I'm a Eureka member and that alone has changed my game tremendously with power and consistency however I ALWAYS struggled getting the proper backswing and fighting it. This video was the Ah Ha moment I was looking for. I am a 7.3 hdcp and went out today and shot 71. Steve truly thank you. This simple backswing tip has changed my golfing life for good.
Mega gratitude Steve...Went to the course today and totally ripped some drives... totally blitzed some irons... I don't think I have EVER hit a golf ball so well... and EFFORTLESSLY...your backswing drill and your two finger right hand drill totally made sense, and made a mega difference... I bow down to your incredibleness...🙏🙏🙏🙏😌😌
brilliant, this...your videos have really helped my game but where i break down, i believe, is that my backswing gets "loose" and doesn't repeat...stumbled onto this video after a bad night at the range last night and the timing of seeing this is perfect...what you do better than ANY golf instructor i've ever seen is you make key elements of the game understandable, and simple...that is NOT easy to do so give yourself some credit while you accept my "thank you!"...
Steve, I feel the backswing is one of the most important functions of the golf swing. Get it right and everything else falls into place. I work on this a lot. Awesome golf lesson Steve Thank you very much👍👍🏌️⛳️🇨🇦
Well explained Steve the you make it look simple something to work at can’t wait to try it at the weekend thanks again the online videos are fantastic 👏👏👏👏
THANK YOU STEVE! After ‘subscribing’ to other instructors for a long while , I have found your golf videos. Your messages are always ‘Amazing’ - simple... and easy to incorporate properly. There are a lot of good instructors but only a few who can break it down into bite size pieces that actually work, once it is all put together. I know the importance of drills to build body memory. I will highly recommend your videos and messages to my golf buddies! Thanks again! Dwayne, BC, Canada!
Awesome video and explanation of the back swing!! Best I've ever seen or heard. And it worked wonderfully right away!! So much easier to hit sweet spot and consistent baby draws! This will get 100,000++ hits. Especially for those of us trying to get "width" in the back swing which is super easy to overdue or misinterpret like I have been doing. At the end of my practice I hit 5 pitching wedges in a row all within 1 yard of each other!!!! Crazy
Steve you’re a genius! My swing has improved so much since I started following you. You should do a world tour clinics after Covid. Am sure a lot of us will sign up 👍🏻👍🏻
Hi Steve, Just read your article in bunkered magazine, honest as always and full of interesting insight. I followed your u tube regularly as you demonstrate while giving instruction, no waffle all good information and with that my game has improved and I’m enjoying the results. I’ve been trying the “Eureka” set up with some success, sometimes I fee a little pressure on my back while trying to keep shoulders square to target, other than that it works, probably my age. 🥴
Right knee - argh! We were always taught not to straighten the right leg (causing a reverse pivot) and consequently was always maybe, at least in my head, bending the knee the 'wrong' way or getting too far behind the ball (aka sway). Changing the swing now has reduced the little sway away from the hole but it's a strange feeling almost the opposite of years of being ingrained the other way - weight almost feels left to right! The result is I'm staying more central over the ball and consequently getting more consistent strike. I can also move the ball slightly further back in my stance. Honestly, I'm getting slightly less distance on the extreme best previous compared to consistency and straighter - take that every day!!! Right WE ARE ON!!! Thankyou Steve - moving in the right direction!
I was trying one piece takeaway. Moved to "roll the forearms takeaway" and tucking shirt under right armpit. What a difference. I'm 56, one piece takeaway ala Tiger Woods and hinging wrist at top of swing is too hard for me. Can do it at range but not on course. Always come over top for some reason. Do a justin thomas rickie fowler preset drill to ensure face and club shaft is square. Really helps out! Also tried the Nick Faldo swing by hinging wrist right off the ball in takeaway. No success with that one. This type of swing is not used by many on pga tour. Basically there's 3 types of swings on tour. For older golfers, rolling forearms off the ball, then hinging wrist is best swing. Also for an easier turn, line up a bit closed to ball if required ( feet, shoulders and club face). Driver swing, make sure shoulders are angled back and swing up at ball. With low irons, hands a bit forward on ball to get compression and spin ( more weight towards the front). Don't do that with 5 iron; shaft should be square and not forward). Want ball to roll out. That's the 2cents. Took me all summer to try this all out. Sucks lol Wish I could have found my swing earlier in season. One last thing, make sure you have proper grip before anything else. A poor grip will ruin a golf swing. Never see any improvement. always start with a good grip.
