Where to Look If You Cannot Pinpoint Where Your Golf Swing is Going Wrong

Most golfers, and especially beginners, spend more time learning and then improving their swing than they spend on any other aspect of their game. Whether you take lessons from a professional or fellow golfer, work with professionally produced DVDs or read about different swing techniques and exercises in books or articles, golfing you will spend weeks, months and indeed years working on your swing.

However, from time to time you will come up against a brick wall and will find that something is wrong but you just cannot seem to put your finger on it and work out just what you are doing wrong. So where do you turn for help?

Exercise

Well, surprising as it may seem, this very common situation more often than not has one simple causes which hits not only beginners but also quiteseasoned golfers and that is that you are unconsciously allowing your back shoulder to dip towards the ground while making your backswing. This can affect all golfers, but is particular seen in players with a horizontal, rather than vertical, swing plane and arises because you allow your back shoulder to drop as the plane of your swing comes into the horizontal.

So how can you fix this problem?

Fortunately this is one very commonly seen problem which it is also very easy to fix with a little bit of work on the practice ground and all that you need to remember to do is to take an extra old golf ball along with you.

Set yourself up to tee off on the range and then, before you begin your practice, take your old ball and place it on the ground under the heel of your backfoot pressing it into the ground so that the ball in about half buried. Then, as you practice, make sure that you do not bury your ball any deeper. This simple action will stop you from transferring unwanted weight onto your back foot and, in so doing, stop your back shoulder from dropping.

Shifting unwanted weight onto your back foot can give rise to a series of different problems with your swing and so this very simple exercise can not only solve the problem of a dipping back shoulder but can fix a number of other problems at the same time.

Where to Look If You Cannot Pinpoint Where Your Golf Swing is Going Wrong