There’s no dancing around it, leg work is key

I AM asked all the time by the students that come to see me about the movement of their legs and, as an extension, their feet.

This becomes front and centre for most golfers because it is easier to feel good and\or bad movement in your legs than say in your torso.

These feels can really be distracting and take up most of your brain space, particularly if you have expansive movement that effects balance.

As a basic concept your legs should be the base on which your torso, arms and club swing.

This base should be strong enough and stable enough for you to swing as fast as you can but still control the club head and therefore your distance and direction.

The popular faults with leg movement are sliding and straightening.

Sliding is where your legs move back and forth in the direction of the target and nearly always makes it impossible to rotate your torso the correct way.

This movement will also guarantee that you lack power.

Leg straightening in the backswing is a bit more complicated and has a few different versions.

But they all cause extreme inconsistency.

This inconsistency will be both direction and contact.

Your right leg should be your focus here, you want it to maintain the same flex it had at address for the entire backswing.

Your body should feel like it rotates and pivots into your right leg and hip in the backswing, this pivoting action stores power for your downswing.

Correct leg work is the platform for an effortless powerful golf swing.

So if you know you do a bit of dancing around then it is well worth the effort to sort your leg action out.