When do your hips start to turn.

[Millwrong12]

Question regarding hip turn. With weight sliding forward for impact. When should the hips actually start turning?

[iacas]

Question regarding hip turn. With weight sliding forward for impact. When should the hips actually start turning?

At the start of the downswing.

But your feels may be different.

[Millwrong12]

So the hips are susposed to turn while your hips slide forward? Slide while turning?

[iacas]

So the hips are susposed to turn while your hips slide forward?

Slide while turning?

Yes. "Linear along a circle." But you may or may not need to "feel" one of the things. You might turn automatically, for example.

[Millwrong12]

Yeah I get what you are saying. I turn fine but now need to get my weight forward. I was thinking of using an alignment stick about a fist length away from my hip.

[colin007]

@iacas , since you already popped in here, what happens if the hips are somewhat closed at impact? Not literally closed to the target line, but just not as open as they ought to be?

[Tat14]

As soon as the music hits me.

[Lihu]

Yeah I get what you are saying. I turn fine but now need to get my weight forward. I was thinking of using an alignment stick about a fist length away from my hip.

http://thesandtrap.com/t/61376/5sk-video-thread/288#post_1113408

[saevel25]

@iacas, since you already popped in here, what happens if the hips are somewhat closed at impact? Not literally closed to the target line, but just not as open as they ought to be?

Think of it this way, if the hips need to be open at impact and the hands need to be inline with the club shaft. Your goal is to make contact. If not getting the weight forward and/or keeping the hips closed, what does that do? It shuts everything down. If your hips do not continue to turn then your torso slows down. That causes the shoulders to slow down and the arms to slow down. This usually causes a flip since you can't get proper extension of the arms and torso at impact.

[Ernest Jones]

Yeah I get what you are saying. I turn fine but now need to get my weight forward. I was thinking of using an alignment stick about a fist length away from my hip.

If you put an alignment stick through your front belt loops you can get a good visual of what your hips are doing. You'll look like an idiot (speaking from personal experience ) but you'll be better able to monitor what is going on.

A great training aid for weight forward is the Crush-it . I sometimes use the though/feel of pushing down HARD on a footswitch with my lead foot to at the start of the downswing but again, effective feels vary by player.

[iacas]

@iacas, since you already popped in here, what happens if the hips are somewhat closed at impact? Not literally closed to the target line, but just not as open as they ought to be?

40° open is tour average. But even on Tour you have golfers a bit more closed than that and, say, Jim Furyk who are more open at impact.

I know that sounds like a non-answer, but… it depends on a few things, and may not be your priority piece.

[colin007]

ok thanks, i appreciate it.  not a non-answer at all.