. Improve your power and consistency by turning your shoulders versus your hips. By Steve Bauerle GolfTEC Teaching Professional, PGA Member MTT Contributing Writer Now that mid-summer is here and you have a few rounds under your belt, it is time to take the next steps to improving your game. I am going to teach you a move that will help both your power and consistency. While testing the PGA and Senior PGA tour players golf swings we discovered that a proper coil of the body is a simple way of achieving a repeatable power source. Average touring professionals turn their shoulders 41 degrees further on the backswing than their hips. This coiling action allows for a proper weight shift to occur, while maintaining a solid base, by keeping the hip motion in the golf swing to a minimum. Typically we see most amateurs have two flaws with the coiling action in the golf swing. The first flaw is when a student's hips and shoulders turn together to create a long backswing with no coiling action. This swing usually produces action that takes the club significantly past parallel and is very difficult to repeat from swing to swing. The second flaw is the opposite. A student will not rotate their shoulders at all, leading to a lifting of the club with their arms. This invariably produces a reverse weight shift which robs power and produces inconsistencies. To correct these problems, at GolfTEC we will set training tones utilizing our motion analysis computer system, to allow us to show the student how to turn the shoulders versus the hips in an efficient manner. A simple way to test your coil is to set up in proper posture. Now place a golf club in front of your shoulders. Your goal is to turn the club across your shoulders over to your right foot. When you have done that you have created a sufficiently long turn with the shoulders. Now comes the tricky part. Look and see where your belt buckle is facing. If it is facing inside your right toe, you have a fantastic coil and are ready to hit long consistent golf shots. If your belt buckle is facing right of that point, your hips have rotated too far and you are losing power in you golf swing. By improving your coil you can maximize the efficiency of your swing and improve your ballstriking. If you have any questions please contact me at 303-426-6600 ñ Westminster or contact our Denver Tech Center location at 303-770-5951. You can also find us on the web at www.golftec.com.