The GOAT Setup

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Getting setup correctly to the golf ball is a make it or break it deal, most golfers have their "rear ends" sticking out way too far which will make your lower back ache and make you swing your arms around your body too much, so let's get this key detail dialed in!


Getting set up to the golf ball correctly is hugely important, and especially as you learn to fire and engage your core, that starts right at setup.

One of the things you're going to find that's a little bit unique about a proper setup that you'll see in Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods swing is that they all tended to stand very tall through the legs.

And most amateurs get kind of squatty.

What I mean by that is they have a lot of knee flex and they kind of, you know, hinge forward like this.

And then it's really hard to move very athletically from there, and certainly almost impossible for you to use your core.

Because as you get squatty like this, your chest tends to be very upright and you tend to stick your rear out a lot.

So that's going to hurt your lower back.

So if you've got back soreness, this is the first place to look.

So as you kind of do that, you lengthen this part of your abdominal wall and then your chest kind of stands upright.

Now, guess what's going to happen from here?

Your arms are going to want to swing really flat, and your arms need to be able to work up without you having to pick them up.

So, just by making this simple setup mistake of squatting with your knees a little bit, sticking your rear out, arching your back, letting your arms sit.

Like this, your arms and club are almost always going to want to go inside because of the angle of your chest.

To fight that, The first thing you need to do at setup is start to feel that your chest is pointing down at the ball.

So you can see, like in Nicholas and Tiger Swings, they actually have a bit of rounding through their spine to keep their legs nice and tall.

You can see as I round from my thoracic spine, the middle of my back.

That's going to get my chest pointing more down at the ball so that my arms can hang freely.

So So when you start to do these medicine ball drills, This is going to feel a lot better to you to use your core to swing that ball back and forth than this.

This is going to feel like you're holding the arm your arms and the ball up.

You want to feel like the gravity is pulling your arms down, and you've got to engage your core to do that.

So take your fingers like this and just poke yourself in the belly so you kind of flinch and that will help you feel this engagement.

So now that your core is starting to engage, your chest can point more down at the ball, your belly button is going to point down at the ball.

And you're going to be nice and tall through your legs.

And your arms are going to be able to hang freely so that your core can move them back and forth.

That's the first and most important fundamental in your setup.

Now both arms should feel what we call supinated at address.

Now, what that means is if you just held your thumbs up like this and you rotated them externally, this is supination.

You'll see that that puts my elbow pits facing out away from you.

Now, your lead arm is not going to be fully facing out away from you, but your trail arm.

If you're right handed, that's your right hand.

Right arm is going to be facing directly away from you at setup.

You'll see, my lead arm is going to be internally rotated just slightly because of the nature of the grip.

My trail, my lead hand grip, needs to be clocked over a little bit to have a stronger grip than neutral.

And so that's going to keep my arm from being able to face straight away from me.

But my trail arm, because of the trail hand grip, is rotated to match the lead hand.

That one is going to point almost directly at the camera, and that's what you want to feel.

Again, if you're kind of like this at setup, it gives your arms a lot of freedom of movement to move independent of your body.

And that just makes it darn near impossible to be consistent, because we're trying to time all of the stuff, moving independent of each other.

We We want the swing to feel very connected, very compact.

And the supination of your arms.

So if you just take your arms and externally rotate really the upper part of your arms.

That'll connect the arms to the body and so you'll feel a nice connection to your rib cage.

And as I get set up now, and I have my shoulder pulled back and this elbow pit's pointing at the camera.

This one is pointing just a little bit, maybe one or two Once you've got your arms supinated, we then want to start paying attention to where the butt of the club is pointing at setup.

Again, If you're used to having your shoulders really rounded and your arms very disconnected from your body, so they can kind of fling all over the place.

Instead of pulled back and supinated, and you will notice that your trail shoulder is obviously got to pronate or protract.

Just a little bit to get down to the club because it's lower on the shaft than the lead hand.

This shoulder is not going to be pulled back as much as the lead arm.

The lead arm is the primary one that's pulled back.

The trail arm's got to come forward just a little bit to get on the club.

But as it pulls, as it goes forward, I don't want to start lowering the handle.

