Let your hips lead
the downswing.
One priority. A reason to work on it. A drill you can take to the range.
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Make room for the hands.
In this example, the trail shoulder starts down first and pushes the club outside the hands. The first cue is to turn the lead hip behind you as the backswing finishes.
- Where the example changes
- Transition · frames 10–12
- What the coach connects
- Shoulder-first move → out-to-in path → reported slice
7 iron · Down the line · Right-handed
Illustrative overall score: 77 / 100
Try the headcover gate.
- Place a headcover four inches outside the ball and one inch behind it.
- Hit a half shot at 60% speed, turning the lead hip behind you.
- Notice whether the club clears the headcover. Keep the same cue for the next shot.
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Key positions
Address #1
Spine 38° Shoulders 6° Hips 3°
Top #9
Spine 36° Shoulders 34° Hips 15°
Impact #15
Spine 29° Shoulders 2° Hips 11°
Spine Shoulders Hips Head Backswing Downswing Dashed = where it was at address
In a live report this section draws those lines onto the golfer's own address, top and impact frames: the spine against a vertical reference, the shoulder and hip lines extended, a box around the head against where it stood at address, and the path the hands took. This invented example has no source footage; its illustrative measurements are listed here as numbers.
Illustrative measurements, not readings from a real video. Single-camera measurements in a real report are estimates.
Breakdown
Swing profile
This swing Club golfer reference (76)
Likely miss
Slice
example confidence: high
The club works outside the hands from frame 10 and stays there into the ball, so the path cuts across the target line from out to in. A pull is the good version of that. A slice is the usual one.
Matches the slice you reported.
Tempo
3.1 : 1
Instrument readings
- Body tracked
- 24 / 24 frames
- Peak hand speed
- 4.3 torso/s at 49%
- Lead-wrist angle at top
- ≈ 156°
- Spine angle
- 38° address → 29° impact
- Hip drift toward ball
- 14% of torso
- Head height at impact
- 6% higher
Illustrative values for this invented swing. In a real report, available measurements come from the uploaded frames and carry estimation limits.
Flight numbers
Club speed
74–80mph
Ball speed
92–100mph
Carry
128–142yds
A 250 ms downswing puts the club speed where it is. The path cuts across the ball and the hands run out of angle early, so ball speed and carry sit under what that club speed should return with a 7 iron.
Mechanics
The full coach’s readEvery phase, three priorities and their drills
Full illustrative coach’s read · example confidence: high
Your first move down goes out, not down.
Setup and backswing hold up on their own. The transition is where it comes apart — the trail shoulder throws the club outside the hands, and by frame 15 the hips have drifted 14 per cent of a torso length toward the ball to make room for the arms. Tempo is the one thing here that needs nothing doing to it.
Filmed down the line with the phone steady and the whole swing in frame. This angle cannot show the clubface or the grip, so nothing below is a claim about either.
Sequence
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Address, good
P1 · frame 1
Thirty-eight degrees of forward lean from vertical, arms hanging under the shoulders, weight through the middle of the feet. Nothing in this setup causes the miss.
Takeaway, good
P2 · frame 4
At club parallel the shaft covers the plane line and the hands have not run away from the chest. This part of the swing is fine.
Lead arm parallel, acceptable
P3 · frame 7
The trail elbow has drifted behind you rather than folding down in front of the ribs. That is where the room for the over-the-top move comes from.
Top, acceptable
P4 · frame 9
The lead wrist measures 156° through elbow, wrist and knuckle, so there is hinge and not much of it. The shaft sits a shade across the line.
Transition, needs work
P5 · frame 12
The trail shoulder moves toward the ball before the pelvis turns. The shaft is already above the plane line here, and it never comes back under it.
Delivery, needs work
P6 · frame 14
Shaft parallel arrives high and away from the body. Peak hand speed has already come and gone at 49 per cent of the way down.
