The Four Moves that Make the Stroke
If you follow the first moves related in Chapter Three, you will find yourself balanced on your left foot. This position should give you a sense of aim, a sense of hit and a sense of contact with the ball. The position created by these first four moves will place you in the proper position at the time and point of impact with the ball. It is a position where you are really leaning the club against the ball.
However, the position so assumed is contrary to the act of raising the club to the top of the swing. As long as the weight is on the left foot, the player will have difficulty in making the backswing correctly.
Therefore, before the player makes any attempt to take the club away from the ball, he must shift his weight. He must change his balance from his left foot to his right, and only then will he be able to raise the club freely. All good players assume this position of balance on the left foot as they address the ball; likewise, all good players shift their weight and thereby move their balance from the left foot over to the right foot before they make any attempt to lift or raise the club to the top of the swing.
Furthermore, all good golfers shift or change their balance from the left foot to the right foot in exactly the same way, because there is only one way in which to change one's balance from one foot to the other.
The one way to shift one's weight, the one way to change balance from one foot to the other, is by changing knee positions. continue the second part of the golf shot...