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

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ambeau.

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Now, Bryson DeChambeau has had a great amateur career and recently turned

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professional.

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And we're going to take a look at a couple things that are unique about his

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golf swing,

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but we're going to look at two key things that you can learn to apply to your

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game right

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away that I think will help you with your ball-striking consistency.

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Now I'm not going to pretend to know all the ins and outs of Bryson's swings,

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but I am

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going to give you my opinion on what's going on.

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Now he's interesting, he's a physics major, he's got all the clubs, all the ir

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ons at the

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same length, the length of a seven iron, on a little bit more of an upright

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plane.

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So over here on the right, we'll see him attempt to swing on a single plane.

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And this is a pretty decent camera angle, but what we'll see is that even with

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his best

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efforts, you'll see a little bit of a shallowing during transition, because

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that's great club

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dynamics or club fundamentals.

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So while he's probably as close to a single plane as anybody we've seen, I

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think that

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it's more of a perception than it is a reality.

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So what can you learn from what Bryson demonstrates?

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Bryson has this kind of unique setup, he has definitely an unorthodox kind of

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weak grip,

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but there are a couple key fundamentals to just good golf that you can pick up

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from his

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swing without trying to adapt the whole upright single like the iron.

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If you want to give that a try, please let me know how your experiment works

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out, it's

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just with limited data on people trying it, I don't have very much to compare

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that aspect

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to.

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So let's talk about how he sequences his body for different clubs and what he

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does with

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his wrist that allows him to play with kind of a weaker grip.

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So one of the arguments that he makes for playing all the same length clubs is

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that allows

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him to keep his swing exactly the same for all of his iron shot.

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Now we're going to use our normal thigh parallel checkpoint to get a rough idea

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of what's going

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on with his sequencing.

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So with this short iron, we can see that his thigh parallel checkpoint is kind

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of somewhere

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between those two frames.

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So we'll say that he's getting his thighs back to parallel roughly when the

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shaft is

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parallel.

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So now if I kind of fast forward to a longer iron shot, if we take a look at

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that thigh

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parallel checkpoint, we can see that we got lucky with the frames of typical TV

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and we

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can see that he's getting his thighs pretty close to parallel a little bit

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higher up somewhere

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in the same spot because we saw with this one it's between those two frames.

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So we can see that he's using a little bit earlier or a little bit more lower

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body with

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the longer iron than he was doing over here on the left with the shorter iron.

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So he's not making exactly the same swing even if he has clubs that could

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potentially

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work with exactly the same swing.

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Now if we fast forward and we get to him hitting a driver, we can look again

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for that same thigh

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parallel checkpoint and we can see that it's before this frame, just slightly

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before this

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frame.

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So around that left arm parallel.

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So as he moves into longer clubs, he tends to get earlier activity of his lower

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body.

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So one of the ways that I've heard others describe it is that the driver in the

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longer

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swing is more of a total body or lower body activity while a shorter iron, let

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's say seven

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iron through your wedges can be a little bit more of an upper body driven swing

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in order

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to have the proper angle of attack and path for those club dynamics.

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Now even though Bryson has tried to engineer a set so that he can have exactly

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the same

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swing, you'll see that his natural athleticism in figuring out how the golf

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club works has

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allowed him to develop a spectrum where he uses more lower body for the longer

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clubs

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and a little less for the shorter clubs.

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If you struggle with the longer clubs, learning how to use your lower body can

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usually help

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out, help change your angle of attack as well as your path as long as you're

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aware of how

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to control the club face for this different engine.

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So that's your key takeaway number one is that there's no one swing that works

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with

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every single club and the best golfers in the world have figured this out.

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For key number two, let's talk about what you have to do if you're going to

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play with

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a weak grip.

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So the second key takeaway for your swing is looking at the amount of flexion

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in the lead

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wrist.

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So from this three quarter view, you get a good look at how much he actually

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bows that left

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wrist during the downswing and you may think that that's incredibly unique.

