This is precisely what takes place as the left foot begins to come into the backswing.  The heel comes slightly off the ground following that initial movement with the hands and arms straight back from the ball.  Your weight comes on to the ball of the foot below the toe crease.

  It is a minute action almost indiscernible except to the trained eye.  But it is important you make this first simple foot movement correctly by slightly raising the left heel and moving the left foot weight forward on to the ball of the foot and not at once rolling the foot sideways as so many people do.

  By making the wrong movement, that is rolling the left foot over on to its inside edge without first coming slightly forward on to the ball of the foot, you at once upset the action of the left knee and the right hip and you find yourself inclined to lift the club steeply in the backswing.

  This faulty roll of the left foot drops the left knee below the right and tips the right hip up in the backswing, the first action in a rocking motion of the shoulders and hips which we do not want at all.  We are aiming to TURN the body-not rock it sideways.

  Come forward on to the ball of the left foot and the body turn will then bring you on to the inside edge of the sole with both knees staying level and the left knee moving in towards the ball.  Get that first fractional movement of the left foot correct and you need concern yourself with it no more.

  The right foot is firmly on the ground from toe to heel, and here, too, the weight is concentrated towards the inside edge.

  Now for another warning against false advice.  Forget what you may have heard about the weight being transferred from the left foot to the right in the backswing.  So many struggling players, anxious to ensure that the weight is transferred, push it almost entirely on to the right foot.  This causes a lateral sway of the body and, of course, the head goes along with it.

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