Rickie Fowler - Swing Changes
Rickie Fowler - Swing Changes
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Description
Congratulations to Rickie Fowler for winning the 2015 Players Championship and claiming his second PGA Tour victory. In this video, I'll show you how one big change early on in Rickie's swing allows him to get into a more powerful position at the top and also a much better position to release the club for more speed. If you want more speed and more efficiency, then check out this awesome swing change now!
Video Practice Points
- Rotation and elevation will move the club into a tour quality takeaway position.
- Get the hands in a more elevated position at the top of the swing to help increase clubhead speed
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Hey, hey everyone. This is RST instructor
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Chris Tyler. And we are back with this
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week's tour analysis on Ricky Fowler, who
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was able to win the 2015 Players
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Championship in an awesome, awesome
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playoff and one of the richest purses in
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golf. So $1.8 million awarded to Ricky
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Fowler for his phenomenal play over the
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weekend. We're going to be focusing in on
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a couple of the swing changes that he's
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been able to make and how it's been able
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to, with him correcting things early on
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in the swing, it's ultimately allowed him
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to get into a better spot at the top,
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which in turn has allowed him to pick up
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a little bit more speed.
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And also he's now protecting his body a
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little bit more down in the hitting area.
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So let's go ahead and take a look at
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this.
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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 some of
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the changes that Ricky Fowler has been
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able to make over the last couple of
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years.
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And ultimately has been able to get him a
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little bit more distance and also protect
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his back. Because late in the 2013
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season, I know Ricky was struggling a
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little bit with some back pain. And
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hopefully these changes have got him into
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an area where he's protecting his body.
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He's obviously swinging much more
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efficiently here, picking up a good seven
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yards on average from where he was back
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in 2013. And we're just going to spend
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some time going through some of these
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changes, Just so you can see how the
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cause and effect relationship works with
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some of these moves that he's been able
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to overcome and make much better. So just
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taking a look here over on the right hand
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side of the screen, I have the golf swing
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of old.
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I've got an elbow plane line drawn, this
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is where it's up from the hosel of a golf
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club through the base of the elbow.
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You'll see us use these lines very
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frequently around the website.
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But you're going to go ahead and see a
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very big difference here as we start to
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get into a completed take away position
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here.
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Okay, notice how his hands have worked
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down towards his trail thigh here. All
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right, you can see how they worked
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really, he's been noted for dragging his
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hands to the inside, trying to hold the
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club out in front of him. Where this is
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the one of the newer changes that we see
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out of his golf swing here. So getting
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into a completed take away position here,
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you can see that his hands are much
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higher up in relationship to the plane
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line here. There's the hands are not
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working inside towards the thigh, club
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heads more in line with the hands here.
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And in turn, what this little bit of
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elevation is done for him, It's going to
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allow him to work his hands and arms more
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into the vertical plane and get into a
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little bit more of a vertical position at
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the top of the swing.
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And I'll get further into that in just a
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moment. But if you've noticed that your
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hands are getting too pulled too inside,
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you might be lacking a little bit of
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shoulder elevation. And we've got a good
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video on the website called the pool
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noodle shoulder elevation video. And all
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that is, is just a slight upward movement
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of the arms coupled with some rotation.
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And that in turn will get you into a very
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textbook looking position here, Which
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will make it much easier for you to get
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things into a vertical position at the
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top of the swing. All right, so from here
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on the right hand side of the screen,
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okay, you're going to see that hands were
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inside and then up into the top of the
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swing.
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Notice how low his lead arm is in
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relationship to his shoulder line. Okay,
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so this is a much flatter position.
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And then now that he's got a little bit
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more elevation from the earlier on part
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of the golf swing, now you can see that
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his arm, his lead arm is much higher in
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relationship to the shoulder line. Now,
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it might not look like a big drastic
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change to you at home, but this is a
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pretty good size change for a golf
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professional. Okay, so now with having
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the hands and arms into a little bit more
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of a vertical position up here, this is
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in turn going to allow him, He tends to
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allow the club to get really flat coming
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down, or used to allow the club to get
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very flat coming down. And you're going
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to see over here as his hands and arms
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start to drop, this club comes in very
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shallow. So you can see where his hands
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are, they're approaching the trail thigh,
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and this is where the club head is. You
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can see how quite a bit low it is in
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relationship to the plane line here.
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And now with this new move with a little
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bit more of a vertical position, you can
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see that this club gets on the plane line
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very early.
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Hands are approaching in front of that
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trail thigh, stays on the plane line
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here, and delivering the golf club from a
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much, much better angle of attack here, a
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much better path. So this is a great
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change that he's made in his golf swing,
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and in turn, he's been able to pick up
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more distance with it and also been able
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to protect his back. So it's great news
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for Ricky and his future within the game
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of golf, and he's just going to continue
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to get better and better and better.
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All right, guys, so just a couple of
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things that I want you to take notice of
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or work on. If you notice, like I said,
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that your hands are getting a little bit
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flattened to the inside,
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you want to work on making sure that you
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add a little bit of elevation to the mix.
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If you've had a really difficult time
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with creating a very consistent takeaway,
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then one of our best videos on the
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website is move one, the takeaway. Just
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talk about a slight two-inch movement of
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the shoulder blade in towards your
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center, and that helps create some very
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consistent movement. And you can couple
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that with the shoulder elevation video
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there, the pool noodle video, and in
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turn, you'll have a very good position to
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start to work up to the top part of your
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backswing.
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And then for those of you players that
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have been noted, to get the club a little
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bit stuck and a little bit flat on the
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way down, we have another great video
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that's called Trace the Plane Line.
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That's a video that we talk about how to
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get the club a little bit more out in
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front of us. On the way down. And
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ultimately get into a better angle of
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attack and a better path. So check those
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videos out, guys. That's going to be to
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the right of the video player. There's a
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tab that says Recommended Videos. Just
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click that tab. You'll see those videos
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populate, and you'll be well on your way
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to making some great golf swings. All
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right, guys, I wish you all the best, and
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let's make it a great day.
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