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THE LEGS Your Golf Swing Should Be A Two Wall Swing
Image a horse and rider moving away from a wall with one end of a 60 foot coil of rope tied to the saddle and the other end anchored securely to the wall. The horse gains speed and the rope rapidly uncoils until, in a bone jarring tug, the rope goes taught and the horse stops dead in its tracks. As you can imagine, the rider is flung from the saddle, continuing alone in the approximate direction that he and his horse were traveling in together only a fraction of a second before.
Now reverse the situation so that our horse and rider are approaching a six foot wall at full gallop and just as they get to the wall, the horse stops dead. Once again our helpless rider continues on alone as he's thrown over the wall.
In the first image the wall represents your right leg. The second wall of your golf swing is your left leg. The rider is your clubhead and his separation from the horse causes the release of your clubhead through the hitting zone giving the look of quiet hands.
Poor players have a “no wall” swing; they have no right wall primarily because they push up and off of their right foot during the downswing. They have no left wall because of the “melt” through impact where the left knee buckles and the wall crumbles. With no walls, it’s a low power swing.
Decent players have a left wall but no right wall because they get off their right side too quickly, spinning the hips before the weight has had time to shift into the left hip. It’s a medium power swing.
Good players have both walls in place creating a powerful opposition between the left side and the right. Once the weight shifts to the left hip, the hip turns aggressively to the left of the target creating a forceful pull on the right side. The right side resists this pull as long as it can before being ripped from its mooring and rotating at great speed around toward the target - where it runs smack into the left wall causing a power packed release.
If you’re losing your right wall, work on keeping your right heel down until after impact. Take some swings where it feels like it doesn’t come off the ground until its pulled off by your body turning up into your follow-through. Feel as if, for a fraction of a second, you’re sitting on your right knee to start the downswing with both knees flexed.
If you’re losing your left wall, work in practice to consciously straighten your left leg through impact - locking up your left side slings the club across your left leg much as the great home run hitters do. You want to feel like your left .....
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