Davis Love III - Get Wide
Davis Love III - Get Wide
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Description
Davis Love III, wins on the PGA Tour at 51 years of age. Davis maintains a ton of clubhead speed throughout his years on tour. See the secret on how he still hits the ball longer than most of the young guys.
Video Practice Points
- Establish width and rotation early on in the swing.
- Allow the hips to rotate but keep them stable while doing so.
- Keep the shoulders and arms passive in the downswing and allow the lower body to pull them down into the release point.
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Hey guys, This is RST instructor Chris
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Tyler and it is my great pleasure to
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bring you this week's tour analysis.
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Because we have 51-year-old Davis Love
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III. Getting himself back in the winner's
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circle on the PGA Tour and really showing
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those young bucks out there, he's still
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got it. So congratulations to Davis.
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We're going to be focusing in on how
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Davis still maintains a lot of his speed
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as he starts to get older. He's always
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been known as one of the longer players
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out there, even back in the 80s when he
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turned professional. I'm going to show
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you guys a couple of the key ingredients.
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So if you've been struggling with losing
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distance as you start to get older, or if
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you're just looking for a solution to get
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more speed, then you want to pay close
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attention to what Davis does here. So
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let's go ahead and get started.
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Alright guys, So we saw the 51-year-old
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Davis Love III show those boys that he
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still has it out there on the PGA Tour
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this past weekend. So congrats to Davis.
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He is a phenomenal swinger of the golf
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club and has always been really noted on
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how much speed he makes in his golf
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swing.
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And if you look at some of the videos
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back from the early 80s, when he was
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turning professional into the 90s, a lot
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of his peers and a lot of the guys like
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Mark O'Meara and Greg Norman talk about
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exactly that, how insanely long he was.
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And it's really attributed to one big
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factor in Davis' golf swing. Now Davis is
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a tall guy, he's 6'3", and he has the
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ability to make a ton of width. And he's
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able to turn that width into leverage in
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the downswing, and then that leverage is
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then turned into club head speed. And
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that's why he's averaging almost 300
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yards on the PGA Tour and he's 55th.
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That's awesome. So he's 55th on the list
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and so that's pounding it.
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So if you've been looking for a way to
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get more speed in your golf swing, then
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we need to talk about getting you some
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more width early on. Alright, so let's
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look at Davis Love III here from a face
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-on perspective.
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Alright, this is where our focus is going
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to be from a face-on at first. So you're
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going to see him load up into the right
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side. And here we are. This is the
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position of the club at the completed
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part of the takeaway, where we got about
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45 degrees of rotation from the
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shoulders.
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Notice that both arms are very straight
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here.
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So a lot of you, this may sound a bit
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redundant to, but this is extremely
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important. Alright, This is extremely
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important in the golf swing because this
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helps us establish width and rotation
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early so we can, in turn, turn it into
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leverage. So if you've noticed that your
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arms are starting to collapse very early,
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what that can do is actually can shut
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your body down and not allow it to rotate
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fully. It can load up your shoulder
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girdles and it can load up your arms very
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quickly. And in turn, guess what?
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Your arc is going to be very narrow, and
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it's going to make you want to throw or
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use your arms and shoulders too much from
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the top of the swing down, Which, in
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turn, is going to cause you to throw the
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club and you're not going to have lag
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that you're going to need for speed.
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So extremely important to get the golf
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swing started off on the right foot by
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staying as wide as possible. So shift
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your weight into your trail side and get
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as wide as possible.
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Alright, so now from here, we're going to
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focus on a down the line perspective.
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We're going to get up to the top of the
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swing. I'm going to point out one area of
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Davis's golf swing that I'm sure a lot of
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you will comment on. But if you watch his
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right knee, he's got a lot of external
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rotation of his right knee here. Now this
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has been one of his signature style moves
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that he's used for quite some time.
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And I think this has to do with a lot of
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the way he was brought up playing the
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game. And I'll get into that here in a
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little bit further here in just a minute.
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But what this external rotation of the
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knee does,
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okay, you see how the knee externally
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rotated? It allows him to continue to
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have mobility in his hips, which in turn
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has now allowed him to get a good full
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turn of his body.
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Okay, so it's okay for the hips to
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rotate. We want the hips to rotate. And
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you know we certainly want to create
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separation between the shoulder line and
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the hip line. The most important part is
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that your hips do not become unstable
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when they're rotating. Now that's the big
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difference, okay, is that they can
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rotate, just not unstable. And what I
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mean there is. If you look at your golf
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swing on camera and you notice that your
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right hip is way up and your left hip is
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way down, where there's a good tilt to
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your pelvis, then chances are your hips
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have become really unstable. So you'll
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want to work on making sure that your
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hips, you're loading your trail side
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properly.
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Okay, so we're going to get wide, we're
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going to load our trail side up.
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And then it's our job, it's to do very
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little with the hands on the arms on the
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way down. All right, so let's go ahead
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and clear out some of these lines here so
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we can see.
