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I shot 74 the other day in a skins game. I loved it ! I thought i played very well

Golf culture is growing especially among younger players. We live in a city thats far from a town that has a single but decently beautiful golf course. They have a children's clinic and golf team. I see far more kids who play there now than they did a few years ago. Its all about growing the culture and doing your part to keep it happening. Maybe invite some kids out to the course or encourage the ones you already see there.

Yes I mean certainly the hips do turn back. And by the elastic band analogy I meant that you're really just trying to coil up and torque and get potential energy stored up. Maybe its not the greatest analogy. But anyway I've worked so hard throughout my entire golf career thus far on so much. Particularly lower body movement through the swing. I have loaded up and fired my hips SO hard in the past. Recently have made a changed. I have relied so much on hip turn and lifting the arms up (not as much CORE rotation as I do now) that it completely gave me so much loss of power. Currently now, after all my experience, I am extremely convinced that the swing is produced with the core and arms. The hips and lower body only provide stability, torque, and power from the ground, and initiates the swing, and clears out of the way so that your swing can accelerate through. I had the initiating the swing part down really well, but none of the others. No stability, no power from the ground due to lack of stability, and etc. My father always taught me to torque the right knee towards the ball to have the sense of torqueing against your right side so that you're stable. I played great golf like that, but I have a new coach who's a players pro himself. He's 47 years old. When I watch him swing (he CRUSHES the ball dead straight effortless or with effort if he's going to bomb it), he does open his hips quite a bit. But his hips do not open to start his swing. No. The core rotates back and as a RESULT of the core rotating, the lower body has to open up to allow for more CORE rotation. But I absolutely do not agree that the hips should just open up randomly and try to calculate how much core backswing you need. The core rotation dictates the hips opening. And that is exactly why I am resisting the hips so much. My natural tendency is to open wide with the hips which throws me way out of balance and loses torque because I moved my axis and destroyed what core power I had. He had me do an exercise where I sit down in a chair and swing a club (or just rotate the core) so that I can develop and find my core muscles. It was so hard at first, but without moving knees or anything I could turn my core and I never even knew my core could turn like that. It takes lots of practice and serious dedication. The hips and knees were screaming at me telling me to rotate almost forcing me to rotation my hips and knees. I just kept trying to turn my core as much as I possibly could. Now when I take to the golf course, I'm an upper body torquer who's stable and let's the core dictate the hips opening. I shot 74 today which I was happy about even though I got assessed a 2 stroke penalty and had a lame 3 putt on a par 3. Using this newfound knowledge and training i could do that today and I am very happy. Believe it or NOT, but my new swing is incredibly WAYYYY less painful and soooo easy on my back and it feels effortless. I'm slotting it so good now too. I've marked my back so bad even though I'm young my swing dynamics were just wild. My swing is so much athletic now. I have so much talent through the years but now I'm beginning to develop something very special, athletic, and professional. And also thank you so much !!! I typed on golf forum to find a golf forum and I found this one and I freaking love it so far !!!! Needed to talk about this and receive feedback xD thank you

Hi ! My name is Andrew and I am new here. I play at about a 6 handicap but im certainly better I just need to play more. My question is something thats been bugging me all day. But I feel like core rotation in golf is super important. I feel like the hips shouldn't open that much in the backswing because you're releasing the built up energy. The rubber band is losing its elasticity when the hips open too much. Because then you have to fire the hips too hard to get it all back on plane. Why not use hard core rotation and resist the hips as much as you can? The hips certainly move back to a degree obviously, but that's after you've had big core rotation while torqueing your hips and right side of the right leg with core rotation. Does this sound good? Thanks for the help!