Titleist Tips: How To Maintain Your Posture for a More Consistent Golf Swing

Golf instructors speak a lot about building an efficient swing. What they're trying to do is to build a simple swing without a lot of compensating movements, because a machine with less moving parts can produce a repeatable motion much easier than one with many moving parts. One important way that this applies to the human body and golf is with regards to posture. In the golf swing you want to maintain consistent posture throughout the swing because this gives you the greatest chance to successfully return the club to the golf ball, swing after swing. If you dip down during the backswing or stand up during the downswing, you're effectively lowering or raising the low point of the arc that the club is swing on. So in order to still make contact with the ball, you have to introduce a host of complicated adjustments to make sure you don't swing a foot above the ball or bury the club a foot in the ground. That requires a set of compensations that are very difficult to repeat. And they're simply not necessary. To ingrain the feeling of staying in posture throughout your golf swing, all you need is a club and a chair, as Titleist Staff Instructor Trillium Rose demonstrates in this video. 1. Stand behind a kitchen or dining room chair. Get in your golf posture and make sure that both your right and left hip pockets are touching the chair back. 2. Without a club, rotate back and feel like your right hip pocket (for a right-handed golfer) stays touching the chair back as you reach the top of your backswing. 3. As you rotate and swing back through, your left hip pocket should now be touching the chair back. 4.Your spine angle, the amount you bend forward from your hip joints at address, should remain constant throughout the motion. 5. Once you get used to the feel of maintaining your posture, try the drill again, this time with a golf club in your hands.