Pre-Loaded Heavy Right (for right handers) is one of the basic tenants of the PPGS that goes in opposition to what everyone is taught with a rotational swing. This video explains the concept and offers some tips to check if you are setup properly.
The right foot (the one fartheset from the target) is always in the same location relative to the ball and the left foot changes positions based on the club being used. We also flare our feet especially the one closest to the target so that we can make a perfect T-finish. The location of your right foot can be determined using a club to drop a line onto the ground from your armpit of your rearward shoulder.
The idea about being preloaded heavy on your trailing side can be seen in many other sports, i.e. baseball pitchers, softball pitchers, tennis players, etc. Pre-loaded heavy right (or left for left-hander) allows you to be ready to fire and at the same time gets your head behind the ball.
Comments
Starting and staying with PPGS
Hello everyone, I have been on the site on and off for about three years now, however I'm sad to say that I really never put this swing into use. So after much frustration and almost quitting after such a terrible round last weekend I decided to just go ahead and dive in head first with PPGS. A friend of mine has always told me about Surge and his method but stubborn me wanted to stay with the rotational garbage out there. I am a senior (60) and have only been playing about four years or so, I also have had back surgery for a ruptured disc (L1) sixteen years ago, the rotational stuff just doesn't agree with me. Last night I started watching some of Surge's You Tube videos and just seen how much less stress that a vertical swing will have on my back, knees, and other parts of the body. I got up a got a club and started some easy practice swings in the living room and it just felt natural to me, I have always pictured in my mind this is how the swing should be for me. Anyway this weekend it will be off to the range to see what happens, I know it is a work in progress but I'm sure that I will have more fun and enjoy playing the game instead of dreading the next shot. Thanks.
Honest and true
Great story about the PPGS. I loved how you worded it! If there is any questions you have, please let us know!
Thanks I'm sure I will have
Thanks I'm sure I will have plenty of questions! Heading to the range in the morning and start this new journey I think it's going to be fun.
Good Luck!
G55:
I hope you stick with it, your back will thank you (along with the rest of your body). I have a herniated disk - so far it has only caused some soreness and numbness - but there is no way I could play the amount of golf I am playing without this swing.
Suggestion - make sure you know the fundamentals, especially alignment and posture. I have been struggling because I think I was too upright and wasn't preloaded as this video shows. So my last outing I paid close attention to this. Shot +11 with 3 birdies. Hit it much better. I need to stay behind the ball and not move the sternum when I bump. Watch more of the videos on YouTube, or get some of the Surge's info. I wish you nothing but the best, if you stick with this you will not be disappointed.
DJ: Hope you are working hard, looking forward to your next start. Good luck, hoping for a result like Herman and Stroud. No status to full time!!!
Surge: Hope you are well and thanks again for your teachings - I have been on this site for about 7-8 years and have many great results and a lot less pain.
Surgites: Play well and stay safe my friends.
Jerry - Warren, MI
Thanks Jerry
I will be watching a lot of Surge videos this weekend I'm sure, actually I live in the Charlotte, NC area just a little ways up the road from Surge's. I would sure like to meet him one day. A friend of mine knows him from the early days and he is the one that put me on to him when I first got started in this crazy game I love. I know it will be easier on the body for sure. Take care and God bless
Your welcome
I would like to meet him too. Thinking about going to the golf school he is having in Michigan in September. Take care yourself and thanks for the blessing, He does every day :)
Jerry
Pre-Loaded Heavy Right Points of the PPGS
Do you do Pre-Loaded Heavy Right in a green-side bunker?
PLHR
Surge,
I adopted your system several years ago and played the best golf of my life. I have been ill recently and have been unable to play but still enjoy your lessons. In your PLHR video you talked of ball position but did not say where the ball should be relative to your feet. I always understood that the ball should be in line with your front foot arch but in this video you talked that your rear foot stays the same and your stance widens out by moving your front foot. It appears the ball is only a few inches ahead of your rear foot and your front foot is a much greater distance in front of the ball than the way I learned to play (ball at front arch). Can you explain?
Al Wahle
We got a daily already
We got a daily already recorded about ball position. It will post to the site in the next month.
PLHR & Ball position
Surge's comment on ball position relative to the back foot would be appropriate for the club he was playing, but not for anything longer, especially a driver. Having said that, it is very important that ball position be consistent for each club (i.e. - center of stance for 7-iron thru wedges and progressively forward as the clubs get longer until it is just inside the forward ankle for the driver.) I'm sure that consistency is what Surge was referring to; not absolute position. I've been following Surge and the PPGS for almost 8 years and it works very well for me in spite of all my injuries.
Flag Pole
Great reminder.
Coach Don, I have used the Catchers Mitt to up the Tree concept, but I had trouble with my follow through. My swing was like the tree....plenty of branches left and right and that is where my follow through went....left and right. Recently I changed the thought process to ...up the Flag Pole....and practicing my swing I noticed consistency. So the next time I went out to the driving range and course...oh my gosh! Straight arrow!
So I am ...back in the catcher's mitt and up the flag pole. Since I am a Veteran and my shots go straight down the middle...I then salute!
Thanks for teaching us Duffer's.
Following D.J. at the FedEX tournament
I have been a PPGS user for several years, I've viewed the daily's but still struggled. This year I got to see and follow D.J. on Wed, Thurs, Friday at the FedEx St. Jude classic. Being able to watch his setup and swing closely for those three days has made a world of difference. Now I have a better understanding and visualization of the mitt and wear the tree is in relationship to the mitt. Just those three days has made a world of difference, I'm now hitting it longer, keeping it in the fairways and scoring much better. I know it's not as good as a lesson with the Master, but it's certainly the next best thing. Thank you for all the hard work and pass along to D.J. my thanks for the help I got from being able to watch closely how the PPGS swing should work.
DJ
Is DJ playing in the Shriner's in Las Vegas this October?