Understanding Your Swing Metrics: Spine Stability Explained

Spine Stability measures how your shoulders, hips, and spine move during your golf swing. Movements are shown as percentages of your height at address and graded against pro-level benchmarks (Excellent to Caution).

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Spine Stability measures how much your shoulders, hips, and spine moved between key phases of your swing. 

The movement is calculated as a percentage of your address height and can be displayed in centimeters (cm), inches (in), or percentages (%) based on your preference (Settings → My Info).

Grading Scheme

Your head movement is evaluated against tour pro data and graded as follows:

Excellent – Falls within the top 90% of tour pro data.

Good – Within 1.2x the bounds of Excellent.

Okay – Within 1.5x the bounds of Excellent.

Caution – Outside the Okay bound, indicating excessive movement.

Shoulder

Backswing

Tracks how much your shoulder center moves from the address position to the top of the backswing.

Downswing

Tracks how much your shoulder center moves from the top of the backswing to impact.

Example

  • If the backswing metric shows “Forward 1.0%, Downward 4.0%”, the center of your shoulder moved 1.0% forward of your height and 4.0% downward during the backswing.

  • If the downswing metric shows “Backward 2.4%, Upward 1.9%”, the center of your shoulder moved 2.4% backward of your address height (the vertical distance from your nose to your heel) and 1.9% upward at impact.

Hip

Backswing

Tracks how much your hip center moves from the address position to the top of the backswing.

Downswing

Tracks how much your hip center moves from the top of the backswing to impact.

Example

  • If the backswing shows “Forward 4.9%, Downward 1.6%”, the center point of your hip has shifted 1.0% forward of your height and 2.0% downward during the backswing.

  • If the downswing metric shows “Backward 1.0%, Upward 0.9%”, the center of your hip moved 1.0% backward of your height and 0.9% upward at impact.

Spine Angle

This section measures how much your spine is leaning relative to the ground at key phases of your swing, measured in degrees (relative to the y-axis).

Address

Tracks your spine angle at the address position. 

Top

Tracks your spine angle at the top of the backswing (when the hand reaches its highest point).

Impact

Tracks your spine angle at impact (when the club makes contact with the ball).

Example

  • If the address metric shows 34°, your spine is tilted 34° towards the horizontal axis at address, with 0° representing a fully upright stance.

  • If the impact metric shows 42°, your spine is tilted 42° towards the horizontal axis at impact, relative to a fully upright stance (0°).

Spine Angle Delta

This section measures how much your spine angle changes between key swing phases, measured in degrees (relative to the y-axis).

Backswing

Tracks the difference in spine angle from address to the top of the backswing.

Downswing

Tracks the difference in spine angle from the top of the backswing to impact.

Example

  • If the backswing metric shows -10.3°, your upper body has risen by 10.3° from the address position to the top of the backswing.

  • If the downswing metric shows 1.9°, you have bent forward by 1.9° from the top of the backswing to impact.