Body Rotation in the Golf Swing

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In this video, Carolin talks about the correct chest rotation, pelvis rotation, body rotation in the golf swing and why it matters to make sure you get your club consistently back towards the ball.

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Hi everybody and welcome I’m coach Carolyn here left better certified instructor and former professional Tour player and today I want to talk to you guys about the correct chest rotation pelvis rotation body rotation really on the way back in the back swing and why it matters to make sure you get your

Club consistently and solidly back towards the ball over and over and over again so let’s jump into it so body rotation is a really really important piece of the golf swing because it drives your entire golf swing really your arms don’t drive it they’re attached to your body your core your

Chest and your rotation setup drives the golf swing and drives the forces so that is why it’s fundamentally key to understand what they do and what the position should look like uh and what they do and how that translates into your impact and into your ball flight so

Today we’re going to focus on the back swing on the rotation back because that’s actually going to have a huge impact on our rotation forward and to our contact so I want to start with some numbers and I’m sure you guys have all heard about the 90° shoulder turn on the

Way back and the top position and that’s correct that’s the textbook number but really there’s a range of course if you look at the lpj tour it tends to be a little bit higher like 100° um versus 90 because women tend to be a little bit

More flexible but then on the PGA tour men are more muscular on the top it makes them a little bit tighter on the shoulders and then it’s a little bit harder to turn as much so they tend to stay around that 90 Dee number and that’s great I just want to point out

That there is ranges it also depends on you know your restrictions your back if you have a bad back if you have bad shoulders there really is there’s different correct numbers for that for every player but I just wanted to reference that 90° number as the

Textbook number so to say so let’s put that into the golf swing and show you what that really means right so here um I have my my setup and now I’m going to go to the top of the back swing I’m going to rotate my shoulders about 90°

Like this and I want you to pay attention to my pelvis turn and how it is in relation to my shoulder turn so my shoulder turn is 90° my pelvis turn should be about 45° and my knee turn should be half of my pelvis turn so I

Can’t do that math right now but half of 45 girl math golf math whatever that is you catch my drift so shoulders at 90 pelvis at 45 knees at half of the pelvis and this is a really important ratio for you to be aware of so as you working

Your way down from the top shoulders pelvis knees always have the degrees number to get to the correct rotation ratio and again if you only take your Club back 80° with your shoulders make sure that your pelvis isn’t over rotated at 40 or 50 because that’s not half and

Same for your knees you don’t want to not have a shoulder turn but have your knees turned right like this would be like you know 70° shoulder turn 80° but your knees are turned a lot so make sure you focus on this and I realize you may

Think oh I need a CEST and I need sensors to understand this but I think it’s still pretty easy to see from a down the line angle or from a you know front facing angle to make sure that you can understand the ballparked dead you’re in so again let’s go to our

Setup 90° shoulder turn 45° in my pelvis half of that in my knees and what that does it really gives me a lot of space here it gives me a lot of space to drop the golf club down and to explode through the problem I see a lot with

Amateurs is to actually not rotate their shoulders back not complete their back swing well and that rotation and it kind of look something like this where it mostly is arms and the problem is people do love to rotate and they know they should rotate in your in their golf

Swing but they love to rotate towards the Target because this is where they want the ball to go and that is very natural but in order to efficiently rotate this way we got to efficiently rotate that way first away from the Target and people usually are in a

Massive rush to get to the Target so they’re like oh well you know Flags over there they’re like let’s get over here so first let’s actually focus on the back swing and completing your back swing I’m a former professional player so I love thoughts that I can take on

The golf course with me I was never paid to have a pretty golf swing on the Range I was paid on how I scored I was paid on thoughts and on things that I could Implement in my game and in my scoring not on the Range so this is a great

Thought because it’s non-technical literally just think finishing your back swing finishing your back swing is all you need to do so let’s hit a ball here I’m going to set up and I’m going to think finishing my back swing which is really going to allow me to turn through really

Well oh it was so solid so really feeling like you’re finishing that back swing allows you to not rush through your transition either so rushing through your transition and the transition I’m referring to is the transition from the top of the back swing to the down swing a lot of the

Time if you’re a handsy player an armsy swinger then you rushing it so it looks something like this and there’s a very fast motion in that reroute that we don’t want to see if you’re thinking finish your back swing it looks smooth it doesn’t look rushed it almost feels

Like you’re pausing at the top of the back swing without it looking like you’re pausing but that’s also another good feel for you to feel like pause on the top of the back swing finish your back swing those two are very non-technical feels I love to take on

The golf course and I hope this makes a little bit of sense for you guys I feel like this drill is applicable to a lot of players almost every single one would benefit from this no matter what you do in your golf swing it’s a very universally great tip so I wanted to

Bring it to you guys if you like this video leave me a thumbs up subscribe to this channel leave me a comment below I’d like to know what you want to see next next and I always love to hear from my followers so thank you so much for

Watching this and I’ll see you next [Applause] Time