Do you have trouble over rotating your hips on the downswing? Are you blocking shots out to the right?
If so, one of the signs of too much golf hip turn, is the right ankle well off the ground at contact. This allows the hips and shoulders to rotate much too open as you are making the downswing, leaving the club way behind.
If you are tired of getting fast and blocking right, this is the video for you.
What's Covered: The correct amount of hip turn in the downswing.
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Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard
Video Duration: 3:06
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Video Transcription:
Hi guys, and welcome back. I’ve got a great drill for you guys today that will really spinning open your hips.
Sorry it’s starting to get a little dark out here, so the camera quality may not be as good as usual, but I want to make sure I get you guys a good drill for those of you who are spinning the hips open and have a tendency to block the shots out to the right.
So here’s what I mean by this. When we come into contact, if I do this properly I want to make sure that as I’m coming into contact my hips are open about 45° and my right heel is barely starting to come off the ground.
So if I do this correctly, it should look something like this. That’s the correct amount of hip rotation.
Sometimes what I’ll see is people that are very aggressive swingers, they’ll start to come even farther rotated than that.
So a lot of times their hips will get even more, almost like 70° or 80° open at contact, and then their right heel will be way up off the ground.
You used to see this back with Tiger Woods back in the early ‘90s, and really, really aggressive or sorry, late ‘90s, really aggressive with the hips.
Right toe would be, right heel would be way up off the ground at contact, everything really, really opening up and he would block the ball way over to the right, miss the fairway sometime 100 yards to the right.
The reason for that is as I get so aggressive with my lower body, my upper body tends to trial behind and my club tends to trail in behind my body, and that often results in this big block out to the right.
It can also cause you a little bit of back pain because you’re rotating so hard when you’re doing this.
So for you guys that are doing this, first check on camera to see where your heel is at contact and where your hips are at contact.
Remember, we want to be about 45 with the hips, and the right heel should barely be starting to come up at contact.
If you see your hips like this and your right heel way up, you’ll know you’re going too much and you need to tone this down a little bit.
For those of you who are doing that, you can feel like your right heel stays on the ground a little bit more.
So as you’re coming through contact, feel like that right heel stays on the ground as you’re coming through.
That’s going to keep you from spinning. So with everything in golf you can over do this and you can under do this.
So we also have one that guys aren’t rotating their hips enough, they need to let their right heel start coming up a little bit more.
It’s all about finding that balance so that you can be in great rhythm and have everything working together.
You can over rotate the hips, you can under rotate the hips, but when you do it in the middle, when you do it right, it’s going to allow you for the most consistency and the purest ball striking.
For those of you again, if you’re over rotating the hips, feel like you keep the right heel a little bit more on the ground.
If you videotape your swing you should see it barely starting to come up as you’re making contact.
As you come on through to the finish I do want to see all of my spikes as I come on through.
That nice rhythmatic rotation of the hips and body working together is going to allow you for a lot of speed.
Let’s go ahead and see if I can do this correctly. There we go.
Let that heel barely start to come up as you’re coming through contact, it’s going to allow you to feel nice and free with your body but not to spin open, get rid of those blocked shots to the right.
Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.
