Reverse pivots and swaying will rob you of power and control. Coach Ged Walters suggests some tips drills to help you rotate properly.
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00:00Guys, Ed Walters here.
00:05We're at Las Colinas Golf Club in Alicante in Spain, and I'm going to give you a drill
00:09that you can do at home as well as on the driving range and before you play to help
00:14your pivot, your body rotation improve in your golf swing.
00:19Now, common that we see is, you know, some guys really, really nice setup, and then we
00:26see a backswing which looks a little bit like this, or we see a backswing which looks then
00:32a little bit like this.
00:34And the big thing with that is the body's pivot and especially the upper body is not
00:40moving in the desired way that we need it to, to be efficient and to be powerful as
00:45well.
00:46So what we need to make sure that we do is we keep as close as we possibly can an alignment
00:52between the center of the shoulders and the center of the hips as well.
00:57So if you look at your shirt buttons and your belt buckle, we need to keep them as aligned
01:01as we possibly can.
01:03So when we would be taking our setup position, what we don't want to do is go this way because
01:11what we've done there is we've made a turn, but the one thing we haven't done is we haven't
01:16extended the spine angle to retain our position and our nice control of the pivot and the
01:24turn and the power.
01:26So if we look at the golf swing, we've got the turn, we've got the forward bend, and
01:34a slight extension in the spine angle to retain our position there nice and smoothly and powerfully.
01:41And from there, we can really unwind and get a real powerful downswing.
01:45If we think about it, the most powerful muscles in your golf swing are glutes and quads followed
01:51by your core.
01:52So if they're not getting themselves in the right position, you're going to struggle,
01:56massively struggle, then you become very hands and armsy and totally inconsistent.
02:00So drill that we need to do.
02:02I want you to get your club and I want you to place it right on the very top of your
02:06shoulders, just in there.
02:09In your setup position, a little forward bend into here, okay, I want you to get the
02:15club head as I've got it here to go down towards the ground, almost towards the inside of your
02:23trailing foot.
02:27And then in the downswing and throughswing, you want to get the belt buckle to rotate
02:32towards the target, getting the grip end down into that position, then we're going to go
02:37around and through into a great finish.
02:40So when we see that from the face-on position, we're going down as we rotate, and as you
02:48see there, there's no movement to one side or the other.
02:52So my spine's tilting, turning, it's extending, all in one motion to there, and then I can
02:59push through, down, and into the finish.
03:03Now that drill, five minutes a day at home, even if you wanted to, you could place your
03:08forehead on the door frame, do it in the door frame to get used to making that movement
03:13to start with.
03:14But the more you do it, the better you get at it, and it doesn't take long for your pivot
03:18and your rotation of the body to get better and better and better when you're out on the
03:21golf course where it really matters.
03:23Now I'm going to give you a view when I hit this shot of how stable the body rotation
03:29is.
03:30It's difficult really to see stability from a fast movement, especially with the arms
03:34in the way in the front view.
03:36So I'm going to give you a different view, I'm going to give you this one.
03:40Because from this angle here, you can see everything, how stable and centered the body's
03:45rotation is, and then round into that finish.
03:51So I'm going to hit this shot for you now, and I'm going to make that nice movement,
03:57turning, tilting, extending all the way through, and into the finish position.
04:06And then we get a beautifully crisp strike, lovely control on the ball flight, loads of
04:11power, loads of distance.
04:12Guys, make sure you do it, five minutes a day, you know, you could be there watching
04:16the news, you could be watching the sport, anything on TV, just standing there and making
04:20sure you prepare so when you get on the golf course, everything works much, much better.
04:24Guys, thanks for watching.
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04:30on there which are all aimed to help you guys play better, shoot lower scores, and enjoy
04:33yourself, more importantly, more, and I look forward to seeing you again next time.