Lesson of the Week: Mike Erickson- Keeping the Hips in the Box in the Backswing

Mike is a big guy at 6’3” and 230 lbs., and he is as solid as a rock with a muscular chest and large upper arms.  For a person built like Mike who is not already an excellent player to have a decently correct swing that meets the ball with the hands forward on iron shots simply cannot have a long backswing that doesn’t get to that length without multiple errors, such as what you see here, wildly overactive legs in the backswing along with bent arms and a ton of right shoulder pull back.  Feeling the legs stay “in…

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