How To Cure A Reverse Weight Shift

A reverse weight shift--where you end up with your weight on your back leg as you finish your swing--is one of the biggest robbers of both distance and accuracy. That's the problem that Jerry Shulman wrote me about a while back.

"Don -
I've been following you for over one year and it's helped my golf tremendously. However, I still have problems with the forward swing (after I get to the top). I'm letting the club drop properly, but I CAN'T HELP HITTING OFF MY BACK FOOT most of the time. I just don't feel that I'm striking the ball and moving my my body insync for a solid hit. Can you help?."

Well, Jerry you came to the right place. A reverse weight shift is a very common swing flaw and one that I can usually fix in no time . In my experience, the most common cause of a reverse weight shift is...that's right--POOR ALIGNMENT! If a rightie lines up with his toe line aimed at the target or to the right of it, the only way he can get the club back to the target line is to come over the top. And when this happens, his hips and lower body need to rotate faster so they can get out of the way of the arms as they swing up through the ball. This excessive snap of the hips causes the forward leg to straighten up and the knee becomes locked, rather than remain flexed like we want it. As the arms and hips swing around past the toe line, the momentm causes a weight shift to the back leg, pulling the upper body back with it. That hardly seems like the right way to hit the ball squarely with power, does it?

Another potential cause is a collapsing forward knee, a trademark of a rotational swing that some Surge Swing converts struggle to get rid of. Depending on when the knee collapses, you can either end up with a reverse weight shift or the dreaded EBRT--End of Backswing Reverse Tilt. Either way your swing will go south in a hurry.

So make sure you have your alignment corect as you setup your swing and then keep your lower body still all throughout the backswing. If you do tht you have set yourself up to execute a good Peak Performance Golf Swing.

Keep it vertical!

The Surge

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