Impact, needs work
P7 · frame 15
The spine has come up nine degrees from address and the hips sit 14 per cent of a torso length closer to the ball. The arms have to lengthen late to reach it at all.
Release, acceptable
P8 · frame 17
The club exits low and left of the target line, which is what a path that cut across the ball leaves behind.
Finish, good
P10 · frame 23
Full turn through, weight on the lead heel, chest at the target. You hold it without stepping.
What to work on
The club goes out before the pelvis turns
- What I see
- From frame 10 the shaft climbs above the plane line and the hands push away from your chest. By frame 12 the clubhead sits outside your hands looking down the line, and it stays outside all the way to the ball.
- Why
- The pelvis does not start the downswing. The trail shoulder does. With nothing turning underneath it, the shoulder's only route to the ball is out and over the top.
- Your miss
- A path that cuts across the ball from out to in. Pull when the face comes with it, slice when it does not, and the slice is the one you reported.
- The fix
- Start the downswing by turning the lead hip behind you while the club is still finishing its backswing. The feel is that your belt buckle beats your hands to the ball by a long way.
Drill
Headcover gate. Put a headcover on the ground four inches outside the ball and an inch behind it, then hit half shots at sixty per cent. If the club comes over the top it finds the headcover before the ball. Do not swing softer to miss it; turn earlier.
4 sets of 8 half shots, 3 sessions a week
You stand out of your posture through the ball
- What I see
- Address puts you 38° from vertical. At impact you are at 29°. Across the same three frames the hips move 14 per cent of a torso length toward the ball and the head sits 6 per cent of a torso length higher than where it started.
- Why
- The pelvis has nowhere to rotate into, so it pushes toward the ball instead, and the chest lifts to keep the club from digging. Early extension is the pelvis running out of room, not the back straightening on purpose.
- Your miss
- Strike quality goes first. The arms have to lengthen late to reach the ball, so contact wanders between thin and heavy and distance leaks even on the swings where the path behaves.
- The fix
- Keep your trail glute against an imaginary wall behind you until the ball is gone. The hips turn away from the ball line; the chest stays pointing at it.
Drill
Chair drill. Set a chair back or an alignment stick against your backside at address and make slow swings that keep contact with it all the way into impact. Start at thirty per cent speed. Add speed only on the reps where the contact holds.
3 sets of 10 slow-motion reps then 5 half shots, 4 sessions a week
The wrists give their angle up early
- What I see
- The lead wrist reads 156° at the top, and by frame 11 the shaft has already passed the line of your trail forearm. Peak hand speed lands 49 per cent of the way down, which means the club is at its fastest well before it reaches the ball.
- Why
- Casting follows the shoulder-first move. Once the upper body throws first, the wrists have nothing left to hold their angle against.
- Your miss
- Loft is added at impact, so the ball climbs, spins and lands short of where that club speed should put it.
- The fix
- Feel the trail wrist stay bent back until your hands pass your trail thigh. The angle is kept, not created.
Drill
Pump drill. Take the club to the top, pump down to shaft parallel twice while holding the wrist angle, then hit the third one. Three pumps, one ball, and stop if the third swing gets quick.
3 sets of 6 pump-and-hit, 2 sessions a week
The two-week planSix sessions, with a check for each one
Plan
Chair drill only. Twenty swings with no ball, then half shots at sixty per cent with the chair still behind you.
Working when: ten swings in a row keep contact with the chair until after the ball is gone.
Headcover gate at sixty per cent, 7 iron only. Nothing longer than a 7 iron this week.
Working when: eight of ten balls miss the headcover and start on or right of your start line rather than left of it.
Pump drill before every basket, then alternate one pump-and-hit with one normal swing so the feel carries over.
Working when: the normal swing keeps the trail wrist bent past your trail thigh and the ball starts right of target.
Film one swing down the line from the same spot and run it again. Compare frame 12 and frame 15 against this report.
Working when: the shaft at frame 12 sits on or under the plane line, and spine angle at impact is within four degrees of address.
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