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Golf Fix: Make a better backswing (2:43)
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Michael Breed, host of ‘The Golf Fix,’ shows how to get the most out of your swing by improving your spine angle at takeaway. Watch ‘The Golf Fix’ Mondays 7 and 10PM ET.
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-Hi, I'm Michael Breed, host of the Golf Fix. Send
those e-mails to us, and we'll keep answering them. This
one is coming to us from Facebook in Bogota, Colombia,
Camilo Sumudio. I desperately need help with my backswing. I
am doing a reverse spine and coming over the top
but only with the woods and driver. Any drills to
cure this? Yeah, absolutely, Camilo. And this is by the
way not an uncommon problem. What happens is just that
we all get set up, not we all, but those
of us that are struggling with this reverse spine angle.
What you're doing is you're setting that ball up there,
and then you're staying up here and you take the
club back, but you're keeping all your weight right here
'cause you don't wanna leave the golf ball. So, what
I want you to imagine is this. Imagine that there
is a line in the middle of your stance when
you get set up. And what I want you to
do is I want you to make sure that your
shoulders, both left and right shoulders, get on this side
or the back side of that line. So when you
get set up, I want you to get back here
and I want you to make sure that your shoulder--
your shoulders are behind that. So, hey, Jennifer, can you
pull up overhead. There you go. Perfect. So what happens
is just that when I get set up in the
middle of this and I go back, now you could
see both of my shoulders are on that side of
that stick. What's happening to you is you're going this
way and you're hanging right here and now you could
see both of them are on the forward side of
that, and that's where that reverse spine angle occurs. So
what we wanna do is we wanna just do this
drill where you got a feel of what that's gonna
look like. Just feeling that back there. And after you've
done that for a bit, then this is the drill
that I like to do the best. What you're gonna
do is you're gonna put that just behind the golf
ball 'cause we're hitting the driver. If we were hitting,
say, a pitching wedge, I might put that line right
over the ball, but we're back here like this. So
what I want you to do is I want you
to get back here, make your backswing, check and see
where your shoulders are, are they on that side of
the line? Are they on the back side of the
line? And then once you get up there, after you've
seen where you are, then go ahead and go through
that shot. Alright? And just get use to swinging from
back there. What you're gonna find is that your launch
angle is gonna get a little bit higher, probably get
rid of that slice which you're, no doubt, complaining of,
and you hit it more solidly in the center of
the face. Alright. So, use that little stick there to
assist you with getting your weight behind the ball. You
get rid of that spine angle. Now, what you can
also do is stay right here on GolfChannel.com/TheGolfFix. All the
best instruction on all parts of the game, not just
what's going on with your reverse spine angle. The other
thing that you could do is you can watch me,
Michael Breed every Monday night 7 and 10 PM Eastern
on The Golf Fix, and it's all about helping you
play your best golf.
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