Signs Of Poor Hip Alignment In A Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Signs Of Poor Hip Alignment In A Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you have experienced the issues of aiming incorrectly with your hips what sort of golf shots might that bring into your game well, there are three main issues that ought to be careful that you should look out for here.

The first one is going to be fatting the golf ball, what we often see with this is, it is not necessarily an issue with aligning in the hips. It is more an issue of tilting the hips, particularly for the golfer that has the right hip too low, therefore the left hip too high he can almost sort of see my beltline, my right side too low, my right knees too flexed, left knee is too straight by tilting the right hip down in this fashion actually lower the arc of my swing on the right hand side. So as the swing comes around it should skim in the middle, that if I have got my right hip too low, you can say I have just start to hit the ground behind the ball as I raise my right hip lower my left hip, I start to hit the ground too far on the other side. So balancing those hips out making sure that they are nice and level and certainly not lifting the left side up too high dropping the right side too low that could cause the [fat] [01:13] shots particularly with your irons. Other considerations in terms of the direction that you hit the golf ball is simply going to be, if the hips are aiming left the ball can go left. If the hips are aiming right the ball can go right. So we can pull and push with open and closed, so from down the target line I should have my knees, my feet, my hips, my shoulders all square but if my hips sits in a very open position, I could find that during the swing my shoulders open as well and pull down the left hand side. If the club face is square to that path it is going to be straight drag down the left side. If the face is closed but it could hook even more, if the face is open it could set off down the left side and come back a little bit. Likewise if the hips are very much the opposite direction, hips are very closed in this way the shoulders might be tempted to close the swing path is going to head off down the right hand side as well, face square to that swing path will get the block. If the face is open to that path it will go right and come further and if the face is closed to that path it will set off down the right side and then move from right to left and potentially draw, but you have got to be careful where your hips point could encourage your shoulders to go that way like that could create fairly big issues with direction of your golf shots. Best place would be to have the toes, the knees, the hips and the shoulders all square to each other and then all pointing pretty much at your target line. 2016-08-22

If you have experienced the issues of aiming incorrectly with your hips what sort of golf shots might that bring into your game well, there are three main issues that ought to be careful that you should look out for here.

The first one is going to be fatting the golf ball, what we often see with this is, it is not necessarily an issue with aligning in the hips. It is more an issue of tilting the hips, particularly for the golfer that has the right hip too low, therefore the left hip too high he can almost sort of see my beltline, my right side too low, my right knees too flexed, left knee is too straight by tilting the right hip down in this fashion actually lower the arc of my swing on the right hand side. So as the swing comes around it should skim in the middle, that if I have got my right hip too low, you can say I have just start to hit the ground behind the ball as I raise my right hip lower my left hip, I start to hit the ground too far on the other side.

So balancing those hips out making sure that they are nice and level and certainly not lifting the left side up too high dropping the right side too low that could cause the [fat] [01:13] shots particularly with your irons. Other considerations in terms of the direction that you hit the golf ball is simply going to be, if the hips are aiming left the ball can go left. If the hips are aiming right the ball can go right. So we can pull and push with open and closed, so from down the target line I should have my knees, my feet, my hips, my shoulders all square but if my hips sits in a very open position, I could find that during the swing my shoulders open as well and pull down the left hand side.

If the club face is square to that path it is going to be straight drag down the left side. If the face is closed but it could hook even more, if the face is open it could set off down the left side and come back a little bit. Likewise if the hips are very much the opposite direction, hips are very closed in this way the shoulders might be tempted to close the swing path is going to head off down the right hand side as well, face square to that swing path will get the block. If the face is open to that path it will go right and come further and if the face is closed to that path it will set off down the right side and then move from right to left and potentially draw, but you have got to be careful where your hips point could encourage your shoulders to go that way like that could create fairly big issues with direction of your golf shots.

Best place would be to have the toes, the knees, the hips and the shoulders all square to each other and then all pointing pretty much at your target line.