Golf Tip: Practice With Your Feet Together for More Distance

In today’s golf tip, we’ll take a look at a simple drill that’s sure to add some power to your swing.

In today’s golf tip, we’ll walk through a very effective drill. Practicing with your feet together can lead to more distance.

This drill helps you achieve extra distance by not swaying to the right as you turn and also helps with your inside-out attack on the downswing. Put the ball either in the middle of your feet or slightly behind that. Take your normal stance, with the only difference being that your feet are touching. Use the same knee and waist bend. Turn and show the target the number on your back as if you are wearing a jersey. Then clip the “dandelion stem” on a path from 7:00 to 1:00. The ball is the yellow flower of the dandelion, but you are there to clip the stem.

You will be turning your trunk, which creates a lot of power and puts you in a position to attack the ball from the inside. It will feel like a slow swivel or twist. Remember to show the target the name and number on the back of that jersey! You will be shocked at how far you can hit a ball with your feet together as you learn to depend less and less on the sway to the right during your backswing. There is a good deal of centrifugal force here, helping you swing faster without even realizing it! Turn that back to the target and clip the stem out to the right a little.

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By swinging out, you are attacking the ball from the inside out and getting a better downswing path. Again, this golf tip helps you to rotate your trunk on the backswing and maintain an inside-out path on the downswing, where you can spend the centrifugal force! If you trace your shaft angle plane (tracing the golf club with a line in a video lesson), you can see if the clubhead follows during the downswing. The longer the club, the more you can expect the clubhead to be under the shaft angle plane on the way down. Going through the plane with the clubhead means you are attacking from the inside out with centrifugal force.

Most players are told to do this drill if they are swaying on the way back. If you sway, that means you lack torque, probably because your flexed back knee and the inside of your back foot are not holding during the turn of your back on the backswing. There is an obvious move to the right that can be easily seen on video. Players are also told to do this drill if they swing outside in instead of inside out. Outside-in attacks are steeper and usually come with an open clubface, creating one of the weakest hits in golf. Swing under and out!

If your video shows a sway to the right and then an over-the-top downswing, start putting this golf tip to use immediately! This is a very old drill that has worked for ages. You can do it with a little bit of practice. Once you experience the “big booming hits” that lack sway and have an inside attack, you will hold on to this one for a lifetime!

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