Your Golf Coach May Be Wrong About Your Swing...
James Wiltshire
2 golfers recommended it · 2024–2025
Explainer · Advanced
Questions common coaching advice, describing the hips as conical gears in the swing mechanics.
Why golfers recommend it
- Hips as conical gear
- Mechanics video, truncated
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2 comments from Reddit
u/Calm-Ingenuity2880 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Struggling with a hook. Launch monitor gives 8.1. in-to-out, feel like I need to slice the ball to get a strai”
A lot of path issues are actually body movement related and face on view shows that best. Think of your hips as a conical gear. If you don't keep the top gear centered with your lower body movement, you will effectively move your spine angle like this. [preview.redd.it] There are a bunch of indicators in you down the line video that you've done this like the way your hips fire, legs, head moving back, club exit, …
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u/MetalAsFork 2024 · r/GolfSwing · in “Please help. I’m so bad.”
You look tense, rigid. As if you're trying to hit positions for the camera rather than hit a ball at a target. Seems you might be slightly too far from the ball at address? Look kinda reachy. Ultimately you're beating yourself up over nothing, there are single-figure guys with slower and jankier swings than that. You created some decent speed, so it's functional if you can control the face. How's your putting and …
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