Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Makes Opening the Hips So Much Easier"

Ever wonder why getting your hips to open in the golf swing is more difficult than breaking into a bank vault?

Spoiler alert: It’s actually about the position of your belt buckle and your knees…

…and I’ve got a game-changing drill today that’ll simplify the whole process.

It’s the “secret sauce” tour players use to easily open their hips.

Don’t miss out on this video!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:18

Video Transcription:

Clay: Now if you're struggling to get your hips open at impact, this is going to be a crucial drill for you. And most people have never been shown the right way for the hips to work. Now there's anterior and posterior tilt, and we don't need to know the fancy terms for this. Let's talk about belt buckle facing out.

versus belt buckle facing down. So if I rotate my hips this way, where I'm sticking my butt out, then I have some flexion between my upper leg and my pelvis. If I, that my belt buckle is going to be down as that's happening. So feeling like I'm letting my hips rotate back and my belt buckle is now facing the ground.

Now, if I tuck my butt under and my butt comes forward, my belt buckle goes up. Now there's no angle between my upper legs and my pelvis. And when you're in this position, and you have an angle there, you can easily rotate. Your hips can rotate open. As I start to tuck the pelvis under, now all of a sudden I can't rotate my hips.

They're going to lock up and I'm going to slow down. So what tour players are doing, and what all the best players in the world are doing, To get those hips to rotate open, is they're tucking the belt buckle down, they're sticking their butt out. And that's getting in a position where we have flexion here between the upper, uh, upper legs and pelvis.

And now I can rotate. You'll also want to feel like a little cheat here, is you get these knees facing out. I don't want to feel like my knees are locked forward. So for example, my left leg in particular. I'm going to have my, as I start my downswing, my belt buckle is going to go down. I'm in a little bit of flexion here.

My left knee is going to go out as though I'm angling it the direction I want my hips to open. So if my knee is pointed here at the golf ball, forward, very difficult to get the hips open. It's actually impossible to get the hips open. If I get my knee angled out, now as I rotate, that makes it much easier.

So, key number one, belt buckle down. I want to feel like I'm doing that as I start my downswing. Key number two, left knee out as that's happening. Now, lastly, again, I want to feel like my knees are wide. If I kick my right leg forward this way, I'm going to tend to slide. So that would be this type of a motion here where I slide forward.

Well, look what happened. I came up out of my flex. I didn't keep my belt buckle down. And my knee where it slid forward, my hips moved left and right versus this knee staying out, this right leg staying out. And now I can rotate in there. So, now that we know this, let's go over in a slow motion swing.

exactly how to feel it. So let's start at address. My hips are just going to be neutral. I'm going to feel like I'm bending forward a little bit. I don't really want to feel like I'm sticking my butt way out. I'm just going to be completely comfortable. Now from here, as I start my backswing, I'm going to rotate my hips.

Again, very comfortable, not sticking my butt out. As I start my downswing, I'm going to let my belt buckle go to the ground. And I'm going to let my butt kind of stick out. That's that squat motion. I'm increasing the flex in my upper and lower body. As I'm doing that, that's when I'd be shallowing out the club.

That's when my weight would be shifting to the left as that's happening. This left knee would be turning out. This right leg would be staying out here versus sliding in front. And now I can get that rotation happening. So when I feel like my hands are just kind of halfway down, I want to already feel like my hips are opening up.

From there, I can go ahead and extend or get into my belt buckle coming up. So as I come through the shot, I can go ahead and extend to a nice full finish, but it's that first move down. That's how you're going to get your hips open. If you're waiting until the downswing, if you're waiting to down here, to try to get them open way too late.

I want to have that move happening up here. That way they're already out of the way and I can just swing into a nice full finish. So that's what it looks like. Now all you gotta do, practice it a few times in slow motion, speed it up, and you're gonna get some pretty daggone good drives.

There we go. Nice straight as a string drive. 322, not gonna do a whole lot better than that. And I felt like I was just able to squat down, let everything rotate on through, and it naturally just. Cleared outta the way. Now that was the lower body we're talking about there, meaning that's gonna get my momentum of my hips to rotate open, but that's not where the power is gonna come from.

If you wanna feel like you're getting really effortless power, you need to learn how to use the shoulders correctly and the back swing. And in the downswing, you see most people have been told the wrong way to use the shoulders, and it can often lead in a weak drive and feeling like you're swinging hard, but not getting a lot of speed out to the club head.

Well, in the power turn section, I'm going to show you exactly the right way to do that. And most players that I've seen can add 10, 15, 20 yards to their drives with feeling like they're swinging easier as this is happening. Now if you remember top speed golf, click the instruction tab, top speed golf system, power turn.

And I wanted this to get baked into your swing to where you never ever have to think about this again. That's when golf is fun. When you step up to the golf ball, you make a swing, you don't think about anything and it's automatically. Straight down the middle. Powerful swing. Well you have to have the core fundamentals, or what I call the five real fundamentals, to make that happen.

Power turn is one of those. And if you start from level one, you'll see that boost in drive. You'll feel like your swing is a little more effortless, but you still have to think about it. And if you quit there at level one, you're going to turn around in a month or two months, and you'll be right back to where you started, to be honest.

As you go to level two, though, then it starts to get a little bit baked into your swing DNA, if you want to call it that. You start to do it without having to think about it very much. You just kind of spot check, remind yourself to do it. And then as you get through level three, it's in there for good.

You make a swing 10 years from now, you take five years off golf and you swing, come back and swing. You're going to be making that power turn because that's how you swing the club. It's the only way to really get the real fundamentals in your swing is to follow the system that I've laid out there and not just chase one tip to the next.

So I can't wait to. go with this journey, go with you on this journey. I can't wait to help you to get that power turn, head on over and do the very first video on the power turn now, and I'll see you there. Let's go get started.