Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to CLEAR THE HIPS in the Golf Swing - Student Before & After"

Today, Professor Q is going to share an amazing transformation that Chris, his online student, had recently.

Chris was struggling with chunks and pulls to the left…

…and letting his hips slide too much.

Q gave him a great drill to try out (that he could perform in his living room!) that not only allowed him to finally clear his hips…

…but eliminate those pesky chunks, allowing him to make consistent, solid contact.

This drill is not only effective, but it doesn’t require expensive training aids or leaving the comfort of your own home!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 11:17

Video Transcription:

Hey, Quinton Patterson here, and I'm really excited to share with you some awesome progress that my student Chris has made in his golf swing. So Chris came to me struggling with chunks and struggling with kind of pulls to the left, getting the face a little bit too closed through contact. So if we look at his before swing on the left hand side here, what we're going to see, I'm going to draw a line on the outside of his hips.

Let's get that line in a better spot. There we go. And what you're going to see is when he goes up to the top of the swing, His hips really slide too much, right? You can see at the top of the swing, his hips are on the right side, his right side of that line. Now, when you look at the better players, which you're going to see is most better players have their hips on this side of that line at the top.

Now they may bump into that line to start the backswing to get pressure into their right foot. But as they get up to the top, they're actually going to be moving their body a little bit toward the target, right? So if you look at Chris's after swing here, All right, we can get that. There we go. You're going to see how he's doing just that.

He's creating a gap and usually it's about a hand thickness or so of a gap that's being created between his hips in that line. So he's in a much, much better position to be able to get into his lead side and that in and of itself really, really helped with the chunk shots, right? Because if you look here from here, it's very, very difficult to get to the lead side when there you can actually see he's kind of uppercutting the ball.

You can kind of see If you look at where his ground contacts being made, right, it's kind of he's starting to rough up the grass about where that red line is that I put by the ball, right? You can see the grass kind of moving around. So he's essentially he's hitting up on the ball, which when you do that, when shots are off the ground, that's going to lead to chunks, thins, tops and things like that.

So if we can create a little bit of gap, get the hips working a little bit better. That, that's going to make things a lot, lot better. So the drill that we worked on to do that is something that I call the chair drill. And basically what it is, you just take it, you just take a chair and pardon my drawing skills here, but just take a chair, put it on the outside of your hip there, and then you just make swings where you're creating a little bit of a gap between your hip and the chair at the top of the swing.

And that's exactly what Chris is doing here. But what happened when we did that, and we never know how people are going to react. Um, but we got the backswing hips working a lot better and then from there we just want to say, okay, well, how are you moving your hips in the downswing? And really what we found is Chris moved his hips in a very similar way in the downswing when he did the chair drill.

He still bumped the hips forward and didn't really get them rotating open. And again, that's going to make that right shoulder drop down. That's going to make, um, yeah. Um, your rotation stall out, which is going to tend to get the face too close. The face is going to tend to want to shut early, um, when you do that.

So if we can get a better pivot through the ball, then that's really going to help get his ground contact to be more where the ball is. It's going to push that bottom of that swing more forward toward the target, and it's also going to help him to control the face and keep that face from shutting down on him.

So the next drill that we worked on, once he got to where he could do. Uh, you know, create that gap at the top of the swing very easily. The next drill that we worked on is the one that we're illustrating here. So this is just one where we put a stick through the belt loops. And what we want to do here is we want to set up something here on the left hand side outside of his left foot that he can knock over very easily with a stick.

And basically what you do is if you have this stick level with the ground, um, it would be about a hand width below the stick. So you can see that the stick going through his belt loops is is kind of tilted down. So it's not quite a hand width We're about six inches or so below but he's using a piece of toilet paper here.

He was creative in that Even you can see he's got a book underneath the the the toilet paper roll to kind of prop it up just a little bit To get it to where it's six inches below the stick it's probably a little bit too much below the stick when he didn't have the Um, the book there, I think when I demonstrated the drill to him, uh, I think I use like a, an empty water bottle or something like that.

And on top of a trash can, um, in my office, but there's, you just gotta be creative, find a way he used a suitcase with a book and a toilet paper. You just gotta find a way, um, to do it. And Chris did a great job of finding a way to do it. But basically what we would want to do is in the downswing, what we would want to do is we'd want to knock over.

That piece or that Toilet paper roll and again you want to use something that's very light That's not going to impede your motion through the shot Like you wouldn't want to use something that's really heavy right there because it's gonna be hard to knock it over you want to use something that'd be very easy to knock over like a toilet paper roll and What we want to do is we want to keep that lead hip down around that's kind of the key here So if you look at what he's doing here In the downswing on his before swing, you can see how that that left hip, it just slides forward and then moves up right away, right?

So it kind of moves in that motion, right? And again, that's going to be a hip bump. Drop the upper body back, you know, chunk, um, thin overclosed face typically and things like that. So what we want to feel is in the start of the downswing is that that left hip, it stays really low. And if we keep that stick pointed down, that forces you to keep that hip low.

