Footwork: The Real Timing Behind a Forward Pelvis at Impact

Ball first, ground second contact is the single biggest factor in controlling low point, and almost every golfer who struggles with it is trying to fix it in the wrong place. It’s not a hands problem. It’s a feet problem, and a timing problem.

In this video, Andreas breaks down the two things that actually move your body through the golf swing: kinematics (where your body is in space) and kinetics (the forces you apply into the ground to get it there). The two aren’t the same thing, and understanding the gap between them is what fixes low point control for good.

The core idea: pushing your trail foot away from the target is what drives your pelvis toward the target. But because force takes time to translate into movement, that push has to start early, around the point your club shaft goes parallel on the backswing, not on the way down. Leave it too late, and you’ll always be arriving at impact a fraction behind where you need to be.

Andreas also shares the exact drill he uses to train this feeling: a furniture slider (or a piece of cardboard) placed under the trail foot to remove friction, letting you isolate and feel the push in slow motion before adding a golf club, and eventually a real swing, back into the movement.

In this video:

• Why “get your weight forward” is incomplete advice without the timing behind it
• The kinematics vs. kinetics distinction, explained simply
• The exact point in your backswing to start the push
• A step by step drill using a furniture slider or cardboard to train the feeling