Then I’m going to do the opposite, so my left leg is going to straighten as my right leg comes forward.
Now in the downswing, I’m going to get a little bit of flex to get my knees wide and apart. Let’s go ahead and set up and what I want you to do, is just grab a club and put it across your hips.Īs you go into the backswing, I want to feel like you’re pushing a little bit to straighten that right leg, you’ll notice how this part goes up and back and that rotates my hip in the backswing.Īs I do that, my left leg is coming forward slightly. Let’s go over that a little bit more in detail here. As I’m completing my backswing, I’m going to have a little bend, and then I’m going to have a straightening of my left leg. Not much, and that doesn’t mean that I’m going to slide my legs and sway, and do all kinds of things where I’m moving back and forth laterally.īut I am going to have a little bit of a straightening in my right leg in the backswing. There’s going to have to be a little bit of a straightening of the right leg here. If I keep that flex the same, it’s pretty tough to rotate my hips. If I go from the top of my hips here, if I look at my femur down to my knee, and then down to my ankle, that has a flex in it. As I set up here at address, you’ll notice that my knees have a slight flex in them. Number one, we have to straighten and bend the legs in a certain way to get the hips to rotate.
#Bend at hips golf how to
We’re going to get into the nuts and bolts on how to actually move those hips, and get those working great in your golf swing.Īll right, so how do we get the hips moving? There’s three moves that we’re going to focus on in this video that are really going to help. We know that if we can get these hips to rotate freely, to really get in that great Pro-style hip rotation on the backswing and downswing, it’s going to make things so much easier.īut how do we actually do that? That’s what I’m going to talk about in this video. Now we definitely want to have those hips working correctly in the backswing, and the downswing.