It’s always really interesting to see how much pros care about the tiny little details in their golf swings. While the rest of us get sloppy with those details, pros stress and fret over them. Every little crease in their game is ironed out as soon as they see it, before it has time to settle in.
You could spot Nelly Korda doing it this week at the PNC Championship, where she’s playing with her father, Petr – the 1998 Australian Open tennis champion. Before their first practice round, see below to understand how Nelly was working hard on honing in a small but important detail in her golf swing that the rest of us can learn a lot from.
Nelly’s pre-swing checkpoint 
You can see it in the video below, but before Nelly starts her swing she makes a tiny little move. It looks like waggle – and it kind of is – but more than anything it’s a takeaway check.
Nelly does it before every swing, on the range or course. She does a quick rehearsal of the first few centimetres of her her golf swing, making sure the clubhead tracks behind the ball and outside her hands. She’ll often get her caddie to film it, and then compare it to her full swing, then reset and start again.
It’s become a key checkpoint for Nelly.
Amateurs so often make the mistake of whipping the club inside or outside, flaring the clubface open, and spend the rest of their golf swing undoing a mistake that happens at the start.
Nelly knows better than the rest of us. If she hits this early checkpoint, it helps get the rest of her swing moving in the right direction. All the dominoes start falling into place from there.
