GOLF: How To Rotate Your Chest To Improve Your Contact

Hey guys, in today's video we're going to talk about how to

rotate

your

chest

to

improve

contact

. Hey guys Eric, here at Bethlehem Golf Club, I want to talk to you today about how to

rotate

your

chest

to

improve

contact

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I'll also put a link in the description. Now let's talk. about how to rotate your chest and how that will affect your impact and make you hit the ball more solidly, in general, how I want to format this is, let's talk about why chest rotation specifically during your downswing is an important factor in hitting the ball. is more solid and it really is a big factor in getting all the downswing pieces that we all want for the solidity of contact number two, we're going to give you some control points of where in space your chest should be at certain points and then let's talk about the exercises you can perform Continue with the range and use to practice step number one.

The goal of this video in kind of a sentence is to say that the more open you can have your chest during your downswing to a certain point, but more or less stock across the board by the time you get there. you are at impact, the highest probability of solidity of contact is the low point of your swing, if you want to think about it, it is a kind of loose run where the points of your sternum in space are roughly associated with the low point of your swing or something like that. where the club is going to hit the ground we know that if we want to hit the ball solid we want the club head to hit the ball first and hit the ground second or have our low point in front of the ball now if we said the sternum and where that point in The moment of impact is loosely associated with where the club will hit the ground.

We said we want the club to hit the ground after the ball or in front of the ball. That means your sternum should be pointing to where it is in front of the ball at the moment. from impact, so if I make a downward movement with the buttons on my shirt, will the buttons on my shirt be like the breastbone? If I go down impact, the buttons on my shirt point behind the golf ball, which means my lowest point is most likely behind it. the golf ball, meaning thick and thin contact, if I land at impact and my shirt buttons are pointing more towards the front of the ball, the club is now more likely to bottom out in front of the ball, better contact Now that it could be a full video, you could start with just those.

I might start by hitting some shots and feeling like, hey, even with just little pitch shots, let me lock in and feel like the buttons on my shirt are pointing in front of the golf ball right now. of impact, so I just hit the 8 iron a little bit. I'm going to take a backswing and my first move in transition will feel like the buttons on my shirt are pointing in front of the ball. Now, of course, this is all relative to the backswing pieces and we'll have the checkpoints in a minute, but let's make the buttons on the shirt feel like they're pointing more forward from here and let's disconnect a couple and see what happens to your Contact now if you are someone who has a super steep descent. and you are more exaggerated, then you probably still need to learn to follow the stick first before you get to this right point, you will have to combine it with this because it will make you steeper, but only for comfort from the contact.

The buttons on the shirt point more forward. How far ahead is all relative. I'm going to hit one feeling like they're pointy like four inches. See what my contact is like. Maybe it won't make it better. So I'll feel like it's pointed like maybe a foot inward. In front, maybe two feet, maybe I feel like it's completely on target. You want to exaggerate that a little bit, so I'll do the same thing, just break off a couple, feeling the buttons on my shirt further forward and seeing what that does to my contact now, ideally. And ideally those are crisp little pitch shots and what good players do is rotate their chest to open it up a little bit and make the clock shallow, so that raises a lot of questions, but Eric, if I rotate my chest too early? , am I not going to pass? the top and the answer is no, you have to learn to shallow your stick, right, it's a separate movement pattern that needs to happen, so we want chest rotation with shallow stick, but like I said before, yeah It matters how much you rotate your chest. er in the back so there are some proportions we need to know so let's talk about where the chest should be in space throughout the entire swing so where your chest is pointing throughout the swing is relevant to the overall idea of ​​hey , I want to get my The chest is more open during the descent, so I want to combine it with a shallow descent.

