Swing Analysis - Jim Furyk
Jim Furyk has one of the most recognizable swings in all of golf. Learn about the two key movements, the Jim Furyk loop and his drop in the follow through to see why his swing works the way that it does.
Jim Furyk has one of the most recognizable swings in all of golf. Learn about the two key movements, the Jim Furyk loop and his drop in the follow through to see why his swing works the way that it does.
Video Transcript
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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at one of my favorite swings
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on tour,
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the one of Jim Fürich.
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Now Jim Fürich is currently the sixth ranked player in the world.
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At the age of 44, he has amassed $61 million on the PGA Tour, which is fourth
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all time.
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And last year, he made 21 out of 21 cuts and had 11 top 10s.
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This is all very impressive for a swing that has been called Unconventional and
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Unorthodox.
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We're going to break down a couple key movements that make his swing the way
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that it looks
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and then talk about what we would work on if he came to us and wanted to
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improve something
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in his swing.
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So the two unique movements that kind of make Jim swing his are the loop in the
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backswing
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and the dip in the release or in the follow through.
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So let's take a look at those two movements and talk about how, why he may be
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doing them
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and then what's going on possibly within his body.
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So if we take his swing back to kind of that first checkpoint as far as the
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takeaway goes,
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everything looks more or less normal.
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The club faces a little bit close compared to what you would typically see, but
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for the
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most part, that was a pretty one piece takeaway with good stable lower body,
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not a lot of changes
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in his pivot, everything's looking great.
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Now from here, what you'll see is instead of continuing to rotate his body, his
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arms basically
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work straight vertical.
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In fact, the club, if you were to draw a line actually works slightly out
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towards the golf
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ball as he gets up towards the top of the swing.
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But if this was to be more of a classic looking swing, all you would have to do
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is rotate
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his hips, rotate his thorax, and let that arm work into more external rotation.
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That combination would bring the left arm across his chest and the golf club
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way over
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here.
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But there's a very good chance we may have never heard of him if he had gone
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that route.
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We can see it from the face on view that during that phase when he's lifting
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the club, you'll
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see a little bit of pelvis sway where his belt buckle and his hip are actually
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moving away
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from the target.
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Now if you remember, or if you check out our sway section, we talk about how
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the sway of
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the pelvis can be a big power source if you're using your lat as your primary
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driver for
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creating speed.
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So what he does with this lower body sets up using this lat pull down in that
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left shoulder
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as a main power source as opposed to the right hip in core, we'll get into how
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he shows that
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that may be even more so the case in his particular situation.
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So then from the top of the swing, you're going to see a pretty dramatic shift.
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You'll see that the club that was way up high and elevated is going to flatten.
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This is an exaggeration of the shallowing movements that we create or that we
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try to
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create in transition.
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So he is essentially using the left arm and the right arm transition moves that
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we talk
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about as well as the combo of the Zorro loops, but he's doing it at a great
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scale.
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In fact, I like to use him as an example of the upper limit of how much you can
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actually
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feel or how much you can actually do that.
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Now if we get him to delivery position, somewhere in here, the only thing that
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looks relatively
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odd is he's lost a little bit of his posture in his right elbow is more or less
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behind
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the center of his body.
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But compare that to what's going on with a lot of other golf swings on door and
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you'd
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see that there's not too big of a difference.
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In fact, we'll take a look at comparing him to someone like, say, Roy McElroy
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so that
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you can see that where the club is and how it relates to the body isn't going
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to be
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that dramatically different down at this point.
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What will be dramatically different is how he's powering the golf swing.
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So then from this position, you'll see him continue rotating and side bending
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and he
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does an amazing job of not releasing the angles of his arms until he makes
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contact with the
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golf ball.
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What we would see with most amateurs is if they were having that big arm
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movement during
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transition and that elbow getting stuck behind his body like so, right about
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here, you would
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tend to see that right arm and that right wrist start straightening and
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extending.
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That would get the club far away from him and he would hit it fat if he
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maintained the
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body position the way Jim does.
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So what most amateurs would do is as those arms are extending that way, the
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body would
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be backing up this way.
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What's unique and special about what Jim does is even though his arms probably
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have an impulse
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of wanting to extend, he does a great job of not letting them and he uses his
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body to
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continue powering the swing until he gets down right before impact and then he
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's allowed
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to let his arms extend through the shot.
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One of the 3D graphs that I look at is arc width, which is the distance between
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the thorax
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and the hands.
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This is one of the graphs that I use as a predictor of consistency.
