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In this analysis video, we're going to look at the follow-through position.

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Now the follow-through position is going to be slightly different for everybody

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, but

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it's roughly when the shaft is parallel to both the ground in the target line

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or somewhere

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out here in the follow-through.

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Essentially this is when the swing ends and everything you do after this

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position is more

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a way to absorb the speed and absorb the forces that you've created in the golf

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swing than

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it is to control the geometry.

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So while there's things you could learn from after this point, for me this is

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when all

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the movements of the swing really end.

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As always, we're going to discuss the position or the follow-through position

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from both the

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perspective of the body and from the arms.

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So first we'll take a look at the body.

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Now we're going to use the reference of what's happening from impact and from

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impact what

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happens to get to the follow-through position is quite simple.

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The body is going to continue side bending to the right and extend it.

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Now what that'll look like is here's impact position and as he goes through

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into the follow-through,

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you will see that his spine appears to maintain its spine angle.

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What I mean by that is if you were to point a line through his shoulders, you

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can see that

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that's roughly perpendicular to where his spine is pointed and if you took it

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back to impact,

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you could see that that's roughly the angle that the shoulders are rotating

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around.

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We do the same thing with Adam Scott, we create that line of the shoulders

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pointing somewhere

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out in the direction of the golf ball and you'll see that as he goes through

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into his

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follow-through position, he's going to continue side bending to the right and

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extending at

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the spine as he rotates which gives the appearance of maintaining the spine

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angle.

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Now we can take a look at a couple amateurs and we can see what it would look

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like if

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you did not continue side bending or if you turned on more of a vertical axis.

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As we go into the follow-through and if I were to draw a line through the

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shoulders,

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you can see that it's pointed kind of well out here where if you saw with the

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two torporos

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we had up here Adam Scott and Jason Duffner, they're going to be closer in the

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direction

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to the golf ball.

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If I continued to have her rotate, you could see that it would come up to a

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very horizontal

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position.

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So she's moving from side bend to standing upright as she goes through this

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phase.

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Now here's another amateur and you can see it's pointing slightly out as we

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continue going

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up you can see that it gets even more horizontal, we'll bring up another torpor

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o for an example

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so that you can have a refresher of what it looks like to maintain that side

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bend.

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So here we have Keegan Bradley and Fred Couples both of whom would be

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considered more of a

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two plane golf swing so you would expect them to have a little more level

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shoulder plane

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to their vertical arm motion and as you can see as we go into the follow-

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through position,

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it's not exactly the case both of them have their shoulders and their spine

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pointed heavily

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towards the golf ball or with a lot of right side bend.

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So if you have been told that you stand up in your downswing or that you need

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to keep

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your spine angle, what they're really talking about is keeping this right side

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bend.

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Now we've got lots of drills that help explain how you can do that from both

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the spine and

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the legs point of view and how they work together because it's not quite as

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easy as what most

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people tend to think so check the transition and the follow-through position

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drills and

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they'll show you exactly how to get this side bend.

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Now the next piece of the body that we're going to look at is this amount of

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spine extension

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which is best seen from the face on view.

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Now it's still a little tricky to see from any camera angle because we're

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rotating and

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the camera is not but on 3D we can confirm that a lot of this is happening.

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So as we go from impact to that follow-through position, you'll see that the

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center of the

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lower body and the center of the upper body have a little bit of space between

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them as

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in the lower body is closer to the target than the upper body.

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Now part of this is done from the hips and part of this is done from the spine

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but most

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golfers, most high level wall strikers will do this movement.

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On 3D we'll typically see numbers in the 50 to 60 degrees of backward bend or

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extension.

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Part of this is done from the hips, part of this is done from the spine.

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And here we see two examples of amateurs and we can take them through the same

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from impact

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to follow through and you'll see that their spines are much closer to vertical.

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This gentleman and his hips are slightly forward or slightly ahead of his upper

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body

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but here we have a relative new golfer and as we go to that follow-through

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position you

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can see that for her, her upper body is actually closer to the target than the

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lower body and

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she's in a little bit of flexion, not this extension or reverse C position.

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So the two key movements for the body during this release are going to be that

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side bend

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and extension and they're going to have a big influence on what the arms are

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going to

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do.

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The next piece that we're going to look at is what I think is one of the most

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predictive

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pieces or one of the most predictive things that I could measure to determine

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your handicap

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level is how close your elbows are or when they reach their closest position.

