Cure Reverse Pivot w/ the Necktie Drill
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Axis tilt is a necessary fundamental of the golf swing that many golfers ignore or fail to understand the consequences of not having it, especially at the top of the backswing. This simple yet profoundly effective drill will show you exactly how to have the proper amount of tilt at the top.
- A necktie is a great training aid if you struggle with transition and bad position at the top
- Wear a necktie and go to the top of your swing
- If the tie drapes over your chest and belly, you are leaning toward the target - this is incorrect
- It should hang freely over the inside of your right knee
I've got some pretty non-standard rotary swing gear on here.
I don't usually wear a lot of neckties, but I know a lot of you do.
And it's a great, simple training aid to help you understand where you're struggling at with your swing, why you struggle with the transition, Why you're in bad positions at the top?
because this necktie can tell you a lot about the position that you're in at the top of your swing.
And with a simple little video camera filming you hitting some balls with the necktie on, you can get a really clear picture of what's going on.
So let me explain to you what you don't want to do in the golf swing.
What you don't want to do going back is A, get everything rotating together.
So when you lose the separation between the rotation of your shoulders, your upper torso, your ribcage, and your hips and they move back together, it's really hard to sequence a dynamic and powerful downswing, a transition where everything starts to move in the right sequence together.
The hips have got to move first.
So when this happens, when they get pulled back together, You get your muscles bound up and glued together, where everything wants to fire together, and then the shoulders fire, the arms fire, then everything's out of sequence and so it becomes, it takes a lot of effort to generate a lot of power because you're not moving in the right sequence.
So with a necktie on, We can rotate back and start checking our positions at the top to see whether or not we're in a good spot.
So very simple drill, put a necktie on, go to the top of your swing and see if that necktie hangs against your chest, hangs against your belly.
So you can see as I go back incorrectly, now my spine is leaning toward the target, my head's moved this way, I've let my hips and everything rotate a long ways because they've been pulled in with my body.
As I lean toward the target, that forces my pelvis this way.
So now I get, as my pelvis moves away from the target and my spine, upper part of my spine moves toward it, now this necktie is going to hang off my belly.
You can imagine that it's pretty difficult to get a dynamic transition from that position, it just doesn't work that way, it's not how your body's designed to move.
Imagine throwing a baseball as a pitcher and going like this at the top and then trying to throw, it doesn't make any sense.
If you were a pitcher throwing a ball, You would load back, and you wouldn't lean your upper part of your spine or your head toward the catcher, you would lean away from it.
And now that you can see that necktie is free to move, see how it's freely swinging here.
Now as I step back, My spine is actually leaned away from the catcher and then I can sequence the downswing or the stride, just as I do in the golf swing.
There's a lot of similarities in terms of the sequencing.
So, same thing when the golf swing, and now notice that just like a pitcher, that necktie is hanging freely off my chest.
When I go all the way to the top, I always tell people to imagine that they had a necktie hanging right over the inside of their right knee, and you can see it's kind of hanging straight down.
The opposite, this.
So now you can see when I do this, I stand up and lean my spine the other way, now it's draped across my belly.
And now watch my pelvis, they move together because they're attached.
So as my head moves this way, my pelvis is going to want to go that way.
And so you get into this awkward position, I see it all the time.
Golfers come to me complaining that they can't get the downswing right, they can't sequence the transition.
Well this is why.
When you're in this position, it's not a very athletic place to move from.
Versus here, being loaded up, and now you've got that support from the right glute as you load up correctly, instead of doing this, to sequence the downswing.
So that's why it's so important to be in a good position at the top, and that's why we work on the golf swing the way that we do.
Things have to be done in sequence.
So, if you're struggling with your golf swing at the transition, you're struggling with your position at the top, grab a video camera, throw a necktie on, And start making some practice swings and see if this is draped against your belly and your pelvis is moving out away from the target, or whether or not that necktie hangs straight down, and you'll start to be able to understand, you'll feel completely different.
You'll feel much more powerful when you're loaded up, with your spine leaning slightly away from the target, versus toward it, and you're just going to take strain off your back, your hip, and so on.
So, take a necktie, throw it on, make sure it's draped, it's hanging down away from you at the top, and see if it doesn't help you with your sequencing in the downswing.
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