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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at the swing of henrik

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stenson now henrik stenson just won the

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Open Championship he climbed up to

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number five in the world he's had some

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brilliant ball striking over the last

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few years but what he did at the Open

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Championship is one of the most

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impressive tournaments that I've ever

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seen and his final round 63 coming in

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the final group to beat someone like

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Phil Mickelson who shoots a bogey-free

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65 himself is nothing short of

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remarkable so in this video we're going

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to take a look at what he does so well

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that makes him such a consistent ball

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striker as well as one or two things

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that make him default to hitting 3-wood

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off the tee instead of driver in doing

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so hopefully you can understand some of

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the necessities to be just a good ball

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striker as well as a great driver of the

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golf ball and perhaps you will decide to

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hit more 3-wood off the tee

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instead of driver yourself so first

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let's talk about how henrik powers his

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swing and how he's able to be such a

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consistent ball striker so he powers the

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swing using his whole body we can see

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from the down-the-line view that he

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tends to rotate his lower body before

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his trunk you can see that his thighs

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get back to that kind of target line

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checkpoint

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by about the time the lead arms parallel

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to the ground and then we'll see that he

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continues to rotate his body you can see

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that his chest is roughly parallel to

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the target line by the time though the

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shaft is parallel to the ground and

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you'll see he does a good job of kind of

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delaying the straightening of his trail

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arm now at the same time that he's

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powering it with his body you can see

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that from the down the line view he has

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a great path so if we take a look at the

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checkpoint kind of here uh you know just

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after delivery position when the shaft

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is parallel will see that the club is

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just slightly inside of his hands

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compared to the target line he hits the

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golf ball with a little bit shaft lean

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which we'll see from the face on view

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and then he gets to kind of

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follow-through position or roughly when

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the shaft is parallel after impact

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you'll see the hand the club had just

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outside of his hands so that tends to

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produce a very neutral path and that's

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part of the reason why he hits the wall

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very straight and he powers it with his

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whole body that's part of the reason why

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is it very consistently now the question

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is why would someone who has that great

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of a path from down the line and powers

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it with their whole body why would they

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not want to hit more drivers granddaddy

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can hit this 3-wood about 290 yards off

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the tee with his 120 mile an hour club

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head speed but it could be a huge

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advantage if he could transfer that to

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the driver so we're going to take a look

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at the face on view and talk about why

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he may struggle a little bit with

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hitting driver compared to when he hits

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this super 3-wood so now let's take a

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look from the face on view and we can

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see one of his dominant movements that

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does give him a little bit more trouble

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with the driver and one of his

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complimentary compensations that helps

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him succeed now we know from the

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down-the-line view that he has an

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overall really good sequencing and

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really good path but this will help us

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see kind of how he's controlling low

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point along that path and so what we'll

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see is that he's controlling that low

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point with a little bit more of the

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upper body lunge so the upper body tends

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to get forward a little bit and then he

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doesn't really have it back up as he

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goes into his bracing instead his upper

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body kind of continues to drift forward

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towards the target he does even more so

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with the irons and it works great for

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helping him get the bottom of swing out

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in front of the golf ball now to

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compensate on it and to make it so that

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it's not too steep he lets his right arm

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get a little bit more behind his body so

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if you have the pattern of getting your

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upper body to kind of lunge towards the

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target and that right arm getting behind

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your body as long as you're powering the

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swing with your entire body and as long

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as your kinship keeping a really good

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path you can have a great ball striking

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success like henrik stenson but you're

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going to tend to have some angle of

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attack issues especially when you get

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into the driver when that upper body

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lunge is on top like so

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because it pulls the arms with it you're

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going to tend to see the club working

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more in a height of

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pattern we're going to see that when we

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take a look at some of the footage of

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henrik stenson hitting a driver okay so

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now we got a couple different views to

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look at the driver

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um this from behind view you'll get a

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great view of that right elbow getting

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more on the backside of his body a lot

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of most golfers at this point that elbow

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would start to disappear because it's

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working a little bit more across his

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body and that movement I call the wipe

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would allow him to have a little bit

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more spine tilt or axis tilt but because

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he doesn't do that because the right arm

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stays there and he doesn't have a whole

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lot of access to it you'll tend to see

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that the golf club is going to work a

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little bit more down into the golf ball

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and then back up relatively quickly that

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pattern works really well when you're

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trying to hit the ground so it works

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great with the 3-wood works great with

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the longer longer mid iron short irons

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just doesn't work too well with the

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driver where we want to have a little

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bit more flat bottom here this is an

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interesting camera angle to be able to

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really analyze a lot of what he's doing

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but one of the things that we'll be able

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to see is that we're going to see a

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unique thing for a Tour pro which would

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be you can see the driver coming from a

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higher position coming down in the golf

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ball and actually striking the ground

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just after contact you won't see a lot

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of Tour Pros make contact with the

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ground with their driver but this

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demonstrates that how his lunge of his

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upper body makes the club want to hit

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the ground and so it's very hard for him

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to work out of getting the club to hit

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the ground so instead of choosing a golf

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club like the driver where it's working

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against what his body naturally does he

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tends the air on more hitting the 3-wood

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so if you tend to lunge with your upper

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body especially if you like to swing

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hard or really go after the golf ball I

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would recommend hitting more three woods

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off the tee it'll ultimately fit with

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what you're doing with your pattern

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let's take a look and compare him to a

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elite driver of the golf ball with

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driver so that we can see exactly what

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I'm talking about as far as this bottom

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of the swing

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all right so now we're just going to

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take a look at the overall shape of the

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bottom of the swing so the only thing

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that really matters is the point of

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contact but what we can see is instead

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of using just kind of the angle of

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attack and the number is it plus one is

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it plus two is it two down any of that

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stuff we're going to take a look at the

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pattern of the golf club kind of through

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the hole hitting area so we can see

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we're going to use the relative height

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of the golf club compared to the ground

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and the height of the golf ball compared

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to the ground so you can see this is

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this camera angle isn't perfectly on

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line so what we can see is this was

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probably pretty close to where he would

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be the club head in front of his right

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foot you'll see that it's still well

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above the height of the golf ball so now

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it's still slightly above the height of

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the golf ball and they're only a couple

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frames before impact now right at around

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impact he gets the golf club down to

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about the height of the golf ball and

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then I'll stay there for a couple frames

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and you'll see it start to come up

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pretty quickly now if we compare that to

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someone like Jason day when we get the

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golf club even with his right foot you

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can see that it's pretty close to the

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height of the golf ball so you'll see

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that the golf club stays very low to the

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ground for a longer period of time so

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it's low to the ground pretty much from

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right foot all the way through and past

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left foot where henrik had it not quite

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as low to the ground even with the right

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foot and then coming up a little bit

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quicker compared to what Jason Day was

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doing we're looking for kind of these

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minor details but these details reveal

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some of the key differences in those who

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are really good with the shorter irons

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and those who are really good with the

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longer clubs

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henrik with that upper body lunge would

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have a hard time getting the golf club

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low to the ground for the entire hitting

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zone so he's made the smart choice of

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hitting more three woods instead of

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fighting a swing and hitting drivers if

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you struggle with driver I would

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recommend either hitting three woods or

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learning how to make some swing

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adjustments so that you can get the club

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to stay closer to the ground for a

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longer period of time while

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using your body as effectively as you

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