Hip Drills To Help Improve Your Rotation In Golf

Reverse pivots and swaying will rob you of power and control. Coach Ged Walters suggests some tips drills to help you rotate properly.

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00:00Guys Jed Walters here we're at Las Colinas Golf Club in Alicante in Spain and I'm going to give

00:08you a drill that you can do at home as well as on the driving range and before you play to help your

00:14pivot your body rotation improve in your golf swing now common that we see is you know some

00:24guys really really nice setup and then we see a backswing which looks a little bit like this

00:29or we see a backswing which looks then a little bit like this and the big thing with that is the

00:37body's pivot and especially the upper body is not moving in the desired way that we needed to to be

00:43efficient and to be powerful as well so what we need to make sure that we do is we keep as close

00:50as we possibly can an alignment between the center of the shoulders and the center of the hips as

00:57well so if you look at your shirt buttons and your belt buckle we need to keep them as aligned as we

01:01possibly can so when we would be taking our setup position what we don't want to do is go this way

01:11because what we've done there is we've made a turn but the one thing we haven't done is we haven't

01:16extended the spine angle to retain our position and our nice control of the pivot and the turn and the

01:24power so if we look at the golf swing we've got the turn we've got the forward bend and a slight

01:35extension in the spine angle to retain our position there nice and smoothly and powerfully and from

01:41there we can really unwind and get a real powerful downswing and if we think about it the most powerful

01:47muscles in your golf swing glutes and quads followed by your core so if they're not getting themselves in

01:54the right position you're going to struggle massively struggle then you become very hands and armsy and

01:58totally inconsistent so drill that we need to do I want you to get your club and I want you to place

02:04it right on the very top of your shoulders just in there taking your setup position and little forward

02:11bend into here okay I want you to get the club head as I've got it here to go down towards the ground

02:21almost towards the inside of your trailing foot and then in the down swinging through swing you want

02:29to get the belt buckle to rotate towards the target getting the grip end down into that position then

02:36we're going around and through into a great finish so when we see that from the face on position we're going

02:45down as we rotate and as you see there there's no movement to one side or the other so my spine's

02:52tilting turning it's extending all in one motion to there and then I can push through down and into

03:02the finish now that drill five minutes a day at home even if you wanted to you could place your

03:08forehead on the doorframe do it in the doorframe to get used to making that movement to start with

03:13but the more you do it the better you get at it and it doesn't take long for your pivot and your

03:18rotation of the body to get better and better and better when you're out on the golf course where

03:22it really matters now I'm going to give you a view when I hit this shot of how stable the body rotation

03:28is it's quite difficult really to see stability from a fast movement especially where the arms in

03:34the way in the front view so I'm going to give you a different view I'm going to give you this one

03:38because from this angle here you can see everything how stable and centered the body's rotation is and

03:46then round into that finish so I'm going to hit this shot for you now and I'm going to make that nice

03:54movement turning tilting extending all the way through and into the finish position and then we get a

04:07beautifully crisp strike lovely control on the ball flight loads of power loads of distance guys make

04:13sure you do it five minutes a day you know you could be there watching the news you could be

04:16watching the sport anything on TV just standing there and making sure you you prepare so when

04:22you get on the golf course everything works much much better guys thanks for watching don't forget to

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