Inside Golf, Australia. August 2014 | Page 55

instruction Key To Golf Lesson #3 than to be positioned vertically above the toes. The right knee remains stable as in the address position. Both feet are flat and heavy in the ground. In doing this a hip turn of between 30 to 40 degrees should be the goal. Building the backswing Now with the hip turn stable, focus on rotating the shoulders against the hips with the chest rotating above the right knee. Feel the coil of the core muscles when you do this. Also note the shoulder turn is as flat as possible and your body is in a balanced and coiled position. A checkpoint is to see that a line through the elbows will be approximately parallel to the ground and at right angles to the target line. The backswing is broken down into two components: 1) Body Pivot and 2) Hand and Arm action. Blending 1 & 2 together in a correct sequence of motion is key. Peter Croker www.keytofgolf.com T he balancing act has arrived where we need to separate out the building of the golf swing step-by-step from taking your new-found swing fundamentals to the golf course in competition. Doorway/Table Edge Exercise We would like to emphasise that playing golf is a separate exercise to building a competent and reliable golf swing – especially when the focus is the backswing. Training Emphasis: Build the feeling of a stable ba ͔