Golf Tip: Creating Torque in Your Swing for Extra Power (Video)

If you want more distance you need more torque and this golf tip will help you get it.

This golf tip will help you deliver more power to the ball and get you more distance. There’s a hidden bonus. It will also help your ball fly to the target. The secret is torque.

Let’s take a closer look at golf swing physics. Turning the upper body into a resisting lower body is key to creating torque and power into your swing.  Learning what represents the upper body and what represents the lower body is helpful in creating this torque.

Here’s how you set up:

• Begin by keeping the right knee flexed and stable.
• Keep the weight on the inside of the right foot as the back turns and puts more weight on it.  The back knee and inside of the back foot team up to resist the turning of the back.
• Pivot around this “post” that you created as you turn your back and give the back foot more weight.

Let Chris Ownbey demonstrate:

Golfers who can turn without the  flexed back knee moving to the right, or the back foot moving to the right will build torque!  Many golfers have to learn this resistance.

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Take a video lesson with a vertical line drawn outside the back of the right knee and up to the waist.  If your knee moves to the right of the line for right handed players, you are swaying and losing resistance to the turning of the back.  This sway move will likely result in a fat shot where the divot starts behind the ball.

I try to think of a pitcher’s mound  under my back foot which forces the weight on the inside of the back foot.  I turn my back and try to show the target my number on my jersey and resist that turn with my stable and flexed back knee.

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Put a wedge of wood, or anything that helps to feel the inside of the back foot.  So many golfers error in letting the weight go to the outside of the back foot, which is a sway in itself and a loss of resistance and torque.

After learning to turn into the stubborn, flexed back knee and inside of back foot, much torque is created.  Now all that is left is to push off the mound, or the inside of the back foot and transfer your weight to your front foot on the downswing.

Clean hits with lots of distance are much more possible with a swing built around torque.  Remember, the backswing is an “upper body” vs. “lower body” motion!

Did this golf tip help? Are you seeing more distance off the tee? On your approach?

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