So And then we want to move it around. And the way that we do that is if you watch with his lead leg, watch how he bows out that lead leg. He keeps it flexed. So it's flexed in the in the backswing there. He's going to keep it flexed, but he's going to bow that out. All right, so you can see how he's bowing out that leg.

That's opening up his body while also keeping his left hip low. And then through contact here, as he starts in the second half of the downswing, watch how now he's got that lead leg boat out. He's got it in a position here where now, if he just straightens his leg, that's just going to keep his, his body rotating.

And that's exactly what it does. Look how he clears his hips nicely here. He straightens out that leg, knocks over that toilet paper and comes through in a much, much better impact position. So if you look at the impact positions between the two, I mean, it's night and day difference. So let's There's the impact position there.

Let's look at the before swing impact position. So here you're going to see, you know, on the before swing bumped out with the hips. You can see the hands are kind of more in the middle of his body, not as much shaft lean. You can see how that right shoulders kind of dropped back a ton. Whereas on the after swing here, you can see a nice You know straight lead side there.

That's something that clay talks about in the compression line We want to have our lead hip lead ankle and lead shoulder all in a straight line Just slightly angled away from the target. That's exactly What Chris is demonstrating here? That's a perfect compression line and you can see just by working on this alone We did I would tell you we did not work on any shaft lean.

We did not work on drills that are specific to creating shaft lean We worked on getting his hips to move better in the backswing and in the downswing. And that in of itself got him more shuffling. If you look at this impact position, he has the position that we all see the best players in, right? When we look at Tiger, when we look at Rory, we look at the impact position.

When we're looking from face on, we're gonna see those hands in front of the lead side. So just by doing this He was able to get more shaft lean, um, at contact by getting, by getting his hips to clear properly in the downswing. Now, this isn't necessarily going to be the same for everybody. You know, Chris was doing a lot of other things in his swing really well.

Some people have other reasons why they're not moving their hips properly. And really what Chris needed was just some specific drills for him that tackled his specific issues, right? And the drills, uh, for you may be totally different to help you to get shaft lean or whatever you're trying to do, uh, in the swing.

And that's where the online lessons can really, really help out where you don't really know exactly what to work on to tackle your specific issues. So if you're working through things on your own, really what we recommend you do is the top speed golf system. And we recommend that you do the 20 minute shallowing fix, the 20 minute distance fix, various other programs, but they don't specifically tackle.

What, you know, they don't necessarily cut to the chase to what your specific issues might be. And that's where the online lessons can come in handy. So if you're watching this video. On the day that I'm releasing it, and that means that I've opened up spots and there's an opportunity for you there to be able to sign up and for me to look at your swing and tell you, okay, this is specifically this is the drill.

This is specific to you. It's going to help you to get to where you want to go. You can kind of cut through everything else. It's almost like a shortcut to help, you know, get your swing on the right track. So if you're interested in working with me, there should be a link below where you can sign up. Yeah.

And, um, you know, work with me one on one in the online lessons through, um, uh, the app that we use is, which is called on forms and ops. Awesome app. Very, very easy to use. So if you're interested, click the link. If you don't see any spots available, then, um, just click the waiting list. And then whenever I open up spots again in the future, we'll send you over an email and then you can, uh, hopefully sign up at that time.

The other thing that I want to mention here that you're going to notice is how Chris, not on a driving range, right? He's in his home. Um, he's actually hitting, this is a tip for a lot of you. He's actually hitting a wadded up piece of paper. Um, so people think that, you know, you, in order to work on your swing, you have to go to the driving range.

You gotta be able to go to the driving range and that, that couldn't be farther from the truth. Um, you really, if you have enough space to swing in your house, Um, you can work on on your swing. Um, you know, you can get, you don't even have to have a net. You don't have to have a mat. If you can just have like, you know, Chris here is hitting off of his, uh, his own carpet in his house.

Um, he's a little braver than I, than I am with that. You know, I would hit off of like a. Uh, like an old mat, you can get it like a dollar store or something like that. And then he's hitting a wadded up piece of paper, which isn't going to damage anything, but you're still hitting something. A lot of times this is actually a better way to work on your swing because it takes away the result of the shot.

I feel like a lot of people struggle with making. Um, technique changes because they're so focused on the result of the shot. And a lot of times we have to understand is that when you're working on things in your swing, you know, the results of the shots may not be that great in the beginning. And you kind of have to learn how to swing that way and hit the, hit the ball well.

And this is a really a great way to work on it. And not to mention. It's air conditioned. You know, for a lot of you, it's in the middle of the summer. Um, and there's a heat wave and, uh, it'd be pretty nice to work on things, um, indoors. And this is a great opportunity to do that. Uh, maybe it's the middle of the winter where you are and you can't work on things and you want to be, um, indoors working on things.

You can, you can do that, um, as well. So, um. really proud of Chris and the progress that he's made in his swing. If you'd like to work with me, I'd love to have the opportunity to work with you too. Just click the link below. Um, and if there's no spots available, just join the waiting list. Hope you're all playing well and I'll talk to y'all next time.