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Understand Your Swing Plane/Path
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Because the pelvis is an ellipse when you start your downswing, your hips should not move into the golf ball. For a lot of tour golfers, the center of their pelvis moves away from the golf ball a couple inches. But a lot of amateur golfers have a hard time feeling where their pelvis is in space. The pelvis track helps to create a visual reference as to the path you want your hips to take.
To set it up, place a stick or a club diagonally from your trail to to your lead heel. This gives the visual path that you want to move your hips along. One goal in your practice is to find a way to do this with good effort. Often, pushing into early extension feels very powerful, and golfers will feel like moving the hips and pelvis properly has a "weak" feel.
Tags: Early Extension, Drill, Intermediate
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The drill is the pelvis track. So a lot of golfers struggle with the standing up in the
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downswing or not having enough lateral movement. This kind of addresses both of those in
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one drill. So you can either take an alignment stick or another golf club. And basically
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what you're going to do is once you get set up, you're going to take a stick, whether
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it's a club or an alignment stick, and you're going to put it diagonally from your right
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toe or your trail toe to your lead heel. So this is going to create a visual of where I want
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this pelvis to move. As I shift my weight, it's basically moving towards the target and then
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tracking along this track back that direction. One of my instructors in college, Wayne D. Francisco
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kind of coined the phrase of back 45. I think it's probably more like back 30, but it definitely
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once it gets onto that left starts working backward to create enough space for your arms
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to do the proper wipe and good release movements. So during transition, this is a good
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visual for a lot of golfers. We have a number of different fields such as the butt finger print
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and kind of the side bend through the ground, the getting different pushing sensations.
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But this is a good visual of kind of the track that I want my pelvis to work along
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during that early stage of the downswing. Right up until about there and then it'll sort of post
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up as you go through the release. So if you're having trouble with your pelvis either not shifting
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laterally enough or moving in towards the golf ball, try the pelvis track to get a visual of where
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you want this block to move during the golf swing.
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So that's what it looks like from down the line. When I'm doing this pelvis track,
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great move for working on the linear movement as well as the rotation movement or the direction
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that the pelvis should move during the downswing.
