Justin Rose - Rotate and Stack Up
Justin Rose - Rotate and Stack Up
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Description
Congrats to Justin Rose on his amazing Sunday finish and claiming his 7th career title on the PGA Tour. Justin has a fantastic golf swing and is known as a great ball striker. In this video, I'll show you 2 key moves in his golf swing that can help you get into a more solid impact position every single swing. I'll show you a couple of cool drills that will help you rotate and maintain your spine angle throughout your swing and I'll also show you a perfect way to get properly shifted into your lead side. If you are struggling with mishit shots round after round, then you need to pay close attention to these 2 moves guaranteeing you solid contact just like the pros.
Video Practice Points
- Rotate your shoulders perpendicular to your axis.
- Use the necktie drill cure over rotation of the spine.
- Allow the torso to shift to the lead side when starting the downswing with your lower body.
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Hi guys, This is RST instructor Chris
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Tyler. And we are back with this week's
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tour analysis with Justin Rose, who shot
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a final round 66 at the Zurich yesterday.
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So congrats to Justin on a job well done.
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This week, we're going to be focusing in
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on two areas that are going to help you
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become a better and more consistent ball
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striker. It's going to have to do with
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the way we rotate in the golf swing and
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the way we stack up our lead side in the
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hitting area. So let's go ahead and get
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started.
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Okay guys, so as I said in the opener,
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we're going to be focusing in on two
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awesome areas of Justin's golf swing. We
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could probably focus in on about 100
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areas of his swing because he's got a
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very, very good move at it for sure.
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But in the interest of time, We're going
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to be focusing in on two areas and that's
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going to be maintaining spine angle
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throughout the entire golf swing. And
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then also a great way to get into a more
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stacked up lead side impact position. So
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that you can control the bottom of the
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swing arc and have much more solid
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contact on the golf ball. So let's go
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ahead and get started here.
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We're going to focus on the down the line
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version first.
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I'm going to draw some lines here for us.
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Lines that I'm sure you're familiar with
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seeing.
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You're going to see a line down his
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spine. I'll go ahead and draw the tush
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line too, just for good measure here,
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because we know that when the hips come
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forward, that in turn can make your spine
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angle change.
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But as we start to work through the golf
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swing here into the top of the backswing,
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hands are just a little bit deeper than
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what we would teach at RST, but not a big
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deal.
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You can see here that he's maintained the
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angle of his spine all the way to the top
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of the swing here. And you can also see
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that his shoulder line is now
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perpendicular to the original spine angle
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that we had drawn from the starting
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position. So if you've noticed this, if
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you're watching yourself in the self
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-analyzer on the website, Definitely, take
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a look to make sure that your shoulder
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line is making a perpendicular tee to
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your spine angle at the top. And if it's
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not,
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Then you need to work on eliminating the
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golf club for a bit. And learn how to
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rotate your shoulders around your axis to
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be able to maintain that angle. If you're
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starting to push from your lead side,
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you'll probably see your shoulder start
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to level off a little bit. If you try to
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pull your right shoulder too vertical,
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you'll see that you'll actually increase
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the total amount of spine angle that you
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had, or you'll start to actually run into
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a little bit of a reverse pivot
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situation.
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And a good way to overcome that would be
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the necktie drill. We've got that on the
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website here. That'll be over in the
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recommended video. So, you know, as I go
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through these analysis, I start to
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recommend a lot of the content that we
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have available for you guys. So, if you
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pinpoint some areas that you want to work
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on in your golf swing, then this is a
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great way to kind of go in order. So,
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you'll see, again, we're focusing in on
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maintaining spine angle all the way to
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the top of the golf swing. And we did
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that by rotating our shoulders around the
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axis. We kept our hips back. So, that's a
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beautiful, beautiful move up to the top.
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And now, from a face-on perspective, this
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is one of the big cruxes of the golf
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swing.
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Put a line up from the center of the lead
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ankle at the address position. And we're
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going to go ahead and load him up to the
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top of the swing. So, You can see he
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doesn't get as much of a shift over to
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the right side as we would normally see
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from a, you know, a RST fundamental move.
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But he still gets a load into that right
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side. And this is where his big move
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happens. If you pay close attention to
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the center of the hip socket here,
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and you also pay close attention to the
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way his torso moves with this shift, this
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is an area where a lot of golfers will
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try to hold their head dead still. And
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they try to hold the torso still as well
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while they're making this big sitting
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move left. And then, in turn, that causes
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a lot of your mass to stay back behind
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the golf ball. And then, we run into a
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mess of issues as far as ball striking is
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concerned. That's where you can either
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bounce the club off the ground into the
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ball. You can hit a lot of thin shots
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because you're starting more of an
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ascending blow than a descending blow.
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So, now, Pay very close attention here
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through these next few frames. How? When
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he makes this big shift with his lower
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half, he's going to allow his torso to
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get over into that lead side as well. So,
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it's almost like he's kind of falling
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into the lead side.
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So, you see that there's some space
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there. And then, he's kind of falling
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with the torso over there. He's not
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trying to keep everything hung back. And
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this is a great example of how to get
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your body into the proper position to
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start to post up. And post up is really
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just a matter of you driving your lead
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heel into the ground, clearing the hips
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out, stabilizing the lower body, and then
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just releasing the golf club. That's
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really kind of what we mean when we have
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that terminology is posting up.
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So, you can see that he's shifted over
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into that lead side, and now he's going
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to begin his post up move. And then, he
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just gets into a phenomenal impact
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position. Maybe just a little bit out
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past neutral to where his lead knee is
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just a little bit out past there. He
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could be trying to hit a cut here.
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You know, golf pros are always trying to
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shape the golf ball. So, You'll see the
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tendency is to get just a fraction out in
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front of it when they're trying to hit
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that kind of shot. All right, guys. So,
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if you've been struggling with rotation
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or getting yourself into a really good,
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solid impact position in the hitting
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area, where you notice that you've hung
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your torso back, or if you felt like you
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can't get this stacked up lead side here,
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a couple videos I want you to take a look
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at. Again, in order, I would say the
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necktie drill, And then five minutes to
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master rotation if you haven't worked on
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being able to rotate around your axis
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properly. And then, I would also say
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level shoulders at impact, Another great
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video for you to understand how. We want
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the shoulders to be down in the hitting
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area so that you can get really solid,
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crisp contact.
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Sitting in the left side, that's going to
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teach you how to get in transition, and
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then taking a divot in front of the ball.
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It's not a video that we mentioned a
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whole lot, but there's a lot of good
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substance in there that you may want to
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take a look at.
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So, that's going to be it. If you guys
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want to really work on maintaining, or
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not maintaining, but if you want to
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become a good, consistent ball striker,
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then this is an awesome move to kind of
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mirror yourself after. And so many
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different levels, and obviously, you
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know, maintaining spine angle, keeping
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the hips back, you can see that he
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maintains his spine angle well through
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the hitting area, keeps his hips back,
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and then also, he's got a great
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transition to where he's allowing the
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left side to get really stacked up, and
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then he's going to get solid, solid
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contact.
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So, that's definitely a good way to do
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it. All right, guys, so I wish you all
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the best, and let's get out there and
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play some great golf.
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