First solidity to contact. Let's give you a couple of images in a kind of original model. Here would be the chest or shoulder positions in the swing if it went up. up I'm going to put my club over my shoulder she'll bring this up a little bit but my club over my shoulders here just for reference if I go up to the top of my swing the general idea would be him have a 90 degree shoulder turn to the right even a little bit more okay, but let's say a 90 degree shoulder turn at the top which makes the bows of my shirt on my chest point basically backwards behind me now in the early transition phases as I come. down when I get to left arm parallel during the downswing, which would be from about this position to about here, so the first foot of the downswing, like let's say, my shoulders and where my chest is going to point are going to go from 90 degrees. they closed only at 45 degrees so it was 90 and they went up to 45 meaning they opened 45 degrees so when I go up to the top I'm 90 with my left arm parallel at 45 now my chest is pointing at 45 degrees from this manner. by the time I get to the last parallel, which would be here in my swing at the bottom, now I'm looking for my shoulders to be pretty close to square or the alignment would be roughly in line with my toes, so the buttons on my shirt are basically pointing directly at the golf ball by the last parallel and then when I get to impact, I'm looking for this to be open about 30 degrees, which would be the locations of my sternum pointing in front of the golf ball, like this that I'm 90 degrees sternum and chest completely away from the target when I get to the left arm parallel over here, I'm at 45 degrees closing my shoulders, so the buttons on my shirt are about 45 degrees this way at the last parallel so that the buttons on my shirt reach the golf ball.

The idea is to roughly this position in my swing and then I'm 30 degrees open at impact, which means the buttons on my shirt are, let's say, a foot or so in front of your golf ball at the start. I can hit some of those essays correctly. I have a club on the ground I can go 90 degrees match that club on the way back I have enough spin at the beginning to do this and then I could put the club at about 45 degrees and say hey my first foot of the downhill I want to get there now myself I'm opening my hips and my chest and my shoulders everything is opening boom up there and then I can put the club on the line of my toes and I can go from here to there the moment I have last parallel and then I can also put the stick about thirty degrees to the left and match that so they do some little feedback exercises that you guys can use I'm here and then I'm down there for impact to feel how much they are Opening now the question always comes up: isn't it supposed to that I should keep my chest and shoulders back and open my hips?

There's a ratio between these things that I want to briefly explain and then we'll get into some exercises in terms of how I'm getting at this, think about it this way, if I'm on top in my original model, my chest and shoulders are turned 90 degrees, my hips are turned 45, so chest and shoulders are 90, hips 45 from here, so when I reach left arm parallel during the downswing, so about the first foot of my descent, my shoulders are now closed at only 45 degrees and in that same position my hips should be square, which means both my chest, shoulders and my hips or think just about my chest.

My hips turned 45 degrees in the first two feet, they moved the same amount 90 degrees at the top of the shoulders 45 with the hips at the beginning parallel I now have 45 with the shoulders and that square with the hips, they both turned the same amount , but from this position from here during the descent to here, through here, through here, your chest and your shoulders rotate more than your hips, okay, stay with me here, rotate all the way up, all my shoulders, chest and hips rotate. the same amount for the first foot or so of the downswing and then from there the chest and shoulders open faster than the hips, so the hips have a little initial pop and then the chest and show are going down. catching up, so you're trying to catch up. the buttons on your shirt in front of the golf ball, those are some control points, some clubs on the ground that you can use as feedback exercises in relation to what you should feel and, again, you're always backing that up with videos, it's okay so now we hope to be ready to start hitting let's say we want to improve our contact we want to add some chest rotation and here we assume that general body rotation or an increase in body rotation so that your body is more open to the Goal is universally a good thing if your descent pattern is too steep or exaggerated and you simply add more chest rotation, that will make you exaggerate more.

Yes, that's what you should do in that scenario. Still, you should AB rotate your chest and shoulders as much as you can and learn. how to make the shaft shallower you shouldn't say hello since I'm at the top I'm not going to do this whole chest rotation thing that will make me more exaggerated no, no, you open up more you learn to make the shaft shallower shaft, we have a lot of complementary videos, we have a rotation masterclass, a lot of things on the site at kornél golf comm and you want to open up how I would start practicing this is by recording yourself and seeing where you are. in space it really matters where your chest is in space if I tell you, hey, you want to open your chest, imagine you do a backswing where you just turn 70 degrees, well, I said the whole model is based on a big turn at the right.

