Joanna Coe Explains Four Golf Fundamentals Every Beginner Should Know | Golf Instructions | Titleist

Every consistent golf swing starts in the same place - grip, stance, posture, and alignment. Get those four fundamentals right and the dynamic motion that follows becomes easier.

Titleist staff member Joanna Coe has been teaching these fundamentals long enough to know where most beginners go wrong - and it almost always starts before the swing ever happens. In this session, Joanna addresses each fundamental individually, building the foundation of a solid setup. And as the name implies, a solid setup in golf sets you up to swing athletically and strike the ball consistently.

She starts with the grip because everything else flows from it. The club is held in the fingers, not in the palms. The difference feels small until you see what happens to the club face when it is wrong. From there she works through posture using a miniature deadlift as the reference point, a four ball system that takes the guesswork out of ball position across every club in the bag, and a train track drill that builds square alignment into every practice session before you ever step onto a course. Joanna also provides a routine to aim the clubface properly, ensuring that your shots start on-target when you do get onto the course.

The swing comes last - and Joanna strips it down to three words. Turn, shift, lift. Rotate around a centered head, shift pressure to the front foot, extend through the ball. The goal at first is not distance. It is bruising the turf in the right place. Get that right and everything else starts to follow.

For beginner golfers looking for a clear structured starting point on grip, posture, alignment, ball position and the fundamentals of the golf swing, this is where to begin.

Chapters:
00:00 - The Four Fundamentals Every Beginner Needs
00:13 - Why the Grip Is the Most Important Fundamental
00:29 - Fingers vs Palm
01:06 - Setting Up a Square Club Face for Your Grip
01:24 - Left Hand Grip
01:52 - Strong vs Weak vs Neutral Grip
02:38 - How Grip Affects Club Face and Shot Shape
03:20 - Golf Posture
04:00 - Spine Angle and Knee Flex
04:41 - Ball Position
05:19 - Why Alignment Is Critical in Golf
05:48 - The Train Track Drill for Square Alignment
06:43 - Body Line vs Target Line
07:35 - Picking an Intermediate Target on the Course
08:28 - Stepping Into the Golf Ball with Proper Alignment
09:24 - The Golf Swing
09:44 - Rotating Around Your Center
10:11 - Moving Pressure to the Front Foot
10:25 - Extending Through the Ball
10:47 - Practicing Turn
11:09 - Adding the Club
12:36 - Adding the Letter L
13:10 - Start Small and Build From the Fundamentals

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