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From what I've seen, Jim has one of the best and most or latest peaks in his
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arc width
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graph, which I think is a testament because everybody who I've seen who has a
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very late
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peak in that arc width graph tends to have very consistent ball striking
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statistics.
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Now the other movement that's a little bit unique for Jim is as he comes
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through, you'll
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see the little drop or the little buckle movement.
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From the down the line view, we can take a look and we'll see right about there
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his
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body just, his pelvis drops and his body sort of collapses a little bit.
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Now what he's doing there is he's trying to find stability.
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Now we're going to take a look at it from at his swing from more of a biomechan
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ics point
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view or a kinesiology point of view really and let's see how he's not utilizing
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his hips
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and perhaps why he has both this drop and the buckle.
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So now let's compare Jim with Rory, since they have similar kind of transition
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movements.
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They're definitely different animals, but you'll see that Rory has a tendency
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of getting
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that elbow a little bit more along his side or towards his back as opposed to
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some other
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players.
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So if we get them both down towards this delivery position, you'll see that
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there's
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a lot of similarities in terms of their arm positions, Jim actually has a
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little bit more
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turn at this point, what we'll see is that as we come through, so as I go
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towards the
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release, notice how we can see the entire backside of Jim's knee and we can see
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the
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vast majority of his pelvis.
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So when we get Rory to about the same point just after impact, you can see that
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we can
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see about the same amount of his pelvis, but his knee is actually pointing much
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further
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behind the ball.
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Let's look at it from face on and it'll help explain what I'm talking about
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when I say
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that Jim is not necessarily using his hips as well as some of the longer
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hitters.
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So now from the face on view, let's take a look at the hips versus the legs and
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how
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they can influence the pelvis.
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So I want you to pay attention to two different areas as we look at Jim's down
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swing.
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So we're going to look at area one is kind of below the knees and area two is
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more at
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the hip.
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So we can get a good idea as far as hip rotation, not to any real degree, but
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we can get a rough
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idea as to how much he's rotated his hips by looking at where is his knee
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pointing and
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where is his belt buckle pointing.
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When they're pointing in the same direction, there's essentially zero hip
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rotation.
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If this belt buckle was pointed at the target and his knee was still pointed at
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us, that
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would be 90 degrees of hip rotation.
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So as we look into the downswing, you'll see that his knee and his belt buckle
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stay pointed
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roughly in the same direction for a long period of time.
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So you'll see that the majority of his movement was happening actually at the
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ankle and below
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the knee.
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Whereas if we look at those two areas over here on Roy McElroy, you'll see that
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his knee
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is pointed somewhere out in that area and his belt buckle is already pointing
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close towards
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the target as we saw from that down the line view.
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So he has a lot more activity going on in his trail hip, getting external
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rotation and
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in his lead hip, possibly getting internal rotation.
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So what happens is as a result, when he goes through to his waist height finish
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, you'll
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see that he's stabilizing the speed of the club with the big muscles of his gl
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utes and
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his abs and all these muscles in his core.
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The reason Jim has that little buckle is because he's not really using his gl
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utes as a major
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stabilizer.
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So then what he has to do is recruit muscles in his leg or his thighs in his
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hip flexor.
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And when he recruits those muscles, they pull him into hip flexion, knee flex
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ion, which
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pulls him down just like so and gives him that appearance of a little drop.
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So we have two indicators, one in the backswing where he doesn't rotate his
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hips very much,
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and then two in the release where he doesn't use his hips very much.
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But he has a lot of good athleticism in getting his body into the right
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positions.
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He just does it using some of the smaller muscles in his ankles and then some
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of the
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bigger muscles in his shoulders.
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Now while Jim has a few oddities with his movement, let's talk about some of
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the things
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that are consistent with his move as well as some of the other elite ball
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strikers.
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So he does a great job of sequencing his body on the downswing, letting the
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majority
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of his speed be transferred through the pelvis and into that left shoulder.
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And while he's doing this little drop move, he does a great job of starting to
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square
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the club face.
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So you can see that when the club faces up towards the top of the swing,
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essentially
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the club is pointing or laying in the same direction as the club shaft.
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Well as he starts down, he's going to start doing that motorcycle move that we
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teach during
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transition at the top of the swing so that when he gets to about waist height,
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the club
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is already starting to point in the general direction of the target.
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A lot of golfers who are a lot of amateur golfers who get that elbow way behind
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them like so
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would actually have that lead wrist going into extension and so the club face
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would
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be pointing more up towards the sky or in an open position.
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If that club face were pointed more up towards the sky, then the only way he
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would be able
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to get that square would be to release that trail arm early and possibly stand
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up.
