Full Swing · Technique

Lead with the left hip on driver

Hanson says strong driver swings show lateral movement from the top, with the lead hip moving four to six inches forward. He contrasts that with average club golfers, who show around 1.5 to 2.5 inches of lateral movement forward. He frames the better sequence as leading with the left hip and left knee instead of getting the right side too high and spinning backwards, and says the lower-half lateral movement helps shallow the plane.