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Does your front foot move during the swing?


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Years ago. I used to have an upright swing very much resembling Nicklaus and the flying elbow. I vaguely remember the heel of my front foot raising a few inches off the ground being pulled by my hips and shoulder turn, then on the downswing a trigger was to slam the front heel down while pulling the club down on plane. This worked quite well at the time and I was also more flexible and probably more coordinated.  Over the years my swing changed drastically to a more flat swing, elbows close to the torso. It has been a long time, but I seem to recall I was driving the ball a lot further then. Sometimes just for fun, I will attempt that upright, flying elbow swing and it still works pretty well, its just that I do not have confidence in it and also I don't want to take the chance of interfering with the swing I have grooved in since.  If you search archives of golf swings of years past, a lot of the instruction at the time talked about "slamming the left heel down" e.t.c.   Almost like a see-saw thing, left heel up on backswing, left heel down-right heel up during downswing The whole process was to aid in weight transfer, not thinking about it consciously, but just naturally occurring.

It did work.

"James"

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I think it rotates a little bit at the very finish of the follow through.  But NOT during backswing or through contact.

I'm ok with that because I want to fully complete my follow through of the hips.

Also both knees have had ACL reconstruction so I don't want to push either of those joints (outside of controlled training).

Once I noticed it, I've eliminated nearly all of it by setting up that lead foot just a little more open at the start.  It's a bit more comfy too.  I'd rather it be in a position to not rotate at all - just in case my shoes bite really hard, i don't want my follow through, through trained habit, to twist my knee.

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