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Backswing Hip Tilt

Lacking tilt in the backswing can influence ground contact, body sequencing, and contribute to short backswings with an upper body sway. If that sounds like you, then take a look at your hips, not just your spine, when checking in on your backswing technique. Another time that golfers benefit from more hip tilt in the backswing is if they have more of a sway or load of the knees in the backswing. Tilting the hips can really help a golfer feel the load in the glutes.

Tags: Poor Contact, Not Enough Distance, Sway, Backswing, Drill, Intermediate

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Drill is the backswing hip tilt. So oftentimes when

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we're working on the backswing we're working on trying to

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load this whole Sling from my foot up

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through my core and into my shoulders. We do that by

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getting a blend of rotation and extension and side

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Bend. Well, some golfers do a really

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good job of doing it at the shoulders, but their hips kind of

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stay a little bit too level in the backswing which prevents

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getting the proper load in the foot as

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well as it can tend to cause some

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compensation movements. I'll walk you through those. So if

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I were to place the when I do

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the Merry-Go-Round or the backswing shoulder plane, I tend

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to place the club up at the shoulders, but for this drill, I'm

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gonna place it more at the Beltline or at the hip so

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my thumbs are gonna go on my hip bones or the outside of

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the hip the greater trochanter right out here, so,

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Now what I'm going to do is as I make a backswing I'm

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going to try to feel like the left hip

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is dropping down as it comes in and

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the right hip is going a little bit more up. So

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I'm trying to exaggerate feeling a little

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bit of this movement when I'm making my backswing. So

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I'm golfers you tend to stay to level will

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either shift off

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the ball like this or have the

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appearance of more of a reverse weight shift in

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order to get that upper body more kind of

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centered or to not shift off the wall. So this hip tilt

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can help solve a couple

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of upper body pivot related issues. The

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other one that it tends to happen is if your upper

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body shifts off the ball, one of two things is happening either the hips

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are turning to level or the spine is

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staying inflection and not going into any extension. So

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if I was to turn my hips really well,

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but stay in flexion. You can see my upper body would shift

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off the

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All but some people will tend

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to extend the spine but still

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turn off the ball because this left hip is actually getting almost lower

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or the hips are turning very level. So we're getting

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that left hip down right hip up shoulder

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down and then the arms out in front that will

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give us kind of a benchmark or as far

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as a feeling of where to go with the hips now.

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I tell you that it's pretty

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split as far as my students

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who are working on this as far as which side they feel some

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people love to feel this right hip

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going up instead of kind of Shifting laterally, especially

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if there's a big sway component or especially

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for golfers you tend to really under rotate the

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backswing kind of plant the hip and just go

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like this. They'll feel it letting that feeling that hip

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go up helps to encourage it encourage the

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pelvis to rotate but I have some other golfers who tend to

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feel more that lead side coming down or

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that left side kind of releasing some people tend

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to just kind of like anchor that knee and not

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really move the lower body like this. So either way

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by doing this drill.

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Handful of times we're gonna get a sense

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like today. I think I feel more in this right hip

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going up rather than that left hip going down, but we'll

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see as we put it in play now.

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Oftentimes golfers who don't do a really good job with the hips

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kind of overload the arms. So this can be great into combining

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with a triangle drill where basically I'm

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gonna feel like my arms stay straight and then I'm gonna feel like

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I make a backswing just with the hips where

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that right arm is gonna stay where that trail arm

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is gonna stay almost as straight as I can. So I'm

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gonna feel like the arm stay straight.

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And then we'll shank one off into the trees. All right. Well see

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we can do a little better one here. So

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arms are going to stay straight. I'm gonna feel that right hip going

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up.

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That was a little bit better.

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So this is a good one that you

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can combo with a pelvic punch feel and today right

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now. This gives me a feeling of being.

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A little bit more centered on top of it. So now

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Once I have that feel of the direction, I want the

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hips to go. Now. I can start to add the the full backswing and

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the arm bending. So real quick

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reset. There we go. There's that right hip feeling like

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it's going a little bit higher that's going to keep me.

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more on top

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and I can blend that into any of my transition or downswing Fields.

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So good way for helping you work on your pivot

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of the lower body and the hips just take

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the club place it across your hips work on either the right hip up or

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the left hip down, but getting some amount of hip tilt to

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help you load the lower body in the backswing.

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