If you lack mobility in your spine and hips, you won’t be able to set up comfortably over the ball at address position.  You may have to slump your shoulders or tuck in your hips which negatively affect how well you can turn and shift your weight in the golf swing.

Working on increasing flexibility and mobility in your low back and hips will help you set up more comfortably at address position and improver your over all posture on and off the course.

Posture Test for Golf

1. Get into your golf posture and take a club and hold it behind your body along your spine as shown.
2. Keeping you spine and neck in alignment, bend from your hip sockets to create angle in between your hips and torso.
3. Keep the shaft leaning on your upper back and lay if flat on your entire spine.
4. If the club does not lay flat, then you have rounded shoulders or you are bending from your waist, not your hips.
5. Adjust your posture until the club lays flat on your spine.