Charl Schwartzel - Perfect Swing Plane


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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. 
WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.459 Hey everyone and welcome back to 2 00:00:01.459 --> 00:00:04.080 RotarySwing.com. This is RST instructor 3 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:05.700 Chris Tyler. And we are back with this 4 00:00:05.700 --> 00:00:07.339 week's tour analysis with Charles 5 00:00:07.339 --> 00:00:09.220 Schwartzel, who just picked up his fourth 6 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:11.400 Alfred Dunhill Championship this past 7 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:12.919 weekend. So congratulations to Charles. 8 00:00:13.619 --> 00:00:15.259 This week we are going to be focusing in 9 00:00:15.259 --> 00:00:17.780 on how to build a perfect backswing just 10 00:00:17.780 --> 00:00:19.640 like Charles. He's been known amongst his 11 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:21.300 competitors out there that he's got one 12 00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:23.059 of the best swings and it's an incredible 13 00:00:23.059 --> 00:00:24.460 golf swing that we can learn a lot from. 14 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:26.120 So this week, we're going to be focusing 15 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:27.839 in on three key components that are going 16 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:29.579 to help you build a perfect backswing 17 00:00:29.579 --> 00:00:31.940 that is on plane every single time. Let's 18 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:32.479 go ahead and get started. 19 00:00:39.380 --> 00:00:41.380 Okay guys so as I said in the opener our 20 00:00:41.380 --> 00:00:43.200 primary focus is going to be on the 21 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:44.500 backswing this week. We're going to be 22 00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:46.619 talking about the three key components on 23 00:00:46.619 --> 00:00:48.500 how to build a perfect looking backswing 24 00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:50.179 every single time. And we're going to 25 00:00:50.179 --> 00:00:51.719 also lay out a game plan of things for 26 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:53.799 you to work on in order so that you can 27 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:55.520 have a beautiful looking golf swing like 28 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:56.659 Charles. Charles has got a great golf 29 00:00:56.659 --> 00:00:59.039 swing from beginning to end. And we're 30 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:00.119 going to be drawing what we call an elbow 31 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:01.780 plane line here. This is a line up from 32 00:01:01.780 --> 00:01:04.299 the hosel of the golf club through the 33 00:01:04.299 --> 00:01:05.900 base of the elbow. So if you want to do 34 00:01:05.900 --> 00:01:07.379 some self-analysis, obviously use the 35 00:01:07.379 --> 00:01:08.680 self-analysis feature that we have on the 36 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:10.819 website. Lots of good tools in there to 37 00:01:10.819 --> 00:01:12.200 help you give you a good understanding of 38 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:14.579 where you're at with your golf swing. And 39 00:01:14.579 --> 00:01:15.920 what we're going to be focusing on here 40 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:17.579 is an acronym that we use around the 41 00:01:17.579 --> 00:01:20.760 website quite a bit. It's called REF and 42 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:23.560 that stands for rotation elevation and 43 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.640 flexion. We're going to go through what 44 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.079 each of those things mean, Each of those 45 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:28.420 key components, and we're going to lay 46 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:30.359 out a prioritized list of how you're 47 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:31.400 going to work through those things 48 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:31.780 yourself. 49 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:33.799 So the first thing we want to talk about 50 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:35.640 is rotation. Well what's rotating? We're 51 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:36.939 going to be talking about the body 52 00:01:36.939 --> 00:01:40.500 rotating throughout the entire takeaway 53 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:41.939 and into the backswing. So you can see 54 00:01:41.939 --> 00:01:44.379 that his chest here has now turned about 55 00:01:44.379 --> 00:01:46.299 45 degrees from where it was at the 56 00:01:46.299 --> 00:01:46.879 starting point. 57 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:50.599 Okay so the arms have stayed fairly 58 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.180 straight and fairly relaxed here. Now, 59 00:01:52.180 --> 00:01:54.040 this is a big issue that a lot of amateur 60 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.140 golfers struggle with is that we get the 61 00:01:56.140 --> 00:01:57.959 golf club moving really quickly. With 62 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.140 pushing the club back very quickly. And 63 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:02.859 what happens is when you start to push 64 00:02:02.859 --> 00:02:04.480 your lead arm back very quickly, the club 65 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:05.760 can get a little bit flat inside. 