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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the swing of Jason Day.

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Now Jason Day has

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been number one in the world before. He's one of the league golfers of the last

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five years.

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In this video, we're going to talk about what he does to dominate so well off

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the tee and why he's

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such a good wedge player. And we'll also talk about one thing that he does with

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his body and one

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things that he does with his wrist that will help you immensely if you can put

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them into your full swing.

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So for starters, let's talk about the one thing he does with his body that

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makes him such a

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consistent driver and wedge player. And for these two really high quality clips

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, I want to thank

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Michael Field. He's got a great YouTube channel and he said I could use them.

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Definitely go over

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and check out some of his other videos. He's got some really good high quality

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slow motion,

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looks like it's off a tripod. Couple really good camera angles here. So here we

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have Jason from the

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same exact day using driver and then a wedge. And the thing that we're going to

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key in on is Jason

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is the king of the anti-stall. And what I mean by that is many golfers struggle

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with kind of their

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body stopping at impact and having lots of hand action and wrist release down

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at the bottom.

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What we'll see with Jason is that through impact and into the follow through,

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you'll see the club head, the hands and the torso tend to rotate almost at

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about the same rate.

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So one little image that I'll draw for my students is if you look at the

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relationship of these three

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segments, when it comes to driving the ball, the later you can have the club

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catch up with your

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chest, usually the better. So you'll see when we take Jason through, it's not

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until he gets to about

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here. We can see the angle of the club out that way. We'll move this a little

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bit more. We can see

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the angle of the club out that way pretty much in line with his chest. So

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between impact

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and that follow through position right in there, his chest was still leading

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his arms and hands.

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Now he does a great job of getting some good owner deviation, which we'll talk

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about next.

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And he maintains that connection of the or the relationship between the hands,

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the club head and

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the chest for well into the follow through. And you'll see that it's not until

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he has the club

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to about here that he really uses his wrist to absorb the speed of the club.

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When many golfers

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struggle with a chicken wing, it's that the club is passing their chest by way

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of what the

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wrists are doing down here at the bottom. So if you imagine that Jason throws

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his chest right there

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and the club just started passing like this, well something would have to

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absorb the speed.

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The wrist by itself wouldn't have enough capability, so he would bend the elbow

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,

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shrug the shoulder and have a little bit more of a classic amateurish finish.

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But because of the

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relationship and how Jason has squared the club face, he's able to keep the

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chest ahead of the club

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for a long period of time. That's a trademark that you'll see with a lot of

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good drivers the

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golf ball. And that's also a trademark that you'll see with a lot of good wedge

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players. Now the

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difference is you can see that timing lies, that club is pretty much in front

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of his chest

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right now. So just after impact, it's not waiting all the way until shaft

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parallel.

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But he's going to maintain the relationship of that chest arm hand connection

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because he's

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using his core and his body to move his arms in the club more so than he's

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using his wrist.

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For someone who has some of the best hands and is consistently up in the elite

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category as far as

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strokes gained around the greens, you'll see that he does very little with

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those hands and wrists

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in his wedge shots. Now let's talk about one more thing that we can highlight

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from these face

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on views. So looking at these two different impact positions, if we're looking

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at a relationship

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between say the ankle, the hip and the shoulder, you'll see that there's

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slightly different alignments.

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With a good long club swing or a driver swing, you're going to see the body

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having this tilt away

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from the target. I call that a bracing position and it involves using your hips

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and your core

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to absorb the speed of the club trying to pull towards the target that way.

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Typically good long

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irons and good drivers of the golf ball are going to have this tilt or axis

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tilt away from

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the target. If you see this in your wedge game, you're likely to struggle with

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fat shots and

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thin shots and may even fall into having the yips. Now on the contrary, with

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the wedge shot,

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you'll see a fairly vertical or stacked position on top of the golf ball with

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more level shoulders

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and earlier straightening of the arm. The swing will be more powered by the

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body and or sorry,

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more powered by the arms and the body is getting things in position so that

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that arm powered movement

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makes solid contact. Now if you look like this with wedge shots, you probably

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have very good

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contact. But if you look like this with your driver, you'll typically struggle

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with a steeper angle of

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attack and probably hit either low pulls or low push cuts. I think it's

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important to recognize

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that while the swings may feel very similar, there are some major key

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differences in how elite golfers

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swing the club with the driver and what they do with their wedges. If you're

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trying to make the

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exact same swing with all clubs, it's likely that you'll struggle with one end

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of the bag or the other.

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Now from the down the line, we're going to take a look at how Jason blends his

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steeps and shallows.

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We can see in early transition that he's got a good contribution of his legs

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for producing power,

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but we can also see that he's using a little bit more of an arm pull in getting

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the club in a

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more vertical position than a lot of the elite ball strikers. Now one of the

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things that appears

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to be towards the higher end of tore average is you can see that his upper body

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is working away

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from the golf ball. A fair amount during his downswing. Now I've found that

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golfers who have

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that tendency on their 3D tend to have a hard time hitting half shots and kind

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of touch shots.

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And this may be one of the reasons why Jason is known for having one gear and

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swinging pretty

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much full at every single full swing. Now from that steepening position, one of

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his shallow movements

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is moving away with the upper body like so, but one of the other big shallow

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movements that he uses

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is the unhinging of the wrist. And that's a common one that we'll see in most

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body powered swings.

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Now what you'll see is from right about here somewhere around delivery position

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you'll see that there's a fair amount of unhinging of the wrist and the club is

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working more

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vertically down the screen than it's working out. So the body rotation will

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contribute to

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causing the club to go out that way across the screen, but it's the arms unhing

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ing that bring

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the club down. So if you tend to see that from about shaft parallel, somewhere

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right about here,

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if you tend to see that from here to impact is when you tend to get steep and

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you tend to struggle

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with more pulls or diggy contact, then it's likely the unhinging move that you

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have to practice.

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I have a few different drills that I like to use to work on it, but it's one of

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those key moves

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for creating shallowness down at the bottom of the swing. If we compare that to

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his wedge shot,

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you'll see that he has a similar amount of unhinging through here, but we'll

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see that there's a little

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less body drive and as a result in having less of the axis tilt, which we saw

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from that face-on view,

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we'll see that as he gets to impact, he's got a little bit earlier straight

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ening of the arm.

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He's using more of his arms and his shoulders as his power source, but still

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getting a pretty good

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amount of unhinged to help shallow things out, where over here, you could see

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that he still has some

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a fair amount of bend in that arm because he's powering it more with his lower

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body,

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but he still uses that unhinged movement in order to create some more shallown

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ess to his path.

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So if you want to hit the ball like Jason, work on unhinging of the wrist

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through the

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key time during the release and work on your body continuing to rotate on the

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way through.

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It's also important to understand that Jason is not the pinnacle of iron

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success. He's typically

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around 100th on tour as far as strokes gained with his approach shots, but he

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has had a few good

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years where he's done exceptionally well, but historically he tends to be

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around 100th.

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If you tend to get steep with your arm movements in transition, then know that

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you're going to have

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to shallow it out somewhere. One of the most common ways is what Jason

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demonstrates, which is

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moving the upper body away from the golf ball. If you want to understand your

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pattern better,

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then head over to GolfSmartAcademy.com. There, you'll learn about all the

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different key movements

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