What Should My Hips Do During My Golf Swing? (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Should My Hips Do During My Golf Swing? (Video) - by Peter Finch

What should my hips do during my golf swing? Now the hips are a fantastically important part of the golfing technique. If your hips don’t move correctly it could lead to disaster so you need to ensure that you understand what your hips should be doing and how you can actually achieve the correct movements.

Now during the actual back swing you don’t really want the hips to be really move much at all, you want them to be staying relatively static, relatively still, and allowing the upper body to turn away whilst keeping the hips nice and steady. If you can keep your hips nice and steady you’ll increase the amount of coil between the upper and the lower body and increase the overall potential distance you can achieve. Now during the down swing this is where the hips really start to become active and really start to play a much more significant role in the technique. So you turn away with the shoulders, and as you come through the ball the hips begin to rotate towards the target. Not only do they rotate but because they are on a slightly tilted axis because of the posture that left hip will also begin to rise. Now what you don’t want to do is just thrust the hips forwards, they need to be rotating away and staying back. And by letting that left hip rise this should help achieve. So to actually kind of practice this probably the best way is to slow things down and just do a couple of slow motion swings. So taking it to the top, keeping the hips nice and steady, turning down, turning that left hip out of the way and up, and just going into impact just nice and slow, so a slow motion swing to begin with and then after you’ve done a couple of those slow motion swings just checking after impact that your hips are rotated fully, and the middle of your belt buckle is pointing down towards your target. That’s simple to do in practice but it then it really depends with your full swing speed. Now a mistake you will possibly make is to keep the hips nice and static and do everything with the upper body. The only problem with that is the swing then becomes very hands and arms orientated and very hands and arms dominated. You won’t get the correct amount of speed that you should and you won’t achieve as much as you possibly can. So don’t neglect the hips, make sure you move them correctly, and you should find more distance and more accuracy throughout the game. 2014-08-18

What should my hips do during my golf swing? Now the hips are a fantastically important part of the golfing technique. If your hips don’t move correctly it could lead to disaster so you need to ensure that you understand what your hips should be doing and how you can actually achieve the correct movements.

Now during the actual back swing you don’t really want the hips to be really move much at all, you want them to be staying relatively static, relatively still, and allowing the upper body to turn away whilst keeping the hips nice and steady. If you can keep your hips nice and steady you’ll increase the amount of coil between the upper and the lower body and increase the overall potential distance you can achieve.

Now during the down swing this is where the hips really start to become active and really start to play a much more significant role in the technique. So you turn away with the shoulders, and as you come through the ball the hips begin to rotate towards the target. Not only do they rotate but because they are on a slightly tilted axis because of the posture that left hip will also begin to rise.

Now what you don’t want to do is just thrust the hips forwards, they need to be rotating away and staying back. And by letting that left hip rise this should help achieve. So to actually kind of practice this probably the best way is to slow things down and just do a couple of slow motion swings. So taking it to the top, keeping the hips nice and steady, turning down, turning that left hip out of the way and up, and just going into impact just nice and slow, so a slow motion swing to begin with and then after you’ve done a couple of those slow motion swings just checking after impact that your hips are rotated fully, and the middle of your belt buckle is pointing down towards your target. That’s simple to do in practice but it then it really depends with your full swing speed.

Now a mistake you will possibly make is to keep the hips nice and static and do everything with the upper body. The only problem with that is the swing then becomes very hands and arms orientated and very hands and arms dominated. You won’t get the correct amount of speed that you should and you won’t achieve as much as you possibly can. So don’t neglect the hips, make sure you move them correctly, and you should find more distance and more accuracy throughout the game.