Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "THE Move to Fix Your Hips in Golf"

In today's lesson...

Discover the single hip move that's key in making all the pieces of your swing come together...

...including staying in posture until the right point of your swing.

But pay super close attention to the timing of this move...

...because it's every bit as important as the move itself.

This move could pull everything together for you.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:26

Video Transcription:

What if I told you that a hip thrust, you've probably seen these with a, a kettle bell. I don't have a kettle bell here, but here's a, here's a dumbbell weight, but a hip thrust, like this is the golf swing, right? So that, that hip thrust, that motion is actually what you're doing in the golf swing. If you looked at it this way, it would look something like that, that that's as important in the golf swing as any of the other things that you're gonna work on with your body, with your club, with your wrist.

That if that's not working properly, then everything else is just really not gonna work that well. You're not gonna be able to stay in your posture, you're not gonna be able to do a lot of things. So let me go into how that would actually work with a golf club. You see, when I make a golf swing, what I'm really doing, let's take all the rotation out of it and I'll just talk about different parts of the swing.

In the back swing. I'm loading up like I was when I bent down and put that kettlebell or that dumbbell through my. So my pelvis is rotating down like this. If you think about that, as your belt buckle is facing forward, if I rotate my pelvis down, my belt buckle would face down more to the ground. If I extend, that's what's called hip flexion.

So I'm flexing my hip this way. Between my thighs, my pelvis, and my body, those are getting closer together. So I'm kind of bringing those together. If I go into extension, that would be the part where I extend up and put that kettlebell over my. My butt cheeks, my glutes are firing. My belt buckle is now facing more forward or up.

My chest is nice and high and extended as my arms come through. That's what you're doing in the golf swing. So in the back swing, we're actually doing this part of it, and especially the first half of the down swing. So if you go to the top of the back swinging, and then I start my downswing, you'll notice how I'm in that hip flexion.

This angle between my legs and my upper body is closer. My belt buckle would be down toward the ground, and that allows me to get close enough to the ground where I can get lag. And then as I come through the shot, I can get shackling. And then as I finish, remember when we had the hips forward, everything extended up when I go into my finish, that's the motion of the golf swing here.

Look how if I was turned sideways, belt buckle up, chest tie. That's exactly what's going on as I finish my swing. So it's that swing. Of the club that allows a golf swing to look effortless. If you don't have that hip motion in there like a kettlebell swing, then it's not gonna look effortless. You see, if I lock my hips in place and I don't do my swing of the hips, or I do 'em in the wrong time, maybe I extend the hips early and now it's just the start of my downswing, well then I'm gonna have to throw and flip at it.

It's gonna mess everything up. So what I want you to do here is a couple practice swings we're gonna do. Uh, so first before we go into that, let's talk about the rotation. Then we'll do practice swings to get all this together. So now if I go ahead and add rotation to that, so I'm doing, my hip thrust is the golf swing, and in there I'm gonna do my back swing halfway into down swinging.

This is, this will be kinda where of my left arms parallel to the ground. This is the position in the top sea golf system where we measure lag. When that's there. Now I'm, I'm fully flexed as much as I'm gonna get, and then when I rotate on through to the. I'm extended, so feeling like from flexed halfway into the downswing to extended in the finish, that's the body motion that has to happen to be able to make a good golf swing.

It also pairs up with, okay, if I'm gonna have my hands have a bunch of lag, if I just stop my body, I have to do everything with my hands and arms. But if I have all this lag and then I extend to the finish, it kind of slings that club through there. I really don't have to feel like I manipulate it with my.

And if you feel handsy at all, that's what's going on. You're missing that flexion extension piece. So now that we know the golf swing's really just two pieces when it comes to the body mo motions, flexing and extending, and then rotating to the right, rotating the left. So if you went ahead and took your arms out like a helicopter, rotate this way, rotate that way, that's what the golf swing would be from the rotation stand.

So those moves are pretty simple. What most people get wrong is this one piece. It's the pelvis piece that we talked about there. So here's what I want you to do to practice that. As you're starting your swing, go to the top of the backswing and a couple things have to happen. Number one, this right leg can't go this way.

I can't get my right leg or my right hip to go outside of my leg. I want my leg angled in and I'm gonna let this hip turn back this way. That's my right knee flex. like this to allow my hips to rotate. My left knee comes in to allow my hips to rotate. That's the top of the back swinging. Here's the important piece, the flexion piece, the pelvis where I had the double kettlebell between my legs.

That's the, the half of the down swing where I want to tuck my butt out. So I wanna feel like my, my butt sticks out toward the wall. I wanna feel like my belt buckle faces down toward the. So that's gonna look like this. Here's top of the back swing. I'm tucking my butt under. I'm tucking my belt buckle down, and I'm loading into the ground here.

That would be here in the golf swing. And then from finally to the finish, I'm gonna go ahead, let all my weight to get to my front foot. My butt is kind of there. I'm flexing my, my glute muscles and my chest is nice and high. That's gonna be your finished position. So again, let's start, talk about this in the full motion.

Knees move to get me to the top of my back swing and let my hips rotate in the back swing. Then I tuck my butt out and my belt buckle down to get into the halfway into the down swinging position. And then I extend up to let my belt buckle face the target, my chest nice and high to the finish. And when I put that together, look how effortless it makes the golf swing Look, this is the only way to have a lot of power and not be manipulating the club with your hands and arms.

There we go. So I'm letting my core in my hips, and I'll even exaggerate here a little bit. I'll let my hips move a little bit more so you can see it easier. Right. And see how my, my hip motion is kind of slinging the club through there. And that's exactly what I want you to feel. Once you get that to happen, then the club just kind of takes off and really slings through contact.

You can get a lot of speed. So here I have a nine iron. I'm just gonna focus in on. Pelvis, tucking and extending and let's see what the, the speed gets up to. There we go. Hit that one hard. Yeah. 1 79 with a nine iron. That's pretty dag on. Good for me, but I think it all for me and everybody else I see that has a fluid swing.

It all starts with the pelvis now. That's where it all starts with the body, but we obviously have to go on to something else from here. So what about the hands and the arms? What about the club releasing, having lag and releasing out in front? How do we add that to what we did here today? Well, I would recommend, and I think the fantastic place to start with that is the top speed lag section.

It's particularly the stick behind the ball drill. So now that we have our pelvis kind of pointing down and we're in good posture, we need to move this club in a way where it has lag and then releases into what we call a straight line. So head on over to the instruction tab. If you remember, top speed golf, cook instruction, top speed golf system, and then top speed golf lag section.

And then inside there, make sure that you do the stick behind the ball drill. That's really gonna allow you to get this club loaded in a way to where now when you do extend those hips and fire on through there, the club just takes off like a rocket. And that's one of the best drills that I've found for people to get a lot of lag and really start to compress the heck out of it.

Hit really solid. And the cool thing about this, it's almost impossible to chunk one or to fall back and hit one behind it. If you're doing this, stick behind the ball. Drill the right way. So we built the body in this video. Head on over to the stick, behind the ball drill. Now I challenge you to do that video next, and that's the perfect one, two punch.

You're gonna get the body and then the hands and the arms. Best of luck and I can't wait to see you there. Let's go and get started.