right hip

[diggerdog]

Mr right hip drags the club back. It then keeps the slack out, initially leaving the club in the sky. It then pulls my right shoulder, arm and club down, down, down into the ground.
Oh, the wasted years of not waiting for the right hip to pull the club down out of the sky. There is an elastic rope tying my right hip to the grip of my club. The right forearm drags the club back, up, and in, stretching this rope. Near the top, it is now my hips turn to stretch even further this rope. I want maximum stretching to occur 2 feet past the ball. I hit my 9 iron 160 yards yesterday. I am 42 and decaying of body. Explain this power to me...

 

[rbaumgolf]

I like it........grest explaniation - I hope to explain this power to you someday........I'm assuming its all about LAG and STOC

 

[wanole]

when I concentrate on my hips pulling like that I always get stuck behind my hip. How does one avoid this when trying to create lag? I tend to hit it thin and right or flip hooks when starting with the hips. Can never get my timing consistent from day to day.

 

[strav]

Diggerdog
Your backswing sounds different but you are using Hogan’s downswing order i.e. lower body, shoulders, arms and hands. Hogan considered this sequence critical and that the player who accomplished it could strike the ball with tremendous force (The fundamentals of Hogan). Hogan’s idea was to create resistance in the hips and the stretching feeling in the muscles between the hips and shoulders would then make the downswing fairly instinctive. All of which sounds more and more like the swing you have described. One of Greg Norman’s mantras was RPB: “right pocket back” which he claimed guaranteed maximum hip turn for an extra strong drive.
Maybe you are getting your power from a swing that contains and makes efficient use of fundamentals Hogan used and described long ago, however you may have explained it better than Norman or Hogan.

 

[lutesk]

I learned golf from 5 Lessons, and got down to about a 6 handicap. Started hooking it fiercly, so got away from it. Can't hit the side of a barn now. I think I'll try the hip thing again at my next range session.

 

[EaglesNest]

quote:Originally posted by wanole

when I concentrate on my hips pulling like that I always get stuck behind my hip. How does one avoid this when trying to create lag? I tend to hit it thin and right or flip hooks when starting with the hips. Can never get my timing consistent from day to day.

Brian's flipper vid should do it for you. Get the pivot working first then get the hands ahead being moved by the pivot. Goodbye left.

 

[Mathew]

Chances are if you are hitting your 9iron 160 yards you will be hooding the clubface at impact and are not controlling the forward lean... I can actually hit my SI around 150-160 yards this way if I lean the club forward to my max by certain adjustments but my ideal impact with my SI will leave the ball around about 100 yards....

 

[TheHeat]

quote:Originally posted by wanole

when I concentrate on my hips pulling like that I always get stuck behind my hip. How does one avoid this when trying to create lag? I tend to hit it thin and right or flip hooks when starting with the hips. Can never get my timing consistent from day to day.

I have the same problem. If I feel like I start the downswing with the hips I have all kinds of problems. What I have found is that if I feel like I start the downswing by increasing axis tilt, things work much better. Looking in the mirror, right hip start vs. axis tilt start looks identical to me, so it must just be a feel thing, but the axis tilt feel definitely works differently for me.