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As with anything in life, you can overdo a good thing in the golf swing.
One of the great things about the one plane swing is that it doesn’t require you to make a massive shift to your trail side on the backswing, then a massive shift and slide back to your lead side. You can stay more centered.
The problem is, golfers interpret this in different ways, and often end up dipping or tilting their shoulders dramatically on the backswing. They end up hitting very bad shots, thinking that they’re “staying centered.”
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If you do nothing but rotate around your spine, your body will turn and you will stay very centered, as Chuck demonstrates in the pair of photos at left, above. The shoulder plane doesn’t change; the shoulders stay level, perpendicular to the spine.
If you tilt instead of turning, as Chuck demonstrates in the photos to the right, your head tilts back, your hips slide out, and your shoulder plane changes. This is incorrect.
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