Hi guys, it's Aimee.
Wouldn't it be nice to hit it nice and long and straight off the tee?
Today I'm going to help you fix your slice so you can rip it down the middle!
So it's very common to see weekend golfers slice it off the tee.
There are many different reasons why you slice,
but today I'm going to be focusing on using the hips the wrong way.
So basically driver is the only club out of the whole bag you tee it up very high.
So if you do your downswing, like all the other clubs like irons and woods,
with the driver you transfer your weight into the left
so your body is ahead of the golf ball.
If you hit it like this with the teed up ball like that,
you're going to end up hitting down on it
and you're going to hit it high and cut it right.
So we don't want to transfer your weight into the ball with the driver.
But there is another way a lot of people misuse their hips.
So they know not to transfer your weight into the left, so they stay nice in
the back foot but they end up spinning their hips to create power.
This is wrong because if you look at it from the down the line,
basically if you spin your hips what happens is you initiate with the hip turn
and basically you're setting up to cut the ball.
So most of the time you're going to go out to in and cut it pretty bad.
So what you want to do is you want to keep the weight in the right foot
and you want to give it some stability so your hips don't fire through first.
You're basically going to use your abs for power.
This is kind of hard to understand because you probably never felt it before.
So let me show you the difference.
If you stabilize your legs and put a lot of pressure in your core
and throw the club head through, it looks like this.
Like this. So your club head gains a lot of momentum and power and speed.
Versus if you use your hips, like this, then you lose a lot of power.
You can probably try it yourself and you feel the difference right away.
So we really want to stabilize our legs and throw and
really utilize that core for power.
So I know we're trained so as the club gets longer
you're supposed to use your lower body more to bring the club to the golf ball.
So when you grip the longest club out of your back,
automatically your body's gonna react to it and use your hips a lot.
With the driver the ball is up in the air so you don't want to use the lateral move
for the downswing right?
So we're going to have to get rid of your hips firing first.
So very simple, all you're going to do is
you're going to keep your right foot down flat on the ground,
and once you make that Y, your right foot is going to follow through
after the impact. Watch!
See how I hit the ball first and then the right foot came off the ground.
So remember you hear this all the time,
with the driver you're supposed to hit it off the back foot.
Once you get this feeling going, you'll feel
how much more square you go into the ball
and how much more power there is to it. So you really stick to it.
But until you do, you have to make sure you make the Y first
and then the foot goes. Just get used to that order first.
So let me show you again.
when you get to the top, I don't want your hips going first, right?
I want you to throw using the stability of your legs,
so right foot is going to stay down until impact.
Ooh that was a good one.
So to get rid of your slice remember to keep your right foot down
until you make contact with the golf ball.
This is really going to get rid of your slice.
It's going to allow you to hit it way further.
I hope you're able to follow along.
If you have any questions come visit me on my facebook.com/golfwithaimee
Thank you and see you next time!