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My hips are way to active on my downswing, they are very fast also, when I do hit the ball solid and straight say with my 7 iron it usually goes around 170 with no wind, but today I was at the course and and could feel my lower body getting a little ahead of myself on downsing and i could feel myself being blocked and i would hit a slice

I would love for someone to give me a drill to work on to try and keep my lower body more stable on my downsing, one feeling that sometimes works for me is just feeling like i am swinging with all my arms
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Can you post a video of your swing?

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You got to lay down the LAW... Show those hips whose boss... I call for 1000 Hip abductions and adductions should do it

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at the risk of sounding callous, just slow your hips down. you're not some remote controlled robot, you have the power, i hope, over your bodily movements. if you slow your starting tempo the rest will follow.
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had the same issue....for me it was tempo tempo tempo.....I smoothed it out and it went away. good luck

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My hips are way to active on my downswing, they are very fast also, when I do hit the ball solid and straight say with my 7 iron it usually goes around 170 with no wind, but today I was at the course and and could feel my lower body getting a little ahead of myself on downsing and i could feel myself being blocked and i would hit a slice

Hips out in front of you will probably not cause a slice. It will cause a block or a hook if anything. You need to check video to be sure that's the problem.

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What might work is, count during your swing. Get a set beat going, and if you hear a beat you can match it. You be surprised how easy we can pick up a beat.

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Hips out in front of you will probably not cause a slice. It will cause a block or a hook if anything. You need to check video to be sure that's the problem.

It depends. If your hips spin too fast it'll cause pulls and slices typically. If they push forward too fast (rare) they can lead to blocks and quick hooks.

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yeah this is my problem too, my instructor tells me that my hips are just way ahead of my hands causing a nice slice with my irons. i try to think about pretty much just swinging with all arms and usually that will fix it.

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My hip problems are caused by an inbalance in the backswing. My pro i go to got me to get better balance at address and during the backswing and i was able to calm the hips because they didn't have to fly out to keep me from falling over.

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It depends. If your hips spin too fast it'll cause pulls and slices typically. If they push forward too fast (rare) they can lead to blocks and quick hooks.

Oh, yeah, that's true, I didn't think about that. If they spin you can slice the heck out of it. But, if they slide, a slice is not likely.

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I would advise that under no circumstances should you attempt to slow down your hips. Belting a 7-iron 170 is not a bad thing and I promise you the same dynamics that allow you do that are the same forces that can send your 7-iron straight. It sounds like you have an athletic swing, and I don't think you should fight that. Would you ask a baseball pitcher to rotate his hips less? Same basic principles apply between a golf swing and throwing a baseball. Get out your camera or go get filmed somewhere from many angles and compare your swing to other athletic swings (pretty much all the greats) and see what you can learn. It may be a much more simple fix than you think.
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I would advise that under no circumstances should you attempt to slow down your hips. Belting a 7-iron 170 is not a bad thing and I promise you the same dynamics that allow you do that are the same forces that can send your 7-iron straight. It sounds like you have an athletic swing, and I don't think you should fight that. Would you ask a baseball pitcher to rotate his hips less? Same basic principles apply between a golf swing and throwing a baseball. Get out your camera or go get filmed somewhere from many angles and compare your swing to other athletic swings (pretty much all the greats) and see what you can learn. It may be a much more simple fix than you think.

Pitcher's are trying to throw the ball as fast as they can.

In golf it's mostly about accuracy, no point hitting the ball miles if it isn't on target

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Well I certainly understand your point in practice that really isn't what happens. Most pitchers learn how to incorporate power moves into all speeds with their pitches, because (and this is important to this discussion) those same moves that provide you with power also are the same moves that allow your body to move in a dynamic and explosive action while still controlling where it goes. Now I am not saying don't improve technique or not to work on tempo and timing, but trying to slow down the hips isn't a solution to lack of accuracy. Now if you want to learn to slow down your hips for distance control that is totally encouraged, but again you are not really slowing down the hips simply timing the firing of your hips differently.
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I truly believe that if your timing of your hips and shoulder were in sync you would not have to think about your hips are too quick. I would recommend trying to make your swing more compact, meaning your backswing needs to be more compact and the hips will be in sync.

Practice this drill, take a wedge and practice hitting short shots focusing on making effortless solid contact. What I do is this drill, I focus on my backswing with these things in mind
- angle that I take the club back
- the direction of my backswing
- the position of my wrist on my take away

When all three are just right you will make solid contact everytimeand its effortless. You will hear the click sound when the club makes perfect contact with the ball no matter how tight the lie and even on solid dirt surfaces.

What I do after I make some solid contact is try full swing with the same take away and again, I find that the swing is effortless and the ball flight is nice and high when you make solid contact all because of the correct take away or backswing.

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Try to do the oposite. Instead of leading the downswing with your lowerbody, try to cut the ball.

You could also swing witha smoother tempo, or make your grip a little bit stonger.

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I can't hold back any longer... You cannot turn your hips too fast if the rest of your swing is a sound, good swing. What that means is you have to shift weight, you must be on plane, and a whole host of things that great swings have in common. I only wish I could turn my hips more quickly, as explosively as possible. The issue is if the rest of your swing is bad, then if you spin your hips and don't get your weight forward through the shot without an over the top move, you are going to suffer. An overly handsy player with poor weight shift will only magnify their problems with a faster hip turn... but the hip turning speed is not the problem. It is how and when you do it.

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