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Most professionals are going to reach their closest position during this follow

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-through

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position so they will frequently get as close together as six, seven inches

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where most amateurs

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are going to have their closest arm position just before impact and then they

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'll be getting

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further away.

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Part of that is because of what's happening with this side bend and extension.

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So pay attention during the next section and perhaps you can figure out why I

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have these

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drills organized the way that I do and how you can use them to piece the two

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components

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of the body and the arms together.

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So the last piece that we're going to look at is the arms and what they do from

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impact

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to this follow-through position.

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And the simple answer is the arms are going to extend and rotate.

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So if we look over here at Charlie Lee on the right you'll see the back of his

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hand is

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pointed roughly at the target and you'll see that there's a certain amount of

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distance

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between his elbows.

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Now as he goes into that follow-through position you'll see the back of his

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left hand is now

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pointing directly behind him and his elbows have gotten very close together.

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So his elbows are squeezing together as his forearms are rotating one on top of

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each other.

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One of the ways that, and you'll see this much more in depth when we get into

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the release

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but one of the ways that you'll see the rotation is the fact that you can see

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the fingers of

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his lead hand underneath the trail.

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So you can see the glove hand or the left hand right here where his right hand

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is now

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kind of on top of it.

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That indicates that he has had significant rotation through the forearms

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between impacts

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in this position.

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If we look over on the left we'll see a very unusual camera angle but one that

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's great

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for showing this elbow is getting close together.

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So as this golfer Gary Player comes into his follow-through you will see that

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his elbows

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or his forearms are practically touching.

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We'll look at a few more from this camera angle but I'll leave Charlie Lee over

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so that you can visualize how the extensions side bend as well as the elbows

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squeezing

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all kind of fit together.

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So here we have another swing and boom elbows are practically touching.

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That's when I believe gets cut off.

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So here we have classic Arnold Palmer and even though he has that unusual

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looking finish

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you can see that at his follow-through position his elbows are virtually

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touching.

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His forearms are pretty much rubbing up against each other and then it's not

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until afterward

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that he does his trademark spin and signature move which is why I focus on the

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follow-through

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position being at this arm extension and waist tight position not what's the

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true end of

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your movement.

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We'll look at a couple more from this overhead position there.

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You can see forearms right through there squeezing pretty close together.

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Not quite touching as much but still getting much closer together than your

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average amateur.

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We'll look at one more classically good swing and as we come through you can

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see that those

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forearms are very close together.

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So now let's take a look at a few amateurs going through that phase again so

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that you

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can see something to compare it to.

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So what I want you to visualize is kind of the space between the elbows or the

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space

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between the forearms and what you'll see is as the golfer goes through impact

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that space

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is actually getting wider you can see that the space right there is further

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apart than

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roughly that space there.

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Again if you look back at Charlie we it was much wider at impact than it was in

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this follow-through

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position.

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You'll also see that in this follow-through position over here on the left with

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the amateur

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you can see that his left hand is on top of his right hand where Charlie's we's

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left

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hand is underneath his right hand.

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So extension and rotation is what the arms are going to do in the follow-

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through.

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So we'll look at two more amateurs as they come through and you can see that

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those elbows

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are getting wider and wider apart.

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Both examples the elbows getting wider apart and in both examples the glove

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hand is on

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top of the trail hand or the lead hand the left hand for these right hand golf

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ers is

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on top of the right hand.

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The extension of the arms and the rotation of the forearms is a clear

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indication of a

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release of all that energy.

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In addition as far as the direction of both light is considered by extending

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your arms

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through the shot you will help keep the club moving away from you and keep the

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path going

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to the right so you will help control getting the bottom of the swing far

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enough forward

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and the path to the right which are two really big important pieces for being

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solid at impact.

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As with any of the major chunks that I teach it's a lot to think about which is

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why it's

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important to do the drills in order to train this side bending to the right the

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extension

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of the hips the extension of the arms and the rotation of the forearms but I

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can tell

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you that if you can get a consistent and repeatable extended look the way these

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two golfers have

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here you will have a long future of hitting the ball very very solidly.

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It's easy to practice with the 9 to 3 drills and some of the other drills that

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I have to

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allow you to stop and isolate this position it can be hard to think about when

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you're

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kind of doing it at full speed in a full swing.

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So be diligent with your practice in the follow through position because this

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is one of the

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positions that is somewhat universal whether you have a one plane, a two plane,

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a stack

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until they're all kind of getting in this position.

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I think it's a great checkpoint for you to start practicing and trying to train

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