Stop Turning To Perfect Your Backswing – Simple Golf Swing Tips

Learn how to swing a golf club using the hip move the pros use to hit straighter, longer shots. Your hip rotation in the golf swing controls your strike, swing path, shot shape, and power. In this video, I break down a simple drill to improve your hip turn and hip tilt just like the best players in the world.

Whether you over-rotate, sway, or under-rotate your hips, this drill will help you find your ideal 40° hip turn, improve your ball striking, and set up a more powerful and consistent backswing. You’ll also learn how hip tilt combines with rotation to shape your swing arc and fix common issues like early extension, over-the-top moves, and inconsistent strikes.

Use a club on the ground and one across your hips to visually feel your rotation, and add in tilt for a tour-level motion. Then take that feeling to your practice and swing full out to see immediate improvements.

Stop guessing and start building a better golf swing from the ground up. This is the move the pros are making—now it’s your turn.

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your hip rotation in the GOL swing shapes everything about your game from your strike to what shape shot you hit to how good or bad you hit the golf ball let’s fix that part of your golf swing with these simple ideas believe it or not how your hips turn so how they rotate and tilt is going to affect so much it’s going to affect the direction you swing the club on what powers you can put in even how you’re pushing the ground meaning if you do get across or stay back it’s going to affect so much of your golf this is so simple anywhere can do it set it up next time you’re practicing I bet you you’re going to get a better feel for how your hips turn so we know from measured data that good players hips as a general there’s always kind of outliers but as a general good players hips turns is around say 40ish de meaning they rotate from their start position to around 40° turned away from the Target in their back swing now to get the feeling of what this means for lot of golfers is really important because if I was to over rotate my hips often that kicks me out this way so adds a sway you can get any kind of shape back swing as well from those kind of positions and if you’re someone who under rotates your hips again we tend to see more of like a pick up of the arm and just a sway across so how much your hips turn in relationship to other things is really going to help you understand how to build this solid back swing so I want you to take another club so I’m hitting my nine iron here and I’m going to take just the picture wedge and what I’m going to do is I’m going to place it on the ground so I’m going to set into my ball and Let’s Pretend This is 90° well we don’t need to pretend cuz this is about 90° I’m going to set this club so the second Club here my pitching wedge to around 40° meaning it’s going to be about there then what I’m going to do is just put that between my feet so I’ve now got around a 40° Angle now if you want to measure this you can I’ve got a little ruler that I use with students that it’s got the on it you can use your smartphones will measure it I can tell that is around 40° and remember this is a an approximation there’s tolerances within this 40° some good players will turn 35 some might turn near 50 on average it’s around 40 now all I’m going to do is place the club onto my hips now and I’m going to turn my hips to line This Club up with that one on the ground now let’s say you’re someone who wants to feel a bigger tolerance you want to get up neara the 50 it feels more comfortable remember we’ve all got different ranges of movement you can nudge it a little bit to help you but keep it within 40ish de 47 35 around there what we don’t want is huge hip turns where the hips over rotate this way or tiny hip turns where I can see this shaft is nowhere near lining up with this one on the ground so with the club on my hips what I’m going to do is I’m going to make some turns where I line these two shafts up and what I’m going to do is just going to take Trail hand off I’m going to line the two shafts up while trying to make some back swing up here and with my arm because you are going to get some stretch with your body as this over rotates and pull these on a little bit further and I’m going to take the club off my hips and I’m going to try and recreate that feeling I can see if my hips are somewhere near so again I’m do one or two on and then on trying to get the hands up and then I’m going to try and work that into a feeling of hitting a shot so what I’m going to do just a little bit pre-shot make sure my aim’s there Club still on the ground still got the reference still got the feeling from the drill and a pretty decent shot not bad at all little drifty off to the right which is one of my patterns at the moment so the next thing we need to do is we need to think about our hip turn and what it’s doing cuz the word hip turn can be too basic meaning I can put this club on my legs here on my hips and I can turn my hips really flat and line it up this is not going to be so good for hitting good shots I’m going to come over the top I’m going to chut the club from a different direction cuz I won’t be a to hit from Level hips or I’m going to kind of drop down in here and have roll releases those kind of ideas so we also now need to work in some ideas of turning so we’ve got our 40° is on the floor which we’re turning to but we need some tilts in there as well we need to add a bit of a degree of turn and tilt all mixed together now what you’re going to do is take a second ball and to give you approximation I’ve got a size nine shoe so I’m going to set myself up from the tip of my toe here I’m a size nine forwards and then if I draw a line towards a Target I’m going to put that ball around a club head inside of the target line so I’ve moved that ball a size N9 forwards and a club inside that Target line again you can approximate where this is for you for foot size and everything else because what I’m going to do now set myself up I’m going to hip turn so I get my hip turning now I’ve moved this ball a little bit too far forward so I’m just going to bring it in maybe that was like a size 12 I think that’s better so I’m now lining this up with this but I’m also now trying to point this club down towards this ball as well cuz this is going to work in tilts let’s say I tilt a lot and don’t turn much going to go this way club’s pointing down there none of these are lined up let’s say I turn a lot and quite level so this is lined up with this but the club shooting off over kind of this direction somewhere so I’m now working in turns and tilts together and it is the turns and the tilts that are going to allow you to build such a better foundation in your back string so again turning tilt into there get the feeling without the club on put the club back on maybe introduce right hand to get some shoulder rotation in there as well and then try and build that feeling into my shots that’s a straight shot as well better lofted shot as well because I just turn that a little bit better having this really basic feedback next time you’re out practicing to try and help you get a feeling of where your hip should be turning and tilting to it’s absolutely going to help you build some better foundations the way we see average golfers turn and tilt the hips it’s just often very poor leading to very poor foundations and then what happens is you see them and I see even lessons where they’re trying to work on the result of a poor hip turn so rather than dealing with the root they see the result in a video like over the top or whatever we want to call whatever their result is and they try and fix that from an unfixable position setting yourself up to succeed with turns and tilts is only going to allow you to hit better longer straighter shots going forwards you can h a few more greens you’re going to lower your scores now if you want to find out of hit your driver better try this video 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