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School of Golf Extra Credit Tip: Spine Angle (4:07)
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'School of Golf' host Martin Hall gives four tips for improving your swing by developing a proper spine angle. Watch 'School of Golf' Tuesdays at 7PM ET.
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I'm Martin Hall. You're watching School of Golf Extra Credit.
Spine Angle, keeping it correct, that's good, keeping you confident,
not so good. The great Jack Nicklaus thought that biggest
thing Jack Grout have ever did to him was teach
him to keep his head still. He didn't say keep
the spine angle constant. I'm going to recommend that you
build something similar to this. 2 shafts and I've just
put a swimming pool nude lawn here. I obviously can't
stick it into the ground and in the set here
but you could stick this into the ground at home
and it gives you something to rest ahead against and
get some sense of when you swing your golf club,
is your head staying fairly still until after the ball
has been hit. Now that's not the same as keeping
your spine angle constant, the top of the spine stays
still, the bottom moves around okay. We cover that in
the show, now some really good drills to do training
with this. First of all without the club, take your
posture. Get your head on the wall, as I call
it, and just practice running your left hand down your
left leg as you turn and your right hand down
your right leg as you turn. That gives an incredibly
good representation of how the lower body, sort of swings
around, almost like the top of the spine as the
top of the pendulum and the lower body can move
roundabout. Left hand down the left leg, right hand down
the right leg. Okay. What can we do as we
hit a ball to try and stimulate that second drill
here? I can think of letting my left knee moving
towards the ball and letting my right leg straightened just
a little bit, loose some of its flex. I don't
like this idea of keeping the right knee out to
be flex so left leg is going to go in
right knee straightened somewhat. Right knee goes in, left leg
straightened somewhat. Head stays on the wall until after I've
hit that ball. Head on the wall is much better
than spine angle. Let's just say, for some reason, you
haven't got a spine angle trainer, well, probably a simple
version of doing it is just to toss ball half
side arm and half under arm. Put your left hand
on top of the golf club and practice tossing the
ball half side arm, half under arm. If you don't
lift the club off the ground, probably you're going to
keep your head reasonably still. But I think you could
see here certainly the bottom of my spine is moving
around, it swings around. Now that brings me to my
fourth drill and this one I think is really important.
If you watch many old players, they hit the ball
like this and they lose distance. Now, I'm going to
exaggerate a little bit, but I hit the ball this
way. And what just happen there? What happened was I
did not have any extension of the spine, let a
sort of kinesiology class here extension of the spine. If
I bend forwards and then imagine I was going to
throw medicine ball over the top of my head with
some [unk] that's the extension of the spine. Every long
hitter has extension of the spine going through the ball.
Now, you're gonna say, "But if I do that, my
head will move." No, if you do this at the
same time as you turn on that same time as
you have some side bend, it sort of gives the
allusion that you've kept your spine now in constant. If
you want more distance, trust me, a little bit of
this feel in your swing what I call belly button
before sternum will have some distance. So here we go,
BBBS. And if you do that, you're going to hit
far and you're going to hit straighter. Thanks for joining
us on golfchannel.com for the best in golf instruction. I'm
Martin Hall, you've been watching School of Golf Extra Credit.
For more tips about this, tune in to School of
Golf, Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Eastern.
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