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So in this video we're gonna take a look at a number of the larger golfers on

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tour and what they do and the the most obvious places that we're gonna look are

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what do they do during transition and what do they do during release in order

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to work around having some extra mass in their in their stomach area right what

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would possibly what we might expect is we're gonna have some issues with the

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white move in the trail elbow but we're gonna see how different golfers adjust

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for their body shapes in order to make it work so even if you're not a husky

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golfer hopefully you'll learn some things about how tour golfers organize

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their patterns and what that might relate to your specific swing pattern so

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one we're gonna look at is Craig Sadler and we're really gonna categorize these

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golfers into two different groups there are their golfers who make pretty much

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the same swing as others with one exception that allows them to work

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around the belly and then the other group which we're gonna start with is

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golfers who have somewhat dramatically different looking swing pattern as they

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work around their belly so first we have Craig Sadler and as we look from the

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down the line he's gonna have one of the more upright shaft movements similar

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a kind of a gym furic and we're gonna see that during transition even though he

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has this upright backswing we're gonna see a very nice shallowing move now this

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shallowing move because of where his right elbow is able to get to still ends

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up creating a steep overall path so because he has this steep overall path

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you're gonna tend to see not a lot of body rotation and a little bit more of a

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stand-up move in order to shallow that back out now what he does that's we're

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gonna see common with all of these golfers is even though he has this steep

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movement he tends to not use bending the arms on the way through in fact he

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gets

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really good arm extension even though he didn't have a whole lot of body

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rotation typically what we'll see with those golfers or golfers who don't have

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whole lot of body rotation and impact is the club in the arms are gonna pass

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body a little bit sooner so we'll tend to see more and exaggerated kind of roll

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of the forearms or flip of the club through the ball so if you have really

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really big strong powerful forearms you can pretty much get away with this

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method as long as you don't push the threshold of starting to swing too hard

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so now the second golfer we'll take a look at is the second Sadler from the

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video and we'll see that he he fits into a similar pattern as his dad now he's

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not going to have nearly as steep and arm movement you'll see that he's still

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able to get a pretty good amount of shallow now part of the way that he's

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able to get this good amount of shallow maybe a lesson to some of the golfers

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out there who struggle with wrist tension as we go slowly into his

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shallow you can see that his right palm you can see that his right pinky in his

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right hand is actually coming somewhat off the club so he's got a fairly

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relaxed

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position in terms of this right arm and the majority of his movement is

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happening more from that lead wrist to create that shallow now again he's not

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gonna have a ton of rotation and we'll see in the second section of this video

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why he's not gonna have a ton of rotation but he's not gonna have a ton of

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rotation but because he was able to shallow you'll see he does a very good

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job of creating that motorcycle getting that face closed and he'll do the the

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wipe a little bit more from the lead side now at impact he did not have a

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ton of body rotation so you will tend to see a little bit more of that right

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hand

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kind of flexing and wrapping around the left in his follow-through but he still

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has very good arm extension which is one of the universal pieces that we'll see

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as part of the stock towards swing so he's gets up towards the top of the swing

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one common theme that we'll see is that a lot of golfers are gonna have a lot

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these husky golfers are going to have a little bit more of that lead arm bend

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just because of the the mass of their chest that they have to work around but

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then as he comes down we know that he's somewhat letting go of the club with

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right hand here and you'll see as he goes through there's the very good

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weight movement if I was to draw the line that we like to use at about shaft

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parallel where as he comes through you'll see it's working in more of a

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horizontal direction it's not really working straight down towards the golf

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ball and what you'll see from this face-on view is you'll see that the the left

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wrist is almost working away from the right wrist indicating again that he's

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got more of the pressure more of the control in that lead wrist and you'll

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see that as he comes through that right wrist kind of stays the same as that

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left wrist continues to flex indicating that the right wrist is actually off of

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the club during that release part so that is one very good strategy for

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controlling the ability to get this arm extension piece if you tend to be more

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trail arm or right hand dominant for right hand and golfer you will frequently

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have that left arm bend through the shot but Kevin Sadler is demonstrating a

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very

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good way of controlling that shallow movement transition and arm extension on

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the way through by dominating it more with that lead hand and now we can take a

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look at cult no suits kind of a little bit in between what we're going to see

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the standard golfers who were who just happen to be overweight and make one

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major adjustment to allow them the space in the room to create the wipe or the

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timing and what they need to to create the wipe versus what we saw with Kevin

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Sadler Craig Sadler who mitigated rotation tended to stand up to help

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shallow the club and focused on getting those arms a little bit more extended

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as they reached impact you'll tend to see golfers who use that method are not

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going to be able to swing hard so the so good thoughts for them will revolve a

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little bit more around rhythm than golfers who are in better positions they

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won't need the timing in order to have their best ball striking days so you'll

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see that he does a cult here does a pretty good job of of shadowing out the

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club during transition right so there's a pretty good little arm shallow move

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doesn't get massively open it impact so he doesn't have a lot of side bend as a

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result what you'll see that he does is he works a little bit more into an early

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extension pattern moving that upper body away similar to say Bill Haas and

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then as he comes through you'll see just like all these golfers he does a

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really good job of getting that arm extension piece on the way through and

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he actually controls some of the forearm rotation because he he does get his

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chest a little bit more open than the Kevin Sadler Craig Sadler combo so at the

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top of the swing we'll see that arm bend that I believe Peter Costas is

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highlighting and you'll again see a pretty good-looking white movement he is

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a little bit more of the hands working down which could cause some problems but

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he reaches pretty good arm impact alignments and then has very good arm

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extension on the way through I'm gonna keep highlighting that point because in

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my

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experience in coaching that's one of the issues that I tend to see the more

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overweight golfers having trouble getting those arms to extend on the way

