The TRICK To Finally Clear Your Hips In The Golf Swing
6 golfers recommended it · 2024–2025
Explainer · Intermediate
Explains a trick to clear the hips in the downswing with trail arm action.
Why golfers recommend it
- Trail arm clear hip
- Recommends video on transition downswing
- Functional plane GIF analysis
- Recommended despite distrust of YouTube
- Video explains hip issue and solution
- Trail knee locking hip
Summaries are written by AI from what golfers said about the video.
6 comments from Reddit
u/CMDR_NTHWK 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Use Your Legs”
OP - this is the answer. Lots of videos out there that talk about proper hip/body rotation. Look up videos of clearing the hips properly. Its counter intuitive. Most people rotate the hips by kicking lead hip out on the backswing, and kicking trail hip out on downswing which is incorrect and leads to getting stuck and lots of problems. The hips dont really "rotate" they just move back and forward, but on camera its …
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u/The_Monsieur 2024 · r/GolfSwing · in “Any advice?”
Everything looks good until you get to left arm parallel to the ground in the downswing. Then you just stand up. Basically you aren’t using your hips correctly. This video will explain the issue and solution in far more depth than I can but basically you need to push your left buttcheek back through impact instead of pushing everything forward. ▶ this video
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u/alionandalamb 2024 · r/GolfSwing · in “Never broke 100, where is it going wrong?”
If you're looking for swing tips, your arms/back elbow stay behind your body through your hip pivot. Your trail arm needs to clear your trail hip instead of stuck behind it for a bonified "correct" golf swing. ▶ this video
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u/kupufumeep 2024 · r/GolfSwing · in “Been working on shallowing and stopping early extension. How we looking?”
Like the previous post said your trail knee getting past your toe line is causing you hip to lock. ▶ this video
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u/brucealawyer1 2024 · r/GolfSwing · in “My first without early extension in years”
I think this would be a good video for you and I usually hate recommending youtube golf instruction ▶ this video
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u/TeddaMan2 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Lower Body Chaos”
[i.redd.it] In the GIF I have drawn a red line representing the functional swing plane. This is a line drawn through the club hosel and your trail elbow. 3D measurements have shown that most elite golfers swing close to this plane when the club-head is below their head height. The preference is to be at or slightly above this line in the backswing and at or slightly below this line in the downswing. In your case the …
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