Pro Tips: Achieve the Perfect Golf Impact Position

🏌️‍♂️ The best golfers move their hips an average of 3.1 inches toward the target at impact, which leads to more solid and consistent ball striking.

🔄 Practicing small hip-high to hip-high swings while bumping your hips forward helps train the correct hip movement for better contact.

👣 Flaring your lead foot 10-15° increases mobility in your lead knee and ankle, making it easier to shift your weight forward like top players.

📏 Monitoring three checkpoints—hips over lead ankle, arms extended, and club shaft leaning forward—ensures proper follow-through and impact.

🎯 Exaggerating hip movement in practice swings can help eliminate fat and thin shots by moving the low point of your swing in front of the ball.

00:00:00 - So, when we measure the best golfers in the world at impact, they move their hips 3.1 in towards the target. So, this helps them hit the ball really solid and really consistently. Um, what we get often from amateur golfers is a very different move. So, let's talk about how you need to move your hips in the golf swing to get better contact. Let's do it.

00:00:24 - So, Lexi, you just made a swing and you hit very, very far behind the golf ball. your contact was pretty bad. So, let's take a look at why that happened. So, if you look at our tour player over here, you can see the distance that he's created between that hip sway line that we drew at address versus where he is now. So, like I said earlier, the best players in the world at this point are on average 3.1 in towards the target with the center of their hips. Okay, this golfer is maybe slightly more

00:00:50 - towards, but that's a good thing. That just means that they're moving their low point more in front of the golf ball. Okay. Um, you can even see just where his lead knee moved relative to where it started. You can see how much further towards the target it is. Yeah. So, this is what the best players in the world do to make sure they hit the ball really far and really straight. If you look at you, you can see how you've basically stayed in the exact same spot where you

00:01:08 - started. You're.1 in towards, but you're 3 in short of where you should be. So, there's no space between that line and where your hip is now. You can see your knee's basically in the exact same spot. So, that's why you chunked it. Yeah. Okay. So, if this sounds like it's a problem for you, if you if you really struggle with inconsistent contact, got a super easy way to practice this that'll make it very, very simple for you to never have to deal with these chunks again. So, let's fix this

00:01:32 - problem. All right, so the first thing we're going to do, we're going to get you set up in the right way. So, just go ahead and pretend you got a golf ball there, address where you normally would. We're going to start with these little half swings. We're going to go from like hip high to hip high. This is a really good way to practice anything that you're working on. So, start with the club shaft parallel to the ground. And what you want to do here, especially

00:01:49 - since we're talking about the hip sway, is you're going to cheat a little bit. And what I want you to do is actually bump your hips more towards the target. Okay? So, this will help you get the understanding for just how your hips need to move. So, you'll get the shaft parallel to the ground, push your hips towards the target. You'll probably feel a little more pressure on your lead leg. Like, all those things are really good. And then from here, you're going to make

00:02:08 - a swing, chip the ground, move the club out in front of you. And what I want you to do in your follow through, and this is going to be really key for all of you as well, you're going to monitor these three checkpoints. So number one, you want the center of your hips to be basically over your lead ankle when you finish. Okay? So as you make a swing, you can see like the center of your pelvis would basically be centered over your lead leg. That would be step number

00:02:28 - one. Step number two, you want your arms and club to be really straight and basically extended as far out in front of you as you can get it. And then the third thing is just have the shaft of the club pitched slightly to the right of your hand. So this is going to help you lean the club shaft more towards the target and make that ball first contact that everybody wants. Okay? So, it's really simple. You start with the shaft parallel. Push your hips forward. Make a

00:02:50 - swing. Keep your arms straight. Hold those follow-through checkpoints. And then we'll introduce the golf ball once you can do that. Sounds good. Okay. First, second. Perfect. There you go. Awesome. One thing that can help all of you at home with this, if this is something you really struggle with, and and Lexi, I'm going to suggest you do this as well. With your lead foot, do you notice how it's basically pointed straight out in front of you? Yep. Okay. Well, when you point your toe

00:03:14 - straight out towards the golf ball, what it does is it limits the amount of mobility you have in your lead knee and your lead ankle. Okay? So, what you want to do is actually flare your lead foot about 10 to 15°. This is something the best players in the world do as well, just to make it easier for you to move your knee and your ankle more towards the target. Yep, I feel that. So, same thing. Start at shaft parallel. Good. Bump. Perfect. Okay. So, you do that a

00:03:37 - couple times. Go super slow. Just chip a couple out there. And then when you're ready, you just add a little bit more speed to it. You can go a little faster. So, let's see. Let's see you actually just make a swing here. It doesn't have to be a big one. Same thing. Going from hip high to chest high. Hold those follow-rough checkpoints. So, super super cool. Check this out. So, before swing on the left, the one you just made on the right. So, again, notice where your hips way is.1 in

00:04:01 - towards and where your lead knee is. Even just recognize where the shaft is at this point. You see how it's standing basically straight up and down. Um, so a lot of golfers who struggle with inconsistent contact, that's what they look like. Um, when you start looking at what you did as we were just practicing that, now you can see you've moved your hips four inches forward from where they started. So that's a huge change. You can see how your knees actually in front

00:04:22 - of where it started. So another big variable to recognize. And then you can also see how your hands and the shaft, they're actually leaning towards the target. So what that's going to help with is it's going to help move the low point or the bottom of your strike more in front of the ball. And that'll give you that consistent impact that you're really looking for and basically take away those heavy shots. Awesome. So, really, really good job. This is a great

00:04:43 - way to practice. You can see how Lexi's really exaggerating this movement. That's totally fine. That's exactly what you want. But those hip high to hip high swings, using those checkpoints of making sure your hips move forward, arms are really straight, shaft pitch to the right, those would be a great way for you to practice improving your impact and just making it a little bit more consistent so you don't have those fat and thin shots.

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