The handle of the club, when you're looking at it from down the line, should point right at your belt buckle.

And your belt buckle should be about an inch or a couple inches beneath your belly button.

That's a great checkpoint.

And so now what I want to imagine is that that the club, the butt of the club, is coming right out of my belt.

Buckle to the ball.

You'll see that if you have too much knee flex, too much rounding in the shoulders, your shoulder, lead shoulder not being retracted, That club will the club handle.

Want to sit really low.

And that again gives you all this freedom of movement with your arms and hands to move independent of your body.

But as soon as you pull the shoulder back, watch what happens.

So right now you can see the butt of the club is pointing more towards my zipper.

It's too low.

As soon as I pull the shoulder back, it raises the handle, connects my arm and club to my body and gets that club pointing straight at my belt buckle.

And now as I go back, everything again is going to want to move perfectly in sync together.

And what about the alignment of your body, your arms, your feet?

All of that is very simple.

Once you have everything connected the way that you've learned so far, all you're going to need to do with your feet is you're going to set with your feet very square.

What I like to think is my right foot, both of my feet are pretty much square to the target line, but once I flare my lead foot a little bit, and that's going to be about 20 or 30 degrees and my trail foot is square, that might create the appearance from down the line that my stance is a little bit open.

So here's where my foot is before I square it.

And as soon as I open it, it drops it back a little bit.

So it's going to create the appearance that your feet might be slightly open when you're looking at the toes, but when you look at it from behind at the heels, it should look very square.

But your shoulders are going to look a little bit open, just slightly, because remember, We're pulling this lead shoulder back to give the arms some support and connection with the body to help move everything back together.

And when you get to the top of the swing, when you find that this shoulder is connected, you're going to find that your lead arm is going to, again, run into this chest and make your swing a lot more compact and short at the top.

But once we have this feeling of our feet square and our shoulder retracted, you're going to see that my trail arm forearm is going to be slightly above my lead arm.

But you don't want them directly parallel to each other, because that's going to get your shoulder rolled forward.

And then you're going to want to push the club back to the inside.

In order to keep the club and your body and arms connected, your trail arm is going to be slightly higher trail forearm than your lead arm.

So you'll see, you can actually see the bottom of my forearm just slightly.

If I take my setup here, my trail arm, because it's nice and straight, we want this to be very straight address.

You don't want a lot of slack in here, because we start adding power in the swing, you're going to understand that these joints have to be relatively, some of them relatively firm, in order to stretch the muscles and the fascia properly to produce effortless power.

So you're going to keep this nice and straight at setup.

Your lead arm is also nice and straight.

And so now, with my trail arm slightly above, you're going to see that my shoulders, because remember, this one is pulled back slightly or retracted.

And this one to get down on the club has got to be protracted slightly.

My shoulders are going to look slightly open in relationship to the target line.

Now, what about axis tilt and weight distribution?

For those of you that don't know, axis tilt is simply my spine angle at setup here.

I have zero degrees of axis tilt.

And as if I start sliding my hips toward the target, my spine is going to lean back.

For the goat swing, how much axis tilt do you need?

Not very much at all.

I'd say zero to eight degrees is going to be pretty typical.

And it's going to depend slightly on the club, as we're going to talk about in just a moment.

And that's also going to affect your weight distribution.

So let's just say, for instance, I have a six iron here.

With a six iron, my weight distribution is going to be about 60-40 favoring the left side, just slightly.

It's very slight.

It's almost insignificant in terms of what you're going to feel.

You're going to feel just a little bit more pressure on this lead side, Which we want with an iron to help us create a little bit more of a descending blow than with the driver and woods.

That we're going to talk about in just a moment.

So if I'm 60-40, my shoulders retracted, this one's slightly protracted, you're going to see that I don't really have a lot of axis tilt.

My spine is going to be pretty upright, But I'm going to have the appearance of more axis tilt than I actually have because my shoulders are going to be kind of like this.

This left shoulder is going to be a little bit higher than neutral, and this one's going to be a little bit lower than neutral.

And so that's going to create the appearance that my spine is tilted back, but we're really not going to have much with an iron, if any.

Now you can change this if you like to shape the ball flight.

