Maintain Spine Angle?

Ive been working with the comments everyone left me from my swing and have had alot of success teh past two days...ive been hitting the ball straight and its felt effortlessly...Ive even been able to work the ball again, the only thing ive noticed is that im still not maintaining my spine angle...although a big improvement, its still not right...I was wondering if anyone can explain a good drill for developing this habit...my friend told me to put a glove in my left armpit, but i havent been to the range to try it out yet.
any suggestions?

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There are two types of criticism. They type you agree with, and the type you wont let yourself believe.

Whether either are helpfull is up to our own stubborness

Try sticking your butt out in the downswing. This worked for me.

Other good swing thought is that you're sitting on a bar stool, and you just rotate around the bar stool in the downswing. Don't fall down from the bar stool! When this happens, you lose your spine angle.

Try this recent thread:

http://www.golf-tuition-online.com/g...le-impact.html (how to maintain proper spine angle to impact)

Although that is a great discussion, there are no drills pointed out to help the situation...mainly just ideas of what should be happening

You’re losing your spine angle because your pushing your right hip out toward the ball. Think more of your left hip moving behind your back and the right hip moving more toward the target rather than toward the ball. Another thought is that, at address, you’re bent over with a handrail parallel to your target line, just in front of your hips. On the downswing, you want to keep your right hip from smacking into the rail. Still another approach is to "think" about rotating your hips around your spine angle, rather than purely horizontal. This is a "thought" in that, technically, it’s not exactly what’s happening.

The drill. Try setting up normal and then, rather than making a backswing, move your body directly to your "ideal" impact position....hips open, shoulders slightly open, most weight on the front leg, back foot on inside edge. Move back and forth between address and impact noting the relationship between the two. If done right, note that your head and your hands and your spine angle should not be moving much between the two positions....basically just the lower body and maybe your shoulders a bit.

Now the second part. Starting at the impact position, make a full backswing, back through address position, all the way to the top and then downswing and hit the ball, full speed. Concentrate on coming back through that pre-set "ideal" impact position when you hit the ball.

Take a look at this link and go to the "maintain your spine angle drill"

http://www.golf.com/apps/instruction/V1Golf/archive.asp#

ive tried that Brian doesnt work for me...im gonna give what kbp suggested then let you know how its owrkin

If you are correct in your accessment in that the right hip is coming out and causing the loss of spine angle, keep in mind the right hip is controlled by the right knee, keep the knee inside the toe line and the hip will not come out. Many people think leg action means to bend the knee and drive torwards the ball, that is an incorrect action. Changing the amount of flex in your knees also changes swing center. The knees need to make a lateral movement torwards the target, not the ball.

Remember loss of spine angle is ALWAYS balance related in the golf swing, throwing the hips out will usually move the weight to the toes, once the weight is on the toes, unless you want to fall on your face, straighting up will be pretty much a reflex action.

At what point in your swing do you lose your spine angle?

Jeff.

Maybe a lessen in balance might help here. When in the address position think of the various body parts as stacked in a vertical line, the balance vertical line contains the balls of the feet, knees, upper torso (at the arm pits), on the front side of the balance line is the head and the club, on the backside of the line is the butt, the head and butt counter balance each other, the club is the wild card.

As we swing and the club moves from the front of the line to the back of line, we must maintain the balance, usually you have the left knee move off the vertical balance line while the club is behind, we are still in balance providing nothing else moved off the line i.e maintain spine angle the vertical line till has the feet one knee and the center of the spine behind the head in line, don't count the shoulders because one shoulder is now on each side of the line, they cancel each other out, same for the hips.

Now on the down swing we need to get back to same balance we had at address and the vertical line, if you throw the hands out you moved way to far of the line to keep this balance act going, if you drive a knee torwards the ball, you will be on the toes because you now have in addition to what you had at address the club and one knee in front of the line, maybe even a hip out there too, way too much weight on one side.

Incidently this line also exsist from the from front view moving right to left, stand and visualize this balance line as you move the body from right to left, when you hit irons you want this balance line slightly ahead of the ball, slightly behind for a driver, and on the ball for long iron, fairway woods. Stand and tilt the upper body to the right while moving the lower body to the left, you can move the hips until they are past the left foot, and the balance line will not have moved one inch, it is because these body parts have cancelled each other out. Now leave the body upright and move the hips left, the slightest movement moves that line instantly, leave the body upright and keep the hips still, move the knees left by rolling the feet, the balance line moves again, this second part coupled with a slight hip movement is how you want to move the weight.

1) maintaining the spine angle - should feel some pressure in the lower back. you may need to do some exercises to strenghten this part of your back.

2) If the spine angle is maintained, you should feel as if you are looking at ball off the club with your head turned to the side. If you are able to look at the ball straight on without turning your head you have come out of the spine angle.

hey guys thanks for the tips i believe i fixed my problem...i know its better anyways ill post a swing again soon and see whta yall think