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Hack It Out Golf

Learning from Tour Player Swings, Part 6 (Hip Turn)

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.6489 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Mark again is analyzing motion capture data from elite players—this episode features Brooks Koepka. Today, Mark quizzes Lou and Greg (who, as always, loves making random guesses) about Koepka's hip turn in his swing. In the discussion that follows, the guys talk about the massive effects that hip turn can have on your swing—including things that Greg himself is working on in his pursuit of continued good results on the Champions Tour.


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0:00.0

Let's talk Brooks Kepka's Golf Swing gentlemen today.

0:04.4

Little competition between you both.

0:06.0

A little swing competition.

0:07.4

I like these.

0:08.6

So using the gear system from JD Golf Academy,

0:11.8

where we've got measured Tor Pro data.

0:15.2

We're going to look at Brooks Kepka's Golf Swing with a driver.

0:18.9

Quite important that it's with a driver.

0:21.6

And we're going to look at his hips, his pelvis, his hips, okay? So we're talking hip tilt. So I want to know when he gets to the

0:33.2

top of his back swing, how much hip tilt does he have? And when he gets to impact, how much

0:37.8

hip tilt does he have? Lots of people think about hip turners, uh, or hips just turning, like

0:43.1

they'll have a rotation idea in there. But if you imagine the hips are tilting as well. So if you,

0:47.8

let's pretend I start and my hips are somewhere near zero level. So my left pocket and right

0:52.5

pocket kind of level with the ground. As I turn on the back swing, general patterns, I've never seen anyone do it the other way, actually, is for the lead hip, left hip as a right hand in a golver, would go lower, trail hip would go up. So there's now not only rotation, there's tilt in there. And then as you come down to hit the ball and on the

1:11.4

way through they might tilt in a slightly different way so this is a tough question like i wouldn't know

1:17.3

the answer to this without doing the 3d stuff i do but hopefully we can paint some pictures by doing

1:22.1

this like what how are you before you give me your answers how are you feeling like any clue no clue wild guesses before you give me your answers, how are you feeling? Like any clue, no clue, wild guesses before you give your answers, Lou, what you, you've

1:32.6

looked at this a little, not really.

1:34.3

No, not really.

1:35.8

Yeah, I'm going to make.

1:36.6

So, and just so I'm clear, if we start at zero and the lead hip goes down, that's a negative angle. Yep. Okay. And then if the lead hip's coming up, let's call that positive. Greg, as well for you, is this something you might have done in your, you've done gears and 3D, but often the student wouldn't really listen to this number, even if it was given to the, no you're right yeah i've probably been given like told

2:02.5

what i do uh but you'd rather be told what to do rather than what you do to be honest i'm like yeah

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