Golf Tip:
Create Depth in
Your Backswing
Use a Basket to Help You Turn & Shallow
1 Set Up the Basket
Place a small range basket just outside your right foot—roughly even with the middle of your shoe or slightly back toward your heel.
2 Turn & Create Depth
Turn your body (shoulders, hips and belly), lift your arms, and hinge your wrists. As you turn, your arms elevate and rotate, setting the club over the basket. Your hands stay in front of your turn and land over the basket. The end of the handle should point at the ball or slightly inside the target line.
3 Shallow the Club
Shallow the club on the downswing using the basket as a guide. As you stay in your turn longer and your weight starts shifting to your lead leg, start dropping your hands toward the basket with the handle pointing toward the ball.
4 Impact
Straight lead arm. Trail palm facing the target. Hips cleared and turning through.
5 Balanced Finish
A swing on plane helps produce a balanced finish.
