Johneli
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When you want to clear your hips especially for driver do you slide them to your left or turn the right hip toward the target as you swing?
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Correct me if I am wrong but from that question you are left handed right? If so you never want to slide to the right. You will want to feel a bump out with the right hip to start the downswing, but you want to post up or straighten the right leg early in the downswing.
You want that right hip opening up to the target as you are coming into the ball. A person standing directly behind you should be able to see almost all of your backside at impact.
To sum up. Post up against a solid right leg and let the hips start to open up to the target as you approach impact. Hope that helps and let me know if there is more that I can do to help.
Nope...right handed. I should have said "Do you slide your hips to the left or swivel your right hip along with the swing so that your belt buckel ends up facing the target?"
Doesn't opening the stance on purpose decrease the shoulder turn, leading to shorter hits? Not that I don't do that sometimes to make sure (or, try to make sure) I hit the fade I am trying to hit.
Best thing to do is to just swing normally but open the clubface a little bit to hit a fade.
I don't understand how an open stance will promote clearing of the RIGHT hip which is the problem for me. When I don't get that hip turning with my swing it gets in the way and I come over the top.
The one key I'm looking for is HOW DOES THE RIGHT HIP WORK WITH THE SWING.....SHOULD THE HIP START TURNING BEFORE YOU BEGIN YOUR DOWNSWING, AS YOU BEGIN, OR AFTER YOU'VE STARTED YOUR DOWNSWING. AND, BESIDES PLANTING YOUR LEFT FOOT ARE THERE ANY OTHER KEYS TO GET THE HIPS MOVING AT THE RIGHT TIME?
Respectfully noted. This may not work for everyone but I find that I hit more controlled draws and fades by keeping everything as normal and square as possible. Anything else creates a lot of uncertainty as to exactly how much the ball will move.I really disagree with that one. I am sure Andy will come in and clean that up. I was always told that there are so many better ways to hit a fade than just opening the club face a little bit. That can lead to many bad things with my swing.
To address the Fade or slice shot mentioned in this thread. I am not a fan of just opening or closing the club face at setup. There is no way to have consistant control. Please check out volume 3 of THP TV for a simple and useful way to work the golf ball.
Thank you for all your advice. Yesterday afternoon I had a revelation of sorts. I found that if I shorten my backswing and don't go all the way to parallel that everything seems to work without thinking about it. I feel that if I take the club back too far that I must be losing the connectivity that I get when I take it back in "one piece." And once disconnected at the top anything can go wrong. Distance is actually better and accuracy much better. Heck, if it's good enough for Stricker, Glover, Johnson and many others then a shorter backswing is fine with me. It's the first time I've actually felt really good about my game in months. The reason it works for me is that when I stop my backswing at a certain point in my mind I KNOW I can't hit the ball with my arms and hands from that short a distance away from the ball and am forced into getting my upper torso and shoulders REALLY into the swing.
Okay, I'm confused (no comments).
I don't mean to hijack the thread, but isn't opening the stance and swinging along your feet with club pointed at target AND opening the club face at setup basically the same thing? :dont-know:
I guess I should go back and watch Volume 3 since it was a month or so ago I saw it, but it seemed that you swing along your feet and not perpendicular to club face. (Maybe I'm thinking of your bunker lesson...)
There is one fundamental rule of golf that has proven itself to me time and time again and that is:
"If your backswing is longer than your follow through, you're headed for trouble".
That applies to every swing with every club and it's usually true.
-JP
Never slide the hips always turn only, if you slide you will slice uncontrollably. Sliding the hips opens the club face to about 30 degrees open for most people as the club reaches the bottom of your swing arc. Only a ridiculous adjustment to your grip or stance will allow you to hit a ball anywhere near where you are aiming if you slide instead of turn. This is a mistake that some pros still make under pressure so don't feel too bad about doing it when you are trying to get a few extra yards, but at least now you know why it happens. Most of those drives you hit high and right that turn even farther right (if you are right handed) are because of this, left handed it is the opposite of course. Best way to combat this slide is to make sure your first move down to the ball is to get that left foot back on the ground solidly and this will start your hips turning instead of sliding.