Steve, Awesome lesson. I have struggled with transition when at the top but fact is it’s much simpler, when working through your sequencing and without all the chaos👍 Thank you. Keep up the good work.
This solidifies what i worked on today, and feeling is an arc around the body ( in out in)and not some crazy over the top thing i was doing because i have been trying to get my left arm into places it can’t get to. Nice and simple and the left foot loading..wow can’t wait to try this.
Took this to a practice round today and was very pleased with ball striking improvement. Competition round tomorrow and looking forward to playing with this backswing change.
Makes a lot of sense, as usual. For sure, it shows the advantage of core stability and core strength. I used to develop mine as a youngster by swinging a club with my eyes closed.
How do you think about your lats in the first step and moving shoulder. You did a video before taking about lat focus in back swing which was good and helped. Thx
I liked this I have been working on the back swing, feel good about my arm structure but some of the lower body ideas are clicking. You mentioned something that has plagued me for years. You quickly said something about blacking out in the downswing. That one thing has crippled my golf game I can go to the range and look like a pro go through every club in the bag and hit them all. Taking it to the course is another thing I definitely have that issue of blacking out on the downswing. I get to the top my mind goes blank and I’m through the ball and feeling a bad follow through. Is there something you could talk about in a video to work on this? PLEASE!!!!
Hello Steve, I've been following your "Eureka Golf Swing" for a while and I'm very excited about it. My question is, are you familiar with Jim Hardy and his “Plane Truth Golf System”? I think there are a lot of common views. Is it possible for you to give me your opinion about Jim Hardy and if possible post a video of you about your opinion on this topic Hopefully we will hear from you soon. Thank you. keep it up, I'm thrilled. Thanx again. Jerry
Great lesson...4 into 2 into 1....like the exhaust on my bike! Could you clarify at one point we should hinge our wrists? At the top,halfway back, don't think about it?
Love your no no nonsense approach to your videos and I am a subscriber - I am curious as to whether you would you describe this backswing method as the same as stack and tilt?
Hi Steve, I absolutely love your videos. You explain everything so simply, and that is great for a bone head like me and you are as funny as. Love your humour.
More great content, I will be trying this out tomorrow. I am going to have to sort a business trip out for North of the boarder and sneak a lesson in with you.
Love the instructions Steve. A lot of the fairways are being spiked and heavily sanded just now. This is causing me to come up short on a lot of my approach shots. Is there a technique you can share on dealing with this other than the obvious one of using more club?
Steve, I very much enjoy your lesson, both the content and your Scottish accent. Luckily I spent a wee while in the UK so it's no problem for me. Unfortunately I can not fwd your vdo to any of my Thai friends, because they wouldn't have a clue what you are talking about. Keep on the good work and no need to change the accent!
Steve, I think that you can shorten to one backswing “word” or thought and one downswing “word” or thought. This would provide a one-two rhythm to the complete swing. The door is always open for you in pinehurst.
Your video's are really helping me get much crisper contact, I'll work on the right knee and inside right foot tomorrow. I'm still struggling with getting my hands at the right position during contact though. I don't want to bang balls off a mat by the thousands if I'm doing it incorrectly. Thanks Steve.
Simple, Achievable and Original. Love it. THANKS ! I KEEP watching and REWATCHING this and just wish that I could add another like each time. It's making a measurable positive difference to My shots. Not nailed on yet, but its becoming more and more natural with ever greater results.
Hi Steve, watch all your vids, in my back swing the left arm is so far higher, if you took a photo of me at the top of my back swing my left arm would be in line with the side of my head as apposed to just above my right shoulder, I strike the ball really well but always think it looks odd, it's a little bit higher than Justin Thomas an the end of his back swing, I have a home simulator set up I'm going to try this for a week along with the video you did with the alignment sticks the other week.
Hi Steve. Thank you! Great stuff! Maybe you can do a video on shortening the backswing? Mine is long! John Daly long, maybe longer…. Always have…🤦🏻♂️ i have tried about everything! Just can’t seem to stop it & sometimes feel like i waste so much energy.
