Don’t bend your front knee and move your front hip towards the ball to begin your backswing. The problem with bending the front knee and moving the front hip toward the ball on the backswing is that you have to straighten the knee and move the front hip back away from the ball on the downswing. It’s when you have to move the front hip back (on the downswing) that most people wind up over rotating that front hip and opening that hip up (moving it past square and back away from the ball). That opens the hips up too much, pulling the shoulders open and causing either a pull or a slice (depending on the position of the club head at impact).
If you do “rotate your hips around the spine” as in the conventional swing that means you have to coordinate the motions of the front hip, front leg, rear hip and rear leg. With the Symple Turn the hinge or rotation point is your front hip so you only really have to move the back hip and back leg. Again the main thing we’re trying to do is create a stable base for the upper body (shoulders, chest & abdomen) to provide the power for the swing.
Don’t just turn your back hip away (turning your core WITH your hips) and then swing with your arms. That motion might be necessary if you have serious back problems but you would be sacrificing significant power. Your power comes from your core so you should see your bellybutton turn a little (from square with your hips), your chest turns a little more and your shoulders turn a little more than that.
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