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 is generally

00:15determined by your spine angle initially in the first place it can vary some people go up on one

00:21swing plane and down on another but that's not a very efficient way of swinging so if my posture

00:27is really good and I'm ready to run somewhere I will swing the club up and down on a pretty decent

00:33swing plane that should end up with me hitting good shots if I haven't tipped myself over so my

00:38posture is poor and I'm almost sat down I'm gonna swing the club flatter around my body as a natural

00:45swing path but my swing plane here is never gonna get back down to the ground so I'm gonna have to

00:51start making some pretty juicy compensatory moves to get back to the ball and this is where a lot

00:57of faults start to stem someone who's tipped over way too much we don't see this as much will swing

01:03it up and down too steep and therefore have to stand up and out of their shot so they don't dig

01:08a great big hole down to Sydney it is really important that you get your fundamentals right

01:13to start off with so that's your number one priority if you're trying to swing the club on plane a couple

01:19of things that you can do to ensure that your swing stays on plane or goes up and down on a pretty

01:24decent plane it's first of all check your takeaway to check that very first part of your swing so

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

01:34back so a club that whips on the inside will either keep going end up flat or you'll learn how to

01:39compensate and then that lifting up and sending the club across the line at the top if a club goes too

01:45far on the outside sometimes it can carry on going up quite steep so it's important you get that first

01:50little bit right so you can do a little bit of mirror work at home setting yourself up to an

01:55imaginary ball on the floor just taking the club to your takeaway point and then checking it you do

02:01want to make sure that club head stays in front a little bit so that's where you want to be if

02:06you're someone who whips it on the inside too much feel like you go out of it and that should set

02:10you in a pretty decent direction on the way back getting your swing more on plane can be really

02:16down to 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 pretty much

02:26swing the golf club for you up and down the line that you should be swinging it on but if you don't

02:31happen to have one of those in your golf bag get your seven and your eight iron hold them as best you

02:36can a bit like a hammer so you've got your two clubs settle yourself into a decent posture hovering the

02:42clubs just above the ground and just start to build that basic momentum back and through what that'll do

02:48from a swing plane point of view is start to get you a little bit more online up and down so it takes a

02:57bit of the effort out of it and stops you trying to force the issue