Player Lesson With Ashley Huizing: Minimizing Hand/Forearm Rotation for More Consistency and Power

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Ashley Huizing was the first woman Head Golf Professional at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club.

Being young on her career path, she was inspired to travel the country to broaden her knowledge through the anecdotes and best practices shared by her fellow Golf and Fitness Professionals. Her passion for personal exploration curated a new mission to showcase unique and innovative programs, facilities, and Professionals shaping the future of golf.

Her goal is to create a blueprint for 1+ million women to join the game. She is eliminating the stigma of golf being a scary environment by creating confidence through information, and Mike Malaska is more than supportive of this cause.

We cover Ben Hogan’s historical Golf Swing, controlling the club face, and developing the correct hand action for a consistently powerful golf swing.

Enjoy this player lesson and Ashley’s interview with Mike at https://youtu.be/2LIitkzaa5Y to learn more!

Please follow Ashley on YouTube! @ashleyhuizing

00:00 Title
00:23 Let’s Talk Face Rotation
01:20 Ben Hogan and Why
02:49 500 Balls A Day!?
04:00 How the Left Hip Works
07:30 Timing Your Left Hip and the Clubface
07:57 A Guru’s Thoughts On Early Extension
11:46 Matching Circles
13:26 Minimizing Hand/Forearm Rotation
16:39 Club Moves Left, Face Moves Up