So if you want to hit the ball a little bit more left to right as a right -handed golfer, A little bit less axis tilt and feeling more on top of the ball that you're covering with your chest, and you can rotate through a little bit more, will help you hit it lower and hit a little bit more of a cut.

And if you want to hit a draw, you can alter this to have a little bit more axis tilt.

And so I can feel my pressure go back kind of 55-45, just favoring the trail foot just a little bit.

And that's going to make it a little bit easier for me to come from the inside and hit a little bit of a draw.

Now, as you get to the woods, what you're going to find is that you're going to go from 60-40 with an iron, especially a short iron.

As you start getting to the longer clubs, your fairway woods, you're going to start going back to 50-50.

So you're going to have a little bit wider stance, and stance width is going to be just outside of your pelvis, the width of your pelvis.

So you can see if I dropped a club shaft here from where the center of my hip socket is, my foot is just about an inch outside of that on either side with a standard shot, standard iron shot.

When I go to a fairway wood, I'm going to drop my trail foot back just a little bit more.

And a driver, I'm going to drop it back just a hair more.

Now, as I do this, I'm going to stay behind the ball a little bit more because I want to be able to release the club and keep my hip back behind my foot.

At impact with the driver.

And that's going to allow me to create a little bit more speed, get a little bit more rotation.

So I want to favor this trail side a little bit more with the driver than I would with any other club.

Because it's the only one we're creating with a hitting, with a positive angle of attack.

But with an iron and most shots that you're going to hit, you're going to feel very neutral.

The ball is going to be just off the left side of your ear.

Your weight's going to be a 60-40 for most iron shots.

And then the final thing to start to think about is, where's your weight distribution from heel to toe?

From heel to toe, you want to be toward the middle of your foot, toward the back of the ball of your foot.

So from here to here is about where you're going to feel most of your pressure.

If you're too far back on your heels, you're going to have a really hard time moving.

If you're too far out on your toes, you're going to be struggling to maintain your balance.

So find your balance between the ball of your foot and the middle of your foot.

And that's going to allow you to move very quickly, which is what you want in the golf swing.

When we looked at Tiger at setup from face on, you're going to see he has literally zero, maybe one degree of axis tilt, if any.

There's hardly any tilt if there is.

He's hitting a knockdown shot here, so the ball is played back in his stance a little bit more.

The normal is more off of his left eye.

You can see again, the left foot is flared out 20 to 30 degrees.

Right foot is pretty much square to the target line.

His hips are slightly forward set up.

That's getting him just a little bit more pressure on the lead side.

You can see the lead shoulder is retracted here.

If you look at how much higher his lead shoulder is and the angle of it, And the trail shoulder is kind of sloping down again because he's got to reach forward to get that right hand lower on the club than the left.

And so you'll see that the right shoulder looks a little bit wider from the space from his ear to his shoulder, whereas this one is pulled back and up slightly.

And the perfect grip here, everything here is spot on.

When we look from down the line, I want you to pay attention to the angle of his spine.

And then you can see just this little hump here outline, and that is his lead shoulder blade being pulled back.

It's actually pulled back behind deeper than his spine further away from the ball.

That's what I'm talking about with getting that left arm connected to the body.

Here you can see his left form beneath his right form.

It's more visible in the right form straight, but above the left slightly.

So his shoulders, because the shoulders are pulled back, is actually aimed a little bit more left.

His feet are pretty close to this line, but again, his foot is pulled back.

So if you look at his heels, the heel line is actually much more closed than his toe line there because the foot is pulled back.

The butt of the club, again, going right through the belt buckle and the legs relatively nice and tall.

Tiger's pretty tall, so he's going to have a little bit more knee flex than somebody who's a little bit shorter.

But overall, you can see all the things that you just learned here is head is pulled back, back is nice and flat, abs are pulled in, a perfect setup.

From there, you've got a good setup.

Really, The key fundamental is getting your core engaged so that you feel like you can begin to move athletically between your feet very quickly and dynamically.

Use your core to rotate back to be able to start to deliver some power and load up in your swing.

And you've got a great setup that's going to get you on the stage, ready to rock and roll and fire powerfully to deliver power to that trail hand.

