From the start of the back swing, your shoulder should turn slowly over 90 degrees, so that you could see your shoulder in the mirror. Your hip should turn a half of your shoulder’s turn (45 degrees). At this point, you should keep your left hip from being pushed to the right.
Furthermore, your shoulders will turn more easily if you turn it while your right knee stays bent and your right leg is holding most of the tension. Your twisted shoulder should not hide your chin but come under it.
During this back swing, all parts of your body, including the knee, hip, waist, and shoulder, should turn in parallel to the ground.
When the shoulder turn is formed correctly, the down swing becomes easier and impact is more powerful.
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Shift of Weight
There are three axes: center, right and left. During the back swing, your right knee should support the weight of the left side of your body.
Your center of gravity should be shifted to the right by at least 80%. At the swing top, you should prepare to shift your weight that was completely shifted to the right side of your body to the left again.
Upon impact, your weight is shifted more to the left by 60:40 as at the address. At the follow through, all the weight of the right side of your body is shifted to the left, and your right thigh should stick to your left thigh.
The shifting of weight should be effected as much as the axis of your body can support.
Furthermore, it is important that this weight shift should be made within the fixed axes of right and left. Therefore, you need to take special care to prevent your body from swaying during the weight shift. In other words, you should keep your body from wobbling up and down or left and right while shifting weight from left to right.
