Why You Need This: Ever heard the expression, "It's all in the Hips"?

In this video about How To Use The Hips in the golf swing we'll cover a lot of that...

If you have trouble with the finish, learn to keep your momentum going through contact...

See the difference between using your arms and using body movement...

Keep your head high in ultimate posture as you finish and follow through in the golf swing!

Remember, posture affects all finishes.

Watch this "How To Use The Hips In The Golf Swing (And Shoulders) | Add 30+ Yards" video now, and I will guide you through everything mentioned above, leading you to a fine tuned finish...

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:39

Video Transcription:

All right, so in last week’s video we talked about how the power turn and getting that good, full shoulder turn like we do over in the Top Speed Golf System is going to help you boost up your club head speed.

The power turn isn’t only for the backswing, it’s all for the follow-through. Let me explain what I mean by this.

We’re going to make a good, full turn with our hips and our shoulders as we’re going to the top of the swing. Our hips are going to turn at least 45°, our shoulders are going to turn 90° or preferably even a little bit more than 90° as we go to the top.

So that momentum as we’re unwinding, now our body weight is opening and that’s adding some momentum. Kind of imagine like driving in a car, and then throwing something out the car window at the base momentum of the car, then you’re adding to that the speed of what you’re throwing with your arm.

Same thing happens in the golf swing. We have our body momentum which is that car. It’s got a lot of mass, it’s got a lot of force, it’s creating that base layer of speed, then we can add to that our hands and our arms to release the club and to really boost up really crazy speed on top of that.

What happens a lot of times to people who don’t really finish their swing, they’re so caught up in hitting the golf ball, it’s very easy to do that we don’t ever keep that momentum going right on through the shot.

What should be happening in the golf swing is we load up, good turn going back, as I start down now my hips and my shoulders are unwinding, and that momentum carries on through.

As I finish my hips should be facing the target, and my shoulders should come all the way on through to a nice relaxed position, I don’t want to try to strain this, but my shoulders or my shirt buttons should be facing over toward the left side, almost into the left rough here as I’m coming through the shot.

Now a lot of people sometimes will ask me, well what does it matter? If I the golf ball, after I make contact it’s all over, does it matter if I finish my swing? Why can’t I just finish here, and why would that make any difference in my swing speed?

What really happens is the result of what happened much earlier. A lot of times if I’m decelerating in my downswing with my body and my arms, and I’m doing that too early, say halfway in the downswing, the result will be me finishing only halfway into the follow through.

I want to go ahead and create that momentum, my body will decelerate a little bit coming through contact, but then I’m going to have that come all the way around, and that’s really going to help you boost your club head speed up.

So in these first couple, let me go ahead and swing a few, I’ve got my flight scope out here. Let’s take a look at my club head speed when I don’t make a finish.

What’s happening here is I’m slowing down early in the downswing, and that’s resulting in a poor finish. Let’s go ahead and take a couple swings, and I’ll do my best rendition of stopping my swing early.

There we go. So I was kind of all arms coming through there. Hit that one just about dead straight, pretty solid. So I kind of timed it up pretty well, let’s see what my club head speed is, 101.7, so I really lost a lot of club head speed.

260 roughly, 259 on my total distance on that one. So my swing speed was down a little bit lower, I didn’t really get the full club head speed because I decelerated my body early in the down swing, and I didn’t have anything accelerating through contact.

Let me go ahead and try one more there. You can really see, watch my body starts to decelerate around here, and that results in kind of a weak follow through.

There we go, again that was dead straight, timed it up perfectly. So this is pretty much going to be the maximum yardage for a bad swing.

My club head speed on that one, 102.6 and I’m a 269, so 260-269, both dead solid shots, dead straight, 101-102 club head speed. So not really what I can get my potential is, but a lot of times people will be doing something like this, maybe they’re not creating the right momentum in the golf swing, and they think that’s just the fastest I can swing too.

Let’s go ahead and give a good, full finish, get that momentum working properly, and now I’ll see what it does to our club head speed.

On this one, you’ll notice even in the last one, I made a good, full turn going back, but I didn’t keep the momentum going through.

This time I’m going to get good, full momentum, a big, full turn going back, good momentum coming through, and let’s check it out.

Not a very solid strike on that one, a little bit thin. See what the club head speed was, 113.5, my total distance went up to 190, I think we can do a little better than that. Let’s go ahead and try one more out.

Even there I picked up roughly 30 yards of distance, and 11 or 12 miles an hour club head speed, depending on which one you’re comparing it too.

Let’s go ahead and hit a real, nice, solid one. I got a little off the toe there, a little to the left, but I think a made a little bit better swing speed on that one.

Got 114.1 swing speed is pretty nice, about tour average. 290 just because I didn’t hit it dead solid again, it got a little off the toe and dipped down on me.

But with that kind of club head speed if I hit those dead solid I should be able to average about 310 or so, if I’m hitting them nice and solid. We can see a difference there.

Not finishing your swing, not creating that momentum through the shot, it’s going to cost us at least 30 yards off the tee, and about 10 or 11 miles an hour, even more than that, 12 miles an hour club head speed.

So what I want you guys to focus on as you’re coming through, is to really check as you’re coming through the shot, to really work on this, is my hips are going to keep on rotating all the way on through, my right toe is going to be straight up and own.

I don’t want to ever have my foot glued on the ground, that’s going to stall my hips and then I’m not going to finish. I want to go ahead and let that toe come all the way on up, and then from here, I want you to feel like you’re really tall.

The taller I can get, the easier it’s going to be to rotate all the way on through the shot. That’s going to help you make that good, full, finish and to pick up the club head speed.

When I’m doing this incorrectly, I’m staying very crunched over, and I’m not getting tall. So I’m making my swing, I’m staying down in my posture too long, and now I’m bent over and I can’t finish.

The difference here is now I’m coming through after I make contact, I’m letting momentum pull me around and now I’m nice and tall. You can see all my weight is stacked up over my lead foot, and that’s going to allow me to get to that good, full finish.

You don’t have to be flexible to do this, you just have to understand how to move the body correctly.

Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.