Hips Forward

[pipster11]

ok im a left hander who plays right handed golf. Every other sport i play involving a raquet etc is played left handed. Now i have never been a fantastic ball striker, i have days where i flush it but for every one of those days i have ten where i rely on some serious grinding and the flat stick to get me round the course. Recently i was using a mirror in my living room to check my swing when i noticed that my hips were pushed away from the target and my spine was leaning towards the target. When I took a full back swing i was reverse pivoting BIG time, which explains why i have always used a 3/4 swing for some sort of consistency, and that anytime i have tried a full swing the ball goes everywhere and i can top and chunk it in equal measure. Anyway when i set up at address and bumped my hips forward(towards the target) i noticed a massive difference straight away! at the top of the back swing i was behind the ball, the tension was in my right thigh, and i had a proper feeling of being coiled. Lets just say that in the three range sessions since noticing this and the one round on the course its like im a different player, im flushing every shot every time, well on the way to the scratch handicap i so desire!! anyway my point is this....i cant remeber any golf instruction manual mentioning to bump your hips towards the target, and it may just be because im left side dominant that mine were wrong, but have a look in the mirror and if your ball striking is a little off its worth a try. anyone else have any experience of this?
cheers.

[saevel25]

I can't remember who, but there was one teacher on the golf channel, or who wrote an article for golf digest that said for irons you start your backswing by forward pressing slightly with the hands before taking any motion back, this sets you in the right weight distribution, gets your hands infront of the ball and gives you a mechanism to start the backswing. I would say, if it works use it, many people use many different ways to get the swing right, if this tells your body and mind that your ready to go with out any more swing thoughts needed, then thats good.

[Zeph]

Hips forward is the way to play golf.

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