After you have established the starting position, it is time to move on to the next part of the golf shot. This is the actual stroke or the actual swing of the club. If you have followed the moves in previous post, you should find this position will provide you with a sense of aim in order to feel the contact with the ball.

The next moves will place you in position where you will be able to lean the club against the ball. In order to do that; however, before you make any attempt to take the club away from the ball, you must shift your weight. Up until this point, your weight will most likely have been on your left foot. It is critical to change your balance from your left foot to your right in order to raise the club freely. The most successful players begin by assuming a position in which they are balanced on their left foot as they address the ball.

The best players also make a subtle point of shifting their weight and moving their balance from their left foot to their right foot before any attempt is made to raise the club to the top of the swing.

That said; there is really only one way in which you can change your balance from one foot to the other.

This is accomplished by changing your knee positions.

To change knee positions one merely reverses the positions. For example, you would bend the left knee and as you do so the right knee will straighten and by reversing the knee positions the weight and balance will now be on the right foot. This maneuver of changing knee positions provides the balance you need for the next step.

As we have previously discussed, any good game of golf is a double-handed, ambidextrous movement. Both hands must be used and both sides of the body must be used. The right side of the body is utilized for the upswing while the left side of the body produces the downstroke and follow through. Therefore, it becomes quite clear the difficulties one can encounter if not properly balanced on the right foot for the upswing and the left foot for the downswing.

By learning to handle your balance and weight you will be better prepared to execute the type of motion and action that is required for the correct shot.

In many ways, the human body is built like a pair of scissors. The left foot and right hand are extensions of one another. As a result, they always work together. The same is true for the right foot and left hand. While you may not realize it at the time, when you stand on your right foot, you are automatically restriction any action of your left arm and hand. Likewise, if you place your weight on your left foot, you will automatically be inhibiting the action of your right arm and hand.

Unfortunately, many golfers take this natural muscular arrangement to understand that the best game of golf can be played with one’s weight divided evenly between both feet.

This is a complete falsehood.

Dividing your weight evenly between your feet does nothing to improve your golf game. Doing so will actually lock you up and destroy any chance you might have of achieving a natural, easy swing.

A good game of golf can only be accomplished by shifting your weight from the left foot to the right foot with a zig-zag movement. The first movement in this two-step process is known as the forward press in which the forward bend of the right knee and the forward press of the hands places you in the perfect position to assume the second move; which is the reversal of knee positions. This is known as the reverse press.

While the forward press and the reverse press as they are frequently known are important, it is critical that one does not become so focused on the importance of these two steps that you over exaggerate them. If this should occur, instead of the weight being properly shifted to the right foot in the reverse press, the weight may instead return back to the left foot; which can make it quite difficult to proceed with any kind of accurate swing.

Once you have accomplished the forward press and the reverse press, you will be able to execute them with such skill and assurance that they will generally be unnoticeable.