Stop SABOTAGING Your Swing & Start Moving Your Lead Shoulder like a PRO! 🙅

u/90DollarStaffMeal 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Any advice or thoughts as to why I have shooting sciatica pain on full swings?”

My brother in christ; I don't think I could contrive a setup or swing better engineered to cause pain, damage, or injury to the back and spine if I tried. First things first, we need to unwind a lot of your thoughts about the golf swing. First and foremost though - you HAVE. TO. watch this video by Athletic Motion Golf about what happens to the spine in the swing - ▶ this video . I mean literally before you do …

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u/throwaway1045820872 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Swing changes?”

Essentially yes. If you stood up out of golf posture and made your shoulder turn, it would be perfectly horizontal. You just add back in the forward bend at the hips to get into a proper setup, and make that exact same movement. Because you are bent forward it will naturally have some component of downward, but it’s not something you should try to add in. Here’s a video from AMG about the shoulder turn. They have …

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u/loophole64 2023 · r/GolfSwing · in “Started golfing, what’s wrong with my swing?”

First of all, the funniest thing about this post is that the jackasses in the comment section who are so busy trying to play out their Jeff Ross fantasies are too stupid to realize that you are doing a lot of things really well in your golf swing. Let's break it down. See this angle here, where your hands are forward of the club head at impact and the shaft is leaning forward? [imgur.com] This is something that 95% …

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u/CptBadAss2016 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Started 5 months ago, what do I need to do to get better.”

Setup, grip and shoulder plane. Setup: ▶ this video Grip: 1 ▶ this video 2 ▶ this video Shoulder plane: 1 ▶ this video 2 ▶ this video Understanding shoulder plane should help with fixing your side bend but for good measure Side bend: ▶ this video The good: You do a good job of keeping your lower body back. Takeaway and plane look good. You absolutely smashed that ball!

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u/HustlaOfCultcha 2023 · r/GolfSwing · in “26 handicap - Any tips would be appreciated. 7 iron.”

I'd start with working on your backswing pivot, first. This will probably make you more laid off and still cause some issues, but at least we can fix that more quickly. This video may help better understand: ▶ this video

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