Correctly Move Your Hips In The Downswing – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Correctly Move Your Hips In The Downswing – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain how important the movement of the hips in the downswing are to creating a powerful, accurate and consistent golf swing. Techniques such as snapping the lead leg straight and rotating the belt buckle towards the target, are two great keys to developing a correct hip action and therefore achieving the desired results throughout your entire golf game.

One of the favorite things I've seen on the golf course over the last 5 to 10 years is a warm up routine by a very famous Spanish golfer. Can you mimic that one for me? Thinking where we were thinking of this one. If we talk about this before we start it but that's Jimenez its Miguel Angel Jimenez that his warm routine. 50 years old now he's playing seniors till the very very flexible for a man of his age in all of this obviously got a cigar and given now that is his hip warm routine warms up the hips warms up lower back and something that we don't very often see a lot of club golfers do before they go out and play it's true yeah there's a lack of mobility in the hips and lower back definitely from a lot of lessons we see the club warm up that we generally see for most golfers at least in the car for a half an hour in this position get out of the car walk to the tee and then try and swing like Rory McIlroy. That isn't going to happen if your hips aren't loose warm or well mobile a lot of the the professionals you'll see we do lots of routines in the gym in swimming all that sort of thing even on the massage table before they get dirty. No we don't always have that opportunity it's club golfers what we should be doing is understanding out of ability back it's going to affect our golf swings and particularly how we can talk about learning things.

If you watch any of the good players on T.V. particularly for long it will talk about clearing the hips threw the ball. So Matt talk me through what are clearing the hips all about and how can it benefit. It's yeah so what we want is something where you say we're going to get them out of the way it's going to add to our rotational speed one of the worst things we could do is as we take our set up we build a great set up make a back swing is actually to deliver the club straight back into the same posture and the same set up. So impact should not look like set up no we don't want to see that you've returned back to where you were here address we want to see like you said they were word earlier clearing these hips. That is the feeling for the right handed golfer. This lead hip being the left one as we get in it's feeling that this left hip actually snaps out of the way you alluded to a play the Rory McIlroy we see at impact. You know when his belt buckle nearly a straight towards target as he did at the point of impact obviously a very flexible young man but if we could get some idea of you know number one clearing that snapping the lead hip out of the way getting that belt buckle towards target. It's going to help us keep the club a little bit more on plane and also generate more speed as we're going through this one.

So the 1st thing that you say at the top of the downswing if you were thinking about you know it's so we don't want to return back to our hips to face onto the golf ball. We want to be thinking about this lead hip and I like to think of it as the lead pocket a lot with my lessons where I'd say to them I'm going to get your left hip to snap back my feeling that someone's almost pulling my pocket so if you were to grab that for me to do that go to set up. OK So you going to show me that success just so that everyone can see from that front on view. Show me what Impact looks like don't move the club but what impact looks like. It's big difference isn't it big difference. Back to set up again you're going to suggest I'm pulling this it yeah it would be around this way. I feel that my left hip is clearing out of the way and as we do that following on to the 2nd point. If we have a belt buckle here as I've cleared that left hip now and snapped it back we see that this belt buckle is looking out towards target and as we finish which fully rotate and would be going back I think a fantastic drill for people who are struggling to get the hips working. If we were to build a good set up to start off with and then we're actually just going to take this lead foot step back so it opens the lead hip our already and then we'd make some swings where if we were to return we've got the hip position we'd want to create impact now.

So if we were to hit a shot doing that I take my good set up build it have a little step back so I can see now that my lead hip has opened and I'm just going to come back make the swing. OK can see that fully rotated I feel a lot further than I normally would do in that shot around there it's interesting that in fact this really threw the ball a really open even though just a gentle pitch. Yes it's a very very interesting point that we make that the setup position in the impact position 2 very very different paths. I often see golfers and almost when they're struggling their confidence is down they move less and they sort of set up and they think it's long as I stay still I'll be fine and they won't be because they're not moving correctly. So yeah that set that hips are open the body is turning pulling away for the the right handed golfer, and it's not the same impact. Exactly the the left hip should almost be the start the trigger of the downswing if that was your 1st or if you've completed a good back swing now thinking left it whether it is the snapping motion or the belt buckle. If we can do that we're going to get a really good sequence and get rid of this you know like you said a very rigid one, but never seen any mobility so we don't necessarily need to see that Jimenez warm up on the first tee depends. We do want to see plenty of hip action plenty of rotation plenty of belt buckle towards targets that will help you clear your hips that will help improve your strike and definitely improve the distance that you can hit the ball.

