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Golf Lessons Irvine - Lower Body Stability Hi, I'm Ryan Trengrove, I'm owner and director of instructor here at Golf Swing Prescription. I'm a Class A
PGA Member. I'm going to give you some information today on lower body stability. It's one of the most
common things that I see all week long, as I do lots of training with lots of different players of all levels, and if
you get your lower body to be more stable, you're going to have a lot more fun when you're golfing. Here,
on the screen, I have (?) you're going to see what it looks like to have some good lower body stability. If
you look closely, you're going to see that his lower body is going to stay in the same sit and the same flex
as he goes up to the top of his golf swing, as you see right here. And then, he's going to keep that same
flex and sit as he gets back down to the golf ball. So, you can see that that's remaining the same flex and
the same sitting position. The other thing that's very important is the lower body does not sway, okay? So,
the lower body only swivels versus swaying. So, if we can keep the lower body in its flex, we can have it sit,
and we can keep the hip in the same spot, then as we get back to the golf ball, (?) makes a lot of contact.
So, if you take a look over here, what we're going to be doing here in a moment is doing drills. And, one of
the drills that we're going to be doing here is a drill that's older than any drills out there. It's the knees-
together drill. You're going to set up and all you're going to do is you're going to hit some golf balls
standing up here with your feet together, and what it's going to prevent you from doing is going sideways,
because if you go sideways, you're going to lose your balance. So, what you do is you just hit a number of
shots with your feet together, and just practice hitting shots like that. And then, what you do is you widen
your stance and try to feel that same lower body stability where the base is only swiveling versus it
swaying. Okay? The other drill I have for you, which is— I got from Nick Faldo, is the right foot forward,
left leg back drill. Now, what this is going to do is this is going to focus you on keeping the flex in your
right knee. Okay? When he gets it up there with that right leg forward, and the right leg back, and you hit
some shots, you're going to see that you have to keep to flexion in the right knee. So, if you can work on
the feet together drill and then you do the right leg forward drill, like that, then when you get set up to hit
your golf ball, you're going to focus on staying centered- no side to side- and keeping that flex, and if you
do that, you're going to make good contact.
That's all I have for you today. I'll see you next week.