Why You Aren’t Getting Open Enough At Impact (Quick Fix)
6 golfers recommended it · 2025–2026
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Quick fix for not getting open enough at impact, covering hip slide, trail knee flex and avoiding dropping inside.
Why golfers recommend it
- Dont drop inside, try this
- Dynamics videos
- Narrow feet, sliding hips videos
- Trail knee flex in downswing
- Functional swing plane analysis
Summaries are written by AI from what golfers said about the video.
6 comments from Reddit
u/TacticalYeeter 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “WTF is wrong with my swing.”
You're shallowing and trying to drop the club inside. You don't really need to. It makes you have a lot of spine tilt and right shoulder dropping. When you do this it's hard to have body rotation. You sort of dump the trail shoulder and swing the arms out. Try this: ▶ this video
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u/GolfExplained 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Issue with getting shoulders more open at impact”
▶ this video ▶ this video ▶ this video They should explain the dynamics to you a bit Also watch: ▶ this video As you can see if you do this right you HAVE to start opening up. Likely your throwing the club by you too much and the face isn't closed enough to force some rotation.
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u/throwaway1045820872 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Stuck during downswing”
Personally to me, it looks like you aren’t regaining any flex in your trail knee in the downswing, which stalls out your rotation. This AMG video has a section on this that might be helpful (along with the video from my other comment). ▶ this video
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u/TeddaMan2 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Looking for tips please”
[i.redd.it] Functional Swing Plane The GIF above and your video has a white dashed line drawn through the club hosel and your elbow. When your camera is setup to look at the edge of this functional swing-plane this plane can be shown in a 2D image as a single line. 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 …
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u/NetReasonable2746 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Too Much Forward Hip Sway or Upper body sidebend?”
1. Feet are too narrow 2. On the downswing your hips are sliding too forward and your pelvis is too level. Videos below: ▶ this video ▶ this video
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u/JangoTat46 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “I’m trying to open my hips a little more at impact”
▶ this video
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