The most dreaded mistake that is common to the golfers is the sway. The surprising part is that many of the golfers do not realize even that they sway while playing the golf swing.

What is a sway precisely and how your golf swing get affected?

A sway is the movement on the sideways of the hips while playing the golf swing. When the hips are to turn while playing the swing, there is a lateral movement in the golf swing, but actually, this is not a sway.

So what’s the difference per se. Say while a golfer sways the hips rock and the line of the plane changes. In case of the lateral shift in the proper golf swing, his hips stay in level with ground. As a fact, during the good golf swing, the lateral shift is a backing motion owing to lower back that should face the target with the start of the back swing.

Most of the golfers who sway during the backswing also have their knee locked. As a result, the knee that is locked, forces their body to lean backwards toward the target, which produces the reverse pivot.

If in case you halt at the top of the back swing , and are unable to pick up the target foot for one second without having moved more weight to the back foot , then that means that you have a reverse pivot and which may have sway as a causation factor.

Compounding of the problem comes into picture when the instructor tries to correct the problems without entering into the basic fundamental root of the problem. Further, if he attempts to address the Reverse Pivot without taking due care and correcting the sway or knee, the problem becomes recurring in a nature, and often leaving you wondering as to the reason of taking a golf lesson.

The above-mentioned problems not getting over, there is also the problem that the sway places the back hip in such a position that disables the entire body turn while playing the back swing. The reason for this to happen is that the hip comes out of the line with leg and also locks the concerned joint about one-fourth of the way in back swing. The result is that the arms overpowering the top –golf swing that is void of power and quite hard to time.

Now coming to the bottom line as to how to stop the sway while playing the golf swing, the pert answer is to just taking away the need of any of the movement that is made laterally while playing the backswing.

So the next time whenever you take a stance, get comfortable first. Then just angle the body from hips up i.e.; you have to keep the hips in the centre of feet and keep it away from target until and unless 70% of the body weight is felt under the back foot and your head comes behind the ball.