You are the most unique instructor on youtube. By that I mean you take a great deal of time for a relatively small but important issue. I am not sure where you learned your method especially as you are pretty young but you are easily the best.
Thank you so very much for the kindest of comments. That means a great deal to me and I appreciate you taking time out of your day to post something like this.
Wish i had seen this sooner..thank you Chris.. I've never seen a video where the movements are broken down so clearly and well simplified to enable me to do the drills..excellent video..thank you again Chris
Chris I have been following you for sometime now.I appreciate the effort you put into all of your videos to help the average Joe like myself.My game has improved thanks to you. I have learned from you things that were not taught to me from other instructors. Handicap is slowly moving down.Thanks for making golf fun again.
Thank you so much for the great comment and following along with my channel. I love to hear golf is fun again for you. Keep it up and please let me know if you have any questions along the way!!! Have a great rest of your weekend.
Best explanation I have seen on where the shoulders and hips need to be during a hands and arm swing. The checkpoints and alignment rods really help. Great video. Thanks!
This is gold Chris, many thanks. It's great that there's someone providing comprehensive well thought out solutions instead of trying to sell instant fixes that will get us hitting like Rory after watching a 30 second clip.
Outstanding video! Great anatomical/biomechanical breakdown. Angle metrics really help getting into correct starting and finishing positions!!! Starting my New Year off working on my golf game with your videos. Thanks so much!
Great drill. Including hip stretches is beneficial also on a daily basis, they tend to tighten up as you age. Two things that have helped me is to point the feet out slightly at address and start the swing with a slight pressure shift forward. Just seems to help get moving.
For so long I have been stacking on the lead side in fear of not transitioning back before the arms come through I believe you have set the path with this drill. Now to find out if I'm disciplined enough to work this into my swing. Thanks I think I will use this in my pre shot routine as well.
Very good video. I like using the left oblique on the downswing and through swing. I have always used left knee, right hip and scapula on the back swing and the opposite on the downswing as I have already shifted weight to my left heal before finishing the backswing. A few questions. 1) do you advocate using the right oblique on the backswing? 2) what about just oblique and scapula both ways with extension on the left side when posting up or how would you suggest which body parts to focus on while doing the movements 3) I am 80 and just getting back in to golf as my body will no longer let me play tennis. I find I am having difficulty now with chipping and pitching. Which body parts would you advocate for my short game?
Sorry for the delay, not sure how I missed this group of questions....1. Yes, I advocate your entire core including the trail side obliques for rotation in the takeaway and backswing. 2. That's dependent on what the swing looks like really. If we see a lot of shrug from the trail shoulder going back, then yes, I would have you focus on the scapula. If you were turning really flat, then I may have you focus on the scap in conjunction with obliques. Its mostly player dependent but I do think your focus points are just fine. 3. Keep the hands and arms from being overactive. let the body be the big engine in short game to help eliminate big misses through the bottom. I personally use a lot of wrist action in mine but that doesn't mean I advocate it, it means I learned how to make it work at a younger age. Hope this helps a little bit and thanks for watching and the comments:)
So when I rotate back,and I get 90% of weight on trail ankle ,and 45 degree hip rotation, i feel very little tension in glute and guts,so I really don’t know how to stop there unless I stare at the stick on the ground. Should i keep rotating back till the tension in my glute and guts stop my rotation? Thats probably 60 degree hip turn for me. Maybe I’m more flexible than most folks my age but if i need to stop at 45 degree hip turn on the way back,what else should I try? On the lead hip,when I’m stacked properly and posted at impact its pretty close to 45 degree’s so i guess I got less flexibility on that side. I do suffer from the lefts with all clubs from time to time (I’m right handed)and starting to wonder if its not over rotation and corresponding hand depth on the backswing that causes that.
Thank you, Chris. I've seen a huge improvement in ball striking recently, partly due to some of your ideas. Congrats on your channel starting to blow up. Seems like about a 4k subscriber jump in the last month. Sky's the limit. Question: You talk a lot about getting the rotation working. I'm guessing most Ams don't rotate much. What are your thoughts on the idea that shifting forward from a good backswing position (well rotated) will force your hips to rotate without really focusing on getting open? I have had some success with this idea and not really trying to get open, but focusing on the weight shift and letting the club pull me through the completion of the swing. Do you ever see amateurs who go a little too crazy and open up too much before impact?
That makes me very happy to hear your getting some huge ball striking improvements. Love to hear that stuff. Your question is a good one and very difficult to answer accurately without seeing your movement. What I see with amateur golfers is either too much lateral shift or too much rotation of the hips. It’s not really balanced as well as it should be. For most students, just telling them to shift and the hips/body will start to open up, can actually lead to a closed hip slide. BUT on the other end of the spectrum, if you’re a student that has always rotated with ease and not shifted fully, then you might see good results just by feeling more shift than turn. So, in a roundabout sort of way, I’m good with your focus points especially when you say letting the club pull you after you get your weight shifted. Hope that helps and thanks again for the kind words.
