As the title suggests, this is how I start my forward swing. It is not the only way to do it, but it is my way and I’m presenting it to give you an option in addition to all the other stuff you see on the internet.<\/p>\n
The move is this: my left butt cheek moves straight back. No turn, no slide, cheek straight back.<\/p>\n
Of course it can’t do that really, it turns, but it feels straight back. <\/p>\n
I move my hip back at a tempo that is in harmony with the rest of my swing. I make it fit in. Not too slow, and definitely not too fast.<\/p>\n
What I get out of it is a turn of my torso that lines up everything so the arm\/hand assembly flows into the hitting area with the clubhead traveling at the target through impact.<\/p>\n
The hands lead the clubhead effortlessly through the ball and I get nice ball-then-ground contact off the center of the clubface.<\/p>\n
All that is what you want in your swing, and this is how I get it.<\/p>\n
There’s a Mike Malaska video in which he says the left leg pushes the left hip socket back on the forward swing. I think I am getting the same result in a different way. <\/p>\n