2018-12-20

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain how important the movement of the hips in the downswing are to creating a powerful, accurate and consistent golf swing. Techniques such as snapping the lead leg straight and rotating the belt buckle towards the target, are two great keys to developing a correct hip action and therefore achieving the desired results throughout your entire golf game.

One of the favorite things I've seen on the golf course over the last 5 to 10 years is a warm up routine by a very famous Spanish golfer. Can you mimic that one for me? Thinking where we were thinking of this one. If we talk about this before we start it but that's Jimenez its Miguel Angel Jimenez that his warm routine. 50 years old now he's playing seniors till the very very flexible for a man of his age in all of this obviously got a cigar and given now that is his hip warm routine warms up the hips warms up lower back and something that we don't very often see a lot of club golfers do before they go out and play it's true yeah there's a lack of mobility in the hips and lower back definitely from a lot of lessons we see the club warm up that we generally see for most golfers at least in the car for a half an hour in this position get out of the car walk to the tee and then try and swing like Rory McIlroy. That isn't going to happen if your hips aren't loose warm or well mobile a lot of the the professionals you'll see we do lots of routines in the gym in swimming all that sort of thing even on the massage table before they get dirty. No we don't always have that opportunity it's club golfers what we should be doing is understanding out of ability back it's going to affect our golf swings and particularly how we can talk about learning things.

If you watch any of the good players on T.V. particularly for long it will talk about clearing the hips threw the ball. So Matt talk me through what are clearing the hips all about and how can it benefit. It's yeah so what we want is something where you say we're going to get them out of the way it's going to add to our rotational speed one of the worst things we could do is as we take our set up we build a great set up make a back swing is actually to deliver the club straight back into the same posture and the same set up. So impact should not look like set up no we don't want to see that you've returned back to where you were here address we want to see like you said they were word earlier clearing these hips. That is the feeling for the right handed golfer. This lead hip being the left one as we get in it's feeling that this left hip actually snaps out of the way you alluded to a play the Rory McIlroy we see at impact. You know when his belt buckle nearly a straight towards target as he did at the point of impact obviously a very flexible young man but if we could get some idea of you know number one clearing that snapping the lead hip out of the way getting that belt buckle towards target. It's going to help us keep the club a little bit more on plane and also generate more speed as we're going through this one.

So the 1st thing that you say at the top of the downswing if you were thinking about you know it's so we don't want to return back to our hips to face onto the golf ball. We want to be thinking about this lead hip and I like to think of it as the lead pocket a lot with my lessons where I'd say to them I'm going to get your left hip to snap back my feeling that someone's almost pulling my pocket so if you were to grab that for me to do that go to set up. OK So you going to show me that success just so that everyone can see from that front on view. Show me what Impact looks like don't move the club but what impact looks like. It's big difference isn't it big difference. Back to set up again you're going to suggest I'm pulling this it yeah it would be around this way. I feel that my left hip is clearing out of the way and as we do that following on to the 2nd point. If we have a belt buckle here as I've cleared that left hip now and snapped it back we see that this belt buckle is looking out towards target and as we finish which fully rotate and would be going back I think a fantastic drill for people who are struggling to get the hips working. If we were to build a good set up to start off with and then we're actually just going to take this lead foot step back so it opens the lead hip our already and then we'd make some swings where if we were to return we've got the hip position we'd want to create impact now.

So if we were to hit a shot doing that I take my good set up build it have a little step back so I can see now that my lead hip has opened and I'm just going to come back make the swing. OK can see that fully rotated I feel a lot further than I normally would do in that shot around there it's interesting that in fact this really threw the ball a really open even though just a gentle pitch. Yes it's a very very interesting point that we make that the setup position in the impact position 2 very very different paths. I often see golfers and almost when they're struggling their confidence is down they move less and they sort of set up and they think it's long as I stay still I'll be fine and they won't be because they're not moving correctly. So yeah that set that hips are open the body is turning pulling away for the the right handed golfer, and it's not the same impact. Exactly the the left hip should almost be the start the trigger of the downswing if that was your 1st or if you've completed a good back swing now thinking left it whether it is the snapping motion or the belt buckle. If we can do that we're going to get a really good sequence and get rid of this you know like you said a very rigid one, but never seen any mobility so we don't necessarily need to see that Jimenez warm up on the first tee depends. We do want to see plenty of hip action plenty of rotation plenty of belt buckle towards targets that will help you clear your hips that will help improve your strike and definitely improve the distance that you can hit the ball.