Chris Kirk - Impact Alignments
Chris Kirk - Impact Alignments
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Description
Congrats to Chris Kirk for winning the 2015 Crown Plaza Invitational. One of the surest ways to wreck your swing and body is to listen to the TV commentators analyze a Tour pro's swing. In this video, I am going to save you from the reckless comments and we are going to focus on the BIG payoff in golf...impact. You'll also see a great way to diagnose your own swing faults, which is critical for making swing changes.
Video Practice Points
- Use the self analysis tool on the site.
- Look at your impact positions from down the line and face on.
- Read the articles with the impact alignments videos and see which areas you need to focus on correcting first.
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Hey, hey everyone. This is RST instructor
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Chris Tyler. And we are back again with
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this week's tour analysis of Chris Kirk,
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who just picked up the 2015 Crowne Plaza
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Invitational, so congratulations to
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Chris.
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This week, we're going to be focusing on
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impact and we're going to show you some
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alignments that you can look for in your
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own golf swing, so you can understand
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what your swing faults may or may not be,
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whether you're a hip spinner or a
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shoulder spinner. This is going to show
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you what you're going to look for. And
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that way, you can stay focused on a
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particular set of videos. That's going to
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help you get better when you go out and
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practice.
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Alright guys, so as I said in the opener,
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This week, we're going to be focusing on
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impact. And I want to start off by saying
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that. If you haven't used the self
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analysis tool on the website, I really
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strongly encourage you to do so because
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you can actually upload videos of your
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own golf swing and compare them to some
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of the model swings that we have. And
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that way, you know what you're looking
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for. Because sometimes it's better to be
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able to look at impact, or look at post
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impact, or look at a finish position to
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be able to best determine
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how you got there. And then you can stay
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focused on an area of correction.
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I think a lot of people try to take on
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too many things at one time in their golf
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swing. And if you focus on the big
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picture perspective, and that's what
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we're here to do is we're here to try to
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help you figure out what it's going to
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be. That you need to focus on in order to
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be a better player, day in and day out.
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So definitely check out the self analysis
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tool. I'll stop rambling about that.
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We'll go ahead and look at Chris's golf
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swing here. So you can see that he's got
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a very good takeaway.
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Keeps the lower body very quiet, upper
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body stays really in sync with his club
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head.
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Very good takeaway position. You can see
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the club heads right in line with his
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hands here. Both arms stay fairly
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straight and then the center of the club
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is in the chest here. So very, Very
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textbook looking takeaway position. And
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then he gets his lead arm continues to
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push a little bit into the top part of
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the golf swing, where he gets his hands.
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Just a fraction deeper than what we would
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teach at RST, but still not a bad
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position for him.
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And then in the downward move, he does a
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great job with keeping his upper body
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what we would consider passive.
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We want to make sure that all the upper
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body movements. And you'll hear me talk
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about this a lot, week in and week out,
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because it's a very important part of the
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golf swing. We want to make sure that the
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lower body does all the heavy lifting and
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he does a good job of that. He doesn't
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make a big power move, like you see a lot
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of players where they're making a drastic
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squat or a big unload over the lead side,
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But he does get down a little bit and he
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does get the downswing sequence started
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with the lower half.
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So when his hips and knees get back to a
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square position, what you'll notice here
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is that his shoulders are still pretty
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wound up. You'll see his chest would be
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facing back behind the golf ball. This is
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where he's going to start to post up in
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his lead side and then he's going to work
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down into impact and release the golf
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club. So that movement there as we start
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to work down into the bottom half of the
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swing, you're going to see him start to
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clear his hips. Then his shoulders are
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now back to that square position where he
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started.
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Okay. So take notice here. This is a good
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position for his shoulders. This is where
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the body, this is what we would consider
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stalling the body out, but you can see
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his hips open probably 30 to 35 degrees.
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Shoulder line is nice and square. And
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this is where he starts to fire the right
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arm. And then release. The golf club at
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the same time and gets himself into a
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pretty good looking impact position here.
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Okay. So you can see club head's nice and
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square to the target.
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He's hitting, oh, actually down the line,
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he's hitting it right over the side of
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these trees. I think this was a dogleg
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right.
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But you can see that his hips are open
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30, 35 degrees, Shoulder line is still
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nice and square, and he's going to then
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release it on through the hitting area.
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And so that's a pretty good way to start
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to look at your golf swing is I would
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always take a look at impact. If you
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notice that your right elbow is really
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jammed up into your right thigh, and you
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don't have a lot of space between the
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hands and the thighs. Typically, We would
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call that a hip spinner, or if you notice
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an impact, that your right shoulder is
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way in front of your right ear. And your
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hips haven't really done a whole lot at
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all, you would be considered more of a
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shoulder spinner. So it's always best to
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be able to, if you're going to self
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-diagnose, maybe start at impact. Look at
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your impact positions both face on and
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down the line. And we've got a couple of
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good videos on the website. We have both
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impact alignments face on and impact
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alignments down the line. And aside from
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those videos, they're great videos that
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Chuck talks about what we're going to be
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looking for. There's also two very good
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articles that coincide with that. So if
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you look underneath the video player,
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You'll see the ability to be able to
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click on the link and go directly to the
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article. Where there's a lot of pictures.
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So you can look directly at what you're
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going to be looking for in your golf
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swing. All right, guys. So not a fancy
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analysis this week. Just wanted to talk
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to you about how to self-diagnose the
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proper way. So if you notice that you are
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getting jammed up here, where you don't
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have a lot of space for the hands and the
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arms to pass in front, then typically
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look to be able to stabilize your lower
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body, focus on a lot of lower body
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exercises to be able to correct that. If
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you notice that your upper body is really
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kind of spun open where your shoulder
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line is open 30, 40 degrees, then you
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need to focus on making sure you
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understand how to sequence your downswing
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properly. And we've got a ton of videos
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out on the website. So recommended videos
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is going to be to the right of the video
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player. There's a little button that says
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recommended videos. Make sure you click
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on that. I'll have those couple of videos
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posted over there so you guys can click
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on those. Now let's get out there and
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make it a great day.
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