Why You Need This: In this video, you get my golf swing hip pain solution.

Now since as far back as I can remember...

We've all been told time and time again to get our weight to our front foot...

And even bump our hips out.

Well guess what's causing all your hip pain???

I think you know the answer.

If you're concentrating on getting to your left side in the downswing,...

It's easy to overdo it and put your body in a terrible position...

...that absorbs way too much stress.

In this video, you'll learn how to whip through your downswing while reducing the stress on your lead hip.

So check it out now to stop bumping out your hips...

And get back to enjoying your rounds pain free!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:14

Video Transcription:

Since we very first started playing golf, there’s one thing that all of us hear time and time again. We’ve got to get our weight to the left, we’ve got to get our hips to bump to the left to start the downswing. Everything is about getting left.

Well if you’ve been getting hip pain, you feel like after a round of golf your hip is sore, you just feel like it’s not quite right, almost like you’re jammed up and you’re hitting against your left side, well that could be the wrong motion.

I’m going to show you today how we do get a slight shift to the left, but most people that I see, I’d say the vast majority, bump their hips too far to the left and then everything is kind of dumping into the right side of their body, causing a lot of trouble as they’re doing this.

So let’s talk about the three things that are going to help you to actually rotate your hips, clear your hips out of the way, get a good strong compression line like we talk about in the Top Speed Golf System.

First let’s talk about where we want to be at contact, that’s really the most important thing. If I’m talking about our Top Speed Golf System, that’s one of our five fundamentals.

At contact, I want to have my hips open about 45°, could be a little more, little bit less is going to be fine. I want to have my left ankle socket, so if I take the center of my ankle, and I want to have my hip socket, the actual kind of imagine the ball joint inside your hip, and my shoulder socket are all three going to be in alignment.

So if I draw a line from my hip up to my shoulder, sorry, from my ankle to my shoulder, my hip is going to be right on that line also. If we’re looking at that line, it’s a vertical line like this that should be slightly tilted away from your target, just a few degrees is fine.

Now if we get used to bumping the hip in front, it’s going to look something more like this. I did this for years, my hip hurt after every single round of golf that I played.

I was told to bump my hips to the left. I got something like this, where now my left ankle and my left shoulder, you make a line there, my hip is out in front of those, and I could feel on the outside of my hip, it’s really starting to get sore, the muscle on the outside of your hip there.

So we don’t want to do that, because not only does it make us get a little bit of hip soreness, it also causes – watch my shoulders now as I bump my hips forward – now my shoulders are kind of dropping down, I’m going to be grounding out behind the golf ball causing me a lot of inconsistency.

Three things we can do to really help this out. Number one, especially for players that have limited flexibility. Those of you who may be over 50 years old, or just don’t have a lot of flexibility, I don’t have a lot of flexibility.

Go ahead and turn this foot out about 30° or so. So if this is a square, front foot, I’m going to turn that out. What that does is that rotates my knee out, and that rotates my actual femur to where my hip socket is now turned out like this.

Now as I’m coming through the shot, it’s going to be easier for me to open up that hip.

The second thing that I’m going to do, is I’m actually going to let – as I start my downswing – instead of bumping my hip this way, which now you can see my femur would kind of be angled, or my bone that’s in the upper leg would be angled back like that, I’m actually going to rotate my hips and get my upper leg bone, the femur here, is actually going to be angled back away from the target.

You can see how it’s angled this way. Now as I push into the ground, that’s going to let me clear my hips out of the way, I’m feeling like in my left foot I’m pushing down and out into the ground, that’s going to clear my hips and now I don’t have any pain.

If I do the opposite of this, square front foot, it’s already tougher to rotate, and then I get my hip bumping, my femur’s not lined up. If I push into the ground my femur wants to go this way, and then I’m trying to rotate into that, causes a lot of soreness, and I really just can’t get through the shot.

So I’m going to open up that front foot a little bit. As I start my downswing, I’m going to make sure my left knee rotates out.

This bone is angled back now when I push into the ground I automatically rotate, and then from there I’m going to focus in on actually pushing into the turf to get the hip to rotate open.

If I can put all three of those pieces together, there we go. Good solid shot, really nice clean hit there. I could feel no discomfort at all in my hip letting that rotate on through.

So work on those three keys if you’re having some hip pain, it’s going to free you up, it’s going to make your swing feel that much effortless, more effortless. I’ll see you guys very soon.