The Backswing Secret That Gets the Club on Plane
Putting · Sep 17, 2026 · 6.9K views · 79 likes
The Backswing Secret That Gets the Club on Plane! He came to AMG struggling with getting the club on plane and struggling with rotation. His coach had told him shoulder retraction means pulling the shoulder blade back like this... a kind of hunching reduction in the backswing. What that actually produces is a large putting stroke. The opposite of a golf swing. Real shoulder retraction in the golf swing happens in a completely different direction. The arm elevates slightly, abducts a little away from the center line, and then retracts. Add some pivot to that and suddenly the club goes where it's supposed to go. One of the real secrets to good golf... and almost nobody teaches it correctly.
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