Separate Your Hips For Longer Straighter Golf Shots - (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer
Separate Your Hips For Longer Straighter Golf Shots - (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer

We often talk about a connected golf swing and how this is beneficial to your overall golf game. However, there are elements in your swing that should feel like they become separated, specifically during the downswing, where we want to lead the early part of the downswing with an aggressive hip rotation towards the target. A slightly delaying shoulder rotation helps to create a more powerful and slightly in-to-out swing direction. The correct sequencing of the golf downswing will lead to more powerful and consistent golf shots.

So Peter a big big thing you know Shakira herself said it the hips don't lie. If we can she did indeed if we can get the hips working in the golf swing and get them working correctly we're going to see some long straight golf shots. So how do we get the hips working properly in the golf swing and we're going to call it the Shakira tip I think it is the Shakira tip.

Right so the big thing that I want to do as you hear it did before me was she separated this hips from the rest of her body. Ok And obviously you've studied security action for a long while and decided that this is going to be that separate from the upper body in this fantastic drill. Ok the face into this camera here and as a golfer I'd like to place in some mirror or a patio door or something of that nature and can take a shortish golf club like a pitching wedge or 9 iron hold it over your shoulders this get technical now follow on tilt forward to go past you hold the club down into your imaginary trail hands this is my right hand of the right hand and golfer then wined my shoulders into a back swing and so all handle points at the golf ball. Everything's turning away nicely that's a full turn and this is the Shakira tip.

2019-11-21

We often talk about a connected golf swing and how this is beneficial to your overall golf game. However, there are elements in your swing that should feel like they become separated, specifically during the downswing, where we want to lead the early part of the downswing with an aggressive hip rotation towards the target. A slightly delaying shoulder rotation helps to create a more powerful and slightly in-to-out swing direction. The correct sequencing of the golf downswing will lead to more powerful and consistent golf shots.

So Peter a big big thing you know Shakira herself said it the hips don't lie. If we can she did indeed if we can get the hips working in the golf swing and get them working correctly we're going to see some long straight golf shots. So how do we get the hips working properly in the golf swing and we're going to call it the Shakira tip I think it is the Shakira tip.

Right so the big thing that I want to do as you hear it did before me was she separated this hips from the rest of her body. Ok And obviously you've studied security action for a long while and decided that this is going to be that separate from the upper body in this fantastic drill. Ok the face into this camera here and as a golfer I'd like to place in some mirror or a patio door or something of that nature and can take a shortish golf club like a pitching wedge or 9 iron hold it over your shoulders this get technical now follow on tilt forward to go past you hold the club down into your imaginary trail hands this is my right hand of the right hand and golfer then wined my shoulders into a back swing and so all handle points at the golf ball. Everything's turning away nicely that's a full turn and this is the Shakira tip.