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oh my [Music] gosh okay step one but why would you try to copy something that took a freaking Savant years to get good at and 500 balls a day to maintain it yep well it’s okay so there’s there’s two ways to play golf okay there’s two ways to play one you can play this way uhhuh yeah two you can play like this I want to play like that I understand but you can’t right now and and so you’re at Callaway and you’re doing all this fitting and you get right here and the face your right hand is like this and the face is like that and you’re looking at the ball and you’re going and so you do this so hard that that that your your your your grip this is twisting so hard that it’s going right over the top of this hand this is doing this so much which is why you strugg with your game yeah it’s why a lot of us struggle for because that’s what everybody was taught open the face close the face open the face close the face that’s yeah sorry sorry okay no it is though you don’t have to do that we don’t have to do what Hogan did there’s a reason that Hogan Hogan’s background he started as a little kid he had a really strong grip hit low Hooks and he ran the ball forever to try to keep up with Byron Nelson and those guys as he got older and he started to play he believed that golf was a forearm rotation game okay but he got playing and he couldn’t play cuz he hit low hooks so he took a year off to try to figure out how he could hit it and not hook it his his solution because he believed golf was a forearm rotation game cuz up to that point everything was about turning the face down because the ball spun so much and all kinds of things yeah so golf was this so he kept figuring out okay I I can’t hook it so he kept moving this hand farther and farther over weaker and weaker left hand getting his right hand more and more in here so he could turn it over as hard as he could and not hook it now he got really I watched him hit balls one time one of the most impressive things I’ve ever watched from a I’m getting Goosebump it’s like watching I don’t know a ballerina dancer or somebody who’s just phenomenal you just watch it and you want to go it’s almost it is it’s Mesmerizing the the the synchronization of it but as I understood mechanics and and joints and angles I also as I was watching us going no wonder nobody could ever copy what he did and no wonder when they ask him at the end of his career how many days other than your car accident how many days did you miss when you didn’t practice he says I never missed a day when I didn’t hit at least 500 balls a day cuz if I missed one day it took me two days to get back where I was now understanding Hogan had a different level of expectation but why would you try to copy something that took a freaking savant years to get good at and 500 balls a day to maintain it y now I understand why but because he was so good everybody thought well that’s the Holy Grail that’s what we all have to learn to do and it’s ruined more people than it’s helped some of the five fundamentals are good but a lot of them are good as to what he did but to take the average player now I’m putting myself because I tried that stuff for about three years yeah under pressure I mean I could hit it either way I’d make a swing hit it I could hit it in the center of the face all the time but I’d look up and one’s going a little this way the next one’s going a little that way and then one might go o harder than one so I couldn’t aim at a flag I had to aim general areas and keep it on the grass well now you you say you hit 16 greens yeah you never have it inside of 40 ft you don’t ever make any birdies right no control of the ball right this is a problem well you we’re going to fix you oh thank you I know you’re enjoying this lesson that we’re having we did an interview earlier and if you really like this lesson you want to see the interview Ashley how can they get in touch with you uh you can go to my YouTube or Instagram Ashley husing you’re going to love it let’s just let’s just start here for just so we start protecting your your left knee okay okay set up to the ball okay now if we had a little teeny wedge let’s get a wedge out here mitubishi okay we’re going to hit a little pit shot okay so feet closer together you you don’t care if I grab a hole okay inside the ball we’re going to make practice swing okay inside the ball oh okay okay so you’re on your left side okay now we’re going to hit a little 20 30 yard pitch shot so you go ahead and do it so this hip has to do that has to go that far back W you see what it just did to your foot yeah okay don’t be afraid of that as your left leg pushes your left hip back see how you come off onto your heel yeah all right so you you got to be okay with this feeling cuz that’s where that hip has to go okay for you to maintain your distance from the ball I didn’t do anything to your hips other than just keep them from moving closer to the ball okay now you normally go like this and you move out to the ball of your foot you move up into it like that yeah so the club’s coming from the inside and you move up into it that’s how you get stuck underneath and that’s a that’s a knee injury yep okay so I want you to feel what we’re going to do here oh okay so this hip and this arm and that club are connected to some degree okay so this hip makes that go okay see how you’re blending those two yep and when this goes it impact those toes it better pull off the ground okay boom so you time the left hip goes back far enough to pull your toes off the ground as you hit the ball oh oh there you go okay now go ahead and hit one like that easy feet closer together we’re just hit a little pit shot left hip pushes out of the way better now right now it feels funny yeah but if you watch if you watch me here even if I’m hitting let’s say I’m just hitting a little teeny watch what my left foot does it’s off the ground yeah toes are up now my toes come up not cuz I lift my toes yeah my toes come up because this leg pushes this hip back and as this hip goes back it pulls my foot off my foot’s relaxed yeah there you go yeah so you got to start doing that now if you if you don’t if you do this once you hit it and the club’s over here if you want to then stand up which they talk about guys feel like they stand up through the ball no they don’t stand up through it they stand up after they’ve hit it okay so you can go back to your heel and then go out to the ball of your foot and everybody goes oh God that’s beautiful but through impact weight has to be on your heel so that you can rotate and not not kill your knee even with a little pit shot okay come on up here again so we’ve got to start tying together this hip socket and this side of your body body in the club okay okay go ahead oh jeez yeah so different okay go ahead and hit one nice and easy oh my gosh did you see how solid that was yes okay your hips never move back that far no see what the more I do this the more I understand yeah right hip get out of the way is important but the reason most people get in trouble is they’re trying to get off their right side and move their hips so what happens is this hip stalls out so they move up to their left side and then this pushes and throws this up in the way which for you when you go like that it drops the club even farther behind you cuz your first move out of the top is this hip pushes up yeah as opposed to this hip pushing back so when I did that to you did you feel how the club didn’t fall behind you as much no not at all okay so let me ask you this is this is this a form of early extension that I’m doing yes and is there where is the limit what is the limitation of my body that’s not allowing me to get there there really okay here’s what I thought initially okay when I got with aasu and we started working with people physically most people are tight in their hip flexors weak in their hamstrings and I thought that early extension was totally a function of lack of flexibility and strength yeah it plays into it but then I would take somebody with tight hips tight hamstrings no glutes and i’ put them on a cable cross and have them do pulley and their hips work fine now some of them some of them their hips opened up more than others okay but they not one person moved up into the pulley right so I’m going okay different is this how much is flexibility mobility and strength involved in this to some degree depending on what how much you’re trying to twist your hips which is crazy because your body will say that’s enough okay but how you move