How Long Should Your Backswing Be? Fix Your Overswing With This Simple Drill
PGA Professional Matt Baker explains how a proper transition dictates the natural length of your golf backswing and eliminates overswinging. Using athletic motion concepts and drills like the Step Drill, golfers learn how shifting pressure forward as the club completes its backswing creates stretch, power, and ideal control.
Backswing length should be dictated by your natural flexibility and transition timing, not a rigid mechanical position.
The golf swing is a continuous fluid motion rather than distinct backswing and downswing phases with a stopped 'top' position.
Initiate forward pressure shift into your lead side before the club completely finishes moving backward.
Use the Step Drill to train proper sequencing and create dynamic stretch in your core.