| As you get older you can tend to lose strength and | | | | freebees. 1. Begin in the neutral stance. 2. Lean into |
| flexibility and need to adapt your golf swing and | | | | your golf posture with a golf club on your shoulders. |
| other aspects of your game to keep playing like you | | | | 3. Begin turning into your backswings and thru swings. |
| were younger. | | | | 4. MAKE SURE that your back knee is SOFT on the |
| A while back I was asked this question through my | | | | backswing motion and be sure to finish with a |
| golf newsletter - how much do I want my left knee | | | | toe-drag. 5. This motion is simply the golf swing |
| to break down? I am right handed, in good shape | | | | without holding a club. Try that until you can do it |
| and flexible, and I get a good shoulder turn, but I am | | | | without thinking about it, then translate it to |
| not sure if I should restrict my left knee from turning | | | | double-club pendulum swings. To do that, take a |
| in or just let it go. I just don't know how far to let it | | | | couple of long irons and set up in your normal swing |
| go, is too far bad? Should I restrict the movement to | | | | posture, holding both clubs like they are one. Chin up |
| get a better coil and more torque? I had a word with | | | | and arms pretty much in line with the head. Start by |
| golf coach Mark Anthony Montaquila, with whom I | | | | turning the shoulders backwards and forwards - not |
| have produced the Body Golf series of videos and | | | | a full swing. After a while, still using the shoulders, |
| DVDs, to see what advice he had to offer. Here's | | | | gradually increase to a three-quarters swing. It is not |
| what he told me ... Break down? I wouldn't call it that. | | | | an arm chop, the movement comes from the |
| That's a bit negative. You do however want your | | | | shoulders with the arms relaxed and extended. If you |
| back knee to be "soft" A lot of instructors call it | | | | struggle to swing from the shoulders, practice that |
| flexed. Basically, you want to be able to see your | | | | by holding a club across your shoulders, behind your |
| kneecap sticking out of your pants at the top of the | | | | head and with one hand at either end of the club. |
| backswing. I've developed several drills in order to | | | | You can then move the shoulders backwards and |
| train this movement without having to hit balls, which | | | | forwards to simulate the movement that a perfect |
| distracts you terribly because you're too preoccupied | | | | golf swing will have. So in short, for the perfect golf |
| with where the ball is going. (like everyone else.) But | | | | swing, keep that back knee soft and remember the |
| for all of you reading this, here's a couple of | | | | toe drag. |