How To Stop Swaying

This drill will show you how using your shadow can be one of the most effective training aids at your disposal.

Standing on the range beating hundreds of balls isn’t a great way to improve and maintain the quality of your motion. Through the following drill, I’m going to show you a great way to ensure that you’re still moving your body correctly.

Make sure that you’re out on the range on a nice sunny day and find a spot where you can actually see your shadow. You will be using it as a reference for how your body is moving throughout the backswing.

1. Using two golf balls in your shadow is a great way of rehearsing a very slow and effective feel to get a centered pivot and your hips rotating correctly in the backswing.
2. Once you’ve done a few reps of these, you can start to pick up the speed and then begin to swing through and brush the grass.
3. Next, place one golf ball in the center of your head and then place one just outside your right hip. You can use your finger as a reference for where your right hip is and place a golf ball just outside that so it’s in the sun.
4. Then, make some very slow swings, while ensuring that the first ball is in the boundaries and the one that’s outside of your hip is staying in the sun.
5. It might take a few swings to get used to this because a lot of us have our own individual movements that we tend to make so just practicing and rehearsing this at a slow speed to start off with.

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