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In this analysis video, we're going to do a quick comparison between Jim Furyk

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and Matt

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Wolf swing to see if they're really doing the same thing.

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So I see a lot of comparisons right now between Matt Wolf and Jim Furyk and I'm

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going to let

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these play through so that way if you're watching you can go through and use

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the little, the

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comma or period keys, you can frame back and forth and look at these swings and

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decide for

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yourself how similar they really are.

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Okay so from one perspective we can say that they both have a pretty big shall

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owing movement.

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We can see that the club kind of has some rotation there and then Matt Wolf

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swing, club has some

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rotation there.

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So there's a pretty big plane shift at the top of the swing, but that's pretty

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much where

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I think the similarities begin and end.

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If we look at Matt Wolf swing, we can see that there's not a lot of wrist

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movement and there's

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a lot of body movement to bring the club up to the top of swing.

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The body's happening from the hips and the trunk.

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When we look at Jim Furyk swing, we'll see that most of the body movement is

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done here

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in that first part of the takeaway.

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He doesn't have very much pelvis rotation.

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He doesn't have very much trunk rotation and he simply creates the height with

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the shoulders.

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Now because he hasn't rotated, if he was to then really rotate his body, he

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would get

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steep.

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Everything would come outside the line.

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So then he creates a big shallowing movement at the shoulder where Matt Wolf,

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because he

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had this big body rotation, his body can rotate and the shallowing movement is

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going to happen

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more at the wrist.

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He doesn't have to create this vertical arm movement of his shoulder on the way

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down.

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He can essentially keep the arms at a more consistent height compared to his

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body and

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then shallow with the wrist while his body rotates pretty hard.

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So if we look over here with Jim, we'll see again a really big arm.

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If we're looking at the height of the arm compared to the chest, we'll see that

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there's

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a really big drop down there through transition as his hips turn out of the way

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As his hips turn out of the way, you'll see that there's kind of a hinge or

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there's a

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lack of communication from the lower body going into his chest.

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So basically his chest stays fairly closed and then it has a pretty good right

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through

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there and then it has a pretty good rotation through impact where Matt Wolf

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does a great

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job of rotating his lower body and his trunk so he gets into a really good

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delivery position

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here and then he can go a little bit more vertical and really kind of fire

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those arms

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down through impact where because of Jim's position, he can't really fire those

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arms

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through impact.

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It's more of an arms or a long for the ride type situation.

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So while I think their engines are very different, some of the nuances of what

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makes them good

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at what they do is extremely different.

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I do want to highlight one little thing which is if you are going to have a

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really big shallow

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movement, you cannot have a lot of forearm tension.

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So we're going to key in on two places where we can see that both of these golf

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ers demonstrate

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softness especially in the right hand at the top of the swing.

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All right, so we're going to look from two different views but we're looking

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for what's

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going on with the right hand.

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So here with Matt Wolf, as I talked about in the driver analysis video, you'll

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see that

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right index finger open up and kind of come off the club and it's going to stay

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while

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the pressure of the index finger stays there, he's not gripping the club which

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would be

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more of a sign of some tension in that top side of that forearm.

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So by having that hand a little bit more soft and open, that allows for that

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rotation and

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then he kind of regrabs onto the club right around here.

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Okay, so now if we look at Jim Furek and we go to the down the line view and

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set the face

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on view, it's not going to show up exactly the same but as he does his shawling

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movement,

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you can see a gapping or a shadow appear between the right palm and the glove

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hand.

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In fact, when we get down to kind of in this zone here, you can see that a lot

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of that

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right palm has come off the club.

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And part of that is because with where his elbow is that far behind him, if he

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was to

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keep the hand in contact with the club and he had normal joint range of motion,

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the club

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would be steep.

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So the only way that he can have the arm behind and get that amount of shallown

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ess is to have

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the trail hand actually coming off the club.

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Well, if you're gripping really hard with that trail hand, you're probably not

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going

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to have it come off the club.

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And then he gets it to reattach kind of down in this zone here.

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So one big takeaway you can learn from studying these two golf swings is that

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if you want

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to have the club shallow in transition, you don't want to squeeze it really

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tight with

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that trail arm.

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But I want us to understand that simple plane shifts don't really indicate that

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every golfer

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is using their body the same way.

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I would say that Matt Wolf and Jim Fürich are demonstrating two very different

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looking

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golf swings.

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They have one common element that makes them easy to compare.

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But if you're trying to learn how to apply it and understand your own swing,

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you want

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to understand some of these nuances of what powers the swing.

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So how are they using the body?

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What helps them make solid contact?

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So how do they control their steeps in shallow balance?

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And then how do they hit it straight?

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How do they control the club face?

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If we're looking at it more from that framework, then these two have very

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different golf swings.