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- Hi Adam Bazalgette yet here a three-time PGA teacher
of the year.
Today's subject golf hip slide in the backswing.
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So golf hip slide in the backswing.
I'll show you my views on what should happen with the hips.
We'll look at some great players in action
and I'll give you some drills.
And I think I'll help you get it right
and get the right feel.
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So what do you think?
Should the hips slide?
Should we shift weight?
Should they stay very stable in terms of
that dimension in the backswing?
Should that right hip be moving?
Well let's take a look at a few great players.
There's some kind of common denominators but there's
always a few exceptions to rules as well.
- [Narrator] So John Rahm there.
Let's have a look at him as a slight bump away
from the target as he starts.
But once that happens we'll put a little line there,
you'll see that his hip if anything moves back towards
the target a bit maybe stop it there.
About Dustin Johnson, let's mark his hip.
Same sort of thing hip moves back around him
a little bit more towards the target.
Phil Mickelson one for the lefties here,
same sort of an idea.
You can see the grass behind his hip there
and pretty stable a little bit towards the target.
Now the guy that's the big exception to these,
the biggest exception let me certainly put it that way
and that would be Colin Montgomery a phenomenal player
by the way and just watch him how he goes about it.
He actually does have a little bit of a lateral hip bump
creates a lot of spine tilt this way at a very upright
backswing and if you watch this stake over here he had
a huge hip shift coming down to compensate for that.
So I'd say that's very much the exception not the rule.
Why do we see this look in the hips if you watch Tiger
from behind let's look at his Center belt loop there
maybe his hip pocket, edge of his pants there.
That right hip goes behind the spine as it goes back
just watch it here.
There you see it moving there even though the camera wobbled
a bit you can really see it go around his spine
and again behind him in this fashion.
- So is the first drill have got an alignment rod slightly
tilted in towards where I'm standing and I put my ankle
about in line with it there do it without
the club initially.
You can get in front of a mirror or something that you'd use
something in the background as a reference
and make a few pivots and you should feel certainly
not bumping into it I don't think if anything a slight
increase in space there.
Make sure when you do this, you're pivoting from the
trunk and letting the hips react.
We don't want to get in there and start
whipping the hips around.
So as I make my pivot that's the sort of look
then I can grab the golf club and just try it a few times
without the club again and I like the way that feels.
Often I've seen golfers sticking something on the
outside of that right shoe trying not to rock to the side.
Again I don't think that's necessary.
If the hips pivot properly you're just not going to have
that problem now certainly some people have a lot
of stiffness in their ankle joint or their hip where
they're just generally not flexible and you might see
a little bowing out of that foot when you do that.
But I would recommend if you have that flare it out
a little bit more that'll let the knee rotate makes
it easier to do this and gives the ankle effectively
more mobility.
This is another one of my absolute favorite drills.
I'll put the club down there making a pivot motion
and in a relaxed fashion just looking behind you towards
the mirror in this case the camera or whatever's behind you
and doing it that way you will find your body will really
pivot properly and you won't have this problem.
Then try it with the golf club there's a little pitfall
you've got to watch out for.
I'll show you that just in a moment here look over
your shoulder then look back at the ball and just hold
that spot and get a good feeling for what
it feels like to you.
So as I get ready to look behind me remember you're on
an incline so as you look, look like you're looking up
into the sky there that keeps your body angle.
So it's looking this way don't get level
and look behind you this way.
Well hope that helps you sort out golf hips slide
as it relates to the backswing.
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