feel that I'm heading the right direction. But I just can't manage to recreate that swing when I need it!! It's amazing how much your timing and coordination changes from one day to the next....

Oh it's going to be a long winter working on my swing!!