Hi Steve your four part backswing melding into one is excellent; however you forgot to mention the fact that our trail forearm must rotates clockwise right as do every muscle inside our body assist in coiling our body clockwise turning the head of our club clockwise right as well. (Right Handed players) Now what absolutely needs to take place at the top of every great golfers backswing: whether a golfer’s becomes aware of it or not; is what Steve Elkington year’s ago named ‘ the twirl’. He never has freely explained how he does the twirl. So I will attempt to demystify it and explain it myself Whether you or any good golfer ever becomes aware of it or not it; chaos happens and multiple mistakes can take place especially the dreaded over the top swing when a player is actually making the head of their club turn counterclockwise at the top of their swing along with the shifting and turning of their body counterclockwise Think about this: Ben Hogan correctly said that the downswing must start with the lower body turning left. Not the hands or arms. Ben Hogan also describes the mechanics of the top of his swing; stating that with fulcrum (hands) both hands and wrists needs to work together at the top of the swing when the center of gravity is shifting from the point of the shaft to his club head making it feel heaviest at the top of his swing. This is the exact point where the clockwise twirling of the club must take place. Hogan further wrote that his downswing felt like when an infielder throws an half sidearm, half underhand to first after fielding a ground ball. Others may feel a skipping of a stone on the water at the top of their swing; others my feel themselves whipping their club through their ball; but whatever you feel; it is actually the head of the your club repelling you, twirling right as you suddenly turn your body left. Cheers
I believe your way off target, tuck your elbow like he illustrated, don’t do anything but let the shoulder turn rotate the right arm and hand., there is no rotation of the arms, it happens naturally, less chaos .
Loving this channel since it popped into my feed a couple of weeks ago with the Hogan video. Every video is a gem, you deserve the 100K subs. Played Peebles a few times with my society when we Came up to the Borders, lovely course, just watch the electric fence on the left side of the 5th!
Finally something that puts all these other 5000 other youtube videos to shame and makes sense 👏 well done sir off to the range I go 😂
Less chaos, better golf, what a video!
This video has lowered my average scores by 8 strokes. I am 79 years old and my nine hole scores over the last month have averaged 43! Thanks Steve!😊
Bestes Rückschwung-Video, sehr ausführlich und im Detail erklärt. Einfach TOP.
I'm a Eureka member and that alone has changed my game tremendously with power and consistency however I ALWAYS struggled getting the proper backswing and fighting it. This video was the Ah Ha moment I was looking for. I am a 7.3 hdcp and went out today and shot 71. Steve truly thank you. This simple backswing tip has changed my golfing life for good.
Mega gratitude Steve...Went to the course today and totally ripped some drives... totally blitzed some irons... I don't think I have EVER hit a golf ball so well... and EFFORTLESSLY...your backswing drill and your two finger right hand drill totally made sense, and made a mega difference... I bow down to your incredibleness...🙏🙏🙏🙏😌😌
Watched the don’t turn your shoulders clip then the structured backswing. Popped over the range & what a difference!!! Thank you
brilliant, this...your videos have really helped my game but where i break down, i believe, is that my backswing gets "loose" and doesn't repeat...stumbled onto this video after a bad night at the range last night and the timing of seeing this is perfect...what you do better than ANY golf instructor i've ever seen is you make key elements of the game understandable, and simple...that is NOT easy to do so give yourself some credit while you accept my "thank you!"...
Steve, I feel the backswing is one of the most important functions of the golf swing. Get it right and everything else falls into place. I work on this a lot. Awesome golf lesson Steve Thank you very much👍👍🏌️⛳️🇨🇦
Yes!
As a brand new golfer I couldn’t agree more. Once my backswing got better, I got better.
Great video, thank you. I don't see anyone else breaking the swing down like you do. All your content is very helpful
Well explained Steve the you make it look simple something to work at can’t wait to try it at the weekend thanks again the online videos are fantastic 👏👏👏👏
love this Steve so simple when you break it down now wait for the weekend!!
Hey Steve, I tried it today in the golf course.Let me tell you my game improved a lot. Thanks for the awesome video.
THANK YOU STEVE! After ‘subscribing’ to other instructors for a long while , I have found your golf videos.
Your messages are always ‘Amazing’ - simple... and easy to incorporate properly. There are a lot of good instructors but only a few who can break it down into bite size pieces that actually work, once it is all put together. I know the importance of drills to build body memory.
