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Club Getting too Much on the Inside?
Stuart Smith

If you are prone to straightening your right leg in the backswing, or over-turning the hips as you take the club back, there's every chance that you take the club back far too much on the inside and fail to coil your body effectively.

There has to be resistance in the lower body. If the lower half of the body turns too much, or too quickly, it fails to offer any real resistance to the upper body, which is why it's all too easy to move the club severely inside.

And without the necessary backswing coil, your power potential is massively reduced.

How to fix it

Try this exercise and see if it doesn't strengthen your leg action and help you to move the club away from the ball on a better line.

All it involves is raising the right heel about an inch off the ground, and keeping it raised (and the right knee and thigh flexed) as you turn against it to make your backswing.

Turning against that flexed right knee is what gets your body coiled. You cannot straighten your leg when your right heel is raised off the ground, so it eliminates that problem, too.

Use this as a rehearsal practice swing on the course to remind you of the sensation of a flexed and resisting lower half.

You will enjoy a much wider and on-line first move away from the ball (left) and experience a real feeling of power as you turn your upper body.