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I came across a tip online,and the guy mentions try to make a full shoulder turn but prevent your hips turning too much ,this will create more power he said.Anyway i went up driving range yesterday and I couldnt believe the difference in the distance.I was getting 30-50 yards further on the drives.To stop your hips turning too far ,you just stop your right knee turning too much,by locking it.Really amazed by this...

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Glad this helped you but I disagree with the premise of the tip.

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Oh it was ken brown who mentioned this and said its one of the reasons mcllrory hits it so long .

It's not. Rory actually turns his hips a good amount.

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I came across a tip online,and the guy mentions try to make a full shoulder turn but prevent your hips turning too much ,this will create more power he said.Anyway i went up driving range yesterday and I couldnt believe the difference in the distance.I was getting 30-50 yards further on the drives.To stop your hips turning too far ,you just stop your right knee turning too much,by locking it.Really amazed by this...


As stated above by professionals, preventing your hips from turning does not add power.

Go to youtube and look at swings of the pros. Rear leg straightens, hips are turning...

I think you are hitting longer for another reason. You may feel your hips are limited, but I doubt it. In golf, feel is not real.

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It was a big discovery to me and I too gained lots and lots of yards, and also quite a bit of muscle tone by practicing this routinely. For anyone who might "over rotate" hips, you definitely want to turn hips, but you want to stop them at some point and build up the coil by continuing shoulder turn.

If you have good flexibility, hips generally close about 90deg from target, where upper body is 180 from target (or facing away from target). On downswing you want to load up, creating torque by tethering right upper body with lower left body before you spin at the ball.

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It was a big discovery to me and I too gained lots and lots of yards, and also quite a bit of muscle tone by practicing this routinely. For anyone who might "over rotate" hips, you definitely want to turn hips, but you want to stop them at some point and build up the coil by continuing shoulder turn. If you have good flexibility, hips generally close about 90deg from target, where upper body is 180 from target (or facing away from target). On downswing you want to load up, creating torque by tethering right upper body with lower left body before you spin at the ball.

Huh? 180 degrees from target?

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It was a big discovery to me and I too gained lots and lots of yards, and also quite a bit of muscle tone by practicing this routinely. For anyone who might "over rotate" hips, you definitely want to turn hips, but you want to stop them at some point and build up the coil by continuing shoulder turn.

Big fat no on this one ... It's what I currently do and it causes my body to get out of sequence and my arms to separate and my right elbow to get behind me and it leads to cupping of the left wrist and that steepens the shaft on the downswing. All of that equals yuck.

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It was a big discovery to me and I too gained lots and lots of yards, and also quite a bit of muscle tone by practicing this routinely. For anyone who might "over rotate" hips, you definitely want to turn hips, but you want to stop them at some point and build up the coil by continuing shoulder turn.

If you have good flexibility, hips generally close about 90deg from target, where upper body is 180 from target (or facing away from target). On downswing you want to load up, creating torque by tethering right upper body with lower left body before you spin at the ball.

I'm going to assume you meant 90 degree shoulder turn and 45 with the hips. Most golfers don't turn their hips/shoulders enough. It's pretty tough to over rotate your hips unless you turn them level to the ground.

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I'm going to assume you meant 90 degree shoulder turn and 45 with the hips. Most golfers don't turn their hips/shoulders enough. It's pretty tough to over rotate your hips unless you turn them level to the ground.


Yes, that sounds a bit better! Thanks.

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