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Do you have hip pain after a round of golf?

I did for years. I was even told by a former coach that, that was a good thing? Not sure why, but that seems to be something he thought was good?

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What's Covered: How to stack the left side without bumping the hips too far.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 2:24

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. I’m Clay Ballard, and today I’ve got a great video for you guys that maybe are sliding a little too far to the left with that left hip in the downswing.

Maybe you get some left hip pain, maybe you feel like you’re sliding in front of the ball and chopping down into it a little too much.

I’ve got a great drill that’s going to help you to work on this and to get into the proper alignment. So if I go ahead and set up to my golf ball here, what I’m going to do is I’m going to put an alignment stick just outside my left ankle as I’m at address.

I’m going to line it up with my hip, so at address it should be about maybe three, four inches away from my hip, maybe even five inches at the most.

My hip won’t be touching that alignment rod at all as I come into the proper position.

Now as I go to the top, I’m going to have a little weight shift to the right, you can see how this is going to get a little bit more space between the stick.

As I shift back to the left, now as I get into a good impact position, I’m going to make sure that my hip never touches that stick.

I don’t want my hip to bump and hit into that stick, I can feel it touching that stick now, and I know I’ve gone too far.

The way we’re going to do this, is we’re going to have to realize that if the hips slide laterally, they’re going to tend to stay closed, they’re not going to open up this way because that puts a lot of strain on my lower back.

I want my hip to slide, my left hip to slide back and out of the way.

Now that’s a little exaggerated, but I feel like it’s really going back and out of the way as I’m coming to contact, and I’m just going to do some slow motion drills here.

Again, setting up, little weight shift to the right as I’m starting down, I’m feeling like the hips are clearing back out of the way, and if I get into the correct contact position I can see that’s barely outside my hip a little bit there now.

As I come on through, I’m going to come through to a good full finish.

So if you’re sliding too far forward, you’re really not rotating this left hip back out of the way, you’re just sliding it this way. I want to feel like somebody’s pulling this behind my body, that’s going to allow it to clear out of the way, and that’s going to allow me to stay behind this stick and be able to hit some nice, easy shots like this.

I’m going to go ahead and give you one example here.

There we can see that I never hit the stick on that repetition, stayed back behind it, cleared my hips out of the way, really helped me to hit a nice, easy, solid shot.

So good luck to you guys, work on this impact stick drill, going to help you to clear those hips without bumping them too far forward, going to get rid of that hip pain.

Good luck to you guys, and I’ll see you all soon.