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What makes it look unique is because of his weak grip.

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The tour average is somewhere around 20, 25, 30 degrees, somewhere in that

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range where

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basically wherever that lead wrist is at setup, it's going to be more flexed at

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impact.

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Some guys with really strong grips never yet fully deflection.

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Some guys with strong grips do get into flexion.

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With weak grips, you'll almost always, in fact, I can't think of a single

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example of

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a tour level golfer where they have a weak grip and they don't hit the ball

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with a significant

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amount of flex in that lead wrist.

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So I'll show you one or two other kind of weak grip players who exude the same

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pattern

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or who utilize that same flexion of the lead wrist earlier in the downswing.

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So here you can see from the down the line view, he's got a pretty flat left

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wrist and

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then by the time we get him to the next really clear kind of shaft parallel

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frame, you can

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see that there's a significant amount of flexion, otherwise this would be in

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line with that

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lead forearm.

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Now, one of the things that he does that's fairly unique is you'll see him

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actually increase

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the flexion through the release to the point where he'll still have some flex

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ion in some

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shots like this one well into the follow through.

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So here are two other weak grip players.

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We've got Corey Pavin who isn't known to be for being a really long hitter, but

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with

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a really weak grip you can see that he gets into a similar significantly bowed

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position.

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You'll see that Alan the way through, he doesn't really increase but you can

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see that the left

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wrist there is still relatively flat.

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Now over here on the right is Will McKenzie who's had some good success on tour

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He also plays with a very weak grip and so when he gets down into that delivery

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you'll

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see he has a similar looking exaggeration of that flexion in that lead wrist

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and you'll

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see as he goes through he has a significant amount of flexion in that lead

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wrist as well.

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Very similar to some of the wrist mechanics of Bryson de Shambo.

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So what you'll see is if you are going to try to hit some toward trajectory

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with a weak

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grip you're probably going to have to hit the ball with a significant amount of

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flex

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in that lead wrist.

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If you tend to grip it weak and then come back with that wrist and more of a

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straight

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or even extended position you're going to have a hard time doing the body pivot

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that

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helps create speed and the proper angle of attack and path in order to get

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those tour

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launch conditions.

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So you've got your two takeaways.

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Use more of your lower body when you're using your full swing and if you're

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going to have

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a weak grip bow that wrist like crazy or if you have a neutral grip if you bow

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that wrist

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it won't look like you're bowing the wrist quite as significantly as someone

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who does

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have a weak grip.

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Now I want to give you kind of a little bonus takeaway which is there are

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certain shots

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that just require certain physics in order to pull them off.

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So Bryson understanding physics has totally adopted a bunker game that does not

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fit this

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kind of one plane model.

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So you can see that he sets up with much more of a squat position.

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He's got a significant angle.

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The handle is low.

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You can see that he's smart enough and he's good enough athlete that he's made

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the adjustments

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in order to be able to hit a bunker shot.

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So it's not that he's just trying to simplify absolutely every shot.

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He's figured out a way that works for his full swing.

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I think he probably could have gotten to this level with more of a conventional

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setup and

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makeup but as a it's more important to kind of be committed to what you're

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doing and since

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his physics mind decided that it made a whole lot of sense to have every club

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the same length

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even though his swing isn't exactly the same with all of them.

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He's figured out a great way to build something for him to build his golf game

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around.

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That being the single length club.

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But even with that concept of the single length club you can see over here on

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the left that

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he has recognized that he has to make adjustments to hit a bunker shot.

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You'll also see that he has more of a cupped wrist and you'll see that even

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though it's

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blurry as he comes through you can see that that lead wrist is not getting into

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flexion

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because that would expose too much of the leading edge and make the bunker shot

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incredibly

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difficult.

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So one of the great things about golf is you have to learn to adapt your swing

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to the

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scenario in front of you.

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There are certain shots that favor using certain techniques and there are

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certain shots that

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favor others.

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