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EOGA Weekly Tip
Torso rotation
With André Loots (EOGA Arabella)
Do you want to deliver consistent distance with your golf swing?
One of the keys to a consistent golf swing is upper body rotation. If a player is limited in his upper body and can’t rotate properly in the back swing, he is more likely to manipulate the swing by picking up the club, losing posture and early extend when hitting a shot. These swing faults will lead to bad ball striking and frustration on the course.
There are a few physical exercises that you can do to improve your upper body mobility and this is the fastest and easiest way to get rid of the swing faults.
1. We first need to do a test to determine if the problem is limitations in the body or bad habits in the swing.
Test 1: upper body disassociation
This will test if you can disassociate the upper body from the lower body.
• Get in your 5 iron posture. Place your hands on your shoulders and see if you can rotate your upper half without moving your lower half.
• If you struggle with that, ask someone to help stabilize your lower body and try again.
- If you can do it now, you have a stability problem.
- If you still can’t do it, you have limited mobility problem.
Test 2: seated trunk rotation
• Sit on a chair with your feet crossed and hold a club on the back of your shoulders.
• Rotate in the back swing and follow through.
- If your rotation is less than 45 degrees either way, your rotation is limited.
2. Here are some exercises to improve your upper body mobility
Open books rip cage
• Laying on your side with legs on top of one another, put your bottom hand on your top knee and your other hand on your rip cage.
• Rotate open without moving your lower body and try to get the top shoulder on the ground. Repeat 10 times before doing the other side.
Reachbacks with locked lumbar spine
• Get down with your hands and knees on a mat and lower your bum to your heals.
• Put your one forearm on the mat right underneath your head and the other hand holding your neck. Open your chest as far as you can without lifting your spine.
• Do 10 reps each side.
One-leg internal rotation
• Place your right foot in front of your left. Hold a club over your shoulders and rotate into the back swing (right handed player) by focusing on only rotating the upper body and keeping the lower body stable.
• Do 10 reps and then swap the feet before doing the other side.
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