Ben Crane Golf Swing Analysis
Ben Crane Golf Swing Analysis
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Description
In this video, I’ll show you how to create a near-perfect takeaway like Ben Crane. You’ll find out: 1) How lateral movement in the takeaway affects your timing, 2) Why you should keep your arms and hands passive in the takeaway, and 3) How to build power in your swing early on. Check out this video now to get a perfect takeaway that’ll set you up for power!
Video Practice Points
- Initiate Golf Swing with the Right Side
- Minimal Hip Rotation
- Head Stays Steady
- Use Rotation and Passive Arms and Hands
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Hello everyone, Rotary Swing Instructor
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Craig Morrow here taking a look at this
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past week's winner, Ben Crane, and how
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you can learn a couple of good RST
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principles from his takeaway.
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First off, congratulations to Ben for his
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wire-to-wire win in this past week's
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FedEx St. Jude Classic.
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Now, we all know Ben's not the swiftest
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player on tour, But it might be because
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he's thinking about getting some really
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good RST principles at the start of his
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golf swing in his takeaway.
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The first thing that Ben does really well
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in his takeaway is he keeps his head nice
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and steady.
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What I want you to do is I want you to
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watch that red line in Ben's head as I
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wind him through his takeaway.
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You'll notice that Ben's head doesn't
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shift laterally to the right and break
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that red line in his takeaway,
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Which is meaning that he's using the
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right side of his body or the pulling
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side of his body to take the club back,
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Which is allowing him to make a nice
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centered rotation and keep that head from
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moving too far laterally to the right.
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Because if he allowed that head to move
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too far laterally to the right, it would
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build some inconsistencies at the top of
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his backswing, but also create a major
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downswing issue where he'd really have to
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time finding the ball. So the first thing
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that Ben does really well in his takeaway
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is he keeps that head nice and steady by
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using the right side to take the club
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back in his takeaway.
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The next thing that Ben does really well
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in his takeaway is that his arms and
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hands are nice and passive. You'll notice
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that by the time his hands reach his
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right thigh, that the club is only a
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third of the way through his takeaway,
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Which is meaning that he's allowing for
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the rotation of his body body to
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transport the club off the ball. He's not
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initiating the swing or the momentum of
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the club by setting his left wrist,
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rotating his left arm, folding his right
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arm. He's allowing the rotation to take
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the club back off the ball. And if you
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want to get nice and wide at the
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completion of your takeaway, it all
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starts by making sure that you're
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rotating to transport the club off the
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ball. And you'll notice that by the time
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Ben gets to the completion of his
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takeaway, that his hands are nice and
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wide away from his right thigh. But it's
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all started by making sure that he
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rotated off the ball versus initiating
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too much of his arms and hands to get the
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club back moving.
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The last thing that Ben does really well
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in his takeaway is he keeps his hips nice
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and steady. You'll notice that at the
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completion of his takeaway that his belt
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buckle is pointed just at or just behind
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the ball, Which is allowing him to start
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to store up some energy and get some good
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separation between his shoulders and his
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hips. If you want to start to build up
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some torque on your backswing, we have to
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make sure to limit the hip rotation in
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the takeaway. We don't want the hips
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rotating until after the takeaway, where
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your torso will start to pull them open
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to roughly about 40 to 45 degrees. And
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what Ben does is he allows these hips to
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stay nice and steady and not rotate or
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actively rotate too soon off the ball,
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Which would zap up his energy going back,
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or the ability for him to build up some
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good torque on his backswing, which would
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be getting separation between his
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shoulders and his hips.
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So if you want to hit these three key
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positions in your golf swing, where your
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head stays nice and steady, where the
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arms and hands are nice and passive, and
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you can get nice and wide on the
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takeaway, which will help you get to a
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nice wide position at the top of your
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backswing, But also keep those hips nice
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and still to where. You can start to
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build up some good torque on your
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backswing by getting some good separation
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between the shoulders and your hips, I
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want you to take a look at the five
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minutes of mastering rotation. And in
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this video, Chuck will explain to you all
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the principles of using the right
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shoulder blade and using the obliques to
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get the momentum of the club swinging off
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the ball, to where the hips won't
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actively rotate too soon, so you can
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build up some good torque, to where the
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head will stay nice and steady, so you
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won't be pushing off the left side or
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shifting too far laterally to the right,
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and to where the arms and hands will be
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nice and passive at the start of the
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takeaway, so you can build up some nice
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width, which will help you get nice and
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wide at the top.
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So take a look at the five minutes of
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mastering rotation, get looking like Ben
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off the ball, keep the head steady, keep
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the hips quiet,
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keep the arms and hands passive, build up
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some nice width, and you'll be on your
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way to a great takeaway and a good
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position at the top of your backswing.
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