learnt how to use my hips...WOW

[hovis]

just completed my first year of golf. still only a 23 hanicap. i,ve always started my downswing with my uper body which results in a managable slice or fade as i like to say.
i was baught a lesson package with a new pro for my birthday and he said i have little if no movement in my hips. after two lessons the change is amazing. 8 iron= 160yrd carry and 255 with my driver and chuck a few draw's in for good measure. trouble is, before when a shot went wrong it went a little wrong but now a bad shot goes BADLY wrong. can't have everything i supose

 

[ScienceBoy]

Its all to do with momentum control.

Arms are easy but cannot generate power, what you are doing down is adding more mass to the movement. Its hard to control therefore you miss-hit more.

The better you get the more you can control the moving mass and put it on the right line behind the ball more often.

Any sports scientists on here care to elaborate?

 

[chrisd]

I worked on a better hip turn for the same reason, I was all hands and arms. I found that the correct hip turn has improved the strike and therefore distance but the main thing is that it pulls the club through with lag and that, for me, keeps the face straighter through impact, so that my dispersion rate is much better as the hands and arms have less chance to move off plane.

In the 6 weeks I have done this move, my scores have improved and on Sunday I won a big club competition and had my handicap reduced

Stick with it Hovis!

Chris

 

[3offTheTee]

What exactly did he say please as I lack power and distance?

 

[RGDave]

What exactly did he say please as I lack power and distance?

I lack power and distance. t.b.h. if I can hit it straight, I don't care much.

 

[chrisd]

What exactly did he say please as I lack power and distance?

My lesson revolved around starting the downswing from the lower part of my base. I worked on the hip turn starting to happen at the transition to the downswing, and not, as before, at or even after impact.

Rory McIlroy is the greatest example, at impact his hips are facing the target, which is far more turn than most of us can manage. My swing, with all clubs, now arrives at the top of the backswing, and then I feel the left hip turning and slightly lifting whilst my head stays still until I strike the ball. This lags the club and brings it closer to my right hip, it erradicates the over the top swing that I sometimes do and pulls the club face better down the line.

Try it slowly without a ball, get the feel then start doing it with a ball but concentrate on slow rhythm

Chris