Calvin Peete was an amazing guy, and it’s hard to overstate just how amazingly straight he hit the golf ball.
We made a whole video about Peete, but in a nutshell: Peete broke his arm irrevocably when he was young, didn’t take up golf until he was in his 20s, then led the PGA Tour in driving accuracy and greens in regulation for almost 10 consecutive years.
Here’s the video…
All of which is to say, Calvin Peete was super-good at hitting the golf ball super-straight.
But how did he do it?
It’s impossible to know exactly how or why, but Golf Digest recognised his ability at the peak of his powers, and would periodically check in with the legendary sharpshooter to ask him for tips.
A common theme in Peete’s advice was to stay balanced throughout your swing – and there was one swing thought that helped him do this.
Drop the anchor on your left foot 
As golfers begin their swing, their weight should shift back to their trail leg (which is the right leg for right-handed golfers), but about halfway through your backswing, your weight should begin transferring back to your lead foot.
Yes, it should happen that early. Top coaches call this process “re-centring”.
Anyway, to help him feel this, Peete said he’d feel that his left foot was the “anchor” to his forward swing. That once he dropped it, it wouldn’t move. He’d turn around it, nice and stable.
“On the forward swing, the left foot serves as the anchor,” Peete writes. “Try my approach. You may not make a lot of eagles but you’ll hit more fairways and greens – take my word for it.”
