Easy Drills To Improve Your Golf Swing Plane

Tips and advice from Katie Dawkins on how to improve your swing  by practicing these drills.

Transcript

00:00Let's talk about getting your swing on plane. What does that even mean? What is swing plane?

00:09Well, the swing plane is the angle at which your club swings around your body. And this

00:15is generally determined by your spine angle initially in the first place. It can vary.

00:20Some people go up on one swing plane and down on another, but that's not a very efficient

00:25way of swinging. So if my posture is really good and I'm ready to run somewhere, I will

00:31swing the club up and down on a pretty decent swing plane that should end up with me hitting

00:36good shots. If I haven't tipped myself over, so my posture is poor and I'm almost sat down,

00:41I'm going to swing the club flatter around my body as a natural swing path. But my swing

00:47plane here is never going to get back down to the ground. So I'm going to have to start

00:52making some pretty juicy compensatory moves to get back to the ball. And this is where

00:57a lot of faults start to stem. Someone who's tipped over way too much, we don't see this

01:01as much, will swing it up and down too steep and therefore have to stand up and out of

01:06their shot. So they don't dig a great big hole down to Sydney. It is really important

01:12that you get your fundamentals right to start off with. So that's your number one priority

01:16if you're trying to swing the club on plane. A couple of things that you can do to ensure

01:20that your swing stays on plane or goes up and down on a pretty decent plane is to first

01:26of all check your takeaway. So check that very first part of your swing. So where the

01:30club travels to in the first part of your swing usually dictates where it goes on the

01:34way back. So a club that whips on the inside will either keep going end up flat or you'll

01:39learn how to compensate and end up lifting up and sending the club across the line at

01:43the top. If a club goes too far on the outside, sometimes it can carry on going up quite steep.

01:49So it's important you get that first little bit right. So you can do a little bit of mirror

01:53work at home, setting yourself up to an imaginary ball on the floor, just taking the club to

01:59your takeaway point and then checking it. You do want to make sure that club head stays

02:03in front a little bit. So that's where you want to be. If you're someone who whips it

02:07on the inside too much, feel like you go out of it and that should set you in a pretty

02:12decent direction on the way back. Getting your swing more on plane can be really down

02:17to building a nice bit of natural momentum. There's a couple of ways that you can do this.

02:21There are some fantastic gadgets out at the moment. Orange whip is one of them. This will

02:26pretty much swing the golf club for you up and down the line that you should be swinging

02:30it on. But if you don't happen to have one of those in your golf bag, get your seven

02:34and your eight iron, hold them as best you can, a bit like a hammer. So you've got your

02:37two clubs, settle yourself into a decent posture, hovering the clubs just above the ground and

02:43just start to build that basic momentum back and through. What that'll do from a swing

02:49plane point of view is start to get you a little bit more on line, up and down. So it

02:56takes a bit of the effort out of it and stops you trying to force the issue.