5 Minutes to the Perfect Golf Setup
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This follow along video teaches you the perfect setup in only 5 minutes. This video includes a program to follow at the end that will have you setting up to the perfectly every time in the shortest amount of time possible.
- Rock Forward, Rock Back
- Shrug Shoulders, Depress Shoulders
- Hinge from the Hip
- Lean Inside the Ankles, Rock Forward, Rock Back
- Hip Bump/Axis Tilt
Now it's time for the five minutes to the perfect setup video.
All we're going to do in this is go through what we've already talked about, but we're going to do it in a sequence that's going to allow you to set up perfectly every time, but more importantly, allow you to drill this over and over and over again so that when you're done, after you've gone through the videos of doing this repetitively for 15 minutes, getting the repetitions in that you need, you're not going to know any other way to set up, and that's the goal.
In this, we're going to talk about the actual sequence, and we're actually going to go through it in five minutes.
First things first, with your eyes open, you're going to sway forward, five times, with your eyes open at first, so rock forward, you're going to do this with me, rock back, five times, and now, after your fifth one, do this with your eyes closed.
So we're going to rock forward, eyes closed, rock back, rock forward again, rock back, that's twice, three more times, what you're trying to do is feel your heels here, feel your toes, feel the distribution of weight, and then the last one, settle into balance, okay?
You should notice that you've settled in slightly over your ankles, you should feel nice and relaxed at this point.
Now what we're going to do is we're going to add getting in the box, so all you're going to do five times, you're going to shrug your shoulders up to your ears, feel all the muscles in your neck tighten up, pull your shoulders down, five times.
What you're trying to do each time is get a feeling or an awareness of these muscles that you may not have even been aware that you had, and so we're trying to activate those muscles in your back, so that you can start to feel when it's wrong, and when it's right.
Now, same thing with your eyes closed, we're going to do five repetitions, getting those shoulder blades moving, feeling your back muscles engage, starting to activate those core muscles, make sure your belly is pulled in, and that's five, that's ten reps that you just did, so now you should start to feel that your back, you should start to feel that your muscles are engaged.
Now, we're going to hinge forward from the hip, and what we're going to do here is let our weight drop slightly back onto our heels, relax our knees, let our arms hang down, staying in the box.
Do that again, so you're going to bow forward, let your weight drop back, pay attention to where your weight goes on your feet, relax your knees, stay in the box, let your arms hang forward.
Same thing, bow forward, hinge from the hips, relax the knees, let the arms hang down, stay in the box.
A couple more times, you're going to bow forward, relax the knees, let the arms hang.
Now, in this last one, make sure that you can feel everything.
In the next one, we're going to actually close our eyes, so it's very important that you start to pay attention to where your weight is.
You may have to do it a little bit more slowly at first, so let's do it again, eyes closed, hinge forward, let your hips drop back behind you, so that your weight settles in over your ankles, relax your knees, let your arms hang.
We're not adding anything else at this point, we're just doing with our eyes closed, so we can feel where the weight is, let the arms hang, good balance.
One more.
Make sure you can feel this.
Now, stay in your posture, and now what I want you to do is roll your ankles slightly to the inside, not your knees, roll your ankles slightly to the inside, you're in good posture, and now rock forward on your toes, and rock back.
And you should find that if you were probably out on your toes, which a lot of us will be, just through bad habits, that as you do this, you're going to start to find, oh, that's where I feel relaxed, that's where I feel balanced and athletic.
Now, same thing, you're going to do five repetitions with your eyes closed, so that your mind starts to activate the kinesthetic awareness, the feeling of where balance is.
And when you do it with your eyes closed, it's really easy to feel when you're off balance in either direction, but particularly, a lot of golfers get out on their toes, okay?
So now, we're in good posture, we're in the box, everything's set up well, but now my hands, I can't get my hands on the golf club.
So now what I'm going to do is add a little bit of hip bump, with a little bit of axis tilt, and you'll notice that my hands are going to change just slightly, it's going to allow me to get my right hand on the club just a little bit better, and get me in a little bit better position and address.
So a little bit of hip bump, a little bit of axis tilt, same thing, five times with your eyes open.
Now, five times with your eyes closed.
Just add a little bit of bump, you'll notice a little bit more weight set into your left hip, and get into a good posture there.
So in five minutes, you've gone through a setup routine that's going to allow you to get set up perfectly every single time, and all you want to do is repeat these drills in the following repetitions that you see on your screen.
It's going to take you about 15 minutes to go through the whole thing, but if you do this, your body's going to start to become aware, and your brain is going to start to become aware of what it's going to take to build the repetitions in there of activating those muscles, and so that you set up perfectly every single time, and that's going to allow you to get into a great setup position every time, and give you a much better head start to the golf swing.
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