The Basic Steps to Perfect Golf.

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Hip Movement. (Changed -01/12/2011)


Please Note.

At the address position the hips are frontal facing, the legs are frontal facing and the centre line of your hips is directly over the centre of your stance, therefore as the back swing movement is performed, although the hips will rotate away from the frontal facing position, you must not allow the hips to sway away from the centralised position.

Although the left knee moves slightly forward from the original address position and the right knee moves slightly backwards from the original address position as you perform the back swing movement, the legs remain in the frontal facing position as set at the address position -- the legs will not make any lateral movement away from the original address position if the back swing movement is performed correctly.

However,during the down swing movement it is slightly different.
As the hips rotate towards the target area and go beyond a certain point, both legs will be forced to move laterally towards the target area.


Towards the end of the back swing movement the rotational movement of the upper body unit will force the hips to rotate away from the frontal facing position and the weight of the body will move slightly onto your right side. However, although the hips will rotate away from the frontal facing position, and the weight of the body will slightly move onto the right side, the hips must not be allowed to sway away from its original address position, they must be firmly held in this centralised position.

As the shoulders are held at the end of the back swing movement for a slight pause, the hips are forced to rotate towards the target area thus initiating the down swing movement, but although the hips will rotate back to and beyond the original address position, again the hips should not be allowed to sway away from its position of being centralised over the centre of your stance.

Therefore you must teach yourself to rotate the hips whilst they remain centralised over the centre of your stance.

It can be done, it simply requires a bit of concentration

This equally applies to the head position.


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