How to Improve Your Downswing in Golf

Video Transcript

"Hello! On behalf of expertvillage.com, my name is Bryan Pemberton from the Reserve at Spanos Park and today we are talking about the dynamics of the golf swing, we talked about back swing and now we are actually going to talk about the down swing and what happens in the down swing. When we get in a position to top, this is what we call the back swing. On the down swing, a lot of things happen but really what you are going to want to do is start your golf swing with some motion forward with your body. What this does is it shifts your body into a position where you've got weight actually moving forward or toward your target. A lot of times what you will find is that people will actually start to fall backwards on a down swing and again that is from not actually compensating for what is moving over him. What that means is that when you actually take a golf club to the top and you start swinging it down, what is going to happen is your weight is being pulled in that direction. So the first thing you've got to do is offset that. So I take the club to the top my first motion is forward with my shifting and that gets my body in a position to actually compensate for what this club is actually going to pull back. Again weight and balance is actually a key part of the golf swing and if your balance is good, you will not have to worry any. We are talking about balance and shifting weight. When you get to the top here is the back swing and down swing. The very first motion is to movement forward and you notice that I am not actually twisting my body forward because really my balance and my weight is still back on this foot and this happens a lot. Again when you take the club back, feel like you are actually staying in a turn and you are going to shift weight to actually start this golf swing. On the way down, you are going to release the golf swing and we will talk about that. If you are having trouble hitting the golf ball solid, one of the things maybe happening is maybe the club is either late or one of the things we didn't do on time is we didn't shift our weight. A lot of times players will try and buy time. In other words they are trying to get a little extra time to release golf clubs by staying on the back foot. Again if your swing actually ends up and you are hitting it on your back side or having trouble balancing, one thing that you want to look at is the top of the swing you didn't shift weight first. So let's shift weight, release the golf club and your balance will always be on this foot. So if you are having trouble figuring that out one of the things you can do is go to the top of your swing, shift weight and take the club and finish on this foot. When you get done with your golf swing, you should really be able to take all of your weight and put it on your left side. If you can do that, you shifted weight properly. "