What Is The Pivot Point In The Golf Swing Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Is The Pivot Point In The Golf Swing Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles

Something that you might hear the commentators talk about on the TV occasionally, is the way someone pivots in their golf swing. And actually the golf swing that I like to work on has two pivot points. We pivot around the right hip, then we pivot around the left hip. Let me explain how we do that. As you set up to the golf ball, nice and solid, 50, 50 with the body weight. During the backswing phase, your shoulders are going to turn, and the body weight will move on to but not through the right hip. And I stress the not through bit. If you go through the right hip, you end up on the outside of a little toe of the right foot for your -- for your rare foot for a right-handed and you slip too far across, so that’s a swaying motion, not a pivoting motion. If were to pivot around the right hip, here you can see my left shoulder turns in, my hip turns in from the left side, but my right hip remain quite still. And that would be the right sided pivot in the backswing.

Now during the downswing, I’m going to shift my pivot point from my right leg, across to my left leg, and then pivot around that one. So you’ll see that again, I move from the right sided pivot point across to the left side and pivot around, and that little lateral bend rotational motion generates a nice deal of power in the golf swing. If you were to pivot around your right leg, and then remain pivoting around your right leg in a down swing, you end up with a lot of body weight back on your right leg as you are trying to hit the golf ball, scooping it, hitting it less potentially as well. So we use a right sided pivot point and then a left sided pivot point during the golf swing. And if you can feel nice and stable through your hips, not too much lateral sway, but good pivoting, I mean good pivoting your general a nice solid golf swing plenty of power and good consistent shots. 2014-03-27

Something that you might hear the commentators talk about on the TV occasionally, is the way someone pivots in their golf swing. And actually the golf swing that I like to work on has two pivot points. We pivot around the right hip, then we pivot around the left hip. Let me explain how we do that. As you set up to the golf ball, nice and solid, 50, 50 with the body weight. During the backswing phase, your shoulders are going to turn, and the body weight will move on to but not through the right hip. And I stress the not through bit. If you go through the right hip, you end up on the outside of a little toe of the right foot for your — for your rare foot for a right-handed and you slip too far across, so that’s a swaying motion, not a pivoting motion. If were to pivot around the right hip, here you can see my left shoulder turns in, my hip turns in from the left side, but my right hip remain quite still. And that would be the right sided pivot in the backswing.

Now during the downswing, I’m going to shift my pivot point from my right leg, across to my left leg, and then pivot around that one. So you’ll see that again, I move from the right sided pivot point across to the left side and pivot around, and that little lateral bend rotational motion generates a nice deal of power in the golf swing. If you were to pivot around your right leg, and then remain pivoting around your right leg in a down swing, you end up with a lot of body weight back on your right leg as you are trying to hit the golf ball, scooping it, hitting it less potentially as well. So we use a right sided pivot point and then a left sided pivot point during the golf swing. And if you can feel nice and stable through your hips, not too much lateral sway, but good pivoting, I mean good pivoting your general a nice solid golf swing plenty of power and good consistent shots.