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Right Leg in the Golf Swing | Load the Right Glute for Stability and Power

An interesting question was posted on the forum recently. Someone asked, "What is the purpose of loading the trail leg in the golf swing if you are not going to push off the trail leg in the downswing?"

That is an excellent question and, like most things in the golf swing, it has a straightforward answer.

To start, let us examine why you do not want to push off the trail leg in the downswing.

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That also has a simple answer.

If you think back to the 1960s and '70s, the golf instruction world favored driving off the trail leg.

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Chuck Quinton

is the founder of the RotarySwing Tour online golf instruction learning system. He played golf professionally for 8 years and has been teaching golf since 1995 and has worked with more than 100 playing professionals who have played on the PGA, Web.com and other major tours around the world.

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