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Ewan
Hey everyone, can someone help me with my setup, when engaging my core I feel like my back is way too rounded and I aim out to the right, it feels like the only way I can make solid contact. Do I need to hinge more at the waist or bend knees, I’m 6 foot 3 for context
July 5, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Ewan. Better hinge from the hip and flatter posture. With your height you may require a little more knee bend. But, let's just start with the posture first.
July 5, 2025
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Ewan
This is me doing the chipping drill stacking my weight on lead side, hitting a 60 degree here, previously was hitting a pitching wedge. Still feel like back is too rounded
July 5, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Ewan. Agreed. A little flatter posture in the thoracic area so you hinge from the hips. This will get you a little less stuck at setup (more room).
July 5, 2025
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Ewan
Thanks Craig, hopefully this stops me getting stuck and helps my two way miss, will send an updated photo
July 5, 2025
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David
Hi Chuck I have two questions that are related. Spine tilt away from target and weight distribution left/right foot. When I hit driver at setup I slide my hips slightly towards the target and put a few degrees of spine tilt in. Should I still be trying to keep my weight 60/40 or closer to 50/50. ATM I try to feel slightly more weight on left side. BTW I'm going thru the entire GC for the second time. Glad I am.. getting lots more out of it. THANKS SO MUCH Chuck
July 1, 2025
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David
Hi Craig Thanks so much for your quick reply. I'm looking forward to the Goat Driver. For now what is the ideal weight distribution at set up for driver? Different to iron or ever woods because of tee? Does tee height make much difference? If I'm clear then my mind is more empty as I play..no second guessing. Cheers David
July 1, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello David. You can feel slightly stronger towards the lead side with the weight after adding a little tilt. Chuck will have GOAT Driver which we detail all the specifics. Enjoy round number 2! Thanks for the compliments.
July 1, 2025
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David
Hi Craig Thanks so much for your quick reply. I'm looking forward to the Goat Driver. For now what is the ideal weight distribution at set up for driver? Different to iron or ever woods because of tee? Does tee height make much difference? If I'm clear then my mind is more empty as I play..no second guessing. Cheers David
July 1, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello David. Tee Height does make a difference. Ball usually about half above the crown. Also, 50/50 or even a little lead side biased 40/60 from trail to lead. I like just a little more to favor the lead because I like to dynamically load into trail side early.
July 2, 2025
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David
Hi Craig Awesome. Thanks for that. I like that feel too. Since I have slightly moved my hips towards target at set up I feel the 60/40 and driver has preformed lots better. It good to know I'm OK to do that and it's not going to create another problem to have to compensate for. Again thanks for your prompt reply. Cheers David
July 2, 2025
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Zack
Hey Chuck, loving the GOAT code so far. Quick question, my buddies always tell me to have a bunch of forward shaft lean at address. I feel like the club handle pointing at belt buckle gives a little of this. I'm not a huge fan of the feeling of the forward shaft lean at address, what is your take on this?
May 8, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Zack. A little bit of forward press triggered by the body motion is fine. But, when you start presetting the hands too far forward you actually hurt the ability to have proper shaft lean at impact.
May 8, 2025
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Benjamin
How does this look? I’ve been getting lazy so I was much more slouched. My weight is between the balls of my feet and the middle of my foot. Many thanks good sir!
April 1, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Looking pretty good Benjamin. You have a tiny bit of lordosis and legs look a bit stiff. Make sure you are hinging from the hips while getting into posture to help achieve good balance but also the better lumbar spine.
April 1, 2025
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Benjamin
GOLF IS HARD! Is this better?
April 1, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
How can it be that hard? You fixed it in one post. Much better.
April 1, 2025
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Benjamin
Lol, thanks friend. I’ll be doing some swing reviews soon!
April 1, 2025
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
looking forward to it.
April 1, 2025
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Joel
Chuck, I've always felt that my club leans more at a slant than mostly straight up and down. (in videos that I've taken it looks like my hands are more forward than they need to be). Can you give me a tip to get my club closer than what you display in the video? Wasnt sure if this is because of how the club was made or just because I've practiced hundreds of hours with my hands forward. Just want to get it right since we are making a swing change here. Let me know... Thanks... Joel
March 25, 2025
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Chuck
