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In this analysis video we're going to take a look at the swing of Billy

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Horshel. Now in 2014 Billy Horshel was the leading money on tour thanks in

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large part to his brilliant ball striking. Now in this video I'm going to help

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you

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understand why Billy's swing has a slight bias towards iron play, hopefully

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helping you understand what your swing's bias may be. With any Tour Pro

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analysis it's easy to point out the similarities. Billy has a great one-piece

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takeaway. Good pressure shift off the ball. Tremendous flexibility in order to

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create this good-looking position up at the top of the swing. From the down the

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line position we'll see pretty good maintenance of body angles. You'll see

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relatively good shaft lanes. You'll see a good athletic position at the top.

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All

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the classic traits. As he starts down you'll see a very good shallow move with

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the

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arms. You'll see very good sequencing where his thighs are reaching parallel.

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About the time his lead arm is parallel to the ground. Again all the common

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traits

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that we would expect to see with a elite Tour level ball striker. So what I

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want

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to highlight on is something that happens during his release that makes his

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swing

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a little bit more biased towards the angle of attack that works better with

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an iron. So the movement during his release that we typically see more

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representative in an iron pattern would be more of a vertical posting as

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opposed

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to a shift away from the target with the upper body. One of the things that I

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see

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on 3D is the best drivers of the golf ball tend to create a great

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differential between the location of their upper body and the location of their

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lower body at the point where their arc width reaches its greatest right

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around here. So if we kind of create a rough representation of where the

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center of his pelvis and the center of his thorax is we can see that there's a

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little bit of separation there. The great drivers of the golf ball tend to be

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up

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in the six to eight inch range erring closer to the eight inch zone. And what

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I'll frequently see is starting from right about here you'll actually see the

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thorax move slightly away. While with irons you'll tend to see it drift

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slightly

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towards. You can see that Billy has a little bit more of that upper body kind

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of drifting towards the target which can increase the angle of attack and make

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shallowing out the driver a little bit more precarious. So as we're seeing this

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year he's still a good iron player but he's struggling off the tee and it's

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resulting in a little bit harder or a little bit higher scoring average. Let's

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take a look at a couple other pros demonstrating the opposite version where

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the upper body moves a little bit more away from the target as opposed to what

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Billy's demonstrating here with his driver. So here we have a couple clips of

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someone like Roy McRoy. We'll also look at Adam Scott and what we'll see is as

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he

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goes into that bracing kind of right in this zone here you'll see that his

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upper

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body tends to follow that similar pattern that we saw with Billy

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Horschel where it goes more vertically and it's post that move and then just

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continues moving through the shot in the follow through. When we look at him

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with

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a driver you'll see that as he starts going into the bracing right around here

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you'll see that his head and his upper body actually move slightly away from

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the

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target finishing their max movement away from the target right around this zone

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and then it's not until the lower body re-engages that his upper body gets

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pulled

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forward. This would be more the classic pattern that we'll see with very good

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drivers of the golf ball that Billy seems to be lacking. Now whether he's

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lacking it due to technique coaching or physical restriction is in his pelvis

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that part remains to be seen. So now we see Adam Scott demonstrating that

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similar difference in bracing strategies over on the right we have a short iron

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and you'll see that that upper body tends to continue drifting towards the

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target through the release where over here on the left you will see that there

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's

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a clear shift of his upper body you can use that gentleman in the background as

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a reference and then as he enters the bracing you can see his head and thorax

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slightly working away from the target and it'll reach its maximum away from the

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target kind of in this zone right out in here which is pretty typical for a

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very

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good driver of the golf ball. Adam Scott is currently the number one ball

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striker

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on tour so seeing what he and Roy McRoy who I believe is in the top five are

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demonstrating as the difference between kind of the ideal driver and the ideal

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iron swing we can see how someone like Billy Horshel has all the makings of

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creating power and consistency but his bracing strategy for his upper body

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tends to be more of the pattern that we would see for an iron even when he's

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swinging a driver and that can cause some of the difficulty that we're seeing

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with him off the tee. So now that you've seen a couple examples of the

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alternative

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where there's a bracing strategy where the upper body moves away or bracing

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strategy where the upper body continues to move toward you'll tend to see the

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pattern if we jump back and look at Billy Horshel you can see that upper body

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kind of drifting toward and then even with the driver slight movement away but

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you'll see that it quickly turns into movement toward well before he reaches

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that follow-through position where we see it maxed out with great drivers the

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golf ball like Roy Macquarie or Adam Scott. So if you'd like to understand your

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personal bias head over to GolfSmart Academy where you can review all of our

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drill videos and concept videos to understand how the golf swing works or

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you can submit your golf swing so we can tell you what it is that may be

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causing

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you to have the struggles that you have either with the driver driver or with

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the wedges and what you can do about it.