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I’ve been watching my left foot step forward in transition, my left leg stays forward too long in the downswing, and the club exit above the plane to the right forever with my longer clubs, especially the driver. I can see it, and I’ve had numerous ideas about how to fix it, but the pattern still exists and seems impervious to correction unless I give it total attention, which is detrimental to the rest of my swing and doesn’t work on the course in competition. I do have an excuse in that I have a fused lower spine and my trunk mobility is challenged, but I always feel as though the correct understanding of the issue and the right thoughts could correct the problem and change the pattern. I was thinking about what my friend Jeffery Mann explained to me about the right side pelvic muscles in the backswing and how you can move the pelvis backwards (thus rotating it) without rotating the femur, meaning that the upper right leg can resist twisting clockwise even while the pelvis is rotating in that fashion. It occurred to me that the same idea would hold true with the left side of the pelvis, and that if I didn’t consciously try to rotate the left femur along with the left side pelvic rotator muscles the upper leg would tend to stay more in place while the pelvis tried to rotate to the left. The new thought would be that if I wanted to see my left knee and upper leg clear to the left sooner in the forward swing and get deeper approaching impact (which would allow better use of the ground through impact) I would have to try to include the entire left leg from the knee up to the pelvis when I thought about rotating the hips faster in the forward swing.
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