99% of golfers get this golf downswing
move wrong, and it's all about hip
rotation. In this video i'm going to show
you exactly what it looks like and how
to fix it with a simple drill. Let's have
a look at this video of Rory McIlroy
from face on. You can see here as he gets
to the top of his golf swing. Now the key
bit I want you to look at is as he makes
the start to his downswing, when his lead
arm gets parallel to the ground you'll
see that his hips have turned to a
square or parallel position
to the target. And this is a common move
amongst all the best golfers in the
world, the best pros and all top amateurs
as well. Okay so we know what the pros do
and the better players do. So what are
typically what amateurs do and this is
what I see in many golf swings that I
look at and you might be able to relate to this
as well.
As you start your downswing
typically what most amateurs will do is
the arms and the upper body the
shoulders will move at the same time
as the lower body. Now when
you do that what happens is
quite often the club will come down
steep and you lose that sequencing in your
downswing that coiling effect that
spring effect where you can really
whip through and generate power.
if you get that out of sequence so
what i'd like to see you try and
encourage you to do and this doesn't
matter how long your back swing is you
can have a short back swing or a longer
back swing
instead of moving everything together
when that club gets down to lead arm
parallel there get those hips
to move back to square and you can
practice
just getting those hips
getting back to square here now why is
this even important well typically what
will happen in a golf swing
when your hands
get down to this lead arm parallel
these wrists will start to uncock
now in a golf swing
if you turn this upper body all together
like this what will tend to happen the wrists will tend to release early
and the golf swing will involve a lot
more your hands and arms to try and time
up the golf ball now whenever you bring
your hands and your your arms more into the golf swing it
usually results in a lot more
inconsistency
which will affect your
centeredness of strike so really
important as you make your downswing
really feel like you get that separation
between your hips
and your upper body so as you come to
here
we want that separation of those hips to
there i wanted to show you this from a
down the line angle so you can get
another look at how those hips are
moving in your downswing so
we get to the top here
typically what the ateur does is move
everything together
and you'll see that the path changes the
club will come
generally a lot of the time
across the ball that's where you get
your slices and your pulls from so what
i'd like to see you do
is as you start your down swing is get those hips moving first to square
there
you'll actually see as i did that look
what happened at the shaft it naturally
wanted to shallow out i'll do that again get those hips to square as soon as we
get to lead arm parallel
see that shaft will shallow and then
from there
you can rotate through with your body and you're not relying so much on your
hands and arms
to strike the golf ball and you i really
want you to feel like that chest is
moving through
that chest
as we come to here
and that chest is moving right through
to the target
really important that chest rotates
through now i'm going to show you a
couple of simple little drills and feels
you can do you can do to build this into
your golf g e now first thing i want to
show you i've just got a couple of
straps here you need something for a
little bit of weight so even a piece of
rope or something will work great but
the idea is to take your stance i want
you to swing to the top
and i want you to get those hips moving before you sling your upper body down and
through so it should look something like
this
you can see that little move it's hard to pick up as soon as that that strapping touches my back i'm
getting the hips to square up and then
i'm releasing through
that's how you get some serious speed and slingshot action or catapult action
as it's sometimes called
in in your golf swing so from this angle
really whip it through
great little drill you can practice to
get that feel of those hips moving now
another little thing you can do
grab a club
you can set up time you don't actually
have to hit shots doing this so i'll get
rid of that just for now but i want you
to get to the top just as i showed you
earlier
as soon as that lead arm comes down
slowly we're getting those hips to move to there to there
and through and you can build up a lot
of speed and power just doing that so getting those hips to move
the club shallows out
and then through great way to practice is just doing a pump drill to get these hips moving
properly in your downswing so set up
over one here what i want you to do
is just practice getting those hips moving to there
and then swinging nice and easy through
turning your
your body your chest everything through to the target i'll show you how one's done this is a great little drill
you can do just hitting short little
shots this works even if you you can
only make a
half swing to here it doesn't matter the
main thing is that you get those hips
getting back to square
and then turning your whole body through
to impact so let's do one just going to go back nice and slow to the top
and we're just going to get those hips
moving and then from here i'm just going to go one two three
simple little drill gives you a good
feel you should feel your hips you should feel a nice little stretch when you do this right around that hip area there now if
you've got some sort of injury or
something just be careful how much you move your hips you may need to adjust your stance a bit more flea or feet a bit more
you can lift that
lead heel off the ground again you can flare out that lead foot in your downswing just to give yourself a bit more room
but you should be able to feel those
hips rotating open give you more speed and more consistency now important video for you coming up because this one talks about
how the shoulders work in the golf swing now it's a little bit different probably what you've seen before but this concept of how much they actually really move is
powerful
and ties in with this video to help you play azing golf so i'll see you on that video it's coming up.