Swing Plane Drills

If you keep your golf swing on plane, you've got a great chance of hitting a satisfying shot. Here are eight great drills to help you nail the perfect swing plane.

A lot of people say take it back on one-plane and drop it on a flatter plane, but the second you drop it on a flatter plane you have changed your radius, you have changed your arc and you can not square the club to the ball. There is no way that can be done; the backswing must always work on the same plane as the downswing.

One of my absolute favorite drills for average golfers is called the L Swing. We have been using this forever at our golf schools and we get great results with it.

As we look at the club, for our purposes the club has three parts. It has a shaft, anything attached to the shaft like the grip, is part of the shaft. It has a clubface, and it has a clubhead, which is the weight or the mass. You have to learn to control all three of those.

Do you want to make your misses narrower with all your shots? Check this out, I have two hula hoops at a precise angle, which is the same angle that the club would be at address. You can also use alignment sticks to do this drill. Guess what your job is? It is to swing the club between those two hula hoops and not hit them. Then the club would be staying on plane or on its path.

One of the things I wrote about in the 'Eight Step Swing' and I have spoken to professionals and people all over the world is swing plane. It is a difficult concept because the plane changes, everyone has a different swing plane depending on their height, their stance and their build.

An ingredient in the swing that is created by the proper motion, if I have posture and I have wind-up and I know how to hinge where my arms work correctly, the plane or the path that the clubhead travels on is created by those movements together. This is a good way for you to check your plane on the practice tee.

Here's a really good drill to help you focus on swing plane and learn it without a lot of thinking.

Quality practice versus quantity practice is always very important in order to improve your golf swing and your golf game. One of my favorite drills to do with my students is to grab their bag and show them that their standing bag matches the shaft plane of their club when they set up to the ball.