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This drill is hip rotation timing in the back swing.

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So some golfers who have more of an upper body pull tend to struggle with the timing

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of the rotation of the lower body, not necessarily the amount.

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So ideally if you are loading your hip muscles and you're using your lower body as a big

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power source, then what will happen is as you approach the top of the swing, you will

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be approaching the stretch in your glutes or you will be approaching your full range

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of motion with your lower body close to the top of the back swing.

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We will happen typically in more of this kind of wave or sequence where you might happen

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a little bit shorter.

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But oftentimes I'll find that golfers who have more of an upper body dominant power

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source, an upper body pull in transition, they will finish out the lower body movement.

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And the club is somewhere around belly button height.

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So they will tend to rotate the lower body quickly and then the rest of the back swing

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is mostly arm movement.

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So what they've done is they've created an anchor and then they're loading the arms to get

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ready to pull down.

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They may even look like that lower body is moving but it's just kind of repositioning

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it's not really driving the system.

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Oftentimes what we'll do is I will work on kind of getting more of this rhythm and feeling

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like, okay I'm going to make a turn and once I get into that hip or once I get that

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hip or that glute loaded then I'm going to change direction.

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So whether it's with a stepping drill or just kind of a rhythm move like I did there,

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then I'm going to combo that with a little bit of just kind of keeping the arms out in front

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of the body.

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Oftentimes this can be a little tricky one because what will happen is the transition

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or the back swing is going to feel much quicker than you're used to.

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We've basically taken away this kind of runoff and so it's going to feel like a shorter

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and quicker back swing movement but what's really happening is we're just blending the

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timing of that lower body with the upper body movement.

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So it's not so dramatic.

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As one student described, no coffee breaks.

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Basically the lower body finishes takes a little coffee break while the arms load and then

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catches up mid-down swing.

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So here we're going to do a couple where we work on that lower body timing.

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I'm going to apply this way kind of helps me feel like my lower body and my arm are

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working together and I want them to change direction relatively close to the same time.

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So now we're going to try and preset mentally.

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We're going to apply that feeling of lower body and it may feel either like I said

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quicker or it may feel shorter if you are used to having more of a kind of pause of the

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lower body at the top of the swing.

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If you don't have a pause and you're just kind of working on the overall timing then

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this can be a good drill of feeling like a dynamic load into the hip and as soon as you

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load that hip you're going to fire.

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If that's the case then oftentimes what I'll have golfers do is do a little bit of a squat

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jump and I'll say okay I want you to feel how much load you had or how long you were

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at the bottom of the swing.

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Now I want you to imagine that your hip is going to spend the same amount of time

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under load at the top of the swing and so for some golfers that imagery or that feeling

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kind of connects the timing a little bit better.

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So there's kind of that feeling.

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Now we're going to get that transition or that top of swing timing work in the same way.

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Top.

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Go.

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And like I said it can feel a little shorter you can feel a little quicker but if you're

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looking at it on video you should see that basically the leg is kind of moving and filling the space

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of the whole backswing and then starting the downswing so there's no real pause or standstill

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as your upper body appears to look like it would pull.

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So try that if you feel like or you analyze your video and you see that there's a little bit more

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of an aggressive arm pull and you see that the leg is not really moving for the second half of the downswing.

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You can have a big impact on where you're creating power and you're overall sequencing.