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Squeeze the Cheeks — How to Use the Glutes at Impact

The glute muscles are some of the most important muscles in the entire golf swing. Without understanding how to use your glutes properly, you will struggle with consistency for your entire golfing life.

In this video, I reveal the techniques I teach my better players to stabilize their pelvis — and thus their torso and arms — at impact.

Performing these drills correctly will make your swing almost feel like you are cheating — your quality of impact will improve that dramatically.

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As the video explains, you really need to feel your glute muscles (highlighted in yellow above) engaged at impact. You can often tell how much a player is squeezing them by noticing how stable they look through the hitting zone.

The pictures below visually demonstrate the differences you will notice:

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Chuck Quinton

is the founder of the RotarySwing Tour online golf instruction learning system. He played golf professionally for 8 years and has been teaching golf since 1995 and has worked with more than 100 playing professionals who have played on the PGA, Web.com and other major tours around the world.

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