Underdog Golf Blog

I’ve always thought of myself as having decent posture. I’m 6’4”, so it’s not the easiest thing in the world as there is a lot of me to lean one way or the other. Recently though I discovered that I carry my weight on my toes.

There is never more evident than when I swing a golf club. There are a million things that can happen and the main two that I experience is dropping my head and/or falling forward afterwards. Little bit tricky to have consistency if you’re flopping all over the place.

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To correct this I initially started focusing on distributing my weight evenly in my feet when setting up to the ball. This feels to me like I’m on my hills but my mirror and golf teacher say differently. Then Brian and I decided I needed to really start focusing on this all the time.

I had no idea how much I was leaning forward in life but it explains a lot of things having to do with my posture. One of the oddest felling things to adjust is when I’m walking. I literally have to puff my chest out to stand up straight when I’m walking. I literally (and physically I guess) feel like I’m going to fall over backwards walking. I don’t even know if that’s possible but if someone can find a YouTube video of it please do share.

It seems to have helped a lot and combined with working on having a steeper backswing, I’ve been able to add about a club’s distance to each of my irons just in the past week.

Speaking of steeper back swings, Brian and I have really started breaking apart Adam Scott’s (the golfer not the actor) swing to use as a model of how my natural and optimal swing should work. I’m a very similar build to him so it works out naturally.

As I said it’s added about a club to each of my irons, but the driver and fairway woods still need some work. It’s a completely different feeling and I’ve got to work on getting the weight transfer smoother as it feels so much different.

All this will be put to the test this weekend as I try and get 2 rounds in, depending on whether or not the weather holds up. It’s supposed to rain Saturday but I plan on doing a little “No Rain” dance tomorrow, so hopefully that works.