Video Analysis - Breaking down the release

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In this analysis video, we're going to look at the release.

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Now, the release is basically what happens after transition and takes you all

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the way until the follow-through position.

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And we're going to discuss it from the arms perspective as well as from the

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body's perspective.

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But we'll start with the body, which is a simple mechanism.

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The body is just going to brace in order to transfer energy into the arms.

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Now, this isn't a conscious action.

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This isn't something that someone is going to be trying to do.

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But in order to create maximum speed in the hands, the body must be bracing.

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So, to clarify what I mean by bracing, the lower body is going to be pushing

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into the ground,

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so the legs and the pelvis are going to straighten and come up, and the upper

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body is going to go back and away from the target.

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Here, I'll show you a couple different golfers, and we'll take a look at what

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the body's doing.

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So, here's a line in this delivery position, and here's a line.

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You can see that he's roughly in a squat position with his body.

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His shoulders are roughly parallel to the golf ball.

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His pelvis is a little open, but side tilt-wise, roughly parallel to the golf

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ball.

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Now, as he goes to release, you will see if you look at his head compared to

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the tree.

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And some you'll see in the head, but the place where we measure is more, it's T

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3, which is kind of the center of the ribcage, but with a virtual center.

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So, it's kind of the center of the ribcage. You could also look at the shirt

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buttons, but you'll see that upper body moving away from the target as the belt

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line increases or raises.

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So, you can see how I had this line right where the belt or the top of his pel

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vis was, and now the top of his pelvis has raised a couple inches.

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Usually, it's two inches or so, nothing too dramatic, but the combination of

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those two movements, the upper body moving backward but not going up, and the

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lower body straightening or raising, helps to propel the arms into a straight

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ened position, which is a very, very big key to this follow-through position.

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And now we'll take a look at Justin Rose going through some of those same

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positions.

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So, as we go down, you'll see right between here and here, his upper body is

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actually moving backward, his pelvis, which was down at where this belt line is

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, as raised up.

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You could also look at the garbage bag in the back, because I believe the

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camera moves slightly, and you can see that in delivery position, the top of

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his belt line is roughly parallel with that garbage bag, and then into the

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follow-through position, you can see his belt is raised, because he's straight

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ened his legs.

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That's kind of the jump move that I talk about in the squat and jump, and he's

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getting into this arms extended and shaft kind of extended away from the chest,

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this very good extension position.

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This is one of the traits that I love to see in a good, healthy release.

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Now, let's take a look at a couple amateurs as they go through that same phase.

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So, I drew those same lines, and you can see that while the upper body moved

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back, his belt line barely raised, and when he gets into his finished position,

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he still has a lot of flex in his knees.

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He's lacking in that jump movement, which is going to basically mean that if he

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were to straighten his arms, he would probably hit the ball fat.

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So, what he ends up doing is pulling in with his arms, and you can see that

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instead of getting into those arm extended position, I'll raise some of these.

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Instead of getting into those arm extended position, you can see that there is

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a few angles going on in his arms as he is pulling the club in towards his

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chest to prevent it from hitting the ground.

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And here's one more amateur golfer demonstrating a belt line that doesn't raise

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or legs that don't necessarily push through the ground, and as a result,

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through the ball, he's going to have more of a shrugging type movement with his

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arms instead of a releasing type movement of his arms.

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Now, I largely think that what the body does is a result of what the hands are

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trying to do or what the arms are trying to do, so we'll spend a little bit

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more time looking at different ways that you can use your arms and hands

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through the release.

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In looking at the arms and hands, there are three things that we're going to

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look at, the movement of the left hand and arm, the movement of the right hand

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and forearm, and then the timing of when the right arm is going to straighten.

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So, let's look at them sort of together because it's hard to isolate exactly

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what one hand is doing versus the other because they're both so close in the

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grip.

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So, here we have Rory in delivery position over here on the left, and you can

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see that his hands are pointed directly away from his chest.

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Now, I'll leave this one here. Now, if I were to take him through the release

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all the way until the end of that follow-through position, you can see that now

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the back of his left hand is pointed directly away from where the golf ball was

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So, it went from pointing towards the golf ball to away from the golf ball,

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which is a sign that it has supinated.

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So, now we can look at Justin Rose, and we can see it from the face-on view.

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You can see the back of his hand is clearly pointed straight out at us.

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I can't draw arrow directly at us, but you know what I mean? And then, as he

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goes into the follow-through position, the back of his right hand is now

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pointed directly at us, and the left hand is pointed directly away.

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Again, that is indicating that the left wrist has supinated, and the right

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wrist has pronated during the last phases of release.

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And here we have a couple more examples. We have Luke Donald here on the right,

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and you can see it close to delivery position.

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The back of that left wrist is pointed at the golf ball, and then as he goes

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through the release, you can really see those four arms rotating, and the back

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of the left hand pointing away from the golf ball.

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And now we can take a look at Phil Nicholson. So, here we have that delivery

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position, where the back of the right hand in his case is pointed at the golf

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ball, and then as he goes through, you will see his right wrist pointing away

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from the golf ball.

