Keeping the Right Heel Planted

[Pretzel]

Hello everyone,

In working to change my swing to try and avoid my heel coming up immediately into the downswing I have been wondering as to why exactly it is a good thing to keep the heel planted. In comparing my swing to those of the pros I can see that nobody is nearly as extreme as me (I'll post another set of videos tomorrow to the "My Swing" thread, but I recorded them today and didn't have time to post them), I just am wondering what the benefit is of having the heel planted as opposed to letting it rise.

In addition to this, I was wondering if there were any other things to do besides the toes up drill to try and work on this. It feels like whenever I do the toes up drill my entire right leg stiffens up and makes the swing quite awkward.

Thanks

[DrvFrShow]

I found the video of the swing that Mike used to illustrate the correction for my takeaway error. Here it is. You can watch her right heel if you wish. Jim McLean hasn't done anything with it.

[mvmac]

Hello everyone,

In working to change my swing to try and avoid my heel coming up immediately into the downswing I have been wondering as to why exactly it is a good thing to keep the heel planted.

If can effect the amount of weight forward at impact, the direction the pressure traces (and hand path), and ability to use the ground to "thrust" off of. Since you're 2, your Key #2 is probably pretty decent but if the heel rises as bad as you say it does, getting it cleaned up will only help your ball striking.

There are good players that have it come off the ground before impact. So it depends on how much you do it and how it affects your swing.

In addition to this, I was wondering if there were any other things to do besides the toes up drill to try and work on this. It feels like whenever I do the toes up drill my entire right leg stiffens up and makes the swing quite awkward.

Thanks

Not really a drill but more of a feeling. Feel like you're "torquing" the ankles counter clockwise on the downswing, gets you to transfer and open.