Good Golf Posture (How to Address the Golf Ball)

[mvmac]

Just filmed this today, will prob add to the OP.  Starting the vid with straight back posture, sticking my gut in to get my head down and the curve in my back.  This feel might help some rather than saying, get your tailbone under you and tilt the neck down.  The head/eyes are tilted down because of the flexion of the cervical spine.  Again you do this by engaging your abs, almost like doing a crunch or if someone was doing to punch you in the stomach.

[iacas]

So just like this, right Mike?

[mvmac]

Originally Posted by iacas

So just like this, right Mike?

Oy vey That writer should be fired lol

[boogielicious]

And Don Cheadle is a decent golfer too!

[mvmac]

Instructor John Dochety brings up some good points on Twitter last night.  When did the whole straight back, stick the butt out stuff start?

[outlaw1984]

good info in the last post....

[cipher]

I guess once you teach something wrong you always teach it wrong.

[mvmac]

Originally Posted by cipher

I guess once you teach something wrong you always teach it wrong.

lol yeah neither one is good, too much bend at the hips.  I just don't get what these guys are seeing when they look at good players.

Faldo and Price, his most famous students

[stoverny]

Regarding anterior/posterior tilt... Are you advocating actively "adding" a little posterior tilt to the pelvis at setup? Or simply to avoid adding too much anterior tilt?

[mvmac]

Originally Posted by stoverny

Regarding anterior/posterior tilt... Are you advocating actively "adding" a little posterior tilt to the pelvis at setup? Or simply to avoid adding too much anterior tilt?

Avoiding too much anterior.

[Stretch]

From the latest Golf Magazine:

[cipher]

And this saying under posture takes away lower body strength?

[iacas]

Originally Posted by mvmac

Avoiding too much anterior.

Which for many means adding some posterior, as Mike would agree. :)

To answer cipher, when you have too much anterior tilt, your hips can't turn (or are less likely to) turn freely.

[cipher]

To answer cipher, when you have too much anterior tilt, your hips can't turn (or are less likely to) turn freely.

Ok so you can definately over do it.

[mvmac]

Originally Posted by cipher

And this saying under posture takes away lower body strength?

In my experience the above is kind of rare to see, I see way more of this below, notice the arch in the lower back.  Yes can do too much of anything in golf ;-)

Some good examples

[Ernest Jones]

Originally Posted by mvmac

In my experience the above is kind of rare to see, I see way more of this below, notice the arch in the lower back.  Yes can do too much of anything in golf ;-)

That hurts my back just looking at it!

[cipher]

That hurts my back just looking at it!

Me too! My lower back is screaming at me. ;)

[iacas]

Originally Posted by mvmac

Some good examples

And another: