Probably one of the best pivot examples I've seen to date. This is dead on Mike Austin's method that saves the lower back.

I've never seen anyone explain the rotation this way. Excellent explanation and demonstration. Thanks

I was doing exactly what you pointed out. That video helped me more than any other swing change. I could never figure out why I was moving off the ball on my backswing. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for this video. I generally make the tilt properly on the backswing, but have had trouble shifting properly on the downswing. Your illustration of the shift in the tilt of the spine relative to the lead leg makes it so clear.

First I’ve seen this type tilt action and visually detailed in explaining it so well! Excited in working this on the range today!

This is so underrated. Don’t recall seeing this anywhere else. Not communicated like this at least. When I do it, it feels familiar like when I’m hitting it well. When my game falls apart I don’t get that feeling but don’t know why. In my mind I’m doing the same swing but don’t know what’s missing. This gives me a way to know. Great vid.

Feels wierd at first, like I’m tipping over, until impact and the ball jumps off my sweet spot! Crazy!! Awesome job! Thanks again!

Hi. Amazing insight. Explains the reason why I cannot stay centered.. At 78 I have been struggling and now that I have made the changes I have a great deal of improvements. I am most grateful for your tip.. Many thanks

Always enjoy your videos. This one is fantastic. Hopefully my brain can process it and I can take it to the course. Thanks.

Thank you for a great explanation. I've constantly struggled with "the turn" all my life. I'm going to give this a try.

Wow! That is just amazing. I have struggled with this for so long, actually trying to stop my hips from moving laterally in my backswing because that is what I had been taught. This makes so much more sense and why my backswing is so much inside and I can’t stop coming over the top. I can get away with it, to a degree, with my woods but not my irons, which I am struggling with. I can’t wait to try this tomorrow and hopefully get my swing back. Thank you so much for explaining this so well.

Thank you professor. Pure gold Zach!

Can't wait to try this, best explanation of how to tilt.

Incredible difference this move made. I have been struggling with taking the club inside for years but not now! Thank you

This is one of the most important teachings for suffering golfers. Thank you & I shall practice tomorrow following your great instruction. Looking forward to grasping the essence & learn more from you.

Outstanding Zach! This is some pro stuff that you will typically not hear about!

One of your most important lessons. Thanks

This helped!!! I rarely comment on vids but I went into backyard and once I understood the sensation it worked like a champ. I’ve been trying to figure out what was wrong with my takeaways for months. Thank you.

I think this is why my miss tends to be a pull hook. My chest and pelvis are too stacked when I turn. When I'm hitting well, my lower body is engaged much earlier in the transition, adding some tilt. Thanks Zack. Excellent video as usual.

Best video I've ever seen. I can't believe how much this has helped my swing. Thank you for posting this.

Agree! Excellent explanation of how the spine moves vs hip tune.

Hi Zack, I have been teaching this for years with much success. I am glad you’re on track with information that will help all golfers. Good work, keep it up.

This is a really good video; you’re right; the two cameras really helps! Thanks!

Well done Zach. Great explanation of this and I think pretty key to what I do wrong in my own swing. Thanks for covering this so well.

Great idea on how to start the swing by swaying your hips a little to the right. I have been starting my swing at the very bottom and go inside a lot with my clubs thus bad contact with the ball. I appreciate this little "trigger" move instruction. Thanks!

This might be the best tutorial ever! Thank you! Almost like you were speaking to me! I have had so many peeps tell me to just come from the inside…this actually tells me how!!!

Hammered home my lesson I took after many years of playing golf. Leaving now to go try it out.

Very nice explanation! I’ve fought a slice for years, but thought I was doing everything right in my turn. Now it makes some sense what I was doing wrong. Never saw anyone explain this before! Thank you! I will be trying this tomorrow.

This is the best backswing tip that I’ve seen!

I absolutely love that move !!! Gonna give it a go. thx

Super Zack. I have been having trouble with my irons. Now realizing I was way to flat in my back swing. This has been a big help. Thanks

The greatest video, I'm not sure if it just clicked for me, but thanks. I've been playing forever. But visualizing the down swinging was always my problem. The tilting the lower spine over the front hip was eye opening foe me. I can thank you enough.

It finally makes sense! Thanks so much for this Zach

I tried this Tilt then turn instruction for the first time last evening at the driving range and it is "magic" . I hit the most consistent and crisp golf shots that I have ever hit in a long time. No more over the top shots pulled left of target and no more fat shots caused by swaying in backswing. Can't wait to get out on the course. Thanks

I was struggling, especially off the tee. Drinking my coffee in the morning I saw a very short clip from Zack showing the tilt to start the swing. I had a round with friends. No time to practice. By hole 3, my swing was so much better and it held up. Everything was better and felt on plane. Anxious to take it to the range.

Really good instruction Zach. Always had a problem staying centered and tended to move off the ball.

Thanks this really freed up my swing and improved my timing

This is the most important thing in a golf swing. I don’t know, why nobody else explains it like this! This was the game changer for me! If you start the swing bad without this spine movement, everything else in the swing goes bad because you start to compensate it with a lot of different bad movements. Thank you for the video!

I so needed this!

This explains years of swing errors. Wow! Thank you Zach.

Crucial advice, thanks! Mike Austin!

Thank you for pointing out this lower back tilt.

Thank you for this!

Fantastic info-I have been absent for a while but back now!

Very interesting and unique move . I have always tried very hard to not sway hips on the backswing . Seems to work well so far . Thanks so much .

That was good Zack. Always enjoy your high end refreshers that always seem timely because of their importance. Thanks

Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

Terrific, original instruction.

It makes sense. Thank you Zach. 😀

The best back swing teaching ever

Excellent Zach!

Wow! Thank you!

Best video ever, thanks Zach.🙏🙏

Super good explanation.

Super-good explanation of hip movement here, Zach. You are right - this is a subject that is mis-spoken about by most instructors (or at least mis-interpreted by those of us trying to learn it). I'm anxious to see how this insight translates to the driving range!

Best video on the turn I've ever seen. I have been taking the club to far inside and moving to far off the ball for 40 years. This is the root cause. Thank you so much for this video. Can't wait to go play and hit the range. Finally I will get consistently in my ball striking. Sometimes I hit it really well but a lot of times not as solid or consistent. I knew the core problem was my initial turn but didn't know how to fix it. Thank you kind Sir!!!

Am able to see the ball. I always had a problem losing the sight of the ball on my backswing. I understand now that I was turning level and not tilting. I went to the range yesterday and OMG was I striking the ball solidly. The only swing thought I had, was to tilt my spine right on my backswing and left on the downswing. Thank you Zack best video on the explanation of the swing

played with a low handicapper the other day, this is what he was trying to describe to me, it Had me searching golf video's about tilt vs turn....I think you nailed it! not sure I can ever make this change after year of bad swings but at least its something new to work on! thanks!

Hey Zach, this move is unreal and has transformed my iron game! It just seems to keep the club in the slot without any effort. Now striking the ball higher on the club face and out the middle consistently. 7iron distance has gone from around 150 to almost 170 yards with lower launch angle. Thanks!

Your description is perfect to teach a hip backward move before body rotation to get the rotation plane more vertically tilted to match the geometry of the stable rotation point being much higher than the ball.

Great advice. Eye opening.

Fantastical tip the way to tilt. I really tilted the wrong direction. Thanks a lot Mr fabulous.

Gotta try this. Makes great sense from the master.

Excellent....thanks for posting

Outstanding lesson. I had never seen this drill.

This is excellent thank you

I love your videos, yes I think you are right about this.

This has been the best explanation to the rotation in the golf swing I have seen. Now I have a much better understanding. I will definitely give it a try. Thanks .

Zack, I really liked this explanation of the backswing. I'd been in "limbo" for the past while and this explanation freed up my backswing and permitted me to engage the downswing effectively. I'm tracking your videos, and really like your approach. Thanks!

Last night I was working out some swing thoughts in my garage and searched spine tilt and found this and got confirmation for the last 10 years I have been doing it wrong. On my way to driving range today to work on this move ... thank you; thank you; thank you!

Wow great instructional advice on KZfaq. Rare! Great video Zach 👍

Great explanation here. I've noticed that a lot of people think that they have to get their entire body mass over the inside of their right foot in the backswing. It's really that you're getting that feeling more from moving your hips over the right foot, but your upper torso and head stay more or less where they started, just wound up at the top. I know that was a little convoluted, but hopefully understandable. Lol. I personally feel like I'm lowering my left shoulder down, right on top of the ball. For those people who have always shifted their entire mass to the right, doing it the correct way is going to feel very strange and like you're moving the top of your body left in your backswing.

Fantastic explanation!

The best way zu explain the little leteral move. +10% in ballspeed an +15% in distance. Great!!!

I get it now, it's more of a hip turn and then a down swing, instead of a shoulder turn and hip turn at the same time. Excellent explanation!

This technique has been a game changer for me..thanks.

As a huge fan of Mike Austin who back in his days was a genius of the golf swing is probably saying watching this Man you make me proud

Great video

Thanks again for this

Nice explanation !!! A must watch !!!

Wish somehow I could have gotten this excellent lesson 25 years ago probably why my L4 L5 are in such bad shape these days...thanks Zack!

Zach, Just had a AH HA moment. I always thought that was a sway but you explained perfect. THX

Great teaching thanks

Great stuff. I'd love to see a follow up where you hit a full shot just focusing on this aspect, I think it may be a useful swing thought to take to the course

While there is some truth to "not much new under the sun", I do think the swing continues to evolve. Sometimes that even means going back to older ways (like a left wrist flexion at the top of the swing seems to be coming back to some of the tour players). With all the data that has been coming from doppler radar trackers and camera trackers, there is so much more minutia we can understand about the swing...which is both good and bad. Plus, there continue to be new players to the game that get hooked enough to eventually look up a video of how to swing on line and fall down the rabbit hole of excellent teaching tips on YT (both good and bad for sure). So, keep posting those tips even if your repeating yourself, because one of the best ways to learn is to hear the same thing over and over and over. You might not fully understand it the first time, but each time you practice it and hear more from others, you start to understand...then, go back and watch the older ones that confused you and you'll be surprised that you actually now DO understand it. Russell Heritage is great and repeating the core tenets of the swing in videos in new ways (and sometime the exact same ways)...it kind of drills it in over time. Great job :)

Wow ... stunning!

Great video and insightful. so apropos.....

Great explanation! I could not believe how this gets my lower body moving correctly - Wow. When I do it right, cross bow straight!

great video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is great

Very nice take on the turn/tilt. Much like the Mike Austin method when you think of it.

Great job, if I was in your area I definitely take clases.

What drills do you recommend to start or initiate the downswing? Great vid btw!!

Thank you..❤❤❤❤

Very good insight though I have a question. Would it not be better to set up with some left side bend at address to assist getting the correct spine tilt on backswing. Why set up with backward leaning spine tilt only to lose it in the initial lateral flexion. Would not a left side bend set up aid in preventing a too much inside takeaway?

Tks for adding to the confusion.

Very informative

Thank you Zach - this is very interesting and has certainly helped me with my irons and hybrids. It is not translating to my driver. I am getting a huge pop up pulling way left. what does that tell you ? i think i am failing to bump back to lead leg.

Pure Gold!

That’s a great way to look at it.