How to check your back swing?

On the driving range you often see golfers swinging and then stopping at the top of their back swing to see if the club is in the correct position or not. But this is a very hard and not very accurate way of telling if your top of the swing position is correct or not.
If in the past you’ve struggled to know if your golf back swing is correct or not then today you’re going to get a great golf drill that will allow you to quickly and easily check your golf back swing.
To do this golf drill you simply have to swing back to the top of it and stop and hold your back swing position for a couple of seconds. Then from this position simply slowly loosen your grip and let the shaft fall down.
Now if the club hits you on the tip of your right shoulder that tells you that your golf back swing is in a good position. But if the club misses your body altogether that indicates that your golf back swing is too flat. And conversely if your club hits your head or neck that indicates that your back swing is too upright.
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If after doing this back swing exercise you find that your top of the position is not where it should be then please don’t do this…
Do not try to manipulate what is happening near the top of your back swing to get the club in a good position, because you must understand that the golf swing is a chain reaction.
The position you get into at impact is the result of the downswing position that you were in. The position you get into in the downswing is a result of how you transitioned from your back swing to the downswing. The position you get into at the top of your back swing is simply the result of the position you were in half way into it. Where the club is half way into your back swing is simply the result of how you took the club away. And finally, the way you took the club away is largely a result of your setup.
So you see, you can’t take one position in your golf swing and try and fix that because the positions that you got into before that determined the future positions. Instead what you need to do is systematically work on getting each phase of the swing the best it can be, working from the setup, take away and on from there. If you do that you’ll naturally and automatically get into a great top of the back swing position.

Two Great Golf Tips For Better Golf Alignment

August 3, 2010 By Jeff Richmond 

Alignment when setting up to hit a golf ball has a critical affect on how good your golf shots are going to turn out. Maybe you believe that, maybe you don’t.  To help you decide read what a golf legend has to say on this alignment issue…
“It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.”
Nick Faldo – Winner of 6 Major Championships
So golf alignment is critically important and here’s a simple exercise that you can quickly and easily do to check your feet alignment.
To do this golf alignment exercise setup to a golf shot as normal and get comfortable. Then just before you’re ready to hit your shot, get two golf balls and without moving your feet place them directly behind your heels so they’re touching your feet. Now take your feet away and go back behind your ball down the line of your target and see how good your alignment was.
The beauty of doing this golf alignment exercise is that it shows you exactly where you are aligning your feet and then you can simply change the golf balls so they align correctly and then setup with these balls touching your heels. If your feet have been aligned incorrectly for a while then it will feel quite strange when you align them correctly. But keep practicing and before long, your new feet golf alignment will become second nature.
So that is a great and easy way to check the alignment of your feet. But you still have to check the alignment of your knees, hips and shoulders as they also have a big affect on your golf shots success. And the absolute best way of checking this is to get a person to get a golf club and lay it across each part of your body once you’ve setup to a shot. But remember, you want each part of your body to be aligned parallel to the starting line of your golf shot.
You do NOT want your body to be aligned directly at your target. A good way to picture this is to imagine yourself setting up to hit a golf shot on railway tracks. Imagine the golf ball on one rail and you’re standing on the other rail.
Golf alignment is critical to your success and consistency so check it often, because it’s very easy to align yourself incorrectly without even knowing. But now you know exactly what you need to do to check your alignment so you have no excuse. So please make an effort to check it often…because it can only do your golf game good.

