Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll get a great backswing tip to help you make a full turn.

Rotating to the top is a common struggle for golfers so don’t get frustrated.

With the tips in this video, you’ll start squeezing out some extra turn in no time.

And with more turn, comes more distance.

The Top Speed Golf System focuses on what I call The Power Turn.

This core move will help boost your swing speed and get you more distance.

This video starts off by discussing some of the PGA Tour averages for turn.

Now, if you’re like me, you’re not as flexible as some of the guys on tour...

...but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a big powerful turn.

As you’ll see in the video, there are several tips from how to use your legs...

…all the way to allowing your hips to give you a turn boost.

Watch this video now to get a much bigger turn in your backswing...

And transfer all of your built-up energy into monster drives!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:37

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf. In this video we’re going to talk about how to rotate to the top. So those of you may be struggling out there to get a good, full turn going back and going through, that’s really going to hurt your distance.

This one thing that we really focus on in the Top Speed Golf System, we call it the Power Turn, that’s how much you’re rotating back, how much you’re rotating through, and it’s really going to help you to boost up your swing speed and start driving a lot farther.

Let’s talk about some PGA Tour averages so we have a good idea of what we should be looking for. With the driver on the PGA Tour, as you’re going back or a full swing I should say, not necessarily the driver, but with a full swing as we’re going back the shoulders are going to turn about 128°.

This is what they’ve measured with a Tour average. There would be 90°, they’re getting all the way to 128°, meaning that their shoulders are almost 30° past 90° as they go to the top of the backswing, or actually 40°, excuse me, it would be 38°. So really loading up the shoulders.

A lot of this is happening not from the chest or the sternum rotating, it can only rotate so much. But then the left shoulder is protracting, the right shoulder is retracting, so those sockets are really helping to load up even more than the hips.

The hips are turning about 48°. Now, there’s only one way we can do this, we have to use pressure into the ground properly. So if you can imagine a very good visual I’ve seen, is if you put your fingers on top of kind of one those orange juice bottles with the big top.

As I start to push out with my right finger and back of my left finger it’s going to twist the top, and in the opposite direction. As I start to twist this top, it’s going to move me in the ground and create some rotation. The same thing happens in the golf swing.

So if I want to make a good, full turn to the top, I’ve got to use pressure into the ground. This is one thing that I see people, a lot of people, struggle with.

They go to the top, they’re not shifting their weight properly, they’re really trying to feel like they’re reaching, or they’re getting a reverse pivot to get wound up, because they’re not using pressure in the ground properly. So with my right foot, as I’m going back, I want to feel like I’m pushing out.

If you can visualize this, my foot would feel like it’s sliding out this way, I’m putting pressure into the ground that way, and that’s pushing my right hip back in this direction. As you push down, the ground pushes back, so kind of Newton’s law of every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction.

So as my foot pushes out this way, down that way it pushes my hip back this way. With the left leg we’re doing this same thing, so as we’re going into the backswing I need to get some pressure in the right leg early, so I can get the right hip to turn back.

I also want to feel like with my left foot I’m going back this way, and that’s moving my right hip or my left hip forward. As I go back with my foot, put pressure this way, my hip rotates that way.

It’s actually pretty easy when you do this together, feel like you’re putting pressure into the ground, now my hips are rotating, and we want to be around that 48° rotation. If anything, I like to see a little bit more hip rotation because most people aren’t as flexible as what we’d see with a PGA Tour player.

That’s really going to get you wound up. Get 100 repetitions, putting the pressure into the ground in opposite directions, rotating your hips, rotating your shoulders to get that good, full turn.

Feel like my left shoulder really stretches back, my right shoulder really stretches back to the target, and that’s going to get you super wound up and you’ve got a ton of potential energy to now unleash into the golf ball. Now in the downswing, all we do is simply switch those directions.

So the backswing, my right foot pushed out, my left pushed back. In the downswing, now my right foot is going to push back, and my left foot is going to push out, and that’s going to get me to rotate on through.

As we finish, the PGA Tour player on average is going to have the hips facing the target. So you see my right toe is all the way up off the ground. My hips have rotated all the way around, and now my shoulders instead of facing the target, they’re actually all the way around to where they’re facing about 45° to the left.

If you’re not quite that flexible, you may not get that full stretch, but again, we’ve got to use the feet. You’ll be surprised when you start using the feet just how much you can rotate on through, that you didn’t realize you can do. So another 100 repetitions focusing on the finish.

So we did 100 reps pausing in the backswing, good full turn, 100 reps pausing in the follow through, nice and tall, right foot off the ground, hips toward the target, shoulders all the way on around, that’s a god, full turn going back and through.

If we can put both of those together, now we’re really going to rip the ball and get some great club head speed. All right guys, play well. Hit those drives long, I’ll see you guys soon.