I've got a slight-bend-the-left-knee-over-the-left-foot reverse pivot that I can's seem to kick for more than a round or two. When it's gone, golf is fun. When it's there, my back hurts. Anyone had success definitively getting rid of this one? Thanks.
Set up to the ball with a "slight" amount of axis tilt. As you take the club away try to "maintain" this amount of axis tilt all the way to the top of your back swing. Too much axis tilt and you will move too much off the ball. I often tell a student to keep the top button of their golf shirt behind their belt buckle starting at address and to maintain that same relationship all the way to the top of there backswing.
I've got a slight-bend-the-left-knee-over-the-left-foot reverse pivot that I can's seem to kick for more than a round or two. When it's gone, golf is fun. When it's there, my back hurts. Anyone had success definitively getting rid of this one? Thanks.
I have, from time to time, criticized posts that are poorly written with the results that
the message doesn't get clearly received.
Both of these posts by Bax are, in my opinion, very clear and easy to understand.
Sharp hip turn always helps a reverse pivot.
But knowing WHERE you want your right arm at the top is a SURE, permanent fix.
I've got a slight-bend-the-left-knee-over-the-left-foot reverse pivot that I can's seem to kick for more than a round or two. When it's gone, golf is fun. When it's there, my back hurts. Anyone had success definitively getting rid of this one? Thanks.
Turn your left shoulder back so that it gets over your right knee.
Sharp hip turn always helps a reverse pivot.
But knowing WHERE you want your right arm at the top is a SURE, permanent fix.
NOPE.....not unless there is a bit or more of a weight shift or coil into the right side (no sway)
keeping the weight on the inside of the right foot..........(right handers)
nothing is SURE....if you reverse pivot, the right hand means NADA
How do you do this without getting the right shoulder too flat? I find this suggestion often results in my shoulders turning too level to the ground.
It has 0.. Nothing...Nada to do with the level of the shoulder turn. It has to do with tilt away from the target. You can get your left shoulder over your knee with a flat or steep shoulder turn.
Thanks to ALL for their helpful suggestions. I hit a few wedges in the vacant lot down the street working on keeping the axis tilt. It helps. Per Richie3's comments, I also noted that I've got a fair amount of pop out, developed (or likely just made worse) in an attempt to bring the clubhead "up the wall" as in NHA.
The difficulty I have is in making a flatish shoulder turn without dragging the clubhead inside and over-rotating the flying wedge. And this seems to me to be connected to bad right arm technique. Which brings me to Brian's somewhat opaque suggestion: Where do I want the right arm?
Do you have to do this? The left shoulder over the right knee, what if you don't are you reverse pivoting or just less flexible. I don't see that in a lot of top golfers their lead shoulder never reaches the right knee. Moe Norman was one. Maybe trying to get it there helps.