This Hip Habit is Keeping You From a Consistent Swing

In this video, you will learn how to keep your hips from turning and improve your swing.

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Do you know how to rotate the hips correctly in the golf swing? If not, you're probably rotating them wrong! In this video, we'll show you how to rotate the hips correctly so you can hit the ball further and straighter.

If you're struggling to hit the ball good, try this golf swimg to fix your hip turn and rotation. By rotating the hips correctly, you'll be able to hit the ball straighter and farther, improving your golf game in the process!

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Why should you not turn the hips in the golf swing if you are an older golfer?

Older golfers should not turn the hips too much in the golf swing because it can cause a loss of power and accuracy. Turning the hips too much can cause the golfer to lose connection with the ground, and can lead to a flat golf swing plane and a swing that is too inside-out. This can lead to an inconsistent and inaccurate swing that produces slices or pulls. It can also cause the golfer to come over the top and hit push shots or hooks.

Additionally, turning the hips too much can cause the golfer to lose connection with the ground, leading to an inconsistent and inaccurate swing that is a flat golf swing plane and behind.

Why should you not resist the hips in the golf swing backswing?

Resisting the hips in the golf swing backswing can lead to a number of problems. It can cause the golfer to be too upright and lack power, or it can cause the golfer to become too flat and lose accuracy. Additionally, it can cause the golfer to lose connection with the ground, and makes it difficult to generate a proper swing plane. This can lead to inconsistency in the golf swing and loss of power and accuracy.

What ground force should you use in golf swing hip movement?

Ground force should be used to initiate the hip movement in the golf swing. Generating ground force involves the golfer pushing into the ground with their feet, legs, and hips, while maintaining a stable base. This will help the golfer to generate power and accuracy in their swing. Additionally, it helps the golfer maintain balance and connection with the ground throughout the swing.

This applies to the backswing and downswing

Alex Fortey from the Art of Simple Golf gives you simple tips to improve your golf swing. Enjoy this golf video to help you get closer to having YOUR perfect golf swing.

Let us know what you think in the comments below! 👇

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[tomlauritsen]

You way explaining and making it so much easier, is absolutly fantastic and has improved my golf so rapidly. Ever since I adopted the wining up instead of rotation, I regained the joy of playing golf, because it gave me so much more stability. I am really grateful for your online instructions and I do recommend you to all my golffriends. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. Greetings from Denmark🇩🇰

[thehairygolfer]

I have had a lot of bad lessons over the years. Technology has now made some teachers quite lazy. Or they talk about P1, P2, P3 etc etc. This was not one of those bad lessons. It is so easy to get confused over what is supposed to move where and when. I'm with you. It all moves together and we are all individuals.

[alialmisned]

Useful information and techniques, I have been struggling with turning my hips horizontally with a lot of bad shots ! Many thanks 🙏

[Turbonicplague]

This really makes sense. I am realizing this is what causes the front the leg extending at impact for the tour pros. I watch my videos and my leg like bows forward, it looks lazy. When I feel what you are talking about I feel the front leg extension that I see in all great players. I am going to practice this heavily. It feels powerfull too. Thank you for this video!!

[joshuawilliams]

This fix my shanks 😭😭😭 I’ve been golfing 8 years and have had chronic shanks for 7 of them. Countless golf lessons with coaches telling me to set up on the heal of the club, or set a head cover outside the ball and I KNEW it was something fundamentally wrong with my swing but no one could identify it. Thanks you 🙏🙏

[leonardyoung]

Mind blown, thanks for the tip I have been missing

[decentblue]

This lesson is theoretically quite matched with the spiral staircase movement taught by European coach Pete Cowen . Thank you so much.

[michaelh]

Great reminder. Very easy to understand and goes well with your no shoulder turn video from about a year ago.

[cgvagf]

I was watching an old video with a guy named Dunaway, and he was talking about the exact same motion, and I liked it.

[monortues]

The windup of torso creates a powerful coil. Unwind up this coil to create a tilted club plane. Makes perfect sense.

[mrtomas]

Thank you this is vital and understandable...i can't afford golf lessons for my daughter...we are watching and learning ❤

[Billpv]

You may have added a key to my attempt to relearn my swing after hip surgery. I used to be a baseball pitcher (not cricket!). If I think of the trail arm (I am left-handed) as preparing to pitch a baseball, except i am pitching into the ground using the golf club, I effect the most club head speed, and have accuracy. Using your idea of the rear hip rising and then transfer the rising sensation to the forward hip when I “throw” the club toward the ground (like a pitch), that may be the last part of the sequence I need to focus on. Will work on that today and let you know. I am 80 and my H.I. Is (during the winter) 12.7. :)

[leonardblush]

Although we still have a foot of snow on the ground, my living room dry swings are really progressing. It's becoming so much more natural and second nature. (Not being on the range with balls may actually be a blessing right now.)

I'd say fairway woods would be the area I'm least confident in right now. And I don't quite understand if I want to be using the same approach on the deck and tee with those clubs.

I'd also like to see a short vid on the timing of the front heel drop and where the club should be when it's fully dropped.

Rome wasn't built in a day, though, and I feel really fortunate to be "studying" with Alex.

[frankcanzanella]

I think it’s best to think about the left side on the downswing. Of course with feeling for the right side. It’s important to keep the horse in front of the cart or I’ll likely hit behind the ball.

[williamkrausejr]

Thank you. I’ve been puzzled by shots pushed left…hips have been turning flat. Now I’ve got a feel to work to correct that.

[KBaiL]

This video has cured my shanks!! Thank you

[NasirKhan-ixhe]

Question. How should we start the downswing? As your right hip is in a raised position at top of back swing, should you just fire your arms in the downswing or push the hips down towards the ball. So what should be trigger for downswing, hips or arms ?

[Gniverse]

@theartofsimplegolf I'm a 4hdcp and am getting older. I've been working on this feel, how do you keep the back knee soft? Im seeing it getting less flex.

[raymondmedemblik]

Does that mean the shaft gets more vertical and does that apply to the driver as well

[sodthong]

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