I will highly recommend your videos and messages to my golf buddies! Thanks again! Dwayne, BC, Canada!
Thanks Dwayne, welcome to the channel👍
Awesome video and explanation of the back swing!! Best I've ever seen or heard. And it worked wonderfully right away!! So much easier to hit sweet spot and consistent baby draws! This will get 100,000++ hits. Especially for those of us trying to get "width" in the back swing which is super easy to overdue or misinterpret like I have been doing. At the end of my practice I hit 5 pitching wedges in a row all within 1 yard of each other!!!! Crazy
Best take back motion explained I have seen. "All great stuff!" Thank you
Steve you’re a genius! My swing has improved so much since I started following you. You should do a world tour clinics after Covid. Am sure a lot of us will sign up 👍🏻👍🏻
Hi Steve, Just read your article in bunkered magazine, honest as always and full of interesting insight. I followed your u tube regularly as you demonstrate while giving instruction, no waffle all good information and with that my game has improved and I’m enjoying the results. I’ve been trying the “Eureka” set up with some success, sometimes I fee a little pressure on my back while trying to keep shoulders square to target, other than that it works, probably my age. 🥴
Wow, I have struggled with the back swing forever....until Now! You are my new best friend - sincere thanks Steve!!
So so simple and beautifully and clearly explained, thank you for removing some of the chaos in my swing 👏👏👏👏
Thanks. This is the best backswing explanation I have personally seen!!
Right knee - argh!
We were always taught not to straighten the right leg (causing a reverse pivot) and consequently was always maybe, at least in my head, bending the knee the 'wrong' way or getting too far behind the ball (aka sway). Changing the swing now has reduced the little sway away from the hole but it's a strange feeling almost the opposite of years of being ingrained the other way - weight almost feels left to right!
The result is I'm staying more central over the ball and consequently getting more consistent strike. I can also move the ball slightly further back in my stance. Honestly, I'm getting slightly less distance on the extreme best previous compared to consistency and straighter - take that every day!!!
Right WE ARE ON!!!
Thankyou Steve - moving in the right direction!
Great coaching tip this sorted my swing out.
Watched this latest clip before playing today and struck the ball better than I have in months. Cheers Steve, reducing chaos really worked.
Thanks Steve. I really like the simplicity of your instruction, so easy to follow and understand. Good luck with the channel.
I was trying one piece takeaway. Moved to "roll the forearms takeaway" and tucking shirt under right armpit. What a difference. I'm 56, one piece takeaway ala Tiger Woods and hinging wrist at top of swing is too hard for me. Can do it at range but not on course. Always come over top for some reason. Do a justin thomas rickie fowler preset drill to ensure face and club shaft is square. Really helps out! Also tried the Nick Faldo swing by hinging wrist right off the ball in takeaway. No success with that one. This type of swing is not used by many on pga tour. Basically there's 3 types of swings on tour. For older golfers, rolling forearms off the ball, then hinging wrist is best swing. Also for an easier turn, line up a bit closed to ball if required ( feet, shoulders and club face). Driver swing, make sure shoulders are angled back and swing up at ball. With low irons, hands a bit forward on ball to get compression and spin ( more weight towards the front). Don't do that with 5 iron; shaft should be square and not forward). Want ball to roll out. That's the 2cents. Took me all summer to try this all out. Sucks lol Wish I could have found my swing earlier in season. One last thing, make sure you have proper grip before anything else. A poor grip will ruin a golf swing. Never see any improvement. always start with a good grip.
Had a go with this today, ball striking was much better, drove well. I get the arm element, not so with the knee bit.
you made this simple as possible. nice video
Great video Steve! Love how you organize and simplify the movements.
Steve,
Awesome lesson. I have struggled with transition when at the top but fact is it’s much simpler, when working through your sequencing and without all the chaos👍
Thank you. Keep up the good work.
Just subscribed, love this video and how simple it comes across whilst making perfect sense, thank you.
This solidifies what i worked on today, and feeling is an arc around the body ( in out in)and not some crazy over the top thing i was doing because i have been trying to get my left arm into places it can’t get to. Nice and simple and the left foot loading..wow can’t wait to try this.