Great lesson Chris. I’m assuming that these movements are subtle as this appears to be the beginning of a swaying off the ball problem. Can you tell us what is the one feel or movement to ensure it doesn’t become a sway problem? Cheers
Thank you. When your pressure shifting and if you’re turning your rib cage making the shoulders rotate perpendicular to your spine, you won’t be sway. Also, keep an eye on the trail leg to make sure you’re trying to maintain some flex and keeping the trail knee facing forward. That will keep the pelvis a whole lot more stable as you turn on top of it. Hope that helps.
I mean I personally like to see what I’m going to be hitting and I don’t like my eyes wondering all over the place due to proprioception. I usually focus my lead eye on the back of the ball but not try to deadlock the head in place so I still have freedom of movement.
You said something around minute 3 that jumped out at me. "You open the hips with your left obliques". No "active" legs or pelvis movement? You also said that many AMs turn their hips too much. How much is too much? When we see Rory hit a driver, it definitely looks like a full hip turn. Look forward to your comments.
35-45 degrees open is where I like most players to be. You don’t need anything more than that really. The obliques are great for trunk rotation which when coupled back with the stability being provided from the glutes, now you have a way to accelerate the hips to an open position without running into hip spin. Rory definitely turns his hips a lot. So does Collin and Zalatoris and both are sidelined unfortunately. New video coming tomorrow on hip stability through the bottom.
The front of your feet will create a line that should be parallel to the target line. Lay down an alignment stick that touches the front of both feet. That's where you are aimed.
Start moving and grooving! Timestamps for those that don't like all the important info... 0:00 Intro 0:21 Pros load sequence 0:43 Pros unload sequence 1:45 Drill Objective 2:55 The drill 6:59 Picking up the pace
You are the most unique instructor on youtube. By that I mean you take a great deal of time for a relatively small but important issue. I am not sure where you learned your method especially as you are pretty young but you are easily the best.
Thank you so very much for the kindest of comments. That means a great deal to me and I appreciate you taking time out of your day to post something like this.
Very helpful. I translated the weight shift hip turn into a four count sequence in my head: turn, plant; plant, turn. Helped my tempo as well.
Wish i had seen this sooner..thank you Chris.. I've never seen a video where the movements are broken down so clearly and well simplified to enable me to do the drills..excellent video..thank you again Chris
Chris I have been following you for sometime now.I appreciate the effort you put into all of your videos to help the average Joe like myself.My game has improved thanks to you. I have learned from you things that were not taught to me from other instructors. Handicap is slowly moving down.Thanks for making golf fun again.
Thank you so much for the great comment and following along with my channel. I love to hear golf is fun again for you. Keep it up and please let me know if you have any questions along the way!!! Have a great rest of your weekend.
Best explanation I have seen on where the shoulders and hips need to be during a hands and arm swing. The checkpoints and alignment rods really help. Great video. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the kind words.
This is gold Chris, many thanks. It's great that there's someone providing comprehensive well thought out solutions instead of trying to sell instant fixes that will get us hitting like Rory after watching a 30 second clip.
There’d be a lot more happy golfers out there if we could truly fix things in 30 seconds.
Great Advice drill tips
Outstanding video! Great anatomical/biomechanical breakdown. Angle metrics really help getting into correct starting and finishing positions!!! Starting my New Year off working on my golf game with your videos. Thanks so much!
Happy New Year and happy to have you on the channel. Here’s to good golf in 2024.
Another great one, Chris! Keep it rolling!
Thank you good sir!!! I appreciate it very much so.
love the drills
Great drill. Including hip stretches is beneficial also on a daily basis, they tend to tighten up as you age. Two things that have helped me is to point the feet out slightly at address and start the swing with a slight pressure shift forward. Just seems to help get moving.
Really like your teaching. Much has been gained. Thank you.
Very happy to help. Thanks for taking the time to comment like this.
That was really well explained and demonstrated.
Glad you thought so!
For so long I have been stacking on the lead side in fear of not transitioning back before the arms come through I believe you have set the path with this drill. Now to find out if I'm disciplined enough to work this into my swing. Thanks I think I will use this in my pre shot routine as well.
Stay disciplined and using a ‘lite’ version of this drill in pre shot can help you with staying committed. Go forth and good luck:)
Such a good video
I really like the kiddy explanation I need that shit!! Thanks for the videos!
Get the basics back in check and get back at it good sir. Thanks for watching and glad you found it enjoyable.
Very good video. I like using the left oblique on the downswing and through swing. I have always used left knee, right hip and scapula on the back swing and the opposite on the downswing as I have already shifted weight to my left heal before finishing the backswing. A few questions. 1) do you advocate using the right oblique on the backswing? 2) what about just oblique and scapula both ways with extension on the left side when posting up or how would you suggest which body parts to focus on while doing the movements 3) I am 80 and just getting back in to golf as my body will no longer let me play tennis. I find I am having difficulty now with chipping and pitching. Which body parts would you advocate for my short game?