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Now, Phil has an interesting camera angle that demonstrates one of the

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principles that I discussed, which is that the lead hand controls a lot of the

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rotation.

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You can really see it with Phil and with BJ Singh, that in this position right

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here, there's actually a little bit of space between his left hand or trail

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hand and the grip hand, indicating that a lot of this movement, at least for

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Phil, is being controlled by his lead hand or right hand.

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And we'll do a couple more examples. So, here we have Jason Duffner over here

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on the left, and as he goes from this delivery position through his release,

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you can see his left hand now pointing away from the golf ball and actually

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pointing slightly towards the ground.

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That's one of the points that I failed to mention in the first couple, which

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would be, as you can see it rotating, you would see that right when he gets

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into this position, it would be pointing slightly at the ground behind him

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instead of having his left wrist pointing more up towards the sky, which we'll

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probably see when we look at a few amateurs.

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Now over on the right, we have Charlie Weigh, and here's what you would see

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from the face-on view for someone who is rotating their forearms.

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You will see that as he makes contact, and after he makes contact, we can see

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the inside of the left elbow, that's a clear indication that the shoulder or

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the left shoulder has rotated.

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In addition, when he gets into his full extended follow-through position, you

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can see the fingers of the left hand underneath the fingers of the right hand.

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So notice how you can see his glove hand by this waist position, and the club

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is in a great straight line position roughly with his right forearm.

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So there's a very small angle there.

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Now we'll take a look at a few amateurs to see what some of these differences

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might look like.

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Now, we'll look over here on the left, and we can see as we get into delivery

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position, the hands are pretty much facing the golf ball, but they're a little

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bit more behind his body.

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We'll get into that when we talk about the right elbow.

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Now, as he comes through, we want to see the inside of his elbow, and we want

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to see his left hand get underneath his right hand as those arms extend.

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And what you'll see is as he comes through on this swing, we never really see

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the inside of his elbow pit.

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We actually see the tip of his elbow right there, meaning that his arm has not

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rotated.

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The other thing we see is as we go here, we cannot see any of his fingers of

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the left hand underneath the right hand.

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There's a whole mechanism that's going on here, where instead of letting the

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arms extend and rotate, he's basically held off with that left arm.

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Now, the problem with this is all the stress is going to get absorbed into his

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shoulder and into his elbow and not get transferred down his body the way that

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the pros were demonstrating.

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Now, let's take a look at this gentleman on the right, and you'll see that as

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he comes through, we're going to see a similar pattern with that left elbow

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where we can't really see the inside of it.

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Now, he does a good job of getting his arms to extend, but again, we do not see

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the continued rotation, and we do not see the fingers of his left hand

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underneath the grip until he finally lets them roll and rotate right there.

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That ideally should be happening.

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If you are going to have a downward angle attack with shaft lean, then this is

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probably going to happen through impact instead of after impact.

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Let's look at a couple more.

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On the left, we have a higher handicap female, and you can see that as she

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comes down through, there's not going to be a lot of rotation, and there's not

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going to be a lot of extension.

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Just as we talked about in the follow-through position, you're going to see

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those elbows getting wider further apart from each other, and we're not going

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to see the left hand underneath the right hand ever in this golf swing.

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There's not a lot of rotation going on, but that's partially because of where

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the club is coming from, which we'll talk about in the next section.

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Now, over here on the right, we'll see a pretty good golfer, and he's a pretty

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good golfer, so you'll see some of this rotation.

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You can see how we can see the fingers of the left hand underneath, so he has

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pretty good rotation.

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The thing that I'd like to highlight that you may or may not have picked up on

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is as he comes through, if I draw a line straight out from that club shaft,

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most of the torporos had that club or the club shaft following that line until

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his hands were about parallel or hip height.

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You can see that he has done more of a wrist hinge through his release instead

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of letting those arms just extend out.

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Now, let's talk about the right or the trail elbow and when it extends.

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In the transition section, we talked about how the elbow is going to work in

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front of the body or towards the belly button.

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All I want you to do is watch as Dustin Johnson goes down, and I want you to

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see when his right elbow starts to come away from his side or starts to

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straighten.

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You can see that it doesn't really start to leave until right there, and now if

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you look at where the clubhead is compared to the golf ball, that's very, very

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late in the swing.

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Now, we'll look at Bubba going through the same face or the same pattern, so

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you'll see that elbow staying close to his side, and then it starts to straight

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en kind of right down in this area.

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It's slowly straightening before that, but this is when it really starts to

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pick up straightening speed.

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Now, we'll look at a couple more to show you how the elbow straightening and

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the timing of when it straightens tends to be more exaggerated, where it

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happens earlier with an iron than it tends to with a driver.

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So, here we have Paul Casey on the right, and I want you to watch this right

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elbow, and it doesn't start to straighten until right there, which is actually

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one frame before he, or two frames before he makes contact with the golf ball.

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So, it's pretty much his body, his bring, has brought his arms and hands into

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position, and all the arms and hands have done is square the clubface with that

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motorcycle movement and organize the shaft plane with that flattening movement.

