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Losing the Tush Line
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One of the most common questions I get regularly is how to stop losing the tush line, or stop standing up and losing the spine angle through impact. This video shows you how to fix it.
- A lot of golfers move their hips forward, away from the "tush line" during the downswing - hip spinning is usually to blame
- Fix the problem by squatting at the top of the downswing to increase angles & anchor you to the ground
- A RotaryConnect can also help you learn not to bring the right knee in
- Drill: Go to the top of the swing, squat into the left side, come down into impact & check alignment
Losing the tush line and the downswing is a really, Really common problem that a lot of golfers struggle with and they don't understand why and they don't understand how to fix it.
And really it's a very simple fix.
It takes practice to change it just like everything else does, but it's very simple to understand what causes it.
For 99% of the golfers out there, it involves spinning their hips.
So let's look at what that looks like when I do it incorrectly and we lose that tush line.
First of all, let's understand what the tush line is.
If you imagine just dropping a straight line, as you can see in the background, The black piece of wood here that is representing a line drawn straight down from my hip or the back of my rear, as I go into my downswing, A lot of golfers move away from it because they push off that right side that pushes the hip under and toward the target line.
Notice now my hip, instead of being back here, is this way and I stand up and I lose my spine angle.
It tends to leave me coming too far from the inside, also very hard on the back.
So how do we fix this? Well the key is to do the exact opposite.
Instead of rotating, which tries to get your body to create this straight line condition, that's why you lose all your angles and stand up out of it because your body, when you start twisting it like this, tries to straighten up and can't maintain those angles.
What you need to feel is the squat move.
So as we go to the top of the swing, I'm actually going to increase my angle and my hips are actually going to move further back as I'm leveraging the ground.
Now pushing my feet into the ground and as I pull my arms down to release, I have no problem keeping my tush line where I started at address.
If I start spinning my hips, I'm going to move away from it.
So a simple fix for this, use a rotary connect.
Simply place it above your knees and now when you're working on this, what you want to feel is that as you squat down, You don't try and move your right knee or right foot off the ground, or move your right knee in because it's going to feel very awkward with this on.
Now you have a really stable base to release the golf club and not be spinning your hips.
So that's what this device is really helpful for, for the lower body.
So as we go to the top, we're going to squat down, Release the club.
And now you can tell that I haven't spun my hips because my right knee isn't moving in closer to my left.
My right foot is still down on the ground, the inside of my right foot and this is keeping it from moving in towards the left.
So, use this device to hit balls until you get comfortable with getting your hips to provide that stability, and get comfortable with the squat move as you start down rather than spinning.
So the simplest way to do that, go to the top of the swing and just practice squatting into both feet, Squatting into that left side and then start bringing the club down and stop at impact and check your alignments.
And you should find that if you're spinning, you'll still lose your spine angle.
But if you squat and then maintain and try to get into these impact alignments, You'll maintain that tush line throughout the entire golf swing until you get into the follow-through.
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