Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to rotate your hips in golf after 60.

I get tons of questions from my older students about flexibility.

Hey, I'm not over 50 yet, but I get it...

I'm not nearly as flexible as I was at age 20, and it seems like every year I lose more and more flexibility.

But here's what you need to understand...

You CAN swing with a full turn even if you're in your 50s or 60s.

I've given hundreds of lessons to players over 50 and every single one of them was able to make a full turn in the backswing.

So if you're struggling to make a full turn, then this video is for you.

You'll learn the key moves that'll help your hips rotate farther back, which will help your shoulders get to 90 degrees, or more.

And there's no tricky stretching techniques or sorcery involved.

You'll only get great tips that you can perform today.

Watch now to discover how to make a full turn!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:58

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, welcome back. I’ve got a great video for you, and this is question that I get a lot on the website. Players that are getting upper in age a little bit, getting a little bit older, we get tighter and tighter as we get older. That’s completely normal.

I get a question of I know in the Top Speed Golf System, we’re supposed to get this big shoulder turn. We’re supposed to get all the way to 90° or even a little bit past 90° with my shoulder turn, but what am I supposed to do as I get tighter and tighter?

Maybe you’re a younger player and you’re not very flexible, but how are we going to get this big hip and shoulder turn? Give us some information, yeah that’s great for the young guys, but give us some information that’s for us older guys on hitting it farther.

I’ve got a couple keys for you, and anybody out there, I haven’t seen anybody who can’t get a full 90° shoulder turn with the right technique. I’m going to show you a couple things and just test these out with me if you’re in your living room right now. Go ahead and grab a golf club and we’ll try this out.

First off, let’s keep this left heel on the ground as we’re going to the top of the backswing. The idea here is that as I rotate to the top, I want to get about 45° of hip turn, and then I want to separate and get about 90° of shoulder turn.

Let’s start out by keeping this heel on the ground, and I want you to keep most of your weight on your left foot as we’re doing this. Go ahead and make your backswing, keep the heel on the ground, keep your weight on your left side, and then try to rotate back.

We may find, I get pretty tight as I’m doing this. You see here, I didn’t get quite to 90°, I’ve got a little bit too much weight on my left side which is inhibiting me from rotating, and I’ve got my left heel flat on the ground.

If you’re looking at it from this direction, it looks like that. No left heel lift at all. Now, I want you to go ahead and do the same thing, but let’s go ahead this time, I want you to shift a little bit of weight to your right side.

Now why that’s important, is when we’re rotating in the golf swing, I have a lot of cool science on this that we won’t get into this particular video, it would be a little bit too long, but I should be pushing down and out to rotate my hips in the backswing.

So as I start to shift a little more weight to my right side, go ahead and do this. Stand up in your living room right now, put some pressure into the right foot to rotate you back, and get those shoulders to turn a little bit more.

You’ll see right away, I can get a little bit more shoulder turn. Now for those of you that are a little bit tight, that’s completely fine.

There is some instruction out there, popular instruction for those young, super-flexible guys, maybe you see on the PGA Tour, that says we want to limit our hip turn going back.

If we do that, we’re not going to be able to get that good turn to the top. I want you guys to go ahead and put that weight on your right side, and to get a little bit of extra hip turn, go ahead and lift that left ankle up off the ground.

Jack Nicklaus won a lot of major championships doing that. There’s a lot of players, a lot of professional golfers that won a lot of major championships hit the ball amazing doing that, created a lot of club head speed before it became pretty popular to keep the left heel down.

Let’s go ahead and lift that left heel slightly up off the ground. Doesn’t have to be much, maybe an inch or so, and now let’s try the same thing again.

So weight’s on the right, I’m going to lift my left ankle up off the ground. You’re going to see my hips are turning farther now. This would be 45°. If you want to go ahead and go 55°, 60° with hip turn, that’s completely fine.

For you guys that aren’t quite as flexible, getting that left heel to lift a little bit, getting a little bit more shoulder turn is going to get you some more power.

If you don’t believe me, take a look at Bubba Watson who’s creating huge amounts of club head speed, this is exactly what he’s doing, and he’s still a very consistent ball striker.

Let’s go ahead and try that again, put a club across your shoulders. Weight shift to the right, left heel slightly comes up, and you’re going to see just how much more you get.

To compare with that, let’s keep weight on the left, left heel down, and you’re going to see very little shoulder turn. As I go to the weight on the right, left heel up, bigger shoulder turn.

Then I’m going to come all the way on through. Do about 20 or 30 reps of that, just in your living room. Then we’re going to go ahead and take it out to the driving range, get that left heel to lift, and you’re going to start hammering the ball.

Let’s try it out. All right, guys. Good luck out there, and I’ll see you all soon.