It's just a matter of standing in front of the mirror until you get it right. Sounds like you've just grooved the hands forward position and need to revert to the correct position
March 26, 2025
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Jayden
Hi Chuck, I noticed that all my clubs are to long. What would be the best to do in my situation? (I have to grip down over the bottom of the grip, gripping it one inch shorter doesn't  help. ) Craig mentioned that I look tight, might that have something to do with to long clubs? Best wishes, Jayden.
February 24, 2025
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Chuck
if you can find a really good club fitter in your area that would be the place to start
February 24, 2025
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Jayden
Hi Chuck, is it an option to cut the clubs 3-4 inches shorter? Best wishes Jayden.
February 25, 2025
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Chuck
Definitely not even just changing out a half inch will change everything. You can go to a good club builder and get shorter clubs that could be a little bit shorter. Maybe even up to an inch without getting too crazy but then you start running onto two issues where the head weight is too light and you’ll never get swing weights to feel good. But you’re more likely going to need to do is bend the lie angle flatter
February 25, 2025
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Jason
Hey Chuck, Quick question on setup WITH DRIVER..... If the butt end of the club is pointing toward the belt buckle, wouldn't that be starting with a very shut club face behind the ball at address? Thanks!
February 12, 2025
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Chuck
it depends on ball position and it’s OK to have the bottom of the club pointing a little forward of you when you have the ball up in your stance. See attached pic.
February 14, 2025
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Scott
Chuck, What starts the backswing? The shoulders, arms or hips?
February 12, 2025
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Chuck
Shifting pressure to the trail leg and sinking into it
February 13, 2025
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Tony
should that start with a forward press then back to the trail fool to start the back swing?
April 1, 2025
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Chuck
Ya they happen pretty much in sync
April 1, 2025
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Chris
Driver swing of Tiger, and putting of Tiger has the butt of the club facing his belt buckle. Is this the rule of thumb for all clubs?
February 10, 2025
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Chuck
Yes in general you want the club working in sync with the center of the body
February 11, 2025
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philip
Years ago, I attended a small group golf school with you at Castle Pines, where I’m a member. I recall a lot of focus on “the box,” where both scapula were retracted back and down at address. My recollection is that the golfer was to initiate the backswing by pulling the right (trail) scapula a few inches toward the spine and then initiate the downswing by pulling the left (lead) scapula toward the spine. I just reconnected with your website, and it seems that what you are saying about the shoulders is quite a bit different than what I recall. Is that correct? Is it because “the box” approach (or whatever it was called) is a lead arm/hand driven swing while the GOAT swing is a trail arm/hand driven swing?
February 2, 2025
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Chuck
Yes when I was at CP i was teaching a lead side pattern.
February 3, 2025
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Craig
Sorry for all the questions I know you say engage the core (which flattens the lower back) - should I still be engaging/contracting my core throughout the entire swing? When I do this - I feels I have to engage them even more to maintain this flat lower back - is this correct? Thanks
January 28, 2025
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Chuck
The swing itself is much too dynamic to try and hold your spine or core in any fixed position. There is a lot of dynamic, stretching, rotation, side bend and extension/flexion happening
January 29, 2025
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ECTOR
So, what is the exercise in this step, you were talking about a medicine ball, and in the rotary swing program there were some exercises?
January 27, 2025
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Chuck
The exercise program is part of the RSA membership
January 27, 2025
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Scott
Isn't it commonly said that, at the address position, the right forearm should be slightly under the left so that it is pointing at the baseline of the plane? Doesn't a set up position where the right forearm is higher than the left mean that the right forearm will be off plane (i.e. not pointing at the baseline of the plane), thus making it harder to achieve a take away that is on plane?
January 14, 2025
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Chuck
Does it look like Tiger ever struggled with swing plane? Don’t listen to planeologists and theorists look at what your eyes are showing you. The majority of people who sit around and argue about this kind of nonsense online can’t break 90
January 15, 2025
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Stanley
