Why You Need This:

In this video, you’ll discover how to increase your speed at any age.

So tell me…

Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you swing, you struggle to accelerate through the ball?

Well, in this video, the second in my Play Your Best Golf After 50! course,…

…you’ll discover how to finish your swing with tons of club head speed, no matter your age.

There are four swing issues that many of my students that are over the age of 50 struggle with…

And you’re about to find out simple and easy fixes to these issues.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this video:

1. A simple trick to let your hips open up in the downswing,
2. How to let your left leg rotate for more power,
3. How to prevent your right foot from being an anchor on your swing, and
4. Why bumping your left hip is ineffective and dangerous!

Watch this video now to get a more fluid swing…

And increase your club head speed!

What's Covered: 4 keys that help free up rotation in the body

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:29

Video Transcription:

Oh, man. I feel like I didn’t get any power on that ball. You guys ever struggle getting through the shot? So you feel like your hips slow down, you just can’t finish your swing and get through the ball no matter how hard you swing. You feel like that your club’s not accelerating through the ball.

I’ve got a couple god tips that are going to help you to finish your swing and boost your club head speed no matter what your age.

So a couple things that we’re going to talk about here are really going to help the hips to keep on moving through the shot to get those opened up.

Maybe sometimes you feel like your hips almost stop right here in the swing, and then your body’s kind of fighting against those hips to keep the arms moving. You feel like you just don’t have anything left when you’re getting at impact.

I’ve got a couple great tips for you. As we get a little bit older, especially I see this all the time with older players, it’s tougher to get those hips to rotate on through there. A good, easy trick to help with this, is number one, let’s go ahead and open up that front foot a little bit.

What that’s going to do is that’s going to open up your hip socket, so now my leg is turned out. This hip socket’s kind of turned open a little bit, now that I rotate on through here, it’s going to be a lot easier for me to rotate on through the shot.

What I see with pro players, the younger guys that are on the PGA Tour, what they’re doing is they’re putting some pressure into the ground. They may start with their foot square – I’m going to go ahead and move this ball.

As they swing what ends up happening is that they push into the ground, and their heel actually rises up. Watch PGA Tour players with a driver, and you’re going to see their heel come off the ground and their foot’s going to kind of rotate open as they come on through the shot.

Some players only do this a small amount, maybe 15-20°. Players like Bubba Watson, you’ll see him swing, and his foot will end up 90° pointing toward the target, but that helps him to swing on through the shot with a lot of power.

That’s one thing I’d very first recommend doing when you’re setting up to the ball, just go ahead and start with that foot about 30-45° open. That’s going to unlock your hip.

Now the second thing we’re going to do here, you know we want to get that good, full turn going back. We want to keep everything moving coming through.

I want to let me knee start to open up as I start my downswing. So as soon as I start my downswing, I’m going to go ahead and let this knee – you can imagine there’s kind of a laser beam shooting out of that – I’m going to let my knee open up.

That’s getting my upper leg kind of angled back away from the target, and now as I push into the ground, you can imagine I’m standing on a clock. This ball would be 12 o’clock, 3 o’clock over here, 6 o’clock behind me, 9 o’clock here.

I’m going to be pushing down and out toward about 10:30. So my foot is angled out toward 10:30, as I start my downswing my knee’s going to get angled out toward 10:30, this upper leg is there.

Now as I push down and out towards 10:30, look how that’s going to rotate my hip back out of the way.

So those two things together, turning out the left foot, getting this knee to turn out, now I can freely rotate on through the shot.

Let’s try that out. In the first swing, feet were square and my hips slowed down, I felt like I couldn’t get through the ball. My hips just completely stopped, I lost all my speed.

Now with this swing, front foot open. As soon as I start my downswing, that turns out. I’m pushing that way, and now you’ll see I can rotate on through the shot much, much more easily. So I really want to do that.

Now another piece of this is going to be on the right foot. A bunch of times, everybody that struggles finishing their backswing, what I’ll notice every single time with their right foot in the follow through, they’ll keep that down on the ground.

That’s almost like an anchor weighing your swing down. That right foot, if it doesn’t come up, the heel doesn’t come up, it’s going to slow those hips and I can’t get through the shot. I want that right heel to come all the way up around.

If you’re standing behind me and I was swinging, you should be able to see every spike on the bottom of my shoe as I come on through the swing. That’s really, really going to help out with that too.

Now the final piece I want you guys to remember is the left hip. This has to happen, and it’s also very, very common.

So when we’re making a downswing, if we get this hip to bump too far forward, in the Top Speed Golf System we talk about the compression line.

So that’s at impact, as I’m making contact, I want my left ankle – if I drew a line from my left ankle to my left shoulder, center of my left shoulder -- that line should be lined up straight with my hip.

My hip should be on that line, or even a little tiny bit behind that line, and that line should be slightly angled away from the target.

Now a lot of times that I see players do, as they start down we’ve been taught so much to bump the hips to the left, start the weight shift in the downswing by bumping the hips. But a lot of times that hip will get out in front of that line.

Now if you drew from my ankle to my shoulder, you’d see my hip has slid in front of that, and you can feel on the outside of your hip that’s really locked up. Now I really can’t get any rotation to finish the shot.

When I do that, I’m going to bump to the left, now I’m jammed up and I really can’t get through the shot no matter how hard I try. Not going to be able to rotate through there.

I want you to feel like again, as my knee turns out to 10:30, that’s going to get my hip as I push, that’s going to get my hip back out of the way. I’m clearing my hip out of the way.

If I had something in my left pocket, as I’m making contact and coming through into the release, that’s going to be facing my target out in the distance.

So let’s put these keys together. I want you guys to go ahead and do about 30 to 40 practice swings without ever hitting a ball, and then we’ll go ahead and make a full swing, hit some shots as we’re doing this.

Number one, I’m going to turn my left foot out. Number two, as I make my downswing, my left knee is going to turn out also. These are both going towards 10:30, if I was standing on this big clock here. I’m going to push out towards 10:30, that’s going to open my hip up.

I don’t want that hip to slide forward or I’m going to be jammed up. I’ve got to get that hip to clear out behind me this direction, that’s going to make it really easy to rotate those hips.

It’s also going to make it easier to get forward shaft lean and compression on the golf ball, because now as my hips open, I’m in a position where I can really get the shaft leaning forward, really compress that ball.

Then finally as I come on through, I want those spikes on my foot to be completely visible to the person behind me. I’m rotated all the way around. Now you can feel like my right shoulder is coming down the fairway.

Not going to be able to get it all the way to the target, but those of you guys that are a little bit older, but at least down into the right rough, into that good, full finish. Let’s see if we can put all these pieces together and hit a nice, crisp shot.

There we go, hit that one really solid. God luck to you guys, finish that swing, keep those hips accelerating, it’s going to give you more club head speed.