The posture you assume when you setup to a golf ball has a huge affect on your golf swing. For example, your posture determines whether or not you can shift your weight and turn fully and without restriction away from the golf ball. Also, your posture position at setup will largely determine how well you maintain your balance as you're swinging and how forcefully you can swing down and through the ball, thus determining how far you can hit the ball.

Yes, the posture you set at address really is that important!

Luckily, having a good athletic posture position is really, really easy to achieve. But unfortunately most golfers either don't place enough importance on posture or they think their posture is OK. And sadly, most amateur golfers have terrible posture and they don't realize what a huge detriment their posture is having on their swing itself.

However like I said a second ago, it's really easy to have good posture and in the practice plan I give my students I tell them step-by-step exactly what they should do to improve theirs. But here are the main points of posture that you need to get correct...

§         Your knees must have the right amount of flex in them.

§         You must be bent over the correct amount for the club you're using so that you're standing neither too far from or the ball or too close.

§         You need to know how to position your feet and how far apart they should be for each club.

§         And you also need to position your hands in the correct position.

Now the final thing I want to talk about in regards to posture is balance. And to have great balance during your swing you must have it at the setup position.

So to do this, make sure your weight is evenly distributed between each foot so you can move easily in both directions. And your weight should be slightly more towards the balls of your feet to give yourself a very athletic stance.