I started on 4.14 80 Yard Shots and saw that for the setup, the feet are farther apart than the previous steps so I went back to re-watch this video before my range session. Wow! I'm so glad I did. It re-emphasized for me what Craig Morrow said to me several times.Basically (not his exact words, he was nicer about it) that if I want to succeed I must follow the process. Re-watching this video led me to believe that for me personally, I must un-learn everything I learned from other systems including the basics. Trying to remember all the details (so many, thanks!) of my setup, making the changes, taking a bit to incorporate them, I picked up consistency and distance, just from the setup changes! I changed the position of my feet, lead shoulder, spine tilt, and overall posture. I will be re-watching this again before my next practice session as I'm sure I missed/forgot some or many of the details. Great video!
December 29, 2024
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Chuck
You are way ahead of the curve most people don’t pay attention to the details because I think they don’t matter and then they spend 10 times as long trying to get to where they wanna go. The details are where the heart of everything lies.
December 29, 2024
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Matthew
Chuck I sent you this link via an email. I have an online coaching group for golfers with back pain. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/5WEQNYusB1Y Thanks for not having people stick their butt out and arch their lower back!!!!!!
November 4, 2024
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John
Chuck! After using the medicine ball (with handles) for a couple weeks now I FINALLY felt the core engage in setup. My back feels so much better after today’s round, I can’t thank you enough. So my question is; at what point (after the core engages and the shoulders roll forward) does correct posture become slouchy? Kinda felt like I may have been leaning too far forward but my weight was between the arches and the balls of my feet.
October 25, 2024
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Chuck
Great John! Your arms need to be firm at setup to swing like the GOAT and that will prevent you from getting too slouchy.
October 25, 2024
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John
Awesome! Can’t wait to try it. Chuck, you’re a lifesaver bro seriously. I’m a huge fan!
October 25, 2024
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Chuck
Thanks man, getting rid of back pain is a life changer!
October 25, 2024
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Jayden
Hi Chuck, thanks for your answers to my last questions. Should the left hand be under my left shoulder, so that a perpendicular line is formed? And when so, should the position of the left hand change depending on my club? In my understanding the left elbo pit should face at three o'clock, because of the GDP, why isn't this the case? Best wishes Jayden
October 21, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Jayden, take a look at the thumbnail above of Tiger at setup. Clearly his left hand is not under his shoulder.
October 21, 2024
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Lee
Hey Chuck, not sure why I didn't notice this earlier but I see you said we don't need axis tilt for this setup. My understanding of the reasons we needed axis tilt before was so that we didn't curve our spine and limit our range of motion as a result as well as possible injury and lastly that it allowed us to grip the club with the right hand lower without curving our spine. So I was wondering why we don't need it in this setup and how we don't lose range of motion and are still avoiding possible injury? Just want to understand. Also, unless I am wrong in the previous setup we wanted our weight as far as toe to heel to be in the center of our ankles or around there so that it made our hip our pivot point coming through the ball instead of our knee. It sounds like that is also different in this setup and it is more towards the balls of our feet which I thought made our knee the pivot point which could lead to injury. Again maybe my understanding is wrong but wanted to ask how that works to prevent injury still? Thanks for all your hard work and research. I have been a member since close to the beginning I think and have really gotten a lot out of the content and a much greater understanding of the swing.
October 11, 2024
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Chuck
Thanks Lee! The primary reason for axis tilt is for helping create a proper swing plane in a lead side pattern. The pulling action of the lead side can steepen the swing plane. In a trail side pattern, the throwing motion of the trail arm and supination of the trail arm creates the perfect swing plane without the need for axis tilt. For setup, that doesn't really change much, the range is from the center of the ankle to the middle of the foot.
October 11, 2024
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Lee
Ok, so axis tilt didn't have anything to do with injury prevention then as far as keeping the spine straight? Or are you saying with the trail side pattern even with some curve in it we don't move in such a way as to hurt it or limit the range of motion? Thanks again!
October 11, 2024
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Chuck
Keeping the spine neutral will certainly be the most sure way to prevent an injury, but the spine is designed to rotate and bend and is perfectly healthy to do so. What it doesn't like is shear force wear you are rotating your hips one way while the spine is effectively moving the other or resisting it, especially while in side bend. Here, you will enter side bend but there is no shear force as the hips are used to stabilize the upper body rather than trying to rotate it.
October 12, 2024
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Lee
Ok, thanks for the explanation and taking the time to reply Chuck! I understand it much better now.
October 13, 2024
