Golf Digest published an article about this concept back in September 2019, and this is the companion video that Nick Clearwater made to better illustrate the concepts. It's about what GOLFTEC calls "the magic move" (spoiler alert: it's shoulder turn) but I saw something else in this video that stood out to me. First though, here's the video:
You may have observed that Nick says, contrary to popular belief, the potential to make a full shoulder turn is NOT a depend of flexibility. And in case you watch the video, you will examine quite a number of factors you could do to get a higher shoulder turn without doing a group of pliability sporting activities.
But here's the deal: Near the end of the video Nick compares a typical pro swing to a typical amateur swing, both of which he has recorded during this video. However, if you pay attention to the numbers that show each swing's hip and shoulder turns in degrees, you'll see that the difference between the two swings is created almost entirely by the lack of Hip turn in the amateur swing. Let me put that another way, just in case I'm not being clear:
If you subtract the novice hip flip in degrees from the seasoned hip flip, you will find that it is almost exactly the identical difference as the pro shoulder flip minus the newbie shoulder turn. In other phrases, both pro and newbie have turned their shoulders the identical amount, and the two shoulder turns could be same if their Hip turns matched.So it sounds to me as if Hip turn is actually the Magic Move in the golf swing, and maybe you should focus a bit more on your Hip turn and a bit less on shoulder turn. Just saying...
And just for the file, it's been eight Mondays with out a Limerick Summary. *sigh*
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