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In this analysis video we're going to take a look at Patrick Reed. Now Patrick

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Reed is one of the young stars on tour. He is currently fourth in the FedEx

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Cup and 15th in the world ranking and he is 20th in strokes gain T degree and

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21st in strokes game putting. So he's got a pretty good well-rounded game but

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we're going to talk about some of the idiosyncrasies of his swing and how

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they help explain some of his driving accuracy problems and why he's such a

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good bunker player. So stay tuned we're going to take a look at what makes his

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swing work and how you can apply some of it to your own game. When I do these

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analysis I think it's important that we focus on the things that kind of look

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weird or the idiosyncrasies of his swing and talking about why they work

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because all of these tour golfers are going to have pretty good swing paths

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pretty good face control you know compared to the average golfer. They're

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going to have very good sequencing there's going to be a lot more similarities.

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So

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when we start with Patrick Reed we're going to look at the transition and the

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release because that's where we see a lot of the weird moves. One of my

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favorite lines is what looks weird and what is this doing for the golfer. So if

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we take a look at the face-on view you'll see that the first thing that looks

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weird

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in his transition is his right leg tends to straighten and his left foot tends

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to

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replay it in a more closed position. So here he was at the top of the swing and

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you can see that his lead foot is pointed slightly out that way and then a few

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frames later it's pointed pretty much at the golf ball. Now during the release

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what's going to look weird is that he's going to basically have that left foot

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spin and move behind him as he releases the club. So from this face-on view it

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a little better frame rate you'll be able to see there's that straightening of

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the

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leg he's replanting his foot in a little bit more closed position and then as

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comes down and through the release you can watch there's the toe of his left

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foot and as he comes through you can see that the toe of his left foot is now

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somewhere back there. So why would this golfer have this little replanting with

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the feet and then change of movement during the release? That's what we're

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going to discuss so that you can understand how he is able to get the

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club to swing the way that he does. So if we jump back to transition and we

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look

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at the engine of his swing you can see that his lower body tends to rotate

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relatively quickly and compared to his left foot he doesn't seem to have very

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much lateral movement of the lower body. So from the down-the-line view that

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would give the appearance that his hips are going to be more level here then

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you

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know someone who has a little bit more of the axis tilt or hip slide. So there

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a couple reasons that he might be doing that but one of the most likely is if

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we take a look at the face-on when he when he does this little hip rotation

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move we'll see in a later video that he's going to be shallowing out the club

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with his arms a pretty good amount. So in order to get the the path right he's

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going to have to have a certain amount of steeps and a certain amount of

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shallows. Now because his upper body is pretty much on top of his lower body

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that's going to inherently add a little bit of a steep. So in order to prevent

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that he's going to keep or I guess in order to balance that he's going to keep

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more of his mass in his upper body behind the golf ball. Now because of that

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the left foot is basic or the yeah the left foot is going to be more

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unweighted at impact and it's going to have freedom to kind of slide and rotate

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as he goes through. Now the one of the questions is always well why doesn't he

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have more of this lateral movement so that he would have more of a look like

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that as he came into the ball instead of straight up and down. Well part of

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what

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I see going on with his movement is when he if he was more side bent here as we

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looking at this down the line if he was more side bent here and he had a little

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bit more of that hip bump then in order to have the same path you would have to

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have the arms work a little bit more across his body the white movement that

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we describe on our site. Now Patrick Reed is one of the a larger golfer and

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he's got a little bit more mass in his stomach and so that white movement would

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be very very difficult so you will tend to see with golfers who are a little

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stockier like this that they're going to have more of a rotational movement and

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not take advantage of some of the the lower body translations. Now part of

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that will show up in his some of his statistics so he is currently a hundred

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90th in driving accuracy and when it comes to club that speed he's 29th but his

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total rank in distance is 73rd so there are a number of guys who don't swing

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the

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club as fast as he does but get more out of it as far as the launch

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characteristics and part of that is going to be because of this lack of tilt

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how that relates to the longer swing but that's also part of the reason why he

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does pretty well with the the wedges his iron ranking is higher than his driver

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ranking so he would fit into more of a stacked type swing not stacked until but

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stacked as in his upper body is more on top of his lower body he doesn't have a

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huge amount of that access till so he's gonna struggle a little bit with the

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path with the driver as well as maximizing his distance. Now let's talk a

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little bit about how he shallows the club during transition because I think

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that's one of the key movements that makes him one of the more promising

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rising star. So here we have a great close-up with a good frame rate of

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Patrick Reed going into his transition so we know that the lower body is going

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to do a little straightening pivot move but I what I want you to look at is I

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want you to look at the movement of his arms and shoulders so just as a

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reference line not giving you any amount that you should be striving for you

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can

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see where he has the club there now as he starts going up towards the or as

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he's ending his backswing in kind of starting transition you'll see that the

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the club has already started to shallow out slightly and now as he starts down

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you can see that it's shallowing out even more so one of the things that we

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talk about with the arm shallowing is this difference between the club moving

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or the grip of the club moving straight down versus moving more out you can see

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that Patrick does a great job in transition of getting the club to shallow

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and move more out so now because he has the arms in a very good shallow

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position

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he can get away with having his body in a little bit more steep or a little bit

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more stacked version and just rotate around because most of the shallowing

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has happened from the arms with a little bit of shallowing happening from the

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body backing up now that's also part of the reason why he appears to have that

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that stall through impact to allow the the club to kind of tumble and catch up

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but the the shallow piece that he does in transition is really beautiful and

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part of the reason why I think he has had the success that he has had but that

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also part of the reason why he's able to hit the ball with as much curve or as

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much draw as he tends to so it's one of those catch 22s or I guess one of those

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trade-offs of how much you want to draw the ball how much you want to have the

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ability to shape your shots Patrick Reed has his pattern figured out and he

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