Clearing The Hips In The Golf Swing: Pros Vs Ams

Being able to clear your hips during your golf swing is a huge plus for hitting pure solid golf shots. The pros do this extremely well while the rest of us often struggle with this key component of the golf swing. In this video, we're going to show you how they do it and then we'll tell you how you can add this cool move to your golf swing!

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[aaronschultz]

Been a committed student of our game for 40 years. I have NEVER read, heard or seen better science based instruction EVER. Clear, concise and dare I say, beautiful delivery of instructional materials. I’m grateful gentlemen! Thank you for your hard work!! Aaron

[ckmegatron]

This is the best golf instruction video I have ever watched. I have been trying to understand "clearing the hips" for 15 years. This made it click in 10 mins.

[ryanrichardson]

This series of videos changed my game forever!! In a month, I gained back 15-20 yards off the tee and dropped 5-8 strokes off of my game. I was seriously early extending...bad. For me, its all about the left hip and thinking about keeping my butt against the glass. It was like magic.

[thomasjefferson]

As mentioned by many commenters, this is the single best golf instruction I have ever received. It alone has fixed my swing, which used to be a "lurch to the right, " followed by feeling completely blocked on my downswing, foll0wed by a desperate attempt to get back to the ball with my arms, resulting in slapping at the ball or flipping my hands. Although I will need thousands of practice shots, I now have a very clear image of what I am trying to do.

[alanwsterling]

Probably one of the very best golf videos I have ever seen on proper hip movements! Thank you showing the correct template of movement and proper practice!

[CapoNapo]

I’ve watched all the popular golf channels on YouTube and can say without a shadow of a doubt that you guys are the best. Your scientific approach is a breath of fresh air compared to the abstract ideas in typical golf instruction. I’m a huge fan. Many thanks gents.

[alanjones]

Fantastic! Just practiced this and instantly had feedback. I play right handed and upon turning into my right side felt resistance down the inside of my right quad at the knee and all the way down through my lower leg into my instep. This is obviously what pushing off a solid right side is.

Ive struggled with "early extension" all my life! And over the course of 30yrs of more off than on playing plateaued at a handicap of 5 for over four Years!!!! Which was my most prolonged time playing. During that time I went through 4 separate PGA teachers, tens of thousands of balls at the range, numerous online tuition videos, a selection of DVDS, and a nice collection of golf books!! Culminating in an innate ability to be able to stand over any shot at any time and hit it anywhere. The frustration of this is immeasurable.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have given me something that no other attempt has ever done. And that is "Clarity Through Confusion."
You truly are a wonderful man for sharing this.
Kind regards
Alan.

[risajajr]

On the backswing, the pro turns around the spine. The amateur turns more around the right hip. Look at 10:31 in the vid. The amateur's left hip and center of spine are rotating around the right hip, whereas the pro's center of spine is very quiet and both hips are rotating around that.

[MrLuigiFercotti]

Took me years to figure this out on my own, great to see this information so accessible.
It's actually shocking to see what happens when finally get the hips working right.
Not so much the power increase, but being able to hit your old distances with what feels like a quarter effort.
If you keep the good form at higher effort and speed, then yes, the ball starts flying. But you have to keep the form an sequence right or it all goes to shit.

[johncreet]

I watched this again today for the second time after seeing it originally soon after it came out. I tend to learn best by reading something (or watching) and then forgetting about it for a while before re-reading / watching. I understood so much more this time. I love these videos because you can see exactly what is going on. You just can't beat data (which is what this really is in my book) when you are trying to understand something like this.

[joeyarrazolo]

I have come back to this video multiple time over the last year as I teach myself how the golf swing works. This is priceless information you guys have captured and shared. Thanks a million!

[justjames]

Just watching this brilliant video again I was reminded of another great video with Eric Cogorno and Mike Malaska (How To Create Hip Depth And Fix Early Extension) and I thought you Guys might be interested and thought it might also help us players understand this critical issue better. Thanks again.

[mlo]

I hadn't realized how it's possible to change the rotation of one hip over the other - one tends to think of hips as a circular unit where they are locked into travelling the same distance - but thanks to your video I do see you can increase the travel on side and limit it on the other - very illuminating. Thanks!

[bluegolf]

I wish this information was available when I was younger. Learning golf was difficult with a local pro teaching the basic swing. Thanks for the great information.

[andreysto]

Awesome. It's just one of those rare vids that I would really be prepared to pay for.
I've been struggling with this shit for nearly a year, lost quite a few pretty good balls via shanks.
I found the answer eventually through swet & tears. But! If only I could watch it a year ago!!!
No other teacher would see and explain this. Checked that.
THANK YOU. Great job, AMG!

[kevinshoemaker]

Great vid. I love the fact that you guys talk about drilling everything so slowly. I took 7 years of private drum lessons back in the day, and when challenging sections of complex pieces would come up you would "take it to the woodshed and break it down, note to note, measure to measure, phrase to phrase, slowly". My winter golf woodshed has a heater. And I have the time to take it to the woodshed!

[justjames]

This is simply Brilliant Mike. Thanks to you and Shaun for putting all this together in a way that becomes so clear and easy to understand. Great job.

[robsaxepga]

So now that I've confirmed the "drift" is indeed part of my swing, I came back to this video last night as my results were very spotty by my standards. Turns out my hip "turn" is like the AM in this video. Insert &$%^*#!! here. This morning, I went out to my backyard where I have a nice net/mat setup and moved my hips like in the pro side of this vid. Lo and behold, my arm extension is back and my left hip is moving. I've tried for years to clear through the ball and couldn't quite get there. Now I know why. Note to self...don't take a 10-year break and thank goodness you guys are here. From watching this video, it looks to me like the pro is simply setting him/herself up for going forward in the downswing and depending on mass rather than "momentum" to get through the ball. The left hip looks like it comes out toward the ball rather than back. When I do this, my right hip automatically goes beyond the tush line without any issue at all and I can move away from the ball which maintains the depth you discuss here. I was wondering why on some shots I felt crowded into the ball and it flew so much shorter than well-struck shots. The operative word here for me is "pivot". That's what the pro is doing rather than the am who is "turning". As I've said in the past, I've worked with some of the best instructors out there, Ben Doyle and John Geertson Jr., who didn't help me with results as much as you guys have. Thank you very much for this channel. Can't wait to play it in Bandon Dunes next week. I hope it goes better than I've been playing lately.

[mariomendonca]

Your videos take a little more thought and concentration than most. Well worth the effort. I really learned a lot from this one.