Shoulder Movement in the Backswing, this topic comes courtesy a Surgite in our ongoing segment of In Your Own Words. If you are new to Swing Surgeon, "In Your Own Words" is where we highlight questions and content from our readers that we have not covered on our blog or when someone asks a very good question that should be shared.
With the vertical Peak Performance Golf Swing, we stay behind the ball and swing up on the ball. If you allow you shoulders to move a lot in the back swing, it could cause your position about the ball to change.
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Lowering the left shoulder to start the backswing
It sounded like Jim was trying to steepen his swing plane by lowering his left shoulder to start the backswing. For most people this move would shorten the turn too much and encourage a reverse pivot and a steep over the top move for the downswing. Too flat a backswing was ruining my game until I adopted the Surge swing a few years ago. The master setup position with stable knees and a right sided takeaway were a "God send" to me.
For what it's worth, my experience with Surge's wing is that a right side dominated takeaway works better than a left sided one. Of course it all comes down to whatever works for you Jim.
My swing may have a little more turn and less arm lift than Surge's. The top of my swing is now less vertical than Surge's because I found it too hard to get it back in the slot from that point consistently. Now that I have a repeating swing, thanks to Surge, and only have to think about tempo, my goal for next year, at age 72, is to golf my age.