Easy Drills To Improve Your Golf Swing Plane

Golf Monthly

Tips and advice from Katie Dawkins on how to improve your swing  by practicing these drills.

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00:02 Let's talk about getting your swing on plane.

00:07 What does that even mean?

00:08 What is swing plane?

00:09 Well, the swing plane is the angle

00:11 at which your club swings around your body.

00:15 And this is generally determined by your spine angle

00:17 initially in the first place.

00:19 It can vary.

00:20 Some people go up on one swing plane and down on another.

00:24 But that's not a very efficient way of swinging.

00:26 So if my posture's really good

00:28 and I'm ready to run somewhere,

00:30 I will swing the club up and down

00:32 on a pretty decent swing plane

00:34 that should end up with me hitting good shots.

00:37 If I haven't tipped myself over,

00:38 so my posture's poor and I'm almost sat down,

00:41 I'm gonna swing the club flatter around my body

00:44 as a natural swing path.

00:46 But my swing plane here

00:48 is never gonna get back down to the ground.

00:51 So I'm gonna have to start making

00:52 some pretty juicy compensatory moves

00:55 to get back to the ball.

00:56 And this is where a lot of faults start to stem.

00:59 Someone who's tipped over way too much,

01:01 we don't see this as much,

01:02 will swing it up and down too steep

01:04 and therefore have to stand up and out of their shot

01:07 so they don't dig a great big hole down to Sydney.

01:10 It is really important

01:12 that you get your fundamentals right to start off with.

01:15 So that's your number one priority

01:16 if you're trying to swing the club on plane.

01:19 A couple of things that you can do

01:20 to ensure that your swing stays on plane

01:23 or goes up and down on a pretty decent plane

01:25 is to first of all check your takeaway.

01:27 So check that very first part of your swing.

01:29 So where the club travels to

01:31 in the first part of your swing

01:32 usually dictates where it goes on the way back.

01:35 So a club that whips on the inside

01:37 will either keep going end up flat

01:39 or you'll learn how to compensate

01:40 and end up lifting up

01:41 and sending the club across the line at the top.

01:44 If a club goes too far on the outside,

01:46 sometimes it can carry on going up quite steep.

01:49 So it's important you get that first little bit right.

01:52 So you can do a little bit of mirror work at home,

01:54 setting yourself up to an imaginary ball on the floor,

01:57 just taking the club to your takeaway point

02:00 and then checking it.

02:01 You do wanna make sure that club head

02:02 stays in front a little bit.

02:05 So that's where you wanna be.

02:06 If you're someone who whips it on the inside too much,

02:08 feel like you go out a bit

02:09 and that should set you in a pretty decent direction

02:12 on the way back.

02:13 Getting your swing more on plane

02:15 can be really down to building

02:17 a nice bit of natural momentum.

02:19 There's a couple of ways that you can do this.

02:21 There are some fantastic gadgets out at the moment.

02:24 Orange whip is one of them.

02:25 This will pretty much swing the golf club for you

02:28 up and down the line that you should be swinging it on.

02:30 But if you don't happen to have one of those

02:32 in your golf bag,

02:33 get your seven and your eight iron,

02:35 hold them as best you can, a bit like a hammer.

02:37 So you've got your two clubs.

02:38 Settle yourself into a decent posture,

02:41 hovering the clubs just above the ground

02:43 and just start to build that basic momentum

02:46 back and through.

02:48 What that'll do from a swing plane point of view

02:50 is start to get you a little bit more on line,

02:54 up and down.

02:56 So it takes a bit of the effort out of it

02:59 and stops you trying to force the issue.

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