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The drill is the three way trail hit push.

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So in this drill we're going to try to blend the three movements of the trail leg into

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one fluid movement.

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Now, often times as a golfer you'll need to focus on one movement or the other, but sometimes

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it's helpful to understand the whole piece and how all those movements fit into the one

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movement.

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So the three way push is blending three different movements of the hip.

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We're going to use the club to kind of represent my hip.

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So the first movement is going to be more of an ABduction where the leg comes out to the

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side, almost like I'm doing the splits.

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So that's out.

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The second movement is I'm going to bend forward or this hip is going to go backward, like

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I'm bending down to touch my toes.

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This is more of the hip back.

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And then the third movement is I'm going to rotate.

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So you'll see that my pelvis or my knee stays facing forward and I'm rotating my pelvis

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away from my knee.

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That's rotating the hip.

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So the three movements again are out, back and rotate.

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If I do those in one movement it becomes this back 45 or back 30 degree movement where

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my pelvis is moving away from my hip.

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My hip is opening up.

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I'm feeling a little bit of a groin stretch.

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My hip is rotating.

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So my pelvis is facing more of the target and my hip is going backward or my pelvis is moving

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more over that left foot.

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So I use this for some golfers who need to feel more of the out movement.

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I do more of the Jackson 5 or the skater.

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If you need to feel more of the hips back, that's more of the butt finger print or butt

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against the back 45.

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And then if you need more of the rotation movement that's one of the more common ones

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where we do a lot of different things just trying to get the pelvis to rotate.

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So in this drill we're going to try to feel all three of those movements and an even

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amount.

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And the way we're going to do it is with the back step.

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So I'm going to get set up and then I'm going to step as I'm making my swing and I'm

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going to step in about a 30 or 45 degree angle back this way.

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So what I'm going to feel is hopefully in my trail hip, a blend of those three movements.

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And with any of these step drills I'm not too worried about the quality of contact.

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That one I need a little bit more out and a little bit more back.

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That was pretty good there.

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Now on the next one I'm going to try to exaggerate more of the turn and the out.

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I can feel the back is pretty good but I can feel that I'm lacking.

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So that was a little bit better on having my hip do more of that groin stretch or feeling

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like I was leaving behind the knee.

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A couple times you do this you might have a hard time isolating each individual movement

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and that's where it can be helpful to go back through each one of them.

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So I'll do the groin stretch first.

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This time I'll do it in closed chain.

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So groin stretch kind of the pelvis moving away from the knee kind of like this and then

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I'll go backward and then I'll do a rotation.

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So now when I put all three of those together I'll tell this rotating back like this.

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Now I'm going to try to do a nine to three feeling that pelvis rotate back that way.

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If you struggle more with the trail foot going in or the foot coming up you may focus

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and feel that the whole foot stays down.

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If you struggle more with the knee going in as much as the hip you may also feel like

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the hip like the foot stays down in order to keep the knee more back.

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So I'll use this back 45 step and you've seen versions of it in other drills.

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I'll use that back step as a common trigger for cleaning up a little bit of the lower body

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action.

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So now we'll try and put a little bit more length of backswing and speed on to it.

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One thing you may notice is that this should have a big influence on turf contact.

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If you get a lot of thin shots and you notice from the down the line camera that you have

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more early extension then by focusing on this hip going down that will help you stay in

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your posture and really help with the quality of contact.

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And it may change the way this may change the way you're feeling hip rotation.

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A lot of people use kind of pushing forward to rotate the whole pelvis but you can see what

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that does to my spine versus if I'm just rotating my hips.

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My pelvis changes orientation but I don't have quite the same thrust of my whole femur.

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It's almost like the femur becomes the anchor point and I push through the femur into

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the ground to use that hip better.

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So hopefully this one helps tie together a few of the other drills into one kind of combo

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drill where you can isolate the different components of that trail hip push.

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Now not every golfer feels a lot of the trail foot hip push you may feel more of the lead

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hip going back or the lead hip pushing but I've other videos that discuss that.

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So if you're struggling with the way the right leg for a right hand golfer or the trail

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hip looks in your golf swing.

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This detailed video helps give you a pathway for figuring out which element you need to

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train.