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Alex Francis Ver
Hi, Chuck. How about ball position? Is it still off the left ear like in the Dead Drill? Thanks.
October 4, 2024
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Chuck
With the longer clubs that still applies but with shorter clubs because you’re more trailside dominant, you will begin to want to move the ball back in your stance to help flight it down
October 6, 2024
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Jayden
Hi Chuck, how wide should putting stance be? And thank you for putting your time into all my questions. I appreciate it !
September 22, 2024
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Chuck
No set rule here but I generally stand pretty narrow about hip width
September 22, 2024
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Jayden
thanks
September 22, 2024
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Lee
Hey, just wanted to get a quick check on my setup as far as engaging my core before getting a swing review of the motion since you can't do the motion right without being setup right. Am I engaging my core correctly here? Thanks, Lee
September 18, 2024
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Chuck
Looking pretty good. You could stand a little taller through your legs and hips but otherwise great
September 19, 2024
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Lee
Just to make sure I understood correctly you are saying a little less knee bend and less bend from the hips?
September 21, 2024
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Chuck
Ya stand slightly taller through the legs and get your hips a little more underneath your mid-section. You're just going to feel slightly taller overall with a little less tilt over toward the ball from the hips, you will be a little taller through that part of your body.
September 21, 2024
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Lee
Ok, thanks again! I have one more question I wasn't sure about after seeing the setup. Do we still want our hands to be just inside our chin line for this setup for everything but driver which hands are on the chin line or is that different?
September 22, 2024
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Chuck
Yep hands are the same. They may come closer if you want to hit a cut as you can stand closer to the ball
September 22, 2024
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Lee
Oh ok, that makes sense and the slight setup changes you pointed out helped a lot to make the throw easier for me and not surprisingly helped my chipping contact be even better too! Thanks!
September 22, 2024
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Lee
Ok, thanks Chuck!
September 19, 2024
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Jayden
picture 2 with back slightly rounded
September 11, 2024
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Chuck
This one for sure. The other one your head is a little far forward.
September 11, 2024
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Jayden
Thank you very much this helped!
September 13, 2024
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Jayden
Hi Chuck, which set up looks better? picture 1
September 11, 2024
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Jayden
Hi Chuck, should I pull my chin back so I have a dubble chin?
September 1, 2024
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Chuck
Yes it should be pulled back into neutral
September 1, 2024
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Jayden
So does this mean that I have to bend over so long, until, when I would wear sunglasses and could only look threw the middle, see the ball?
September 2, 2024
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Chuck
I don't wear sunglasses - ever actually - , so I can't give you that as a reference.
September 2, 2024
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Jesse
Great review as the summer begins to close down and old bad habits begin to slip back into the swing. Building the new "default" requires these self-checks on fundementals. Thanks for putting this review together, Chuck.
August 30, 2024
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Chuck
The greats always returned back to working on the fundamentals and this one is perhaps the most fundamental of them all!
August 30, 2024
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RJ
Hey Chuck. If we want to hit more of a draw, would we want our trail forearm to be more underneath at setup? Or do we still want it slightly above the lead forearm?
August 29, 2024
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Chuck
You could, or you could take the club back a little more inside, you can also open the face more going back, just subtle adjustments will get you there.
August 30, 2024
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Stefano
Hi Chuck, this “recap” section is great! That’s exactly what we need, at this stage of the goat code. Question: I appreciate the point regarding the left shoulder at setup (back and up…). So, if I understand, this position should prevent the hands for excessive movement during the first half of the backswing and make it connected with the chest. Ok. But once you reach the backswing checkpoint (club parallel to the ground, club face towed up or slightly in etc), continuing the movement of the arms, at some point, the left shoulder has inevitably to protract (and disconnect from chest). Is that right? Of course, I am asking for a common right hand golfer. Thanks
August 29, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Stefano, yes absolutely it must protract, it's just key to keep this to a minimum during the start of the swing
August 29, 2024

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