Stalled Hips
What is actually happening
Your hips start the downswing and quit halfway home, and your arms inherit everything. By P6, the delivery position, the body has stopped rotating. The only way the club can reach the ball is for your hands to throw it, flipping the face over at the bottom. The flip isn't the fault. The flip is the rescue. The fault is the engine shutting off underneath it.
What it costs you
When the body stalls, the club passes it, and the face turns over as fast as your hands can roll it, right through the hitting zone. Timing that is a coin flip. Heads is a draw, tails is a snap hook, and the coin gets heavier under pressure. Keep the hips turning and the face never needs to be timed at all.
Your belt buckle beats the ball to the target. Turn your hips all the way through until the buckle faces where the ball is going.
Step-Through Swings
This is Gary Player's walk-through, the finish he used on real shots for half a century, and it exists because it makes stalling impossible. Hit 7-irons, and after impact let your trail foot release and step past your lead foot toward the target, so you finish walking down the fairway after the ball. A stalled hip physically cannot step through. The body has to keep rotating to let the foot go, which means the drill enforces itself and there's nothing to remember. Make five step-through swings at half speed first, getting comfortable with the balance. Then five at normal speed, actually hitting shots while walking through. Finish with three standard swings holding the buckle-to-target feel without the step. Film one face-on: belt buckle and chest facing the target at the finish, trail heel fully released. If they are, the hips never stalled.
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