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through and I think that that's something that this video will hopefully help

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you

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see is one of the comment rates not just among among tour golfers but a

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comment rate even among the Husky golfers and how they are able to play on

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tour now we've taken a look at some of the some of the golfers who have a

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noticeably different swing given their mass now we're gonna take a look at some

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of the golfers who have more of a traditional or classic looking kind of

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stock tour swing and what major adjustment they make given the fact that

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they have a little bit more of a belly so this is one of my favorite ball

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strikers Carl Peterson and what you'll see is on the way through he does a he

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does a great job of sequencing it we'll see from the downlining it is a

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tremendous job of shallowing he's tremendous at getting that delayed arm

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extension and that big arm extension piece on the way through and I think that

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part of the reason he is such a consistent ball striker out on tour so

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we'll see one of my favorite shallowing moves even though the hands are working

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out towards the target line you'll see that clubhead drop well to the inside so

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you'd think with that first movement going way out here that this guy is

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going to slice the ball off the world but seeing in person he hits nothing but

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little five in ten yard draws in fact the fade is actually one of his tougher

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shots so you'll see that he does a great job of getting that body open and if

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if we skip back to the face-on view we can see that he does a great job of

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having those hands working more across his body in the white movement and the

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way that he's able to do that is one of the things that you commonly hear tiger

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criticized for is in order to create more space between his body and the golf

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ball you'll actually see a very pronounced head drop his upper body is

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going to be somewhere around three and a half four inches closer to the golf

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which is probably about double what the tour average is which gives him the

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extra space so it doesn't look like his his stomach is actually getting in the

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way it allows him to then rotate create shaft lean and when he's making contact

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with the golf ball his stomach is actually pretty much out of the way so

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it doesn't impede him from creating that white movement and creating that

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good arm extension piece on the way through alright so he'll be another one

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you can use kind of the markers on the wall or in the in the back you'll see

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that he has a fairly pronounced upper body drop which helps create the space

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for his arms to complete the wipe on the way through if you early extend or if

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you stand up as your main shallowing move yes you're going to have a lot

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harder time doing the wipe if you have a belly but what what some of the better

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ball strikers on tour who are overweight of demonstrated is that if you do not

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early extend if you were able to control where your upper body is you having a

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little bit more mass in your stomach is should not impact you from having

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really

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good impact alignments and really good downswing mechanics here's a great

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three-quarter camera view of Tim Haren hitting a driver and you'll be able to

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see really good sequencing you would think that he's not going to have any

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room to wipe but he's going to continue rotating and delay that arm extension

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piece until his stomach is out of the way so you can see that at impact his

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stomach is pointing at this camera which is good 30 40 degrees out in front of

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the golf ball and as a result his arm is going to have a pretty clear path with

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little mass in his way if he had done more of what we saw with Craig and Kevin

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Stadler where his body was facing more of the golf ball at impact we would you

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would see a little bit more of that flip roll release where the forms kind of

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roll up the right form is flexing and really rotating around as it passes the

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body very very quickly but because he's done a good job of dropping lowering

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during his golf swing he's created the space and allowed for that body rotation

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which allows him to have pretty normal stock tour swing mechanics so if you're

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if you're highlighting that amount of drop he's actually dropped a little bit

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during the backswing you can look at his head compared to the gentleman's

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shoulder in the back and what you'll see is as he works his way down to create

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that space down around impact he's moved from almost shoulder level where he

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started on that gentleman in the background down to almost nipple level so

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he's dropped a significant amount usually more than than tour average and now

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we'll take a look at one of my favorite ball strikers on tour boo weekly who

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does have a a belly that he works around but he's been one of the most

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consistent ball strikers over the last five years if if he had putted say as

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well as Jordan speed a lot more of him we'd see him a lot more on Sundays that

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for sure and you'll see that he does a great job one of the best wipes I

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believe on tour where you'll see from from that delivery position those hands

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are working more or less across his body and you'll see as he gets close to

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impact you'll see that that there's a fair amount of space between that right

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elbow and that right hip so that elbow has worked pretty well across his body

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and we'll see as he goes to extend he is one of the latest wide points and has

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really good arm extension piece on the way through part of what makes him such

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a consistent ball striker from the down the line we'll see a very good job of

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that

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lowering move to get that stomach out of the way you'll see that it looks like

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his upper body is bent well over which would normally steep in the shaft it's

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almost kind of like a Charles Barkley type upper body really bending towards

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the golf ball but he does such a good job with this arm shallowing in

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transition

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that even though his chest does a great job of regaining flexion the the swing

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path isn't overly steep so then as he comes through because he's done a good

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job of staying in that spine angle and rotating inside bending around it he's

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got plenty of space doesn't look like his right elbow even touches his belly as

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works through during the release so as a quick summary there's predominantly

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different patterns you're gonna see for overweight golfers one of which they

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the body standing up as their major shallow move there then you're gonna

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see less of the body rotation but you still have to figure out a way to get

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that good arm extension on the way through Craig Sadler and Kevin Sadler

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both good examples of ways that you can use that lead wrist to really help

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create that arm extension and if that's your pattern I would say that focusing

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on that arm extension on the way through while using your tempo to help you not

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have a overly steep angle of attack will be a really big key for you the

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other option is what the best overweight ball strikers on toward new Boo weekly

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Carl Pedersen they'll tend to lower a little bit more to get that belly out of

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the way and then they're still able to create the rotation which which creates

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the space for the wipe as long as you've got good enough shoulder flexibility

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you

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should still be able to get that really good arm extension piece whichever

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method you choose most of the information that we discuss here in the

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Gulfsmart Academy program is gonna help you refine your program if you if you

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find that you're struggling with certain movements you're welcome to submit

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your

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swing and we can help you figure out what might be your best strategy for

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working around what your body is capable of doing