TIPS FROM THE TOP
Crunch Your Right Side Groove this important side tilt to hit your iron shots better than ever BY CHERYL ANDERSON
THERE ARE TWO MAIN tilts in the golf swing. There is a forward tilt from the hip
towards the ground while your left shoul- der moves up. The average golfer tends to lose this side tilt by thrusting their trail shoulder out towards the target line, set- ting up a swing path that causes a slice or pull and generally poor contact. Read on for a couple of drills to help you improve your downswing. – WITH DAVE ALLEN CHERYL ANDERSON, one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers in America, is director of instruction at the Mike Bender Golf Academy in Lake Mary, Florida.
joints at address, and a side tilt of the upper body away from the target in the downswing. If you’re unable to com- press the ball and hit your irons solid, there’s a good chance that you’re strug- gling with the latter, so let’s work on it. From the top, the feeling you want is that you’re crunching your rib cage on your right side, forming a backward-K look to your body (above). For this to happen, your right shoulder must move
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