Closed Hip Slide
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A closed hip slide is detrimental to your golf swing when learning how to shift your weight. Learn what a closed hip slide is and how to fix it in your golf downswing.
Many golfers struggle with getting their weight back to the left in the downswing.
And one of the things I want to talk about today is a common mistake when they're learning how to make a proper turn, going back and how to get back to the left.
And the most common mistake that I see for most golfers once they start, kind of getting this whole concept together is something we call a closed hip slide.
What I mean by that is, as you're at a dress, your hips are parallel to the target line we call that being square.
As you rotate back, your hips have got to rotate somewhere between 30 and 45 degrees during the backswing in order to allow you to make a full shoulder turn, which is critical for setting the club on plane.
So as you go back, your hips are now closed in relationship to the target line, and this, of course, would be open as your hips begin to face the target line.
What so many amateur golfers do is, as they make this turn going back, they know they don't want to spin their shoulders open.
So they start trying to kind of cheat it a little bit.
And hold their hips closed and then push off the right leg while the hips are still shut.
And that is happening while the club is coming down.
And so now, as I come into impact, my hips are very, very closed.
And now I've got to do something with my arms, hands and shoulders to get the club back out to the ball.
The reality is, you never, ever want to do a closed hip slide because it's going to change the path and plane of the club.
So what you do want to do is as you're going back, as your hips are closed, as you're still finishing your backswing.
Your weight is not only beginning to shift back to the left, but your hips are also beginning to unwind.
That's one of the first things that's going to happen.
You don't just shift or, excuse me.
Turn your hips back and then push off the right leg and slide, you shift and turn your hips back to square.
That's why there's a video on the site called Squat to Square that goes more in that move in detail.
So as you're going back, once you get your hips turned to the target and they're turned away from the target and they're closed.
Make sure that as you're shifting back to the left using this left side, that you're allowing your hips and belt buckle to open back up to the target.
And as you post up, that's when your hips get about 30 to 45 degrees open.
So the closed hip slide, it's a death move.
So make sure that you're not doing this, and make sure, as you're rotating back to the target and shifting back, that you're letting your hips open with you.
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