Francesco Molinari Swing Analysis
Francesco Molinari Swing Analysis
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Francesco Molinari is your 2018 Open Championship winner! In this swing analysis video, we'll go over the key points that make him such a consistent ball striker, and how you incorporate those into your own swing.
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Hey, what's up Rotary Swing Golfers?
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Welcome back to a brand new video this
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week. I'm RST instructor Chris Tyler. And
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this week, we are focusing in on the 2018
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British Open champion
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Francesco Molinari, who was able to play
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Carnoustie this entire weekend without
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making a bogey. Which is absolutely
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incredible. So congratulations to
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Francesco. We get a lot of write-ins and
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requests on ways to become more
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consistent in the golf swing. And
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Francesco's got a lot of key points in
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his swing that we're going to be focusing
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in on this week. So that you can start
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implementing those into your own swing
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and become a much better ball striker
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this year. So let's go ahead and get
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started now.
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Okay, So we're going to start off this
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video with one quick caveat by saying
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that not every single time that we do a
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tour analysis. Do these players have 100%
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of the RST fundamentals in place? But we
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are going to focus on some of the key
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points and some of the attributes that
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are very common with what we teach at
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Rotary Swing. So we're going to go ahead
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and look at Francesco's impact position
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very close up today, both face on and
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downline. So let's go ahead and get into
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the point of contact both down the line
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and face on. And the first thing that
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we're going to focus on from a face on
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perspective, And this is a really key
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point for a lot of you golfers out there
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trying to get control of the bottom of
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the swing arc, is the position of the
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lead shoulder. Your lead shoulder is
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going to be your primary pivot point in
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the golf swing. Okay, this is going to
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determine where the club wants to bottom
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out. Now, if the lead shoulder is
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perfectly stacked over on top of the left
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ankle, so you have the left ankle, left
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hip, left knee, and left shoulder all
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stacked right on top of one another, then
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we know the golf club, when both hands
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and arms are fully extended, is going to
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bottom out just inside the lead shoulder.
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So we would have the ball position just
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off of our left ear in order to be able
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to hit down on the golf ball and compress
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it. So now here's what I want you to
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think of. If this left shoulder moves
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back in this direction at all, what does
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that do to the bottom of the swing arm?
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Well, that shifts it back, right? And so
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when you shift the bottom of the swing
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arc further back in this direction, what
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does that force you to have to do with
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your hands? Well, it forces you to have
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to throw it a little bit earlier, so it's
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going to make it much harder for you to
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be able to maintain lag, can start making
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you really flip the club, can get you
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into some lackluster impact positions
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where you don't have forward shaft lean.
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So we really want to work to have the
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lead shoulder as close to being stacked
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on top of the left ankle as humanly
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possible. This is actually a very safe
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position that he's worked into, and it's
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also a good consistent position that
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allows us to control the bottom of the
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swing arc. So first thing being, position
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of the lead shoulder. Let's work on
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getting that stacked all the way on top
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of the left ankle.
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Now, second attribute, position of the
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lead wrist. Okay, when we are over onto
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our left side, we are looking to have
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this left wrist either flat or slightly
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bowed. What that's going to allow us to
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do is going to allow us to stay in
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control of the club. It's going to allow
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us to lean the shaft forward, which in
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turn is going to lead to compression.
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If we see our hands further back in this
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direction and the club head working in
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this direction, then we know that we've
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flipped it,
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going to be adding loft, Which generally,
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around 80% of the shot shape that you see
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in the air is going to be dictated by
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face angle. And the other 20% is dictated
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right around with the path. So if you're
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changing the face angle very quickly at
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the bottom of the arc, chances are you're
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going to have some erratic ball striking
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behavior. So first thing, position of the
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lead shoulder. Second thing, position of
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the lead wrist. Now, the third thing is
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the position of the spine. Being able to
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maintain spine angle throughout the
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entire golf swing, take away backswing,
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downswing, And even long into the follow
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-through is really critical, because
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that's going to keep us from having to
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make compensations with the hands and the
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arms. It's going to allow us not to have
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this carousel effect from our spine,
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where we're having to work on timing and
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get the spine back into its original
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position from where it started. So if I
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back this up to his starting point,
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you're going to see that his spine angle
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is exactly where it was when he started
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the golf swing.
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So you his spine angle down in the
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hitting area is right down here, his
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trail foot.
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You will see a lot of great ball strikers
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with their trail foot rolled in on the
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ground. You will not see them with their
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right foot kicked up. Now, you will see
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it with their driver swings where they
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have kicked the right foot up off the
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ground. Now, all that does, yes, we are
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working on leveraging the ground. We are
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working on using the right side to help
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kind of get things out of the way.
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And we are working to try to get the hips
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cleared out as much as humanly possible.
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But with an iron swing, what the right
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foot does is it helps us maintain
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posture. And it also allows us to stall
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the body and allow the hands and arms to
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work independently from the body at this
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point. So we can release the club for max
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speed at the bottom of the arm.
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Okay, guys, So those are the really key
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points of the body positions that you're
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going to be looking for when you get into
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impact. You're going to be looking for a
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good position of the lead shoulder. Then
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look for a good position of the lead
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wrist. And then you're going to look to
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make sure that you're maintaining spine
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by keeping that right foot down on the
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ground. So we've got some videos here to
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help you out with that. You've got the
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roll of the right foot in the downswing.
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We've got impact alignments face on and
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impact alignments down the line. Check
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those videos out. Let's work on getting
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those those body positions all sorted out
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this year. And I guarantee you'll start
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hitting the ball much, much better.
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