Henrik Stenson's Backswing Moves
Henrik Stenson's Backswing Moves
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See how Henrik Stenson's idiosyncrasies work in his powerful golf swing.
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Good Friday, good Friday morning Rotary
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Swing Golfers.
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Chuck Quinton here, going to discuss
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Henrik Stinson's swing, who's currently
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leading the second round of the 2018 Bay
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Hill Championship. And I want to talk
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about what you can learn from his
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backswing, since we're covering backswing
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stuff this week. And what you're going to
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see is a lot of idiosyncrasies in
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Henrik's swings that still, believe it or
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not, are RST fundamentals. He's just
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doing them a little bit more disjointed,
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let's say. What do I mean by that? Well,
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let's take a look. So first things, we're
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going to focus primarily just on the
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backswing here. I'm not going to get into
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every single little detail here. But at
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setup, he has quite a nice looking setup.
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A little bit of forward shaft, and he
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obviously has a pretty big forward press
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that we're going to see in a second. But
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the things I want to focus on are really
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what his body's doing. That's the most
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important thing that we're going to
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discuss first. So we're going to draw a
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line on the outside of his head and on
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his right hip. Now, let's move him
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forward and watch what happens.
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So he adds this little forward press, and
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now watch his massive weight shift. Now,
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as you know, the first step, an RST five
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step, is learning how to shift your
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weight properly. It's the crux of the
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golf swing for amateur golfers. And so
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there's nothing more important that you
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need to learn first is how to shift your
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weight. So Henrik's definitely doing
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that, but to the nth degree and then
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some. We always want to focus on keeping
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that right hip line in the same spot. So
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it looks like, from this view, face-on,
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that the right hip never moves. Now,
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technically, it's moving back away from
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the target and back away from the target
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line from the ball. So it's moving
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diagonally. The hips are moving
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diagonally back this way towards this
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gentleman back here in the swing. And
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that's what creates the illusion of the
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right hip staying on there. But he's
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moving a lot laterally. You can see his
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head's moved a good six inches off the
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ball. His hips have moved a great, you
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know, another two or three inches. It's
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pretty significant. It is weight
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transfer. Now, one of the questions I get
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asked all the time for golfers who
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struggle with weight shift, Knowing how
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important it is to move dynamically and
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get that weight shifted to the right to
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help get you going back to the left, can
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you just start with your weight on the
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right?
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Technically, sure you can. Now, it's not
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as dynamic, but you can still create a
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tremendous amount of power. We're going
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to see how Henrik does that because he's
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effectively doing that. He's essentially
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starting with all his weight on his right
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side, way back behind the ball, big
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forward press. And now, as he starts
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going back, he starts doing other solid
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rotary swing fundamentals. We talked
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about the takeaway last week. If you look
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at this takeaway, this is exactly what we
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were showing you. We want to see the
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buttons on the shirt moving if that golf
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club's moving. In other words, if the
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club's moving, it's because you're
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turning. That's our goal. That's what
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keeps this right arm nice and straight
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during the backswing, whereas so many
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other amateurs look like this already,
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the huge hinge of that right elbow.
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So we want to make sure that you're
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turning your body to move the club, not
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just moving it with your weak arms and
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hands, which is going to make you wildly
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inconsistent.
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So he's made a great turn. He keeps
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turning. Notice how those buttons on his
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shirt still rotate. And how do we know
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when the backswing's done with rotary
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swing? We want to start to see that right
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shoulder blade on the left side of your
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head, which we can start to see it poking
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out here. That's a full turn. We don't
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need any more. We're ready to start going
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the other direction. And so as he does
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that, he makes a big shift back to the
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left. Notice now he's moved back almost
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to where he was at address with his hip,
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but not quite that far. Excuse me. Moving
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back to address. So he's moved forward to
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where he was at address.
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His head is right back to where it was at
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address is what I meant. Sorry.
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His hips are out in front where they're
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supposed to be. Now with the driver,
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you'll see that his left hip is not going
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to be in neutral. He's trying to stay
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back to create a more positive angle of
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attack. So that's normal with the driver.
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A couple other things, though, we start
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to see a big right heel lift. Those of
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you that have attended the clinics know
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that he owes me $100 here, right? It's
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how you lose your posture. You start
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compressing your lumbar here. And it can
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help you move your hips faster for sure,
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but it starts creating a lot of
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inconsistency because you're changing a
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lot of angles in your swing. But it's
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pretty common with the big hitters for
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that right heel to come up with the
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driver because we're really trying to
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move it. And you can see he's up on the
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left ball of his foot. Obviously not
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ideal there either. It's going to start
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leading to some knee issues pretty easily
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if he's not careful. But he does jump
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like many golfers who do this move on the
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ball of their foot.
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So that he can pivot and turn his foot so
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it's not fully weighted. He's trying to
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move his body down, Push his feet down
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onto the ground to create this vertical
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ground force, which helps release the
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club. You can see he's got a tremendous
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amount of lag as he comes down and he
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needs to use his legs to help unload and
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release his wrist. So the big thing from
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the backswing, you can see lots of weight
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shift. Obviously it's a little bit of an
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idiosyncratic move in his swing. But he
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does everything really well coming back
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down. He shifts his weight back to the
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left,
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shallows out the club, gets the left arm
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to start working down and gets into a
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great impact position. The main things
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that you can focus on here with Henrik's
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swing, while he's got idiosyncrasies in
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there for sure, he still is focusing on
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transferring his weight. It's his primary
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mover of the club is getting everything
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to start shifting to the right, Getting
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loaded up powerfully back behind the ball
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so he can make a powerful move back to
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the left. And that will create a lot of
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power in the golf swing.
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