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Role of the Right Foot in Downswing
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Footwork is a bit of a misnomer in the golf swing but you hear it every week on TV. What is it and how do you do it? This video shows you the critical importance of what the right foot should do in the downswing and why.
- The right foot should stay on the ground, rolled slightly inward, for as long as possible
- The heel doesn't come up until it's pulled up in the follow through
- For the drill, keep the right food down - just roll inward - until arms are in the 9:00 position
- Start with half shots and exaggerate the drill by keeping the heel on the ground the entire time
- When it does come up, the right heel should not break the vertical plane on the outside of the foot
well did you catch what I did wrong there if not let me hit another one and do it right and see if you can tell the difference between the two and the downswing did you catch it if you were looking at my right foot you're on the right track the right foot for left for right-handed golfers is the key to controlling the downswing that's right that's how important just changing one simple thing in your swing is to being a consistent and powerful ball striker is by learning to control what that right foot does in the downswing the first swing that I did is I pushed really hard so this heel came up in the air right away now you'll know as I do this as I start driving forward my hip moves forward what does that do to my lower back it straightens it up this is how you lose the tush line I've talked about this a lot when you're talking about losing the tush line this is how you do it so apart from losing all my angles that also allows me to rotate my hips really fast I can get my hips 90 degrees open before I ever get the club back to the ball when I do that all bets are off it's gonna be very very difficult for you to ever control the hitting area and that's the most important thing at golf if you're coming into impact and all your angles are changing and you're moving very crazily and then you've got to just try and save it with your hands golf is a really frustrating game but when you watch a good ball striker coming down an impact their lower body looks stable and quiet and controlled and then the arms and hands can release the golf club with a stable platform versus the shaky you might as well be hitting golf balls in an earthquake when your lower body is moving all over the place by letting this right heel come up in the air and our clinics I have a joke every time your right heel comes up in the air you owe me a hundred bucks now I haven't collected on anybody yet but I'd be a wealthy man if I did because everybody wants to do this and it's a huge huge problem and if it takes a little bit of time and effort to break this the simplest way is to go back to doing 9 to 3 drills and practice exaggerating keeping it on the ground but let it roll to the inside this is important watch what happens if I let my foot stay flat I want you to take pay close attention to the position of my left hip as I roll my foot back what happened I'm no longer in neutral joint alignment right my hip is well inside of my foot here nice straight line my foot's got to roll slightly to the inside doesn't have to be rolled like this it's naturally going to get pulled up in the off the side of its foot when you shift enough this is a great checkpoint when you're doing your 9 to 3 drills to know if you've shifted far enough left is is the outside of your right foot light if you watched good ball strikers on tour that right heel stays down and that's what gives them so much more control when their body isn't moving all over the place changing all the angles in your swing so keeping that right foot down rather than pushing off of it is a great checkpoint and I promise you as soon as you do this if you're one of those hip spinners the right foot coming in knee kicking in all this stuff and all of a sudden you start hitting like this how much more control are you gonna find right away versus everything spinning out of control and trying to time that it's gonna be huge so commit to practicing this fundamental of letting the right foot roll to the inside just like you see the tour players do instead of pushing and shoving hard off that right foot and you will gain more control now with the driver you'll see even the best ball strikers on tour their right heel tends to come up in the air not that bad but tends to come up in the air it can but you're gonna tend to lose control that is a power move with the driver to rotate your hips faster but if your hips are rotating faster everything has to rotate faster the shoulder the arms everything has to be kept up and in sync and that's hard to do and that's why when you start really trying to well on the ball you start losing control you start changing all these angles in your golf swing again so even with the driver you can practice keeping that foot down just to get control and then as you start getting more and more control of your swing and more importantly control of your lower body providing a stable platform then you can start letting it come up a little bit with the driver I do the same thing I let it come up because when I'm trying to wail on one but if I need to put the ball and play off the tee that right heel will be on the ground every single time
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