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And Jim has squared or started squaring the club face with his wrist and gets
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everything
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into a great delivery position so that he can continue rotating, continue
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sequencing
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his body and get really good arm extension through the ball.
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So if Jim were to come to us, we would probably tell him that given his ball
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striking statistics
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and giving his putting statistics, we probably would want to spend more time
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working on putting
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and less time working on ball striking since he was third in strokes gained
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from T to
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green.
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But Jim is ultimately the customer so if he were to tell us that we absolutely
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have to
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help him with his golf swing, there are two things that we would potentially
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work on.
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Since he at the Olympic club and a number of other times once in the Ryder Cup,
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I forget
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which course, but he's had some issues with getting hooks late in rounds on
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Sunday under
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pressure.
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Now, there's a couple things that can lead towards that one would be having
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that trail
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elbow a little bit more behind him like so.
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When he goes to release the club, it's going to cause an external or internal
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rotation
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of the shoulder which can close the club face.
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Let's take a look at a close up view of that so you see what I mean.
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So this is a great clip that shows that trail elbow action that we're talking
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about or trail
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shoulder action that we're talking about.
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So as he goes into this release, you can see that elbow working a little bit
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out away from
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his body in what we call internal rotation.
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So you can see that shoulder is rotating in that direction like so.
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If he continued to battle hooks, what we would probably want to work on is that
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elbow working
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a little bit more out in front of his body which would require a little bit
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more stability
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in that lead hip and a little bit more of that external rotation in that trail
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hip.
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Now we're not quite sure if he has any issues with that trail hip external
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rotation.
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We would want to screen that in the gym if we had the chance or ask him to
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perform a
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overhead deep squat.
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We'd be able to possibly investigate and figure out what's going on with that
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pelvis
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and how we can get the hips to work better.
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But from a technical standpoint, just getting that elbow to work a little bit
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more across
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could potentially help him especially under pressure.
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That being said, he is currently one of my favorite swings on tour because it
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looks goofy
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until you break it down and you see that he does a lot of the key movements and
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key objectives
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that we prescribe in our system and that's part of the reason why he is third
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in strokes
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gained from T to green and just one of the most consistent ball strikers on
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tour over
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the last decade.
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If you like the way we break down the swing and you want to have your swing
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broken down,
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Ask Mulligan for helpSwing Analysis - Jim Furyk
Jim Furyk has one of the most recognizable swings in all of golf. Learn about the two key movements, the Jim Furyk loop and his drop in the follow through to see why his swing works the way that it does.
Jim Furyk has one of the most recognizable swings in all of golf. Learn about the two key movements, the Jim Furyk loop and his drop in the follow through to see why his swing works the way that it does.
Video Transcript
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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at one of my favorite swings
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on tour,
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the one of Jim Fürich.
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Now Jim Fürich is currently the sixth ranked player in the world.
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At the age of 44, he has amassed $61 million on the PGA Tour, which is fourth
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all time.
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And last year, he made 21 out of 21 cuts and had 11 top 10s.
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This is all very impressive for a swing that has been called Unconventional and
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Unorthodox.
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We're going to break down a couple key movements that make his swing the way
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that it looks
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and then talk about what we would work on if he came to us and wanted to
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improve something
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in his swing.
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So the two unique movements that kind of make Jim swing his are the loop in the
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backswing
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and the dip in the release or in the follow through.
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So let's take a look at those two movements and talk about how, why he may be
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doing them
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and then what's going on possibly within his body.
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So if we take his swing back to kind of that first checkpoint as far as the
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takeaway goes,
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everything looks more or less normal.
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The club faces a little bit close compared to what you would typically see, but
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for the
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most part, that was a pretty one piece takeaway with good stable lower body,
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not a lot of changes
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in his pivot, everything's looking great.
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Now from here, what you'll see is instead of continuing to rotate his body, his
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arms basically
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work straight vertical.
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In fact, the club, if you were to draw a line actually works slightly out
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towards the golf
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ball as he gets up towards the top of the swing.
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But if this was to be more of a classic looking swing, all you would have to do
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is rotate
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his hips, rotate his thorax, and let that arm work into more external rotation.
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That combination would bring the left arm across his chest and the golf club
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way over
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here.
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But there's a very good chance we may have never heard of him if he had gone
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that route.
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We can see it from the face on view that during that phase when he's lifting
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the club, you'll
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see a little bit of pelvis sway where his belt buckle and his hip are actually
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moving away
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from the target.
