Reverse pivot

[Papas1982]

Arrrgh!

Anyone got any useful drills to rid me off this fault?

Has crept in recently, culminating in a whopping 18 points today!

HELP!

 

[the_coach]

there's a few ways folks get into the reverse pivot issue

by far the most common I see tends to be first encouraged some by the upper body being a tad too much to the left (so kinda more to target side) of the lead hip & so a bit skewed angle wise (so chest shoulders 'open' some) often with too high a trail arm trail shoulder so tad out of kilter with the lower body (in stead of the upper body being more center balanced 'on top' of the hips

then with the posture being a tad out of whack this in turn then encourages the hips to laterally sway to trailside in the first move away from the ball
an swaying the hips trailside means the upper body starts to lean more left leading to a bit more of a body tilt towards target to the upper body movement so the chest is more 'facing upto' the sky some instead of just chest facing back trailside to someone standing dtl from you - probably would need to feel chest is even angled a tad down to the ground to a point around 10 feet dtl of you

so real key is to make real sure the set-up address position is good n'balanced vertically plus the chest/shoulder alignments are good n'where they should be

then crucial after good set-up is to make sure the hip motion is one where you 'turn into' the trail hip socket (that means the trail hip in the takaway & backswing moves into 'internal rotation') a feelin of really turning into the hip socket as the weight pressure goes down the whole of the trail side into the trail foot into the ground - so that trail leg stays pretty stable with the weight pressure goin into the heel not the whole outside of the foot

better to practice in front of a mirror or good reflection - or even better record it so you can look n'check as you go - (just relying on 'feel' alone without seeing & checking won't really cut it if the habit of the sway(slide) away has been there some time)

if at the range use a chair or stand bag or ask in the shop for an empty box either of clubs or a bag comes in & put the obstruction just 2" outside of the trail hip - good hip turn will not touch the obstruction at all as your turning into the trail hip socket - sway any & you'll clatter into whatever is there

along with the turn into the hip have a 'feel' that the head stays pretty steady doesn't have a real lateral move aways from the target & the trail shoulder just turns/rotates behind you
(in practice off turf stick an alignment stick near the outside of the trail heel so the top of the stick is 2" aways from the edge of trail hip)

[video=youtube;eOgum7Rlo7g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOgum7Rlo7g[/video]

 

[Papas1982]

there's a few ways folks get into the reverse pivot issue

by far the most common I see tends to be first encouraged some by the upper body being a tad too much to the left (so kinda more to target side) of the lead hip & so a bit skewed angle wise (so chest shoulders 'open' some) often with too high a trail arm trail shoulder so tad out of kilter with the lower body (in stead of the upper body being more center balanced 'on top' of the hips

then with the posture being a tad out of whack this in turn then encourages the hips to laterally sway to trailside in the first move away from the ball
an swaying the hips trailside means the upper body starts to lean more left leading to a bit more of a body tilt towards target to the upper body movement so the chest is more 'facing upto' the sky some instead of just chest facing back trailside to someone standing dtl from you - probably would need to feel chest is even angled a tad down to the ground to a point around 10 feet dtl of you

so real key is to make real sure the set-up address position is good n'balanced vertically plus the chest/shoulder alignments are good n'where they should be

then crucial after good set-up is to make sure the hip motion is one where you 'turn into' the trail hip socket (that means the trail hip in the takaway & backswing moves into 'internal rotation') a feelin of really turning into the hip socket as the weight pressure goes down the whole of the trail side into the trail foot into the ground - so that trail leg stays pretty stable with the weight pressure goin into the heel not the whole outside of the foot

better to practice in front of a mirror or good reflection - or even better record it so you can look n'check as you go - (just relying on 'feel' alone without seeing & checking won't really cut it if the habit of the sway(slide) away has been there some time)

if at the range use a chair or stand bag or ask in the shop for an empty box either of clubs or a bag comes in & put the obstruction just 2" outside of the trail hip - good hip turn will not touch the obstruction at all as your turning into the trail hip socket - sway any & you'll clatter into whatever is there

along with the turn into the hip have a 'feel' that the head stays pretty steady doesn't have a real lateral move aways from the target & the trail shoulder just turns/rotates behind you
(in practice off turf stick an alignment stick near the outside of the trail heel so the top of the stick is 2" aways from the edge of trail hip)

[video=youtube;eOgum7Rlo7g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOgum7Rlo7g[/video]

Perfect!

That's tomorrow evenings range session sorted!

Thanks

 

[Doon frae Troon]

A very simple tip is to just concentrate on turning [rotating] your hips, the rest of your body should follow naturally.
Hips 45 degree turn shoulders 90 degree.