initial movement

This exercise promotes good width in the early part of your swing, which is carried all the way to the top. Use the muscles of the lower back to rotate a very compact upper body unit around the central core of the spine, but importantly, whilst the lower part of the body totally resists the movement -- wind the body up fully, and then unwind, but you must try to hold the right arm against the body for as long as possible as the back swing movement is performed.

Another way to think about this is that you are creating a hub and rim-of-the-wheel scenario. The rim (i.e. the clubhead on the end of the spoke, or shaft) has to move faster than the hub (i.e. your body) because it is further away. With practise, improving the start of your swing in this way benefits the entire sequence - with the result that you will hit more solid, straight shots.

Therefore after setting the position of the head slightly behind the ball, I initiate the back swing movement with a forward press and then blend this movement with the action of using the lower back muscles to force the compact upper body unit to rotate around the central core of the spine until the golfer`s back is fully facing the target area. (Or to the limit of your back swing movement) thus using the rotational movement of the upper body unit to literally push the passive arms to the end of the back swing movement, but ensuring that any independent movement of the arms is totally eliminated.

Therefore to assist in this task I ensure that the elbows remain as close together as is physically possible and the back of the left hand remains squarely facing the target area for as long as possible whilst the passive arms are pushed by the rotational movement of the compact upper body unit until the right arm begins to fold thus forcing the forearms to begin to rotate.
( Whilst the back of the left hand is held square to the target line/ball position, the right hand remains on top.)

In addition, I try to keep the clubhead as close to the ground as possible for as long as possible, so that as the back swing is carried out the clubhead only lifts away from the ground in a very gradual manner.

However whilst the back swing movement is performed I concentrate on keeping the muscles of the legs, the thighs and the buttocks in a firm condition and also keep the left heel firmly on the ground.

I also ensure that the weight of my body is evenly distributed over both legs -- but this will gradually move slightly over to the right leg as the back swing is completed.

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