[INSTRUCTIONAL] Tour Like Upper Body Movement Techniques 🏌️♂️
4 golfers recommended it · 2022–2025
Explainer · Intermediate
Explains upper body movement like a tour player, covering spine angle, side bend and shoulder plane.
Why golfers recommend it
- Spine angle and side bend
- Rotation and standing up
- Shoulder plane at top
- Lead shoulder shrug tension
Summaries are written by AI from what golfers said about the video.
4 comments from Reddit
u/Radiant-Ad8306 2023 · r/GolfSwing · in “[deleted by user]”
It looks more like you just “look” laid off but it’s because you stand up at the top of your backswing. And your shoulder plane gets too flat, look at your shoulder plane at 20 seconds in the video, it’s pointing like 30 feet in front of the ball. ▶ this video Here’s a video to help
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u/triiiiilllll 2022 · r/GolfSwing · in “Why do I over-extend?”
Yeah, in general you want to maintain that inclination towards the ground. In a 2D view it looks like "spine angle" but of course you have a 3D body, so as you're turning it goes from Spine Angle to Side Bend, then back to Spine Angle and to Side Bend (other side) through impact. One way to feel this, is to feel like through your downswing your chest is pressing forward and down on to the ball. You don't actually …
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u/loophole64 2023 · r/GolfSwing · in “Any idea why I hook the ball and hit it fat?”
You have very little rotation of your chest and hips going back. It’s mostly an arm swing. At the top of your backswing, you lose all shoulder and hip tilt as you stand up and start whipping your arms through. As you do that stand up move, your club drops way too low and gets stuck behind you. This causes you to flip the club very early to attempt to compensate and have to over rotate the club head. Early flip + no …
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u/CptBadAss2016 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Chicken wing fix”
This swing fault here is actually not talked about much and a pretty tough one to fix. I'm not surprised no one has mentioned it yet. Your lead shoulder is shrugged through the swing when it should be relaxed. You need to learn to let go of the tension in your upper trap. Watch the motion in your lead shoulder, in the start of the downswing it moves a little bit left then straight up and back. The lead shoulder …
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