This New Golf Swing Technique Makes Amateurs Look Like Tour Pros

PGA instructor Eric Cogorno demonstrates how closing your shoulder line at setup and adding right-side depth during the backswing quickly fixes steep downswings, pulls, and weak fades. By adjusting setup alignment and using an alignment stick as a visual path guide, golfers learn to shallow their angle of attack and consistently draw the ball.

• Close your shoulder line at setup so your trail shoulder sits slightly back and your lead forearm is visible from down-the-line.
• Place an alignment stick just inside the ball-target line angled low to serve as a guide for swinging out toward 1 o'clock.
• Practice halfway back to arms parallel rehearsals to feel the toe of the clubhead rotate over the heel through impact.
• Add pelvic and rib cage turn from the takeaway to the top of the backswing to create hand depth and shallow your path.

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