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Easy Drills To Improve Your Golf Swing Plane
Golf Monthly
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29/11/2024
Tips and advice from Katie Dawkins on how to improve your swing by practicing these drills.
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Let's talk about getting your swing on plane. What does that even mean? What is swing plane?
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Well, the swing plane is the angle at which your club swings around your body. And this
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is generally determined by your spine angle initially in the first place. It can vary.
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Some people go up on one swing plane and down on another, but that's not a very efficient
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way of swinging. So if my posture is really good and I'm ready to run somewhere, I will
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swing the club up and down on a pretty decent swing plane that should end up with me hitting
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good shots. If I haven't tipped myself over, so my posture is poor and I'm almost sat down,
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I'm going to swing the club flatter around my body as a natural swing path. But my swing
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plane here is never going to get back down to the ground. So I'm going to have to start
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making some pretty juicy compensatory moves to get back to the ball. And this is where
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a lot of faults start to stem. Someone who's tipped over way too much, we don't see this
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as much, will swing it up and down too steep and therefore have to stand up and out of
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their shot. So they don't dig a great big hole down to Sydney. It is really important
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that you get your fundamentals right to start off with. So that's your number one priority
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if you're trying to swing the club on plane. A couple of things that you can do to ensure
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that your swing stays on plane or goes up and down on a pretty decent plane is to first
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of all check your takeaway. So check that very first part of your swing. So where the
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club travels to in the first part of your swing usually dictates where it goes on the
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way back. So a club that whips on the inside will either keep going end up flat or you'll
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learn how to compensate and end up lifting up and sending the club across the line at
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the top. If a club goes too far on the outside, sometimes it can carry on going up quite steep.
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So it's important you get that first little bit right. So you can do a little bit of mirror
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work at home, setting yourself up to an imaginary ball on the floor, just taking the club to
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your takeaway point and then checking it. You do want to make sure that club head stays
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in front a little bit. So that's where you want to be. If you're someone who whips it
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on the inside too much, feel like you go out of it and that should set you in a pretty
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decent direction on the way back. Getting your swing more on plane can be really down
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to building a nice bit of natural momentum. There's a couple of ways that you can do this.
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There are some fantastic gadgets out at the moment. Orange whip is one of them. This will
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pretty much swing the golf club for you up and down the line that you should be swinging
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it on. But if you don't happen to have one of those in your golf bag, get your seven
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and your eight iron, hold them as best you can, a bit like a hammer. So you've got your
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two clubs, settle yourself into a decent posture, hovering the clubs just above the ground and
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just start to build that basic momentum back and through. What that'll do from a swing
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plane point of view is start to get you a little bit more on line, up and down. So it
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takes a bit of the effort out of it and stops you trying to force the issue.
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