Sean O'Hair - Big Shoulder Turn
Sean O'Hair - Big Shoulder Turn
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Description
Congrats to Sean O'hair for making a great comeback in professional golf. Sean worked his way to the top of the leader board, and came up just short in a 3-way playoff. In this tour video, I'll show you a perfect way to put more rotation in your backswing. I'll also show you some of the common mistakes that could be making it impossible for you to get a full shoulder turn. You will see how how keeping your trail arm straight could be the perfect solution to getting you into a much more powerful backswing position. Let's build up some real power in your golf swing now!
Video Practice Points
- Keep both arms straight and relaxed into the takeaway, with 45 degrees of shoulder turn.
- If you struggle with not making a full turn at the top of the swing, try keeping your trail arm straight, longer into your backswing.
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Hey everyone, this is RST instructor
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Chris Tyler checking back in with you for
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this week's tour analysis.
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I know we just saw Jordan Spieth win the
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Valspar Championship, but we also saw a
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familiar face get himself back into
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contention once again, Sean O'Hare.
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This week I'm going to be talking about
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rotation and how important it is in your
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backswing.
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If you've been struggling with making a
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full turn in your backswing, you want to
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definitely take a look at this video. I'm
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going to kind of shuffle around
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priorities and get you into a good spot
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so you can get a good loaded up position
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at the top of your swing. Now let's go
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ahead and get started.
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Alright guys, so as I said in the opener,
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We're going to be focusing on a great way
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to build more rotation into your
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backswing and your backswing, Which, in
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turn, is going to help you with getting a
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much more powerful position to start your
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downswing sequencing from.
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And I think one of the big things that
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people are getting kind of confused about
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is a video on the website called the Keep
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the Right Arm Straight to Turn.
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Now, if you focused on in your golf swing
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or if you noticed that you're making a
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full turn, then that video is not really
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a good thing for you to focus on. You
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want to focus on other areas of the golf
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swing. But I think a lot of times
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students get too hand and arm involved
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and they lose the big picture of what
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we're trying to achieve with our rotation
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in the backswing. So that's what we're
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going to do this week. We're going to
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focus in on what Sean does in his golf
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swing. And give you a good, clear example
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of what you can do to make a much more
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fuller turn.
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So, looking at this from a face-on
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perspective, okay, here we are at a
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completed takeaway. This is where the
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club shaft would be parallel to the
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ground. You're going to see that the
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shoulder line has rotated about 45
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degrees or so. And he's kept both arms
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very straight. Okay, so what we're doing
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here is we're establishing a lot of width
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and we're doing that by rotation. So the
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movement from the hands and the arms at
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this point has all been facilitated by
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the rotation.
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Now, One of the most common mistakes that
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we see with amateur golfers is that
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they'll start to push their lead arm
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across their center. So you'll start to
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push really hard. And what that will
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cause, or what that will make happen, is.
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You'll start to get a lot of flexion in
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your right arm very early on. Now that's
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going to collapse your width, and it's
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actually loading up your shoulder girdles
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and not allowing you to make a big full
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turn. So for those players that have
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struggled with making that full turn,
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What we're talking about is we want you
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to try to feel as though you're going to
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keep your right arm straight or longer
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into your backswing.
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Now in all actuality, when we get to a
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completed takeaway, What we would be
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looking to do here is we'd be adding the
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last little bit of right arm flexion and
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the last little bit of elevation,
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all coupled with big rotation.
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Okay, so it's really important that when
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you get to a completed takeaway, the
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right arm would start to flex.
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We would start to elevate the arm just a
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little bit and then we would always
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continue to rotate, just as we did in the
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takeaway. Now, Going back to what I was
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talking about with the big issue is that.
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If you've noticed that, you try really
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hard to make a big full turn, but your
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arms are just doing so much of the work,
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then you want to try to keep your right
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arm straighter longer than you ever have
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before.
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That's going to allow you to shift your
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focus back over to a big body turn and
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allow you to get into a much better spot
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at the top of the swing. So you can see,
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I've got a good video over here down the
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line if you watch. Okay, so this is where
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we're at.
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The club shaft is now parallel to the
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ground. He's rotated about 45 degrees.
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Now if you watch his trail arm here,
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you're going to see that he's still
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keeping it pretty straight. He's not just
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flexing the right arm and not rotating.
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He's adding some gradual flexion to this
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and some gradual elevation, and he gets
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everything up into the top part of his
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golf swing with this big full turn. So
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you can see here from a face-on
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perspective that he's got a big 90
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degree, even maybe a little bit more than
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90 degrees of shoulder turn. So the point
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is to offer a little bit of clarification
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about some of the problems that people
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have been maybe privy to with seeing
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that. Keep the right arm straight to turn
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video. If you've noticed that you're
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building a lot of tension in the arms
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trying to fight with this,
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then get the golf club out of your hands
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for a while. Work on some rotation.
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If you've noticed that, your width
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collapses very early on in your golf
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swing, where your right arm kind of
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bends, Then that's another great way for
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you to try to overcome that is. Try to
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keep it straighter longer into your
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backswing, and that'll help you shift the
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focus, believe it or not, back over to
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making a fuller turn.
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Alright guys, so let's get out there.
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Let's work on making sure that we keep
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both arms really straight and relaxed. If
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you've been struggling with getting a big
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full turn at the top of your swing, Then
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try to keep that trail arm straighter
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longer than you ever have before, and
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you'll be well on your way to building a
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power point.
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