Tyler here adding what I can to the top swing faults. My model for the golf swing is based on likelihood of success. If someone has made a million dollars doing that move, then it probably has some merit and fits into a swing style somewhere.

Here’s my thoughts on the C-Posture. There is no doubt that it will limit rotation in the golf swing. The spine doesn’t like to flex and rotate at the same time (see my example in “What your golf pro isn’t telling you”). The majority of players that I see start in C-Posture will stand up to try to make up to help straighten that spine to make up for the lost rotation.

There is one exception. Putting. I have never seen a good putter who didn’t have more of a rounded posture than his full swing. One prominent putting instructor advises to try and get your upper chest parallel to the ground. I don’t know if I’d go that far – unless you are a straight-back-straight-through style putter – but I do think that you need more of a C-Posture set up than in the full swing. Putting and short game have a different set of requirements. With the full swing you are trying to maximize speed. With the short game you are trying to maximize precision. Different constraints create different responses. In this case it is hard to argue that the best putters in the world don’t at least slightly adapt a more C-Posture set up. Every rule in golf has an exception; at least try and know the ones that apply to you.

By the way, I’ve been promising Dee that I would get a video camera soon so that we can start alternating with more video posts. I’m letting you all know so that I am forced to act on it soon. Stay tuned for more exciting posts and videos from the Golf Fitness Guys.