Excellent backswing instruction. I will try this today, thanks Steve…
Beautifully simple instruction.. Clear and easy to follow.. Can't wait to work on this.. Thanks Taff
Thank you for the simplification of my chaos... now looking forward to golf tomorrow instead of dreading it...🙏🙏🙏
I have learned to become a better iron striker from watching these videos. They have helped me to really understand what happens during my golf swing
Beautifully explained
Divide and conquer!! Thanks Steve!!
Took this to a practice round today and was very pleased with ball striking improvement. Competition round tomorrow and looking forward to playing with this backswing change.
Brilliant …great presentation. Love your wee shed
Thank You, i enjoy your teaching style.
Thanks Steve- Zam from Kuala Lumpur
Awesome, great lesson Steve!
Makes a lot of sense, as usual. For sure, it shows the advantage of core stability and core strength. I used to develop mine as a youngster by swinging a club with my eyes closed.
Thanks for making everything simple! Thanks Steve!
Brilliant and simply explained instruction Steve, only wish I was able to get 1-2-1 playing lesson with you.
great tips Steve thanks, you make it look easy
Steve, thank you once again for simplifying things.
Simply brilliant! Thanks for all your help.
Thanks for clear and simple instructions. Moreover, love the teaching passion you showed. Wonderful teacher.
How do you think about your lats in the first step and moving shoulder. You did a video before taking about lat focus in back swing which was good and helped. Thx
Best PGA coach online
Thanks Andy, much appreciated 👏🏻👍👍
Hi Steve, do you have an overhead shot? I’m interested to see your takeaway path. Thank you for your useful videos.
Outstanding instruction 👏
Glad it was helpful!
Another cracking "feel" session, thanks
Great instruction Steve!
Great teaching. Thanks
Pure dead brilliant, so it is! Game on!!
I liked this I have been working on the back swing, feel good about my arm structure but some of the lower body ideas are clicking. You mentioned something that has plagued me for years. You quickly said something about blacking out in the downswing. That one thing has crippled my golf game I can go to the range and look like a pro go through every club in the bag and hit them all. Taking it to the course is another thing I definitely have that issue of blacking out on the downswing. I get to the top my mind goes blank and I’m through the ball and feeling a bad follow through. Is there something you could talk about in a video to work on this? PLEASE!!!!
Great lesson stops the overswing too.
Hello Steve, I've been following your "Eureka Golf Swing" for a while and I'm very excited about it. My question is, are you familiar with Jim Hardy and his “Plane Truth Golf System”? I think there are a lot of common views. Is it possible for you to give me your opinion about Jim Hardy and if possible post a video of you about your opinion on this topic Hopefully we will hear from you soon. Thank you. keep it up, I'm thrilled.
Thanx again.
Jerry
Thanks Jerry, I’ll take a look. 👍👍
Great lesson...4 into 2 into 1....like the exhaust on my bike! Could you clarify at one point we should hinge our wrists? At the top,halfway back, don't think about it?
Steve, you’re the best! Thanks for putting these vids out👍
Love your no no nonsense approach to your videos and I am a subscriber - I am curious as to whether you would you describe this backswing method as the same as stack and tilt?
"It's all great stooff!" Love that. Great lesson.
this right knee move fixed my entire swing.
Another great instructional videl
Hi Steve, I absolutely love your videos. You explain everything so simply, and that is great for a bone head like me and you are as funny as. Love your humour.
Brilliant! Best video yet…coiled and ready to explode into the ball.
Great system. Thanks
Another great video thanks for sharing Steve
Glad you enjoyed it
Great stuff Steve. Thank you!
Superb, again, Steve ....same procedure for driver, or irons only?
Steve, brilliant 4 into 2 =1. Clive
As usual - great advice and easy to understand. Thank you.
On the money as always - yet again thank you👍🏻
Thanks Steve. Probably the best 10 minute golf lesson ever!!
More great content, I will be trying this out tomorrow. I am going to have to sort a business trip out for North of the boarder and sneak a lesson in with you.
Love the instructions Steve.
A lot of the fairways are being spiked and heavily sanded just now. This is causing me to come up short on a lot of my approach shots. Is there a technique you can share on dealing with this other than the obvious one of using more club?
New to your channel, excellent instructional video.
