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Swing Analysis - Gary Player Old and Young
Gary Player has a timeless swing. He's won 165 tournaments including all the majors on the regular and champions tour. Find out how his swing evolved in this analysis video.
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in this analysis video we're going to
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take a look at the evolution of the
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swing of Gary player
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now Gary player has a hundred and sixty
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five wins worldwide and has victories in
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28 consecutive years
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that's a truly monumental feat if you
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think about it and perfect evidence why
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he's one of the best examples of how to
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carry yourself and how to have your
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swing aged gracefully
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he is the only winner of the grand slam
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on both the regular and the Champions
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Tour and he made the cut at the Masters
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Tournament at the age of 62
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so he's shown that he can play great
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golf into his later years I'm going to
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show you how his swing has changed from
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his prime until into his 60s and 70s so
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over on the right we have Gary hitting
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one of the ceremonial tee shots at the
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Masters and then over on the left we
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have him roughly thirty years younger
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now interestingly we've got about the
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same camera angle and similar style
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shoes so if we go up to the top of the
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swings from this kind of unique
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perspective we'll be able to see a
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couple little differences but we'll be
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able to see especially on the way
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through that a lot of things have
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remained the same so with a with a
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somewhat similar camera angle we can see
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that his hands are much lower and
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flatter and more around his body than
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when he was back in his prime that could
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be due to some loss of range motion of
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the shoulders it could be due to a
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changing swing philosophy but we can see
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that he hasn't made quite as much upper
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body turn which will be easier to see
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from the face on view but we can see
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that difference in arm height very
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clearly now in the swing over here on
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the left we'll see a very good look at
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his bracing strategy and you can see
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that that left arm stays pretty straight
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and he uses a lot of body rotation to
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kind of take the club from impact into
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his follow-through over here on the
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right it's a little tricky to see with
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the blur of the club but we can see a
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little bit more of the speed being
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absorbed into his shoulders because he's
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not quite as able to
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use his his lower body in his core as
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well as he did when he was thirty but we
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can see the overall pattern remains
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about the same comparing that to say a
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Jack Nicklaus or an Arnold Palmer you
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can see that his commitment to fitness
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has allowed his body to continue to make
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the swing movements that he's ingrained
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and that enable him to have success well
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into his twilight years
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so Gary Player has one of the most
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famous triggers in all of golf you'll
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see over here on the left his famous
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knee kind of kicking in towards the
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center before he has his pressure shift
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during his takeaway now we'll see as he
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in his younger years he had a very he
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did a great job of kind of staying
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centered even though he used kind of
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this full hip turn full shoulder turn
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got the club actually well past parallel
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with this full range of motion now over
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here on the right I'm gonna see that
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same trigger but and we're also going to
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see some evidence of some ribcage
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stiffness so you'll see that he's not
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able to extend through the spine as well
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as he could when he was around 30 and
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you you'll see that he's not able to
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have quite as much side Bend so as a
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result when we look at his takeaway you
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can see that his upper body tends to
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move a little bit more off the ball that
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can be a little bit more less consistent
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but it can also create a little bit more
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speed if you're more of a shoulder
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puller on the club so perhaps his power
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sources have changed as he's gotten
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older but at the very least his range of
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motion has changed which is going to
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upset were disrupt the steep and shallow
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blend so we'll look from down the line
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and we'll see exactly what changes he
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had to make in order to still hit a
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quality golf shot with this different
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range of motion so over here on the
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right we're going to see a decreased
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ability to create arm lifts with the
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shoulders over here on the left he's
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going to
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more shoulder turn and you'll see that
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his arm elevation and arm height is
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going to be much more exaggerated
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compared to over here on the right over
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here on the right you can see his arms
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are working much more around and across
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his body now body rotation and side Bend
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both helps shallow out the club by
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creating depth of the hands now if you
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lose some of that range of motion you
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can benefit from having your arms work
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in a little bit flatter position so when
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he starts coming down we can see that he
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hits a pretty good looking delivery
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position where the club would be roughly
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just inside the hands allowing allowing
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him to come into the golf ball on a nice
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shallow path with this vertical arm
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movement you'll see that he's able to
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achieve kind of a similar delivery
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position alignment but over here on the
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right he's able to do so by taking
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advantage of more side Bend especially
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through the spine this will become more
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apparent on the way through when we look
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at the tilt of his shoulders compared to
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the tilt of his pelvis over here on the
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right because he doesn't have quite as
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much side Bend ability which is natural
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as you get older roughly around the age
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of 65 or so you're going to lose about a
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third of the total range of side bending
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compared to when you're around 30 so you
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can see that the spine is in a much more
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neutral position a lot less side bending
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as a result that tends to steep in the
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path of the club so he works his arms in
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more of a shallow path working more
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around his body
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but he's still able to control the
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geometry to club create a really good
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path into the ball with a nice flat spot
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allowing him to perform pretty
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consistently even with this changing
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movement so you can see that as his
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swing of vault he adjusted the top of
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the swing position to match what his
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range of motion would allow him to do so
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that he could get the club to ultimately
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do what he wants so
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even though he had different looking top
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of the swing positions in these two
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different swings you will see that he
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has very similar sequencing so you can
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see him replanting that left field left
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heel and getting his lower body to
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initiate the early part of the downswing
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and you can see the timing of in the
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direction of when that trail arms
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readings so he's pretty much at impact
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and you can see that that right arm
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hasn't fully straightened and it's not
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until through the shot
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that you see that right arm
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straightening while he's not able to
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have the same amount of range of motion
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you'll see that he'll planting lower
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body rotating right arm kind of staying
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more up against this side and then that
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same timing of the arm extension on the
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way through so he's kept the same
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triggers and he's kept the same
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sequencing but with the changing with
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the change of his body he's had to adapt
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his steep and shallow balance in order
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to accomplish the rules of ball flight
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the rules of the geometry of the shot so
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whether it's injury or age as your body
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changes you'll have to make changes to
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your swing as well and hopefully seeing
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how Gary player did it will give you
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some ideas of ways that you can adapt
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your steep and shallow balance next
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let's take a look at the Gary Player
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walk through now Gary Player is famous
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for the walk through shot where
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basically he would talk about his
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continuing his upper body and really
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getting that right side to fire through
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now I've had golfers who have tried to
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incorporate that and tend to get that
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upper body getting very steep so one
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thing you should notice is he never did
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that walk through with the driver or
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this really long clubs it was always
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kind of a shorter or scoring Club motto
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for him and if you take a look through
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tube racing position so if we look
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through until that club is about
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parallel to the ground you'll see that
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his upper body is bracing nicely and
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it's not really until past this position
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that he then just lets his upper body go
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through
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potentially to take some of the stress
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off of the hip potentially to have a
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feeling of the upper body continuing to
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rotate through but what ends up
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happening is a lot of golfers who try to
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emanate the walking through they'd have
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their hips further back in their upper
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body going forward which is going to
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cause more of a steep angle of attack
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which can tend to cause some contact
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problems or poor bracing mechanics so
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understand that even if you're doing
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that little walk through a movement you
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want to make sure that your upper body
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stays behind your lower body with most
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of the full shots and then it's only
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after you get into that full good
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extension position that you would let
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your upper body rotate through so if
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you're not sure of your steep shallow
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