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In this analysis video, we're gonna take a look at the swing of John Rahm.

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Now John Rahm was the number one ranked amateur golfer.

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He recently turned pro and had some great success in his first event.

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While his swing may appear unconventional at first,

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we're gonna take a look at how he demonstrates a lot of classic pieces

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in a way that may be easy for you to implement in your own game.

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So John Rahm just had a pretty nice showing for his first professional

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tournament.

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After a really stellar amateur career,

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he finished tied for third at the quick and lones last week.

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Now I'm gonna show you that while his swing looks short, his swing looks flat,

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he's got a big bowed wrist at the top of the swing.

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We're gonna see that he demonstrates a lot of the classic movements

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such as very good sequencing, good arm shallowing,

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great timing of the arm movements,

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as well as a near-perfect follow-through position,

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especially if you want to be a good driver of the golf ball.

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So by understanding those pieces, hopefully you'll be able to see how you can

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apply

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some of what he does so well to your own game.

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Now, one of the common questions that we get on our site

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is relating to the motorcycle movement and the arm shallowing.

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A lot of golfers do them dynamically in transition,

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and there's some advantages to doing that.

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But at least once a month or so, we'll get the question of

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can I just bow the wrist at the top of the swing and pretty much hold on to it

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there?

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John Rahm is a golfer who kind of demonstrates

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pre-setting some of those movements up towards the top of the swing,

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and then using really good body sequencing in the downswing

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in order to make those pieces just work.

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So he demonstrates a shorter arm movement with a already bowed or motorcycle

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lead wrist

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and a fairly shallow or flat shaft plane up at the top of the swing.

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So he's kind of preset some of the good pieces of the delivery position

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or some of the good pieces during the initial arm movements

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that you would want to see in transition.

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Since he's preset those movements during the downswing,

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all he has to really focus on is turning his body,

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kind of staying in his spine angle or spine position,

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and then timing the sequencing with the arm movements as he approaches impact.

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So he's another really good driver of the golf ball, typically,

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and we'll see that he demonstrates very late trail arm straightening.

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So if you look between, say, arm parallel and about shaft 45 before impact,

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you'll see that this movement through here is largely body dominated.

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You can see that his arms are doing some things, but it's largely body

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dominated.

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So by using his body that late in the downswing,

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you'll see that that allows him to get a really good impact position

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where he's got his body rotated side bend pointing out in front of the target

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with a good amount of flex in that trail elbow,

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and you'll see that he straightens his arms on the way through.

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That'll be easier for us to see when we look at this face-on view over here on

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the right.

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While he didn't hit this particular shot very well,

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you can see that he demonstrates really good sequencing from this 3/4 view.

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You can see that his lower body and his core are largely leading the downswing,

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and we know that he's not going to have to do a whole lot of arm movement

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or kind of arm timing movements since he preset a lot of that to end his back

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swing.

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But we will be able to see some of the really good pieces of his follow-through

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position

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from this 3/4 face-on view.

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So as he approaches impact, you can see that his body is rotated inside bend

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and he's pointing out in front of the golf ball, roughly about 30 degrees or so

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And then you'll see through impact he's going to have great timing of that arm

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extension.

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He's going to let his arms fully extend so that they're getting as wide away

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from him as possible.

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Even though he's technically pulling in because his body has executed a very

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good bracing movement,

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you see that the lack of tension in his arms allows them to get into this near

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straight,

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very good follow-through position.

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From the down-the-line view, you'll see that position looking very good from

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this view as well.

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Now we're going to highlight one little key in this down-the-line view

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that you may not have noticed at first glance looking at his swing

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that is actually a trademark of a number of really good ball strikers.

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And it has to do with the grip pressure that he's likely demonstrating at

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impact.

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So now as we zoom in on this down-the-line view and we investigate further into

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the release,

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you're going to see that he gets into that tremendous lead-risk bowed position.

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But while he's in this bowed position, you can see that the club is not

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severely closed

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the way most of you would have it.

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Part of that is because he's already executed some of the right side bend

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and is executing a really good white movement where his arms are working across

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his body.

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As he does that, that's going to delay the closing of the club face.

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So even though he's bowed his lead-risk, the club face is not significantly

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closed.

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Now this is the position that would scare most amateur golfers because with

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that amount of bow of the lead-risk,

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if I then, or if John were to then straighten that arm to get to impact,

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this would be a low pull hook.

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But because he's powering this movement through here more with body rotation,

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that lead-risk is going to work out great for both controlling the club face,

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as well as getting the wide point well after impact.

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So one of the things that we can see from the down-the-line view is the

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movement of his hands through the release.

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Now one of the interesting things you'll see here that a number of good golfers

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do

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is you'll see that the right hand is actually coming off of the grip through

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the release.

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If the club was to stay up against the right hand and he was to do the same

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movement,

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the club head would actually be somewhere over on, kind of in this zone,

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kind of somewhere along that line on screen.

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Basically the club would be swinging much more to the left,

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but because he's letting that right hand off the club,

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he's allowed himself to have a much better path of the club through that

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release.

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And then you'll see that there's an interesting movement where the grip starts

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moving this way

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as his hands come back together.

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So he's basically not really having a whole lot of right hand pressure on the

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club.

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The left arm is kind of dominating this release,

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and then right around here where the club is pulling away from him,

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he's going to start activating the muscles of the right side in order to help

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slow it down,

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and that's going to pull the butt end of the club out that way.

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So if you have a tendency to have a lot of grip pressure with the right hand,

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a great way to work on this is to practice some lead arm only half swings.

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We have a couple different versions of the lead arm only half swing on our site

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,

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and they kind of really help you dial in this good, effective release

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that has allowed John Rahm to have such a great amateur career,

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as well as initial start to his PGA Tour career.

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succeed with their swings

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