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July 31, 2025
by Mark Crossfield

Stop Turning To Perfect Your Backswing – Simple Golf Swing Drill

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By: Mark Crossfield | Duration: 00:07:05


Video Description

Learn how to swing a golf club using the hip move the pros use to hit straighter, longer shots. Your hip rotation in the golf swing controls your strike, swing path, shot shape, and power. In this video, I break down a simple drill to improve your hip turn and hip tilt just like the best players in the world.

Whether you over-rotate, sway, or under-rotate your hips, this drill will help you find your ideal 40° hip turn, improve your ball striking, and set up a more powerful and consistent backswing. You’ll also learn how hip tilt combines with rotation to shape your swing arc and fix common issues like early extension, over-the-top moves, and inconsistent strikes.

Use a club on the ground and one across your hips to visually feel your rotation, and add in tilt for a tour-level motion. Then take that feeling to your practice and swing full out to see immediate improvements.

Stop guessing and start building a better golf swing from the ground up. This is the move the pros are making—now it’s your turn.

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11 Comments

  1. @gold4every1

    Mark!!
    Another amazing drill.
    I am working on this myself and this answers the feel vs real conundrum perfectly.
    Thanks for all the great content.

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  2. @ajaytuk7416

    ( apart from your grip and posture( includes alignment) – which are static elements you should mostly get right all the time) probably about as good a lesson as you will ever see or need 🙂

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  3. @ajaytuk7416

    I also wanted to ask where are you that the grass is so green?

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  4. @davidprice579

    Absolutely outstanding. Easy to understand and put into practice. I am so glad I ran across your channel. I have deleted all others. You truly provide all this 78 year old 13 handicapper needs to make positive, consistent progress. Thank you sir.

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  5. @kentturner595

    2:07 one way to get around 40° is to make a right triangle: you can use, say, the shaft lengths from the club head to the grip as your measuring device. You can measure the shaft parallel to your target (the run), and then the same measurement 90° from the end of the trail foot (the rise), and that would form a 45° with the diagonal. Therefore, you can just take a little off the length of the rise to make about 40°

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  6. @guywhittern2800

    Thanks Mark, a handy piece of advice for someone like me who doesn’t turn hips of a certain age and then gets too steep with upper body.

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  7. @leemartin1122

    I get the impression a lot of us are so concentrated on the backswing arm positions that we forget about this….

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  8. @palottoeide6994

    Why not have an alignment stick through your belt loops to connect drill better to shot?

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