Charl Schwartzel - Perfect Swing Plane
Charl Schwartzel - Perfect Swing Plane
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Description
Charl Schwartzel has one of the best swings on the PGA Tour and is consistently on plane in his backswing. In this video, I'll show you 3 key steps to help you build your own perfect on plane backswing just like Charl.
Video Practice Points
- Rotation - body and wrists.
- Elevation - slight upward movement of the arms.
- Flexion - trail arm flexes a bit to help the hand and arms move more into the vertical plane.
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Hey everyone and welcome back to
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RotarySwing.com. This is RST instructor
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Chris Tyler. And we are back with this
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week's tour analysis with Charles
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Schwartzel, who just picked up his fourth
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Alfred Dunhill Championship this past
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weekend. So congratulations to Charles.
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This week we are going to be focusing in
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on how to build a perfect backswing just
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like Charles. He's been known amongst his
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competitors out there that he's got one
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of the best swings and it's an incredible
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golf swing that we can learn a lot from.
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So this week, we're going to be focusing
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in on three key components that are going
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to help you build a perfect backswing
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that is on plane every single time. Let's
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go ahead and get started.
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Okay guys so as I said in the opener our
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primary focus is going to be on the
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backswing this week. We're going to be
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talking about the three key components on
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how to build a perfect looking backswing
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every single time. And we're going to
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also lay out a game plan of things for
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you to work on in order so that you can
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have a beautiful looking golf swing like
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Charles. Charles has got a great golf
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swing from beginning to end. And we're
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going to be drawing what we call an elbow
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plane line here. This is a line up from
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the hosel of the golf club through the
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base of the elbow. So if you want to do
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some self-analysis, obviously use the
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self-analysis feature that we have on the
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website. Lots of good tools in there to
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help you give you a good understanding of
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where you're at with your golf swing. And
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what we're going to be focusing on here
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is an acronym that we use around the
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website quite a bit. It's called REF and
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that stands for rotation elevation and
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flexion. We're going to go through what
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each of those things mean, Each of those
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key components, and we're going to lay
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out a prioritized list of how you're
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going to work through those things
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yourself.
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So the first thing we want to talk about
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is rotation. Well what's rotating? We're
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going to be talking about the body
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rotating throughout the entire takeaway
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and into the backswing. So you can see
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that his chest here has now turned about
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45 degrees from where it was at the
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starting point.
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Okay so the arms have stayed fairly
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straight and fairly relaxed here. Now,
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this is a big issue that a lot of amateur
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golfers struggle with is that we get the
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golf club moving really quickly. With
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pushing the club back very quickly. And
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what happens is when you start to push
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your lead arm back very quickly, the club
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can get a little bit flat inside.
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You would notice that your club head
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would be underneath this plane line. And
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in turn, you're going to continue to run
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in. The risk of getting the club a little
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bit deeper. And you'll get the hands and
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arms a little bit deep at the top of the
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swing, which is a difficult spot to
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recover from.
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So we want to talk about also the club
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face rotating. Okay so the club face is
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rotated as well off of the golf ball and
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that's what it's designed to do. That's
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why the club shaft is located where it
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is. It's at the hosel of the golf club,
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and it's designed to rotate around its
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axis, and especially because we're
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swinging on an incline plane here.
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Okay so you can see that this club is
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just a little bit north of the plane line
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here. Also could be attributed to a
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little bit of the camera angle that we
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were loading up here today.
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See that the camera angle is actually
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almost a little bit behind it. But we
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still can use this view to still have a
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good idea of where we're at swing wise.
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So the main goal of a perfect looking
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takeaway position is to rotate your body.
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Okay and try to keep your hands and arms
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very relaxed. If you rotate your body
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your hands and arms will move. Now
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there's one other small component that's
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a part of this. Okay and that would be
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elevation.
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For those of you that don't know what
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elevation is. Okay shoulder elevation is
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often what we call it around the website.
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But if you were to take your arms, and
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you were to just lift them straight up
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from a dress to where your elbows were
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right at the base of your chest. Okay if
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you were to lift them up right to where
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your elbows are at the base of the chest.
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That is what we consider shoulder
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elevation. Okay, so there's just a slight
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upward movement of the arms, and that's a
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gradual move that happens throughout the
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takeaway, in the backswing. And what we
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use, as far as a checkpoint is concerned,
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is as we start to rotate and we're going
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to start to elevate our arms here.
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Okay, to get the club. And he's actually
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got a good amount. Elevation here is that
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his hands are going to be right in line
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with the base of his pocket. So this is
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pretty much a textbook looking takeaway.
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Again both arms are very straight and
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relaxed. He's turned his body about 45
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degrees.
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Very minimal hip rotation you can see
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here. So again as far as the takeaway is
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concerned we have rotated our body.
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We have rotated the club face to
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virtually where the toe of the club is up
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towards the sky, and our hands are right
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at the base of our pocket.
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Now to finish this backswing we're going
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to go with all three components. We're
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going to continue to rotate our body.
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That's the first, most primary thing that
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we need to focus on is always getting our
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body to feel like it's rotating
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throughout the takeaway and backswing. So
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you're going to see that he continues to
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rotate his body. Watch the center of his
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chest. You can actually see his logo
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moving here as well.
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Continues to rotate and now he's adding
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what we call flexion, right arm flexion.
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So through a completed takeaway you're
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going to notice that this right arm
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starts to break.
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Okay and then in turn that's helping give
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the golf club lift into the top of the
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swing.
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Also the last bit of elevation was added
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here. Now this is a very very good spot
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here as well. We use the base of the
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chest, The base of the pectoral muscle
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right here, as kind of the focus point of
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where we want to have our elevation.
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So, right arm flexion and elevation are
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what's going to help give the golf club
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lift into the top part of the swing. And
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if you couple that with good rotation of
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the body and good rotation of the club
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face, you're going to have a perfectly on
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plane golf swing just like this. So
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extremely important that you focus on
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those things in order. So if you've been
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struggling with getting your golf swing
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to look like it's on plane, it's always
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best to start with rotation of your body.
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Okay, and then work on rotating your club
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face, and then work on adding the slight
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amount of elevation and the slight amount
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of right arm flexion.
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And in turn that'll help you move the
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golf club into a perfect spot every
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single time. And we've got some videos
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that help you out with that guys. We've
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got five minutes to a perfect backswing.
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We've got five minutes to a perfect
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backswing checkpoints video. We also have
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an elevation video that can help with a
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small drill. It's called the pool noodle
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shoulder elevation video. That gives you
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a couple checkpoints where you can use to
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start building in your takeaway and also
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build into your backswing perfect
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elevation.
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And then we also have one that talks
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about the rotation of the wrists. It's
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how to use your wrists effectively and
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efficiently in the golf swing. All right.
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So these movements alone will help you
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overcome a lot of your swing faults. You
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won't see the club getting flipped inside
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too early. You won't see the hands
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popping out away from the body much. You
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won't run into these positions at the top
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of the swing that you're going to have
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to, in turn, recover from, which can make
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the game very difficult. Because now
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you're relying on a lot of
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compensations and you're relying on a lot
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more timing. All right. So if you've been
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looking to build a perfect backswing,
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this is a great one to mimic here. This
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is pretty much textbook throughout the
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entire golf swing, and this will
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certainly make your golf swing get on
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plane every single time.
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All right, guys. So that's this week's
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analysis. Get out there. Let's put
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rotation, elevation, inflection to work
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and let's play some great golf.
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