If you're struggling with your golf game
at the moment and your swing feels off I want you to take a good look at what
your hips are doing. I can almost guarantee you're not getting your hips
deep enough in the golf swing and that's why you're struggling, let me explain.
As you make your backswing where most golfers go wrong is they don't get this
trail hip deep enough away from the golf ball.
So this direction here.
And if you don't get it deep enough it can cause a flow-on effect for the rest
of your golf swing. Now for the lead hip same thing.
As you start your downswing that lead hip doesn't get deep enough
this way away from the golf ball. So why would you need to get hip deep, why is
it so important? For starters when you get more hip depth it enables
you to rotate better on the backswing, extremely important. If you don't rotate
enough you'll end up using a lot more hands and arms to swing
through on the downswing. So we need that depth to get a better
backswing coil, better rotation there. Now as we start our downswing if we
haven't got enough depth quite often we'll stand up and we'll
minimize that space or close that space between us and the golf ball which means we'll
stand the club up a lot of flippy action and that will
reduce your ability to hit consistent strikes on the golf ball.
So we need that
depth as we go back and we need depth on the way down with
that lead hip so we've got space. This space here helps us shallow the golf
club better. space to shallow
and also it helps you sequence the golf swing much better
through the impact so if you get that depth have a look
from face on and get a better turn here we get more space
and because it enables us to rotate better we can use our lower body to
really rotate through past impact now spoke about how getting
those deep hips improves your sequence so let me explain if you're someone that
slides in your downswing your hips go too much laterally this way towards
the target that is because you're not getting your hips deep enough
in the downswing and in the backswing for that matter so what getting those
hips deeper will do it will encourage you to rotate better
in that downswing improving your sequencing and right through to an impact position
so look like this we'll get deep here but importantly in
this downswing if you get the depth in that lead hip
you won't slide those hips as much and you'll be able to swing through to a
better finish so towards the camera so instead of going like this
now we need a little bit of lateral shift and that's covered in other videos
but you don't want too much where it's like this and then that throws off that sequencing
so you can get depth here
depth here and then rotate through to a full finish
that's going to improve your sequencing which will improve your overall golf
swing when you load your hips properly in the golf swing what that does is
it engages our glutes now when you engage your glutes that helps you again
with that that ability to rotate and hold our hold
your posture better in the whole golf swing when you can hold your posture
better you can shallow it better can stay a lot
more balanced and enables you to swing through with a
lot more power so loading up those hips gets these glutes engaged now if you've
never thought about getting your hips deeper
in the golf swing it's a good chance you'd never engage your glutes so if you
try this exercise with me we'll just put that club down for a moment
if you were to just turn back a lot more than usual
you should feel a stretch right around this area here that's engaging your
glutes something you probably heard the pros
talk about before so from face on i'm engaging my rear glute there
on the down swing i'm engaging this glute here i can feel a
tight stretch around this area here when you
engage your glutes
you're going to use your hips better and you're going to be using the ground
better and you've no doubt heard of using the ground for power
the only way to use the ground for power is by getting those hips deeper
on the way back and on the way through now
if you're doing this for the first time this will feel really awkward and that's
a good thing because if it feels awkward or uncomfortable means you're doing
something right because what most golfers do
you might be able to relate to this as they turn back
nothing's engaged here hips aren't deep glutes aren't engaged and then what
happens on the downswing your upper body your upper body just
swinging your hands your arms yeah you'll have a few good rounds hit a
few good shots here and there but you'll never truly get the most power and consistency out of
your golf game because you're not using the ground not really utilizing this
ground forces what they're supposed to be designed for
so get yourself deep
on the way back and deep on the way through
you're going to start hitting the golf ball a lot more consistently so if you
get those hips deep what you're going to do is you're going to stay in posture
better which means that ratio or that distance i should say for my chest to
the golf ball that shouldn't change a heck of a lot from here
to here most golfers who struggle again this
might be something you can relate to if you've seen your swing on video they
generally stand taller here or they might get
depth here but then they get taller here they get further from the golf ball once
you're further away from the golf ball you're in a lot of trouble that's where
you have to use your hands and arms to really time up the golf swing so we need
to stay in posture from there
to there you probably heard of the terms getting lag
and better shoulder rotation in your swing like for example lag in your golf
swing which is this this angle here between
my arm here and the shaft that is a byproduct of using your lower
body correctly so if you can use the lower body better by getting depth
you'll naturally get better lag which results in more power and
consistency you probably remember a video of thai
gourds i think it was about a year or two ago
and he was practicing i don't even think he had a club in his
hand but he was practicing like this he was making his back swings like this and
he's down swinging he was doing this he was getting really low to the ground
really pushing out his butt pushing his hips back deep
and he was just rehearsing this getting extremely deep and what he was
doing he was getting those hips deep but
engaging those glutes and making sure he stayed in posture now
you never swing like that you never really swing like this
get this low to the ground but when you exaggerate a feel you got a
better chance of when you make your real golf swing of keeping those hips deep
staying in posture shallowing the club you're going to create lag
and just become a lot more consistent overall so i want you to practice this
without a club first of all you're just going to get in a golf
posture and you're going to be pushing that hip back here in your back swing
and then pushing the lead hip back in your down swing i'll show you this
from a few different angles so we're getting depth here we're getting depth here feeling a
stretch in our glutes they're extremely important making sure you get that depth
and that depth again don't need to be hitting balls
but obviously you want to work up to that at some stage put a club in your
hand i'm just going to make really easy swings and just focus on getting that
depth don't even have to make a full swing depth there
depth there and through you can hit a few shots i'm not too
concerned how you hit the golf ball that's not important
you're probably not going to hit them any good anyway because you're
you're building a new movement pattern into your swings it's going to feel a
bit strange but that's okay so i'll just hit a couple here but i'm
going to do it nice and easy i'm not too worried about the strike i'm more
worried about how those hips are moving so
i'm gonna do it extra slow i'm just gonna get a bit of depth here depth here
and then through do it nice and slow and through wasn't a fantastic strike
but that doesn't matter i really felt like those hips were getting plenty of depth
on both sides through that swing and you'll need to do
at least 10 20 repetitions a day
feeling those glutes getting engaged and i promise you you'll find you'll
start hitting the ball more consistently you'll be more balanced in your golf
swing it'll feel a lot more effortless which is what we all want so let's do
another one just going to feel like i'm getting that
depth and that depth again there
this works for every club in the bag by the way driver your hybrid irons every
club in the bag so let's do another one
gonna get a bit of depth that was a better strike got that one
fairly solid but again not worried about the contact when you start doing this
i'm worried about you getting the depth
and as a byproduct of that depth you're just going to improve
your ball striking right across the board so important video i want you to
watch coming up now this talks about how to stop standing up
in your downswing so this will go into a
bit more depth on what i've covered here
how you can stay in posture better instead of doing this
it's going to teach you how to do this which is what we've covered here but i
go into a bit more detail and it's going to help you out even more so i'll see
you on that video it's coming up.