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Golf Hip Drills To Help Improve Your Rotation
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15/08/2024
Reverse pivots and swaying will rob you of power and control. Coach Ged Walters suggests some tips drills to help you rotate properly.
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Guys, Ed Walters here.
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We're at Las Colinas Golf Club in Alicante in Spain, and I'm going to give you a drill
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that you can do at home as well as on the driving range and before you play to help
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your pivot, your body rotation improve in your golf swing.
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Now, common that we see is, you know, some guys really, really nice setup, and then we
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see a backswing which looks a little bit like this, or we see a backswing which looks then
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a little bit like this.
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And the big thing with that is the body's pivot and especially the upper body is not
00:40
moving in the desired way that we need it to, to be efficient and to be powerful as
00:45
well.
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So what we need to make sure that we do is we keep as close as we possibly can an alignment
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between the center of the shoulders and the center of the hips as well.
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So if you look at your shirt buttons and your belt buckle, we need to keep them as aligned
01:01
as we possibly can.
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So when we would be taking our setup position, what we don't want to do is go this way because
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what we've done there is we've made a turn, but the one thing we haven't done is we haven't
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extended the spine angle to retain our position and our nice control of the pivot and the
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turn and the power.
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So if we look at the golf swing, we've got the turn, we've got the forward bend, and
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a slight extension in the spine angle to retain our position there nice and smoothly and powerfully.
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And from there, we can really unwind and get a real powerful downswing.
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If we think about it, the most powerful muscles in your golf swing are glutes and quads followed
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by your core.
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So if they're not getting themselves in the right position, you're going to struggle,
01:56
massively struggle, then you become very hands and armsy and totally inconsistent.
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So drill that we need to do.
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I want you to get your club and I want you to place it right on the very top of your
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shoulders, just in there.
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In your setup position, a little forward bend into here, okay, I want you to get the
02:15
club head as I've got it here to go down towards the ground, almost towards the inside of your
02:23
trailing foot.
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And then in the downswing and throughswing, you want to get the belt buckle to rotate
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towards the target, getting the grip end down into that position, then we're going to go
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around and through into a great finish.
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So when we see that from the face-on position, we're going down as we rotate, and as you
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see there, there's no movement to one side or the other.
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So my spine's tilting, turning, it's extending, all in one motion to there, and then I can
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push through, down, and into the finish.
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Now that drill, five minutes a day at home, even if you wanted to, you could place your
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forehead on the door frame, do it in the door frame to get used to making that movement
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to start with.
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But the more you do it, the better you get at it, and it doesn't take long for your pivot
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and your rotation of the body to get better and better and better when you're out on the
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golf course where it really matters.
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Now I'm going to give you a view when I hit this shot of how stable the body rotation
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is.
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It's difficult really to see stability from a fast movement, especially with the arms
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in the way in the front view.
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So I'm going to give you a different view, I'm going to give you this one.
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Because from this angle here, you can see everything, how stable and centered the body's
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rotation is, and then round into that finish.
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So I'm going to hit this shot for you now, and I'm going to make that nice movement,
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turning, tilting, extending all the way through, and into the finish position.
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And then we get a beautifully crisp strike, lovely control on the ball flight, loads of
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power, loads of distance.
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Guys, make sure you do it, five minutes a day, you know, you could be there watching
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the news, you could be watching the sport, anything on TV, just standing there and making
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sure you prepare so when you get on the golf course, everything works much, much better.
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Guys, thanks for watching.
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Don't forget to check out all the great content on Golf Monthly's website, hundreds of videos
04:30
on there which are all aimed to help you guys play better, shoot lower scores, and enjoy
04:33
yourself, more importantly, more, and I look forward to seeing you again next time.
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