and how this hip moves back and out of the way and how your how this Foot Works determines whether or not you’re going to get stuck because if I do this and watch what my hips do so if I go back that’s why I hate guys doing this because as soon as they get here now when they try to push they can’t get this HP back far enough to get out of the way so they create more vertical Force which accelerates the club but they can’t get out of the way of it okay so now they’re stuck stuck yep okay so what should happen is you go back here and you get right there it it’s not you don’t push off this hip your left hip goes back to meet your right hip see your left hip goes back to meet your right hip your right hip doesn’t go out to meet your left hip does that make sense yeah yeah so when you change directions the left hip goes back to meet your right hip your right hip doesn’t go out to meet your left we grew up kick your knee in stabilize your right hip push off your right side yep so your right hip immediately minut you start down starts going this way and this hip so your hips turn but they move up into the ball and somebody says well you’re already extending yes why cuz this hip’s stuck right so this becomes the Pivot Point rather than the center of your pelvis so what I just did with you by your back you’re hitting a little wedge shot so you’re on your left foot so we don’t have to deal with your right as soon as you start down I push I I pull this hip back so that this moves out of the way and what does the club do it just it just drops rather than getting suck underneath the underneath a lot of it some of it is because you when you start down you get here and the first move you make is your hip goes which is why your arms do a lot of this yeah okay but the question is why do your arms do that you don’t want to do it we got to fix the reason you can’t just say Ashley get up here and get your arm started down so it a’t going to work it doesn’t work that way it won’t work okay no so the first step is what your left hip does okay so let’s do that again so you start out every day hit little teeny pit shots okay and this hip let me do one more thing for you here put the club in your right hand here’s what’s got to start happening when you get right here this and this are connected to where your swing feels like that this hip going back throws this forward you feel that yeah those two circles have to match okay you go and this circle stops and this one goes and the club gets back here and then you flip if you go back and this does this the club won’t fall behind you as much okay so this and this circle these two circles have to match each other and they have to both keep going and this circle here is what throws the club forward oh my gosh okay so when I’m swinging when I’m right here this hip this arm this every all these they work like this they go ooh the only reason my arms get to the ball is because this pushes back which pulls that forward which pulls this forward see you’re doing it with this leg Yeah when you do it with this one like that oh I do feel the difference I was pushing here instead of pulling back here you it’s a pulley on a yeah there you go okay come on up here oh feet close together practice swing first practice swing o it’s all right a little slower good let’s go ahead and hit it set up to the ball oh my gosh okay step one how you need a drink water I jumped ahead a little bit okay that’s okay but so now what we’re going to do is we’re going to stand here with just your right hand and we’re going to take the club back and you see how the face aims at the ball yeah and then you hit the ball and then the club goes around over here to the left and the face works that way so it goes shut to what you feel is open but see where it’s at yep so you got to start getting the feel for how the club works here and it works this way what it doesn’t do is go like this and go like that yeah so you start training your hand to be able to hit it and do what I just did there there you go there there trying to think Hip back you don’t even have to worry about hit back right now right now I want to get your right hand so this goes here and it hits the ball and the club releases through and it goes like this as opposed to that yes I want you to feel what this feels like here’s the tour they’re all right there when they come down mhm they turn into the ball they release the club like this that’s why they all hit it so damn straight because there is none of this so we got to get rid of this in you okay the first is starting with these little chip shots where you start to feel how this works what that’s doing yeah now if it gets in here see then you’re going to do this so by just standing here making little swings making this happen your brain starts going oh I see so that’s how the club’s supposed to work through the ball so we’re we’re building this task okay okay it’s not this is not the task no okay that’s not the Tas so you’re reinforcing how the club Works through the ball then you hit some little teeny chip shots you can hit them 10 yards 15 yards 20 yards you don’t even have to necessarily move your body to do it right now it’s more training your hands how your hands work there hit boom there you go good that’s okay that was pretty good you can let the weight of the club go you can let it go there there you go okay now hit a couple that way little chip shots with just your right hand okaye went out to the right correct M so what’ your Club do it routed too much to the inside oh yeah okay all right so this is something you you got to start fixing this right now with this shot okay because if if it’s yeah choke down on the club just a little bit more right there okay go ahead okay that’s fine same thing so as the club runs into the ball then it swings left okay so it swings left without the face shutting down better better okay so the club’s got to go left and if you watch these guys when they hit and the gals that are really good with their wedges uhhuh they come down and they hit the ball and then this goes over here like this and the face works that way nobody goes out here and turns the face over okay so you’re starting right out just programming the the club running into the ball it’s going around to the left and the face turning up like that so you can let the weight of the club go but when your when your hand releases or when it when your wrist Works your wrist doesn’t work this way right so your right palm is working like this like bowling like throw a ball you’re swinging I’m doing this exactly makes no the first indication that you rotate your arms too much is your gloves wearing your right arm out on this that might be that’s so bad interesting is I I used to have that that Mark right there I actually had a teacher that told me that I had to do that enough until I until I made this red and so I got out there going and I can still do it and hit balls but yeah oh my God I mean it’s like okay let’s see how much we can complicate this yes yes let’s not complicate and then let’s ask then let’s ask average people with minimal hand eye coordination to do something that’s extremely difficult for somebody who’s a good athlete yeah and wonder why people aren’t getting any better there you go good oh yeah it seems so easy well what is okay go ahead do it and hit it with just the one hand better now see even now now the club face is working and your arc’s going left so the combination of the face staying Square to the arc and your Arc going around to the left the ball goes straight yeah so now there is a once the club runs into the ball Boom the club goes left and the ball goes to the right it’s called separation your swing has been chase the ball because you had to cuz it was coming from so far in here everything had to slow down y so you could try to figure out how to do that anything if I’d have told you from here clear your hips I mean you’re worse hle you can’t yeah you can’t catch it up so you hit a lot of shots in the hosle yeah and downhill lies you hit them fat all the time yeah okay way to call me out there m well I mean well that’s true though well it’s unfortunately in this game it’s there only a few mistakes there you go good okay okay so let it swing a little more left so you still hit too much from the inside do it again okay swing to the left okay I yeah so as once you hit the ball the club’s got to go more around to the left okay there we go oh my god wow do that again that was spectacular there you go oh it’s so much better not over here that’s right trying to flip it out