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Now if you remember, or if you check out our sway section, we talk about how
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the sway of
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the pelvis can be a big power source if you're using your lat as your primary
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driver for
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creating speed.
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So what he does with this lower body sets up using this lat pull down in that
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left shoulder
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as a main power source as opposed to the right hip in core, we'll get into how
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he shows that
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that may be even more so the case in his particular situation.
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So then from the top of the swing, you're going to see a pretty dramatic shift.
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You'll see that the club that was way up high and elevated is going to flatten.
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This is an exaggeration of the shallowing movements that we create or that we
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try to
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create in transition.
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So he is essentially using the left arm and the right arm transition moves that
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we talk
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about as well as the combo of the Zorro loops, but he's doing it at a great
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scale.
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In fact, I like to use him as an example of the upper limit of how much you can
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actually
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feel or how much you can actually do that.
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Now if we get him to delivery position, somewhere in here, the only thing that
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looks relatively
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odd is he's lost a little bit of his posture in his right elbow is more or less
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behind
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the center of his body.
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But compare that to what's going on with a lot of other golf swings on door and
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you'd
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see that there's not too big of a difference.
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In fact, we'll take a look at comparing him to someone like, say, Roy McElroy
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so that
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you can see that where the club is and how it relates to the body isn't going
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to be
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that dramatically different down at this point.
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What will be dramatically different is how he's powering the golf swing.
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So then from this position, you'll see him continue rotating and side bending
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and he
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does an amazing job of not releasing the angles of his arms until he makes
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contact with the
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golf ball.
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What we would see with most amateurs is if they were having that big arm
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movement during
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transition and that elbow getting stuck behind his body like so, right about
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here, you would
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tend to see that right arm and that right wrist start straightening and
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extending.
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That would get the club far away from him and he would hit it fat if he
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maintained the
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body position the way Jim does.
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So what most amateurs would do is as those arms are extending that way, the
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body would
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be backing up this way.
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What's unique and special about what Jim does is even though his arms probably
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have an impulse
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of wanting to extend, he does a great job of not letting them and he uses his
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body to
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continue powering the swing until he gets down right before impact and then he
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's allowed
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to let his arms extend through the shot.
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One of the 3D graphs that I look at is arc width, which is the distance between
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the thorax
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and the hands.
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This is one of the graphs that I use as a predictor of consistency.
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From what I've seen, Jim has one of the best and most or latest peaks in his
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arc width
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graph, which I think is a testament because everybody who I've seen who has a
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very late
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peak in that arc width graph tends to have very consistent ball striking
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statistics.
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Now the other movement that's a little bit unique for Jim is as he comes
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through, you'll
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see the little drop or the little buckle movement.
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From the down the line view, we can take a look and we'll see right about there
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his
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body just, his pelvis drops and his body sort of collapses a little bit.
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Now what he's doing there is he's trying to find stability.
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Now we're going to take a look at it from at his swing from more of a biomechan
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ics point
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view or a kinesiology point of view really and let's see how he's not utilizing
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his hips
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and perhaps why he has both this drop and the buckle.
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So now let's compare Jim with Rory, since they have similar kind of transition
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movements.
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They're definitely different animals, but you'll see that Rory has a tendency
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of getting
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that elbow a little bit more along his side or towards his back as opposed to
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some other
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players.
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So if we get them both down towards this delivery position, you'll see that
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there's
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a lot of similarities in terms of their arm positions, Jim actually has a
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little bit more
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turn at this point, what we'll see is that as we come through, so as I go
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towards the
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release, notice how we can see the entire backside of Jim's knee and we can see
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the
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vast majority of his pelvis.
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So when we get Rory to about the same point just after impact, you can see that
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we can
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see about the same amount of his pelvis, but his knee is actually pointing much
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further
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behind the ball.
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Let's look at it from face on and it'll help explain what I'm talking about
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when I say
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that Jim is not necessarily using his hips as well as some of the longer
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hitters.
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So now from the face on view, let's take a look at the hips versus the legs and
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how
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they can influence the pelvis.
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So I want you to pay attention to two different areas as we look at Jim's down
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swing.
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So we're going to look at area one is kind of below the knees and area two is
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more at
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the hip.
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So we can get a good idea as far as hip rotation, not to any real degree, but
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we can get a rough
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idea as to how much he's rotated his hips by looking at where is his knee
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pointing and
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where is his belt buckle pointing.
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When they're pointing in the same direction, there's essentially zero hip
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rotation.
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If this belt buckle was pointed at the target and his knee was still pointed at
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us, that
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would be 90 degrees of hip rotation.
