Making The Correct Golf Swing Transition (Video) - by Pete Styles
Making The Correct Golf Swing Transition (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now we’ve talked quite a lot about the transition of the golf swing and how we can generate a good amount of power during that transition phase. So let’s look at what happens during transition and how the hips need to move to generate the right power. During the backswing phase, the shoulders are going to wind up and turn towards the top of the backswing, trying to create about a 90 degree shoulder rotation. Within that, the hips will start to set across maybe 25/30 degrees of hip rotation will be quite goes as well. And then during the downswing phase, everything starts to unwind towards the ball. But it’s quite important for most club golfers that they unwind their hips before their shoulders. Generally golfers who unwind their shoulders first would be casting and throwing the golf club over the top. But if we can unwind from the hips first, it’s a smoother transition, a faster transition and actually drops the golf club down slightly more from the inside. A lot of considerations that needs to be, when do we start the down swing, when do we start the hips? And it isn’t such a fixed position as we swing over into the top then we swing over to the down again. In fact actually when you watch some golfers and Henrik Stenson is probably the best example of this. His downswing and his backswing have a little bit of an overlap in that the hips stagger downswing, before the club is finished its backswing.

Might even seem a bit like trying to rub my head and pat your stomach at the same time doing this. But bear with me, as the club is winding up towards the top, as it gets towards the top, Stensons’ hips start to move this way for the downswing. So the club’s still going there and the hips start going there. So the club’s going up and the hip starts moving across. What we have at the top though, is an even tighter angle at the top where we really create loads and loads of tension and a big fast release. And that’s one of the reasons why Stenson is the long – one of the longer hitters on Tour, and particularly with his long irons and his fairway woods really gets the ball out there a long way, because his first hip action actually overlaps his backswing. That might feel quite difficult for a club golfer to get, lets try and get as close to that as we can manage. So club going back hips coming down, and they either happen very, very close together or actually there's an overlap where the hips start the transition down. And the transition is a movement to the left and a big unwinding to the left for the right handed golfer to start that down swing. And do that as soon as you can when you feel the club getting towards the top of the backswing start the hips down. Particularly if you’re an over swinger, if you over swing the club, simply start the downswing sooner with your hips and the club will have to stop, it won’t be able to get back any further. And you’ll find that swing is shorter and your transition is much faster with that good downswing hip action. 2015-11-05

Now we’ve talked quite a lot about the transition of the golf swing and how we can generate a good amount of power during that transition phase. So let’s look at what happens during transition and how the hips need to move to generate the right power. During the backswing phase, the shoulders are going to wind up and turn towards the top of the backswing, trying to create about a 90 degree shoulder rotation. Within that, the hips will start to set across maybe 25/30 degrees of hip rotation will be quite goes as well. And then during the downswing phase, everything starts to unwind towards the ball. But it’s quite important for most club golfers that they unwind their hips before their shoulders. Generally golfers who unwind their shoulders first would be casting and throwing the golf club over the top. But if we can unwind from the hips first, it’s a smoother transition, a faster transition and actually drops the golf club down slightly more from the inside. A lot of considerations that needs to be, when do we start the down swing, when do we start the hips? And it isn’t such a fixed position as we swing over into the top then we swing over to the down again. In fact actually when you watch some golfers and Henrik Stenson is probably the best example of this. His downswing and his backswing have a little bit of an overlap in that the hips stagger downswing, before the club is finished its backswing.

Might even seem a bit like trying to rub my head and pat your stomach at the same time doing this. But bear with me, as the club is winding up towards the top, as it gets towards the top, Stensons’ hips start to move this way for the downswing. So the club’s still going there and the hips start going there. So the club’s going up and the hip starts moving across. What we have at the top though, is an even tighter angle at the top where we really create loads and loads of tension and a big fast release. And that’s one of the reasons why Stenson is the long – one of the longer hitters on Tour, and particularly with his long irons and his fairway woods really gets the ball out there a long way, because his first hip action actually overlaps his backswing. That might feel quite difficult for a club golfer to get, lets try and get as close to that as we can manage. So club going back hips coming down, and they either happen very, very close together or actually there's an overlap where the hips start the transition down. And the transition is a movement to the left and a big unwinding to the left for the right handed golfer to start that down swing. And do that as soon as you can when you feel the club getting towards the top of the backswing start the hips down. Particularly if you’re an over swinger, if you over swing the club, simply start the downswing sooner with your hips and the club will have to stop, it won’t be able to get back any further. And you’ll find that swing is shorter and your transition is much faster with that good downswing hip action.