Sorry for the delay, not sure how I missed this group of questions....1. Yes, I advocate your entire core including the trail side obliques for rotation in the takeaway and backswing. 2. That's dependent on what the swing looks like really. If we see a lot of shrug from the trail shoulder going back, then yes, I would have you focus on the scapula. If you were turning really flat, then I may have you focus on the scap in conjunction with obliques. Its mostly player dependent but I do think your focus points are just fine. 3. Keep the hands and arms from being overactive. let the body be the big engine in short game to help eliminate big misses through the bottom. I personally use a lot of wrist action in mine but that doesn't mean I advocate it, it means I learned how to make it work at a younger age. Hope this helps a little bit and thanks for watching and the comments:)
So when I rotate back,and I get 90% of weight on trail ankle ,and 45 degree hip rotation, i feel very little tension in glute and guts,so I really don’t know how to stop there unless I stare at the stick on the ground. Should i keep rotating back till the tension in my glute and guts stop my rotation? Thats probably 60 degree hip turn for me. Maybe I’m more flexible than most folks my age but if i need to stop at 45 degree hip turn on the way back,what else should I try? On the lead hip,when I’m stacked properly and posted at impact its pretty close to 45 degree’s so i guess I got less flexibility on that side. I do suffer from the lefts with all clubs from time to time (I’m right handed)and starting to wonder if its not over rotation and corresponding hand depth on the backswing that causes that.
Fantastic video! One question: is it ok to lift your trail heel at impact position. Makes it more easy to turn hips.
Yes that is totally fine!!! Just make sure your not allowing the hips to spin out.
Thanks!
Thank YOU!!!
Thank you, Chris. I've seen a huge improvement in ball striking recently, partly due to some of your ideas. Congrats on your channel starting to blow up. Seems like about a 4k subscriber jump in the last month. Sky's the limit.
Question: You talk a lot about getting the rotation working. I'm guessing most Ams don't rotate much. What are your thoughts on the idea that shifting forward from a good backswing position (well rotated) will force your hips to rotate without really focusing on getting open? I have had some success with this idea and not really trying to get open, but focusing on the weight shift and letting the club pull me through the completion of the swing. Do you ever see amateurs who go a little too crazy and open up too much before impact?
That makes me very happy to hear your getting some huge ball striking improvements. Love to hear that stuff.
Your question is a good one and very difficult to answer accurately without seeing your movement. What I see with amateur golfers is either too much lateral shift or too much rotation of the hips. It’s not really balanced as well as it should be. For most students, just telling them to shift and the hips/body will start to open up, can actually lead to a closed hip slide. BUT on the other end of the spectrum, if you’re a student that has always rotated with ease and not shifted fully, then you might see good results just by feeling more shift than turn. So, in a roundabout sort of way, I’m good with your focus points especially when you say letting the club pull you after you get your weight shifted. Hope that helps and thanks again for the kind words.
Great lesson Chris.
I’m assuming that these movements are subtle as this appears to be the beginning of a swaying off the ball problem. Can you tell us what is the one feel or movement to ensure it doesn’t become a sway problem? Cheers
Thank you. When your pressure shifting and if you’re turning your rib cage making the shoulders rotate perpendicular to your spine, you won’t be sway. Also, keep an eye on the trail leg to make sure you’re trying to maintain some flex and keeping the trail knee facing forward. That will keep the pelvis a whole lot more stable as you turn on top of it. Hope that helps.
Hı Chris, would you say that looking at the ball in backswing but also ın downswing is very important for an amateur golfer ? Thanks
I mean I personally like to see what I’m going to be hitting and I don’t like my eyes wondering all over the place due to proprioception. I usually focus my lead eye on the back of the ball but not try to deadlock the head in place so I still have freedom of movement.
@@MyGolfDNA Thank you, Chris.
You said something around minute 3 that jumped out at me. "You open the hips with your left obliques". No "active" legs or pelvis movement? You also said that many AMs turn their hips too much. How much is too much? When we see Rory hit a driver, it definitely looks like a full hip turn. Look forward to your comments.
35-45 degrees open is where I like most players to be. You don’t need anything more than that really. The obliques are great for trunk rotation which when coupled back with the stability being provided from the glutes, now you have a way to accelerate the hips to an open position without running into hip spin.
Rory definitely turns his hips a lot. So does Collin and Zalatoris and both are sidelined unfortunately. New video coming tomorrow on hip stability through the bottom.
How do you know if your feet are properly aligned when you're supposed to angle your toes outward? Do you just use shoe laces, or heels, or?
The front of your feet will create a line that should be parallel to the target line. Lay down an alignment stick that touches the front of both feet. That's where you are aimed.
Start moving and grooving! Timestamps for those that don't like all the important info...
0:00 Intro
0:21 Pros load sequence
0:43 Pros unload sequence
1:45 Drill Objective
2:55 The drill
6:59 Picking up the pace
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