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(Reuters) - Seve Ballesteros, one of golf's most charismatic players who was renowned for his fist-pumping energy and magical shot-making, died on Saturday at the age of 54 after a long battle with brain cancer.
The Spaniard with the matinee idol looks, who won five major titles in swashbuckling style and inspired a generation of players worldwide, died peacefully at his home in Pedrena, northern Spain, his family said in a statement.
His funeral will be held on Wednesday.
Tributes came pouring in, with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods talking about Ballesteros's unique talent and influence and Nick Faldo describing him as golf's "greatest show on earth".
"Today golf lost a great champion and a great friend," 18-times major champion Nicklaus said in a statement. "We also lost a great entertainer and ambassador for our sport.
"It was his creativity, his imagination and his desire to compete that made him so popular. Seve's enthusiasm was just unmatched by anybody I think that ever played the game."
A winner of three British Opens and two Masters titles, Ballesteros gave golf a much-needed lift in the mid-to-late 1970s.
Along with Briton Tony Jacklin, he was also chiefly responsible for reviving Europe's fortunes in the Ryder Cup team competition.
A man of humble background, he became a father figure for Spanish golf and replaced American Arnold Palmer as the game's most flamboyant and charismatic figure.
Ballesteros won 87 titles worldwide, 50 of them on the European Tour, and captained Europe to Ryder Cup victory at Valderrama in Spain in 1997.
He claimed his first major in the 1979 British Open at Royal Lytham, earning the tag of 'car park champion' after conjuring remarkable rescue shots from all parts of the course.
WALL SHOT
Billy Foster, one of his former caddies, told Reuters he remembered trying to dissuade Ballesteros from going for a seemingly impossible shot from behind an eight-foot (2.5-metre) wall at a tournament in Switzerland.
"He waved me away and proceeded to hit a wedge with half a backswing over the wall, through some trees where there was a tiny gap the size of a dinner plate, over a swimming pool, over 60-foot trees, and got it five yards short of the green and then chipped in," said Briton Foster.
"Seve just laughed and I got down on my hands and knees and bowed to him."
Former world number one Woods, winner of 14 majors, was "deeply saddened" to learn of the Spaniard's death.
"Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game," Woods said on Twitter.
"His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon."
Faldo, a six-times major winner, said in a statement: "He was a leader; bringing the spotlight to the European Tour, paving the way to European success at the U.S. Masters and bringing his relentless passion to the Ryder Cup.
"For golf he was the greatest show on earth. I was a fan and so fortunate I had a front row seat."
The death of Ballesteros was poignantly felt at the Spanish Open being played in Terrassa in the north east of the country where players wore black ribbons and observed a minute's silence.
While flags at the course were flying at half-mast, Jose Maria Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez embraced on the practice range at the start of the day as they remembered their friend and compatriot.
From the age of seven, Ballesteros used a cut-down three-iron on the beach near his home in Santander and this helped him master the art of the manufactured shot from just off the green.
His brilliant, and often miraculous, shot-making dazzled generations of players around the world.
"I've always said most of us could shoot 65 in about 30 or 40 ways," Zimbabwe's former world number one Nick Price said in a statement. "He could do it about 10,000 different ways.
"He could miss every fairway, chip in five times, hole two bunker shots. He was so creative around the greens."
UNIQUE LEGACY
European Tour chief executive George O'Grady said Ballesteros was an inspiration as a player and as a man.
"Seve's unique legacy must be the inspiration he has given to so many to watch, support and play golf and finally to fight a cruel illness with equal flair, passion and fierce determination," O'Grady said in a statement.
"We have all been so blessed to live in his era. He was the inspiration behind the European Tour."
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge described Ballesteros as a "once in a generation athlete" in his sport.
"Seve Ballesteros was a man of incredible skill, charisma and courage as a sportsman and the dignified way he fought against his disease was characteristic of the man and was an inspiration to us all," Rogge said in a statement.
Britain's Graeme McDowell, the U.S. Open champion, said on Twitter: "One of my favourite lines I have read (today) ... 'Apparently God needed a short-game lesson'. RIP Seve."
Ballesteros's brain tumour was discovered when he collapsed at Madrid airport in late 2008 and was rushed to a nearby hospital.
He had four operations and a course of chemotherapy, appearing in public again for the first time in 2009.
"Today, at 2.10 a.m. Spanish time, Seve Ballesteros passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at his home in Pedrena," the family said on Saturday.
(Additional reporting by Iain Rogers in Madrid, editing by Tony Jimenez. To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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