Think of the golf swing as a big, tilted circle around the body. The clubhead travels around the outside of the circle. To deliver the clubhead to the ball properly, a player must swing the club at the correct tilt. That’s called swing plane. It’s one of the most important, yet misunderstood, aspects of the swing.
One of the worst moves amateurs make in the full swing is swinging down from outside the target line to inside that line. To get your swing on the right plane, start by placing something small, such as a piece of popcorn, in the middle of two clubs lying on the target line. Then set up with soft chairs to either side of you.
Your goal is to swing the club up the front of the first chair on the backswing and up the front of the other chair on the through-swing, just missing the edge of each seat cushion. If you come through the impact area from outside in, you’ll hit the second chair. Why hit popcorn?
It makes you concentrate more on the motion than the outcome, and it doesn’t break anything.
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