How to move your low point forward: 3 clever drills for better ball striking
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Tony Ruggiero shares three low-point drills. GOLF One of the biggest misconceptions in golf is about where the club makes contact with the ball and the ground. Tony Ruggiero, a GOLF Top 100 Teacher , explains that the low point of your swing—or the bottom of your swing arc—actually occurs just in front of the ball, on the target side.
“In order to make the low point happen on the target side of the ball, we want your body and the pressure to be moving towards the target,” Ruggiero says, “You actually want to try to get your center of your body moving towards the target and at the ball or in front of the ball. ” It sounds simple enough, but many amateurs still struggle to get their low point far enough forward. Fortunately, Ruggiero has a few clever drills that can help you practice moving your body and pressure towards the target.
Trail-foot slide drill Without a ball, place a slider— which you can buy here —under your trail foot and get into your normal set up. Take the club back, and as you make your forward swing, Ruggiero says to think about sliding your trail foot back. “[This move] makes all the pressure or weight have to go towards the lead leg,” he says, “and it makes you learn to stay in posture and rotate your trunk over to the [lead] leg.
” If you’re doing it right, you should notice that the club brushes the ground just in front of where the ball would be. Impact drill with resistance For the next drill, you’ll need a light resistance band and something to anchor it to, or a partner to hold it. Loop it around the handle of your club, then step away just enough to take the slack out of the band.