BILLY FITZGERALD - ADDRESS TO IMPACT
4m
For Step 2 of this player lesson with Billy Fitzgerald, Mike Malaska talks about going from address to impact. When Billy does this, he pushes his right hip down, and his left shoulder goes up. His right knee rotates down and inward.
Mike explains that you can feel your right leg, right foot, and femur rotating down and in when you go from address to impact position.
Mike places a stick in front of his right knee, which keeps it from moving outward. If your knee goes out, so does your hip, which makes your arms go outward.
Billy gets steep in the transition of his swing partly because his brain puts the brakes on the club when he wants to shallow the club. Because Billy moves his hip out, there is no room to move and shallow the club correctly. That’s why his club is forced to go out on his swing.
Billy makes small swings from the impact position, and Mike iterates that this is the second step. When Billy can feel how to trigger the right leg, he can make full swings.