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So as we look into the downswing, you'll see that his knee and his belt buckle
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stay pointed
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roughly in the same direction for a long period of time.
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So you'll see that the majority of his movement was happening actually at the
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ankle and below
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the knee.
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Whereas if we look at those two areas over here on Roy McElroy, you'll see that
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his knee
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is pointed somewhere out in that area and his belt buckle is already pointing
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close towards
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the target as we saw from that down the line view.
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So he has a lot more activity going on in his trail hip, getting external
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rotation and
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in his lead hip, possibly getting internal rotation.
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So what happens is as a result, when he goes through to his waist height finish
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, you'll
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see that he's stabilizing the speed of the club with the big muscles of his gl
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utes and
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his abs and all these muscles in his core.
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The reason Jim has that little buckle is because he's not really using his gl
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utes as a major
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stabilizer.
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So then what he has to do is recruit muscles in his leg or his thighs in his
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hip flexor.
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And when he recruits those muscles, they pull him into hip flexion, knee flex
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ion, which
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pulls him down just like so and gives him that appearance of a little drop.
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So we have two indicators, one in the backswing where he doesn't rotate his
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hips very much,
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and then two in the release where he doesn't use his hips very much.
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But he has a lot of good athleticism in getting his body into the right
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positions.
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He just does it using some of the smaller muscles in his ankles and then some
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of the
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bigger muscles in his shoulders.
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Now while Jim has a few oddities with his movement, let's talk about some of
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the things
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that are consistent with his move as well as some of the other elite ball
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strikers.
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So he does a great job of sequencing his body on the downswing, letting the
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majority
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of his speed be transferred through the pelvis and into that left shoulder.
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And while he's doing this little drop move, he does a great job of starting to
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square
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the club face.
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So you can see that when the club faces up towards the top of the swing,
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essentially
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the club is pointing or laying in the same direction as the club shaft.
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Well as he starts down, he's going to start doing that motorcycle move that we
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teach during
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transition at the top of the swing so that when he gets to about waist height,
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the club
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is already starting to point in the general direction of the target.
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A lot of golfers who are a lot of amateur golfers who get that elbow way behind
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them like so
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would actually have that lead wrist going into extension and so the club face
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would
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be pointing more up towards the sky or in an open position.
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If that club face were pointed more up towards the sky, then the only way he
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would be able
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to get that square would be to release that trail arm early and possibly stand
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up.
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And Jim has squared or started squaring the club face with his wrist and gets
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everything
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into a great delivery position so that he can continue rotating, continue
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sequencing
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his body and get really good arm extension through the ball.
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So if Jim were to come to us, we would probably tell him that given his ball
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striking statistics
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and giving his putting statistics, we probably would want to spend more time
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working on putting
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and less time working on ball striking since he was third in strokes gained
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from T to
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green.
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But Jim is ultimately the customer so if he were to tell us that we absolutely
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have to
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help him with his golf swing, there are two things that we would potentially
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work on.
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Since he at the Olympic club and a number of other times once in the Ryder Cup,
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I forget
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which course, but he's had some issues with getting hooks late in rounds on
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Sunday under
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pressure.
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Now, there's a couple things that can lead towards that one would be having
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that trail
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elbow a little bit more behind him like so.
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When he goes to release the club, it's going to cause an external or internal
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rotation
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of the shoulder which can close the club face.
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Let's take a look at a close up view of that so you see what I mean.
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So this is a great clip that shows that trail elbow action that we're talking
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about or trail
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shoulder action that we're talking about.
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So as he goes into this release, you can see that elbow working a little bit
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out away from
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his body in what we call internal rotation.
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So you can see that shoulder is rotating in that direction like so.
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If he continued to battle hooks, what we would probably want to work on is that
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elbow working
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a little bit more out in front of his body which would require a little bit
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more stability
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in that lead hip and a little bit more of that external rotation in that trail
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hip.
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Now we're not quite sure if he has any issues with that trail hip external
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rotation.
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We would want to screen that in the gym if we had the chance or ask him to
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perform a
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overhead deep squat.
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We'd be able to possibly investigate and figure out what's going on with that
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pelvis
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and how we can get the hips to work better.
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But from a technical standpoint, just getting that elbow to work a little bit
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more across
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could potentially help him especially under pressure.
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That being said, he is currently one of my favorite swings on tour because it
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looks goofy
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until you break it down and you see that he does a lot of the key movements and
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key objectives
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that we prescribe in our system and that's part of the reason why he is third
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in strokes
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gained from T to green and just one of the most consistent ball strikers on
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tour over
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the last decade.
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