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So we're going to clear these lines out
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and then we're going to start to work and
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shift our body into our lead side here.
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I'm going to leave the width circle here.
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Okay, so you're going to see Davis start
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to really unwind and shift. All right, it
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doesn't really shift as much as a lot of
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golfers nowadays, where we'd see him make
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a big old shift over the lead side. And
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this has a lot to do with the balance in
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his golf swing. That was what I was kind
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of talking about. The way he was brought
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up to learn how to play the game is that
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he was, his dad said, get out there and
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hit it as hard as you want Davis, but
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just stay in balance.
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So a lot of times you'll see people that
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have these little nuances in their golf
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swing, not bad things,
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just not something from an instructional
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standpoint that we would teach.
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But here we go getting down into the
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hitting area, you're going to see this
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arc is now narrowed quite a bit. So you
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can see how his hands have now worked
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down in front of his body. Now, this is
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where a lot of amateur golfers really
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start to screw things up. And I'm saying
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that in a nice way, but the movement from
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the hands and the arms here, okay, all
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this movement that I'm showing you is
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being facilitated by rotation and shift
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of the body.
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Okay. So all that downward movement of
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the arms here is being facilitated by the
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shift in the rotation of the body. This
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is where amateur golfers tend to do too
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much with their arms on the way down. And
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in turn, you start to throw the club out
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away from you and you're going to lose
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lag. And then you're going to get
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yourself into a much more scoopy like
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position, the hitting area. And then
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after impact, You'll see that your arc
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starts to narrow and you can run the risk
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of having that dreaded chicken wing look.
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All right. So from a down the line
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perspective, I wanted to show you guys a
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couple of big points here. So you're
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going to see, I'm going to get him into
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about the same spot here from a down the
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line perspective, as I have him on face
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on.
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This is pretty much where he's about
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three feet prior to the golf ball. Let me
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get one more frame. So this club head is
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about three feet prior to the golf ball.
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Let me get this one over here as well.
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Okay. So very similar positions here.
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Now, What I want you to pay very close
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attention to is watch this right foot and
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watch this logo on his pants here when he
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starts to release the club. Okay. So
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we're about, you know, three feet prior
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to the golf ball. Let me go ahead and
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focus down the line. Now watch right
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here. So the club is releasing.
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Now watch the right foot and watch the
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logo on his pants.
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And while we'll keep watching the club
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here,
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it's going to continue to move.
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It's continuing to move. That's it's
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crazy how still he can keep his body
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while he releases the club. So he's going
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to get a ton of extension through the
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hitting area. And that is the big time
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release. That's a, that's a great
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release. That's a great way to get speed
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in it.
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So my point here is, is that in order for
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you to be able to get a lot of speed,
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you've got to be able to have a lot of
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width early on. And then in your downward
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move, you need to do very little with
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your arms until they get down to the
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release point.
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And once you get down to the release
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point, then just go ahead and let it go.
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And that is a big, big, difficult thing
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for a lot of amateur golfers or a lot of
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new students to the game, even is because
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releasing the club feels like you're
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going to lose control.
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And that's one of the things that you're
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just going to have to start to train
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yourself. And it's really important to do
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it from a very controlled environment
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down in the hitting area, working from
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hip high to hip high, working on a drill
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like the nine to three drill, then
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working on five minutes to a perfect
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release. Then when you start to work back
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up into full swing speed, you want to go
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into a lose the right hand drill. That's
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going to teach you how to not try to push
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the club through or the right hand. And
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in turn, you're going to be able to start
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to get a lot more full extension, a lot
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more club head speed. All right, guys. So
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that's our game plan, is to work on
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getting width early on in the golf swing.
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If you've been struggling with width, you
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want to definitely check out five minutes
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to a perfect backswing.
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This will help you get into a really good
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sound position at the top. There's also
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checkpoints for five minutes to a perfect
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backswing.
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There's also some elevation videos. All
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these videos that I'm going to be talking
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about will be over here to the right hand
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side of the video player, under the
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Recommended Videos tab. So I'll put out a
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little game plan of videos for you guys
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to watch if you've been struggling with
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getting some width.
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Also, make sure that you take a look at
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the release videos. Take a look at the
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lose the right hand video. That's a great
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video to start to teach you how to
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release the club, let go, and you'll be
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well on your way to getting a lot of
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extension here like Davis.
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So game plan, guys. Get width early on.
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Make sure you have a good wide takeaway,
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good load in the right side.
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Make sure that your hips are stable at
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the top of your swing so you don't see
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them on this tilted angle, okay? You can
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allow them to rotate. Just don't allow
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them to become unstable. And then try to
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do very little with your arms on the way
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down until you get to the release point.
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And you'll be bashing it, just like Davis
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for a long, long time. All right, guys.
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So I wish you guys the best. Now get out
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there and play some great golf.
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