Stacy Lewis: Winning with Accuracy
Stacy Lewis: Winning with Accuracy
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Description
In this video, I’ll show you how Stacy Lewis splits the fairways time and time again because golf’s a lot more enjoyable when you’re not in the woods. You’ll find out: • How controlling your club face with your lead arm leads to more consistency, • Why accuracy is dominated by controlling your club face, not your club path, and • How you can increase your accuracy by gradually rotating your club face.
Video Practice Points
- Your lead arm is controlling the club face
- Create gradual rotation in the face during the backswing
- Square the face early to control the speed of the club face in the hitting area
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Hey everyone, I'm Rotary Swing
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Instructors Release Specialist Chris
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Tyler. This week Stacey Lewis gets her
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first victory of the 2014 season with a
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great win.
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We're going to be focusing on one of the
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key areas that Stacey does so well at the
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bottom part of the swing arc. So if
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you've ever had questions on how you're
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going to be able to control your golf
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ball and keep it on the golf course every
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single time, You want to stick around and
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see what. She does so well in the hitting
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area and makes her one of the dominating
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forces on the LPGA.
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Alright, So this past week, the queen of
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consistency on the LPGA Tour, Stacey
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Lewis, gets her first victory of 2014. so
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congratulations to Stacey. I know that
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she's got a little bit of a lengthy
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backswing, A little bit of an out of
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control backswing to RST standards. And I
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want to focus in on one very pivotal area
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that she does so well. That has led her
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to be the top scorer on the LPGA Tour,
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the leading scoring average on the LPGA
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Tour,
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the most birdies made, the most greens
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and regulations, The best putter
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on the LPGA Tour? So she's leading in a
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lot of the great categories that are
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going to keep her around the LPGA Tour
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for a long time. And controlling the club
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face is absolutely one of the most
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important aspects of the golf swing. So
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let's go ahead and get started and take a
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look at what she does very, very well to
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control the face throughout the entire
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move. And when we start to look at this,
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you're going to see that the primary
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responsibility of the lead arm in your
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golf swing is going to be controlling the
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face, alright, And we want to make sure
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that controlling the face with the lead
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arm, and then your trailing arm or your
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right arm. If you're a right handed
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player, is going to be adding the speed
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at the bottom of the arc. But ultimately,
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if you put the control in your lead arm,
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you're going to lead to more consistent
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ball striking, You're going to be able to
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control the golf ball on the course and
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be able to have a lot more fun out there.
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So let's go ahead and take a look here,
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If you notice on the down the line view
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and the face on view that she's got her
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glove logo facing down the target line.
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You can see that she's got the Glove logo
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facing down the target line on both
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driver swing and the iron swing. And when
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she starts this club back, she's got a
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gradual rotation of the left wrist, Left
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forearm, which is what we call pronation,
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and the right arm, as a reaction to that
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particular move, is supinating. And you
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can see that she's actually creating some
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steady rotation throughout the entire
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golf swing here. So you can see now as
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she reaches about the top part of her
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golf swing here. So if we focus on more
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of the down the line view, you can get a
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better view here. As her glove logo is
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starting to face more towards the sky,
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where before it was faced down the target
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line. And she's being able to control the
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face and put a gradual rotation, and
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that's absolutely one of the most
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important aspects that you'll need to
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understand in the release. Part of the
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golf swing is that we want to create a
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gradual rotation, that way we're not
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having to time a flip of the hands, we're
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having to hang on to the rotation to kind
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of save it based on the path. 80% of the
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actual ball flight is going to be
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dictated by the clubface, 20% is going to
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be dictated by the path. So if you can
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really control the clubface, that's why
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I'm saying it's one of the most pivotal
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areas. And she's able to take something
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that looks out of control and put a lot
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of control back into it. By creating a
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lot of gradual rotation here. So if we
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look down the line, we'll continue to
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look here, she gets the club up to the
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top, she's continued to rotate that left
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wrist, left forearm, gets the club across
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the line. Now this position, normally we
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would have a lot of players that would
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have to recover from here and either
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throw the club over the top or spin the
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body. very, very hard. Now when you make
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one of those two moves, now what you're
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going to be doing, if you're throwing the
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club back out in front of you, Now, your
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path is going to be left, and you're
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going to have to slow down the rotation
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of the left wrist to control and keep the
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golf ball on the golf course. Or keep you
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from slicing it, or keep you from hitting
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a pull hook.
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So if you were to spin the body as
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another reaction very hard here, What
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that does is that we're trying to make
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room for the hands and the arms. But nine
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times out of ten, the clubface will start
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to come in very open and you'll have to
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time a flip. So that's why I wanted to
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mention this position at the top. And we
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want to take a lot of the timing out of
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the body, yes, But being able to control
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the clubface within your particular move
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is going to be absolutely the most
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important feature. So if we look as she
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starts to work down, you're going to see
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that she starts to have a little bit of
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bowing in that left wrist, which is
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important for being able to deal off the
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club. But if you watch the rotation here,
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she's going to start to try to square the
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club very early on. You can see that
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she's starting to rotate that left wrist
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like she's turning a doorknob. All right,
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now she's actually supinating the left
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wrist and she's starting to turn those
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knuckles down, which is a great video on
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our website that teaches you how to get
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some gradual rotation. There's also
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another great video called Squaring the
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Clubface Early that you definitely want
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to check out. Because what we're trying
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to do is we're trying to control the the
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rotation per second through the hitting
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area. So if you're known as a flipper, If
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you, if you're known as one of those
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people that comes in really flat and laid
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where the club comes in from behind you,
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you're rotating the clubface, let's say
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at 800 degrees per second, where with a
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good solid golf swing that's got gradual
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rotation, let's just say three to 400
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degrees per second. And that's absolutely
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the most important part of being able to
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control at the bottom of the arc. So you
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can see same thing here on the the face
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-on view,
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kind of an off to the side face-on view.
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You can see, right at this point, she's
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starting to rotate that left forearm and
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she keeps it rotating. And now you can
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see where that glove logo is facing right
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at the hitting area. It's faced in the
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exact same spot that it was. Clubface is
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nice and stable and in turn she's able to
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hit a lot of greens and regulation. She's
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able to keep her ball on the golf course.
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So I want you guys to really make sure
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that you're focusing on creating a lot of
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gradual rotation throughout the move.
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Check out the knuckles down video. Check
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out squaring the clubface early. Also,
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you'll always hear me mention check out
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five minutes to a perfect release. That's
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another fantastic video for you guys to
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really learn the steps on being able to
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control the face through the most
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critical area of the golf swing, and
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that's in the hitting area. All right
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guys, so put this to use. Make sure that
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you've got some gradual rotation in the
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clubface. You're controlling it
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throughout the entire move. Get out
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there, play some great golf, keep it on
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the golf course, and bedazzle your
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friends. I hope you have a great day and
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we'll talk to you soon.
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