Where To Look If You Cannot Pinpoint Why Your Golf Swing Is Not Working - By: Don Saunders

Most golfers, and especially novices, spend more of their time learning and improving their swing than they spend on just about any other part of their game. Regardless of whether you take lessons from a fellow player or professional, work with DVDs or read about various swing exercises and techniques in books or golfing articles, you will spend months and even years working on your swing.

However, from time to time you will come meet a brick wall and will find that something is not right but you cannot seem to put your finger on it and work out exactly what you are doing wrong. So where do you look for help?

This very common situation normally has one simple cause which hits not only new golfers but also fairly seasoned players and that is that without realizing it you are allowing your back shoulder to dip towards the ground while you are making your back swing. This can be found in all golfers, however is seen most often in players who have a horizontal, as opposed to a vertical, swing plane and develops because you permit your back shoulder to drop as the plane of your swing becomes horizontal.

So exactly how do you go about fixing this particular problem?

Luckily this is one very commonly seen problem that it is also very easy to fix with a little work on the practice ground and all that you need to remember is to take an old golf ball with you.

Prepare yourself to to tee off on the range and then, just before you begin your practice, place your old ball on the ground under the heel of your back foot and press it into the ground so that the ball is about half buried. Then, as you are practising your swing, make sure that your ball does not get buried any deeper. This very simple action will prevent you transferring undesirable weight onto your back foot and thus prevent your back shoulder from dropping.

Placing unwanted weight onto your back foot results in a series of different problems with your golf swing and so this very simple exercise can not only provide a solution to the problem of a dropping back shoulder but can fix a number of other problems at the same time.

About the Author

Donald Saunders has been writing articles on a range of topics for some years now. Visit his most recent website which provides information on Club Car golf carts and golf cart parts and accessories as well as much more.

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