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And then once he gets to impact, he's going to extend his arms to transfer all

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that energy very effectively.

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Now, here's Luke Donald hitting an iron, and it actually looks like it's fairly

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lofted iron, possibly a wedge, and now if you watch when his right elbow starts

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to straighten, you'll see it kind of starts to straighten in this area here,

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which is much earlier than we were seeing with the longer clubs.

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And to strengthen that point, let's look at Rory McElroy with two different

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clubs. So, here he's got a longer club, looks like about a three wood, and

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watch that right elbow, and when it comes off that side, you'll see it stays

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there pretty much right until about there.

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So, again, just one or two frames right before impact, and then over here on

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the right, he appears to have some sort of wedge, and you'll see that that

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right arm starts to straighten kind of right in here, which is much earlier

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than it was with the longer club.

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Now, let's look at that right arm straightening from the face-on position, or

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face-on orientation. So, if we were to come down, we know that his right arm

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was starting to leave his side and starting to straighten right in here, a few

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frames before impact.

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So, what you'll see is that his hands are almost, even with the ball, and with

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irons, they'll frequently be ahead of the golf ball when that right arm is

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starting to straighten.

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And that's usually one of the optical illusions that you'll have to get used to

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, which most amateurs, when I get them in that position, that the hands are

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ahead of the golf ball, yet the elbow is still bent and the wrists are still

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loaded.

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They pretty much say, "I'm going to miss. I've got no chance of hitting the

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golf ball." And that's an optical illusion that you have to get over if you

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want to become a consistent ball striker.

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Now, let's look at Zach Johnson going through that same phase. So, his right

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arm is going to be straightening kind of in this area right about in here. But

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one of the things that you'll see as he goes through there is you'll see no gap

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between his right arm and side, or you can see the gap in there, and it'll

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disappear very quickly as that elbow works across his body and in front of his

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hip.

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Here we'll go down and you can see no gap whatsoever, and then as he keeps

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going through, now the arms are straightening and extending through there.

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And now let's compare the timing and location of the right arm straightening

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for a few amateurs. So, first over here on the left, as we come down, you can

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start to see that right arm straightening at the very latest between these two

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frames, that right elbow is already starting to straighten, which is much

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easier, or much earlier than we were seeing even with Roy McElroyer, who lived

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on all with their sandwich.

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And this is a tee shot on a lengthy hole, so ideally he will be doing other

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things than straightening that arm that soon.

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Over here on the right, we have Charles Barkley, who we know has one of the

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steepest golf swings on the planet, and we can start to see that right arm

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straightening in a very similar position to where we saw this amateur on the

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left.

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And again, Charles is using a driver, and that's not going to work having that

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arm straightening that much that soon.

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Now let's look at a couple amateurs from the face-on position, and you can see

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the timing of when that arm straightens, and look for that space that we saw,

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or the lack of space that we saw with the professions.

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So here you can see a pretty big gap between the right arm and the body right

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there, and you can see how, if I were to draw a line from the body, essentially

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that right elbow is behind the body instead of in front of his belly button.

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Now if you were to get his hands in front of his belly button, without making

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other adjustments, what he's doing with his wrist, he would probably shank the

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ball.

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So it makes sense that he's doing this, but if he wants to become a consistent

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ball striker, like the other examples we saw, this would be something he would

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have to work on.

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You can also see the timing of that right arm straightening, which is way back

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here, already starting to straighten, that's just not going to work for having

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a downward, consistent strike.

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We look over here on the left, we'll see a fairly good golfer, he's kind of a

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mid-level handicap, and you'll see the right arm straightening early there.

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You won't see a huge gap between his elbow and his belly button, but you will

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see a little bit of a gap right in here.

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You can see that there's definitely some disconnected space between his body

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and his elbow. Another way that you can see that is the club is approaching the

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ground pretty quickly already, and his hands are not even approaching near the

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golf ball.

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If you remember when we looked at some of the other pros, they were straight

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ening that arm once the hands or the handle was even or past the golf ball, so

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he's doing it much earlier, and this would help square the club face.

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Many amateurs will release the club back in this area because they don't know

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how to allow the motorcycle move to happen and the wrist to square the club

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face on its own.

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Now, I know that that was a lot, but I want you to remember that the purpose of

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these videos is to help you understand so that you can start visualizing this,

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not when you're swinging the club and hitting the golf ball, because you don't

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have enough time to think of all these things.

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The time when you should be focusing on this is when you're doing the slow

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motion drills or when you're doing the isolation drills, so that you can train

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these movements to be automatic.

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So, our goal with, say, the single arm release drills is to get a free-flowing

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movement of the wrist the way the tiger is demonstrating right here, and just

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let the golf ball get in the way.

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If you're used to not using your wrist properly, this is going to take a lot of

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thought at first, but with practice and with the proper drills and the focus

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during these drills, I know that just like my students, you can learn how to

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have

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an efficient release that comes from a great transition that leads to very

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solid ball striking.