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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at this week's winner

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Charlie Hoffman.

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Now Charlie Hoffman has won over $20 million and this is his fourth win in

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about 10 years

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on tour.

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We're going to see what we can learn from his golf swing and how you can apply

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what

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he does at impact to help you straighten out your drives and iron consistency.

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Now Charlie Hoffman is a great example for a lot of golfers who struggle with

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steep arms.

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Charlie does have a little bit more of a steep arm pattern and while he's not

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one of the

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most elite ball strikers, he does have enough good rounds to really get it done

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out there.

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Four wins and again over $20 million in about 10 years, he's doing a lot of

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things that

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work pretty well.

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So we're going to discuss what he does in his golf swing and what you can learn

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from

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it to apply it to your own pattern, especially if you have steep arms.

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So now if we look at the backswing, this is obviously not a perfect camera

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angle, he's

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definitely not playing the ball that far back with his driver, but you'll see

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the arms stay

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relatively straight as he completes a little bit more of a one piece takeaway

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or a body

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driven backswing.

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You'll see from the down the line view, he's one of the few golfers that tends

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to have

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a little bit more of this flat shoulder plane.

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On the face on view, you can see that his shoulders are pointing a little bit

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more higher above

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the golf ball, not down kind of at the golf ball in that zone.

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And so that gives the appearance that his arms are extremely flat.

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His arms compared to his shoulders are slightly flat, but they get exaggerated

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and look very

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flat because of the angle of a shoulder tilt that he has at the top of his

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swing.

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So he's already shallowed with his body by using some of this loss of posture

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or decrease

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shoulder tilt as he goes to the top of the swing.

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But what we'll see is as he starts down, he stands up or moves a little bit

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away from

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the golf ball.

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So if I draw a line there, you can see that his upper body works away from the

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golf ball

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and his lower body works towards the golf ball.

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But you'll see he gets shafts starting to work on plane or closer to plane or

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whatever

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you want to call it.

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Basically what we'll see is that while his arms work in a little bit more of a

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vertical

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fashion compared to his body through there, we'll see that he balances that

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with his body

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starting to go into this shallow kind of early extension pattern.

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Now what he does really well is because he doesn't, he's not pulling

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aggressively with

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his arms, he's not swinging super hard as he goes into this shallow pattern, he

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's able

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to redirect it or stop that shallow pattern once he gets into this delivery

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position.

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So now if you were to kind of re-look at these lines, even though he had

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momentum going away

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from the golf ball and standing up, you'll see that now he's going to start

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really pouring

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it on with his body and you'll see that that rotation kind of keeps him in his

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body positions

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pretty well.

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In fact what you'll see is that through the golf ball, if you were to look at

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the path

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of his hands, you'll see that he does a great job of having them exit left so

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that he can

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have some of this shallow angle of attack.

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Most golfers, most amateur golfers who get into this kind of early extension

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pattern would

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tend to have the arms work down and the hands would be working well out to the

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right through

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impact and that would tend to cause some of the big blocks and overhook

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patterns.

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But Charlie does a great job of really waiting, not overpowering it with his

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arms and then

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using body rotation through the release in order to get a very good hand path.

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From the face on view, we know that he's standing up and getting away from us

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through there

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and then we'll see, once he gets to right about here, we'll see that body

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stabilize,

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pour on and kind of rotate and from the face on view, one of the things that I

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want you

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to be able to pay attention to is when his arms kind of catch up with his stern

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um.

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So you'll see with a lot of tour pros and really good ball strikers that their

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arms

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will get into this extended position roughly when they're out in front of the

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chest.

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Now most amateurs are going to have their chest pointed closer to the golf ball

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when

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the hands get out in front of them and so then you'll see the arms bend as they

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pass.

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Because Charlie does such a good job of turning his upper body through the

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release basically

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from here all the way through there, if you look at kind of where his shirt

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buttons are

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pointed and you imagine that there was a light shining, you'll see that he

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turns his upper

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body really well through the release so his arms don't catch up with his stern

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um until

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very late in the follow through and then it's not until after his arms pass

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that his arms

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start to bend.

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Now a lot of golfers try to get their shoulders perfectly square at impact.

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From this face on view you'll see that his chest is well open compared to the

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golf ball

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or pointing much further down the target line.

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Here we have him at impact and you can see that his chest would be pointing

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kind of somewhere

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out in that zone along that line roughly I say 30 or 40 degrees out in front of

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the

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target line.

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Now even though he's done that and yes his left shoulder is open compared to

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the target

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line you can see that his forearms are coming in on a good path so that the

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club is still

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swinging from the inside.

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So a lot of amateur golfers who get steep with their arms and don't shallow it

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out during

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transition when if they were to rotate then the forearms would tend to be

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pointing way

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to the left and the whole overall movement of the club would be very steep

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through impact.

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So Charlie shows the great combination that we're looking for of getting the

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body well

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open at impact while having the club still come slightly from the inside.

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So if you are trying to get your body more open at impact kind of replicate

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what Charlie

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and a lot of these good golfers do what you may find is if you start hitting

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the ball

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well off to the right when you get open at impact or if you find that you start

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hitting

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it thin then it means that what you're doing with your arms and your hands

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during the release

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is preventing you from getting your body open at impact.

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So you have to compliment what you're doing with your body with what you're

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doing with

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your release and if you find that you hit a lot of straight shots with a body

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that's square

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then just trying to get your body open is usually going to make you hit it

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worse.

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But as Charlie's demonstrating getting your body rotated side bend and going

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into extension

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so that the chest is pointing well out in front of the golf ball at impact

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helps delay

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the timing of the arms and gives you a little bit more consistency.

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So if you're trying to create that body position that Charlie demonstrates at

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impact you're

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going to have to work on how you square the club face during the release.

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If you want to learn more about the release we have a whole section of 20+

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drills on how

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the arms and hands work, how the body works and how the club should work from

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about waist

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height to waist height.

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