Hunter Mahan And His Superior Hip Rotation Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Hunter Mahan And His Superior Hip Rotation Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

There's always a lively discussion between golf coaches like myself or TV commentators or pundits all about who's got the best swing, who on the tour, who in the world of golf has got the best swing. It's difficult sometimes to describe whatever -- what exactly is the best swing. But certainly one of the most simple looking golf swings is Hunter Mahan. Now Hunter has been a great player; since turning pro 2003, he's actually won six times on the PGA tour and finished inside the top 10 in every one of the majors although that major victory is still elusive to him at this moment in time.

But the one thing that’s a really great feature of his swing is its so simplistic looking. It looks very simple, it looks very repeatable and therefore it's quite a nice swing for the average club golfer or myself to look at and try and coach the average club golfer to try and swing. Now Hunter Mahan also hits the golf ball a very long way for his distance and his size. He has to go over 290 yards averaging on the PGA tour currently. Now you'd struggle to see where he generates that power from watching his swing because he's swing is very simple up and down, straight through, straight back. So you watch that and you think yeah it goes about 240, I've seen guys at the club swing like that, it goes about 240 yards but it's actually 290 yards. So where is he generating that power from and how can we learn to generate the similar sort of power? Well it actually comes from his engine, now his engine I'm going to clust the hips and the core muscles around the middle of the body. Now by turning the engine very quickly, Hunter Mahan not only makes a very powerful swing but he makes it look very simple, very effortless. It doesn’t look like he's putting a huge amount of effort into his hands and arms because he has a very efficient, very fast hip rotation to his left side. So if it works for Hunter Mahan to create an effortless and powerful simplistic looking golf swing, maybe we could learn something from that too. 2016-07-19

There's always a lively discussion between golf coaches like myself or TV commentators or pundits all about who's got the best swing, who on the tour, who in the world of golf has got the best swing. It's difficult sometimes to describe whatever — what exactly is the best swing. But certainly one of the most simple looking golf swings is Hunter Mahan. Now Hunter has been a great player; since turning pro 2003, he's actually won six times on the PGA tour and finished inside the top 10 in every one of the majors although that major victory is still elusive to him at this moment in time.

But the one thing that’s a really great feature of his swing is its so simplistic looking. It looks very simple, it looks very repeatable and therefore it's quite a nice swing for the average club golfer or myself to look at and try and coach the average club golfer to try and swing. Now Hunter Mahan also hits the golf ball a very long way for his distance and his size. He has to go over 290 yards averaging on the PGA tour currently. Now you'd struggle to see where he generates that power from watching his swing because he's swing is very simple up and down, straight through, straight back.

So you watch that and you think yeah it goes about 240, I've seen guys at the club swing like that, it goes about 240 yards but it's actually 290 yards. So where is he generating that power from and how can we learn to generate the similar sort of power? Well it actually comes from his engine, now his engine I'm going to clust the hips and the core muscles around the middle of the body. Now by turning the engine very quickly, Hunter Mahan not only makes a very powerful swing but he makes it look very simple, very effortless. It doesn’t look like he's putting a huge amount of effort into his hands and arms because he has a very efficient, very fast hip rotation to his left side. So if it works for Hunter Mahan to create an effortless and powerful simplistic looking golf swing, maybe we could learn something from that too.