Bradley Hughes - Shoulder Turn

Bradley Hughes and Steve Elkington explain how to get the full shoulder turn. This is accomplished by having a wide takeaway with the left arm. Lifting the arms only will not result in a good shoulder turn in the backswing.


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Bradley Hughes Backswing Shoulder Turn

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Of course, we know that the left hand grip is connected to the left shoulder, and I'm a big shoulder guy, so when you get width it moves this.

Yup. Gets shoulder turn and--

So if you don't go any, you know-- I despise swings that don't have any shoulder turn. And one of our players on our platform, Stacy Lewis, probably has the best shoulder turn, and she had scoliosis. She had to have her back operated on to get it straightened out, and she can do it.

Or the other great thing about shoulder turn is, obviously, the poorer golfer, they don't do that. They just tend to--

Lift.

--to lift. And, obviously, when you do that you're not getting behind the ball, and you're not creating any stored energy. You have to really just use your hands and arms again. So, as far as that, I've done-- a lot of people, I try and get them to feel that their left shoulder almost turns and gets like visually they feel that it's on the inside of their right foot. And that doesn't mean you sway off the ball.

Turned off. Move off.

Turn that left shoulder. And now you can see, as I've done that, I've got all this space in here. One, to create the room here, but I've created room to come down to. Again, because I'm turned, I've got all that opening the slot up there.

When I was a kid, I never hit a ball until I saw my left shoulder go past the ball.

Right.

So when I--

Yeah, that's a good thought, too.

When I swung with this club-- and we all know in my peripheral I see my left shoulder coming, coming, coming, coming, com-- I never go until I see grass between that. And even now when I'm-- go out and play, sometimes if I'm hitting it bad, I always check myself there.

Go back to that, yeah.

And it's a bit of work sometimes to get it back there. I always liked this-- Fill this leg up with weight and turn.

Yup. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And I always, like he said before, if I create width and I get my hands away, I'm getting the turn. So that's not as big a factor. For me, I've never had the focus on shoulder turn.

But I always feel if I don't get into my right hip, if I just-- my hip overturns, or my hip doesn't turn enough, I tend to stay this way. So I'm getting the same thought of what you were doing, but I'm doing in a different aspect or focal point. So if I set up to this ball and I really don't turn my shoulders, I don't have that room, do I.

I see. Where you said that the hand was up away from your--

Yeah.

--from your head.

Now, if I get my arms away from me more, you can see I'm in that spot that you talked about.

Yeah.

So, if I have narrowness here, I basically have no room that I have to start trying.

Or you'll even try harder and you chop across it, right.

Yup. There's a lot of bad variables that can happen from that.