Position of Feet

During a lesson last year, my instructor told me my right foot (I'm right handed) should be perpendicular to the target line. I'm also working on keeping my right knee bent. Keeping my foot perpendicular seems to inhibit my back swing and put extra pressure on my knee. Any comments?

Keep your hips still going back. This helps the knee. You should now feel the pull/streach on the lower back.

Thanks Greg, I'll work on that.

if a person has limited turn then turning their foot out will aide them in getting shoulders to around ninety degrees. if they are turning back too far then keeping the foot square will limit the back swing. also, sometimes keeping spine angle will help that right knee stay bent

Do you mind expanding on the relationship of the spine angle and keeping the right knee straight? That's interesting...

hey greg, this one is a litttle dificult to put in words and notice I said sometimes. try this and get back to me on the results . Go to a mirror and stand with no spine angle and some knee bend. Now turn back while watching the right knee without trying to keep the right knee flex. Now bend over to a 45 degree angle and turn back. The knee should have stayed straighter when you were bent at the waiste. get back to me on that

Shootin did u mean to say that keeping spine angle will help right knee to stay bent, rather than straight?

yes, thanks for keeping me in line I will go and edit

What you just described had no difference in what the right knee was doing while turning back...

Turning back is a shoulder and torso turn, right? If you mean turning back using you legs and hips (not recommended), then I might see there is a "straightning" of the back leg but again all wrong in golf...

And to this point, having the spine angle straight up or 45 degrees had no difference or affect in the back leg while turning in what you described...

It's a small point anyway...not to worry.

Thanks for the info guys. Greg, I took your advice and limited my 'conscious' hip movement today. Was able to hit the ball more solid than I had been for a while. Good thing since I was playing in a mixed partners tournament!

actaully a big point, keeping right knee flex and loading into the right side. It would be too long of a post to explain the biomechanics of the human body in relation to this specific movement and if I confuse people on simply cupping and cocking, I would just be banging my head against a wall. There are certain ways to lock into positions that many instructors are unaware of

I will put one description out there on this. If you take a universal socket and have it in a straight line condition, all the torque you put on it will be transfered from the top to bottom, now bend it at ninety degrees and it will lock up and have no transfer of torque, so the more bend in the universal socket the less transfer of torque from the top to the bottom. our upper body and lower body are similar to that universal socket so the more bend/spine angle at the waiste, the less torque that is tranfered all the way down to your foot, the less bend, the more it is transfered. Simple biomechanics of the human body and since they are starting to bring it into the golf swing, in the next twenty years the understanding of the golf swing will grow rapidly

Wouldn't the main torque come from the separation of the hips and shoulders? I would think the legs mainly serve as a firm foundation to ground the hips for this separation. In other words, wouldn't the base of your torque transfer be the hips and not so much the legs?

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