Killer #3

Killer #3 Hitting off of your back foot

Making contact with the ball while the majority of your weight is on your back foot is a killer.  Most golfers intuitively stay on their back foot to hit because they are trying to lift or scoop the ball into the air.  Ever heard of letting the club do the work?  Golfers also shift too much weight to their back foot in the back swing because they think that they need to get behind the ball or this will somehow give them more power or a bigger turn.  It does neither.  Once the majority of your weight gets behind the ball and on your back foot, the problem is that you don’t have enough time to get it back on your front foot by the time you make contact with the ball.  It takes about half of a second for most golfers from the top of their swing to contact.  That is not enough time for most of us to shift back to the left.  The fix for this would be to work on your weight transfer.  Start out without a ball or club and simply pretend you have a club in your hands.  Start your swing from a 50/50 weight distribution on each foot.  Try and simply turn your body staying fairly centered and not swaying to the right.  Just by turning you have loaded a little more weight on your back foot without being too far behind the ball.  When you start your downswing try and initiate it with the legs and hips, then the chest and arms last.  This will enable you to get onto your front foot earlier and have the proper weight transfer throughout your swing.