Thanks, welcome to my channel. Enjoy!👏🏻👏🏻
Steve the minute you get the toque out I immediately wonder what the temperature is there. Another good video.
Steve, I very much enjoy your lesson, both the content and your Scottish accent. Luckily I spent a wee while in the UK so it's no problem for me. Unfortunately I can not fwd your vdo to any of my Thai friends, because they wouldn't have a clue what you are talking about. Keep on the good work and no need to change the accent!
Steve, I think that you can shorten to one backswing “word” or thought and one downswing “word” or thought. This would provide a one-two rhythm to the complete swing. The door is always open for you in pinehurst.
Wish i could, swing thoughts of any kind other than target confuses me
Fantastic 🏌️♂️
Simplicity, i like it
I now play better golf after watching you explain it so well. My swing however has developed a Scottish accent. 😉
Nothing wrong with that 🏴
Excellent!
Your video's are really helping me get much crisper contact, I'll work on the right knee and inside right foot tomorrow. I'm still struggling with getting my hands at the right position during contact though. I don't want to bang balls off a mat by the thousands if I'm doing it incorrectly. Thanks Steve.
I love the right knee kicked in a little at address, keeps you super centred and loaded in your backswing.
Is there a push from the inside of the right foot to start back down?
Steve hows the diary for a lesson on the Eureka methodology ?
Really, really good!
Simple, Achievable and Original. Love it. THANKS !
I KEEP watching and REWATCHING this and just wish that I could add another like each time.
It's making a measurable positive difference to My shots.
Not nailed on yet, but its becoming more and more natural with ever greater results.
Hi Steve, watch all your vids, in my back swing the left arm is so far higher, if you took a photo of me at the top of my back swing my left arm would be in line with the side of my head as apposed to just above my right shoulder, I strike the ball really well but always think it looks odd, it's a little bit higher than Justin Thomas an the end of his back swing, I have a home simulator set up I'm going to try this for a week along with the video you did with the alignment sticks the other week.
Hi Steve. Thank you! Great stuff! Maybe you can do a video on shortening the backswing? Mine is long! John Daly long, maybe longer…. Always have…🤦🏻♂️ i have tried about everything! Just can’t seem to stop it & sometimes feel like i waste so much energy.
This guy is Brilliant☘️
Thanks👍👍
Hi Steve your four part backswing melding into one is excellent; however you forgot to mention the fact that our trail forearm must rotates clockwise right as do every muscle inside our body assist in coiling our body clockwise turning the head of our club clockwise right as well. (Right Handed players)
Now what absolutely needs to take place at the top of every great golfers backswing: whether a golfer’s becomes aware of it or not; is what Steve Elkington year’s ago named ‘ the twirl’. He never has freely explained how he does the twirl. So I will attempt to demystify it and explain it myself
Whether you or any good golfer ever becomes aware of it or not it; chaos happens and multiple mistakes can take place especially the dreaded over the top swing when a player is actually making the head of their club turn counterclockwise at the top of their swing along with the shifting and turning of their body counterclockwise
Think about this: Ben Hogan correctly said that the downswing must start with the lower body turning left. Not the hands or arms.
Ben Hogan also describes the mechanics of the top of his swing; stating that with fulcrum (hands) both hands and wrists needs to work together at the top of the swing when the center of gravity is shifting from the point of the shaft to his club head making it feel heaviest at the top of his swing. This is the exact point where the clockwise twirling of the club must take place. Hogan further wrote that his downswing felt like when an infielder throws an half sidearm, half underhand to first after fielding a ground ball. Others may feel a skipping of a stone on the water at the top of their swing; others my feel themselves whipping their club through their ball; but whatever you feel; it is actually the head of the your club repelling you, twirling right as you suddenly turn your body left. Cheers
I believe your way off target, tuck your elbow like he illustrated, don’t do anything but let the shoulder turn rotate the right arm and hand., there is no rotation of the arms, it happens naturally, less chaos .
Loving this channel since it popped into my feed a couple of weeks ago with the Hogan video.
Every video is a gem, you deserve the 100K subs.
Played Peebles a few times with my society when we Came up to the Borders, lovely course, just watch the electric fence on the left side of the 5th!
Hey, thanks for subscribing to the channel. Your right, keep away from that fence.👍👍
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Great way to get spring speed.
All good things!
Can you do the right knee thing with driver swing? :)