The 90 degree backspin is good, if you only turn 70 and I turn 90, you are already 20 degrees more open than me, so you, who are already 20 degrees more open than me, still feel the same amount of rotation of the open chest than me, whose back is more open. probably not, as I retreated further. I need to check more since you backtracked less. You don't need to open that much, so it's really relative to where you're going. I highly suggest if you have contact issues and are looking to add rotation to your downswing. The first time check that you have a full chest roll on the way back and then don't do it.

Feel free from there to open it. If you have a big enough backswing, you have complete freedom. to open as much as you want, say that once again it is important if you have a big enough backswing, you have complete freedom to open as soon as you want, the only scenario in which you won't is if you don't turn back far enough because you're going to get too tight, so how I would start this would be: I'm going to make the buttons on my shirt point behind me, away from the target and then I'll have them point towards the target as the first thing that starts my bad streak, that's how I would start this process and of course I would record it to double check it and not just guess, so I'll say, hey, I want to open the buttons on my shirt, but I know Eric said I need to do that.

I'm going to turn all the way back to do it, so I'm going to do some half movements. I will feel like I get a full 90 return about halfway back and then begin my descent pointing my chest toward the target. As soon as I can, shirt buttons back, shirt buttonsback and my checkpoint, in my feeling, I can even throw this into some fields, hey, I know I'm supposed to be here fully rotated, initial little bursts of 45 degrees and then on impact. I should feel like I'm up here. I should feel an impact like my shirt and the buttons on my chest are like feet in front of the ball, but if I'm not normally open enough, I might as well feel the buttons on my shirt back. get some shirt movement buttons along the way, let's go ahead and do that one more time, so turn both ways and the last thing I want to make clear with this is that if you don't turn your chest, maybe we should have led with This, if you don't turn your chest on the follow through, everything else goes to if I do a downswing and my chest stays pointed at the ball, how the hell can I open my hips enough if I do a downswing my chest stays pointed? towards the ball how the hell can I get my handle far enough forward in space if I make a downward motion with my chest do I stay pointed at the ball how do I maintain good wrist structure on the way how do I? continue with the rotation how do I have control of the face the answer is if you don't write you don't do it if I do a downswing and keep my chest pointed at the ball the whole time and I don't turn what is going to happen is that The speed of the head of the club as they go through somewhere it will go through is my arms and hands.

I'm not going to have much lean shaft the club heads are going to flip over high loft dynamic bad contact bad face control if I want high spin you have to rotate everything you can't just rotate your hips you have to rotate everything and you can start practicing that even from here, if I take my ready position and I want to get to a follow through position, let's say this is my follow up, let's say that at the moment when my arms are parallel to the ground and the path through my goal in practice would be to have everything square to the target my belt fasten the buttons on my shirt hips and shoulders okay if I want to get here and my goal is everything square with my arms parallels how could I do that if my chest stays pointing at the ball which never happens.

At some point I have to physically bend my arms in that scenario. The only way I can keep my arms extended and keep my elbows close. Good risk conditions is keeping my chest moving forward so I can make some changes where I sit here. what it feels like to make some changes where I'm just doing little movements backwards and come back to that point and feel like my chest and my belt buckle are pointing completely toward the target when I have my arms. parallel, that was a gobbler and they went about a hundred yards, let's do one more, so little chip shots.

I'm trying to get here completely square, all completely turned with my chest facing the target with my arms parallel and the only way I can fully rotate. through is if I keep my chest moving, so there are a lot of things about chest rotation, all to say that you need to keep rotating it, understand that you need to learn to shallow your shaft, the further you go back, the more freedom you will have. the path, but trying to keep your shoulders back, chest back, etc., is a recipe for a lot of problems later. I would recommend rotating it, it's what the best players in the world do, that's what you should do too.

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