66 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:07.879 You would notice that your club head 67 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.120 would be underneath this plane line. And 68 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:11.479 in turn, you're going to continue to run 69 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:12.719 in. The risk of getting the club a little 70 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:14.680 bit deeper. And you'll get the hands and 71 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:16.060 arms a little bit deep at the top of the 72 00:02:16.060 --> 00:02:17.840 swing, which is a difficult spot to 73 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:18.419 recover from. 74 00:02:19.060 --> 00:02:21.900 So we want to talk about also the club 75 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:24.039 face rotating. Okay so the club face is 76 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.099 rotated as well off of the golf ball and 77 00:02:26.099 --> 00:02:27.439 that's what it's designed to do. That's 78 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.340 why the club shaft is located where it 79 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:31.180 is. It's at the hosel of the golf club, 80 00:02:31.180 --> 00:02:34.000 and it's designed to rotate around its 81 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:35.379 axis, and especially because we're 82 00:02:35.379 --> 00:02:37.039 swinging on an incline plane here. 83 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.199 Okay so you can see that this club is 84 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:41.000 just a little bit north of the plane line 85 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.919 here. Also could be attributed to a 86 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:44.340 little bit of the camera angle that we 87 00:02:44.340 --> 00:02:45.259 were loading up here today. 88 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:47.020 See that the camera angle is actually 89 00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:48.639 almost a little bit behind it. But we 90 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.000 still can use this view to still have a 91 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:52.400 good idea of where we're at swing wise. 92 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:54.919 So the main goal of a perfect looking 93 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.400 takeaway position is to rotate your body. 94 00:02:57.780 --> 00:03:00.240 Okay and try to keep your hands and arms 95 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.020 very relaxed. If you rotate your body 96 00:03:02.020 --> 00:03:04.180 your hands and arms will move. Now 97 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:06.159 there's one other small component that's 98 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.840 a part of this. Okay and that would be 99 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:08.479 elevation. 100 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:10.479 For those of you that don't know what 101 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.039 elevation is. Okay shoulder elevation is 102 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:14.400 often what we call it around the website. 103 00:03:14.580 --> 00:03:16.599 But if you were to take your arms, and 104 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:18.259 you were to just lift them straight up 105 00:03:18.259 --> 00:03:20.919 from a dress to where your elbows were 106 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.960 right at the base of your chest. Okay if 107 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:25.060 you were to lift them up right to where 108 00:03:25.060 --> 00:03:26.199 your elbows are at the base of the chest. 109 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:28.000 That is what we consider shoulder 110 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.060 elevation. Okay, so there's just a slight 111 00:03:30.060 --> 00:03:31.360 upward movement of the arms, and that's a 112 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.460 gradual move that happens throughout the 113 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:35.419 takeaway, in the backswing. And what we 114 00:03:35.419 --> 00:03:37.300 use, as far as a checkpoint is concerned, 115 00:03:37.300 --> 00:03:39.819 is as we start to rotate and we're going 116 00:03:39.819 --> 00:03:41.780 to start to elevate our arms here. 117 00:03:42.620 --> 00:03:44.240 Okay, to get the club. And he's actually 118 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:45.819 got a good amount. Elevation here is that 119 00:03:45.819 --> 00:03:48.259 his hands are going to be right in line 120 00:03:48.259 --> 00:03:50.639 with the base of his pocket. So this is 121 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.340 pretty much a textbook looking takeaway. 122 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:54.560 Again both arms are very straight and 123 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.439 relaxed. He's turned his body about 45 124 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:56.879 degrees. 125 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.419 Very minimal hip rotation you can see 126 00:03:59.419 --> 00:04:02.319 here. So again as far as the takeaway is 127 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:03.740 concerned we have rotated our body. 128 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:05.960 We have rotated the club face to 129 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:07.360 virtually where the toe of the club is up 130 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.979 towards the sky, and our hands are right 131 00:04:09.979 --> 00:04:11.219 at the base of our pocket. 132 00:04:11.819 --> 00:04:14.020 Now to finish this backswing we're going 133 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:15.840 to go with all three components. We're 134 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:17.199 going to continue to rotate our body. 135 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:19.759 That's the first, most primary thing that 136 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.500 we need to focus on is always getting our 137 00:04:21.500 --> 00:04:22.839 body to feel like it's rotating 138 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.220 throughout the takeaway and backswing. So 139 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:26.800 you're going to see that he continues to 140 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:28.500 rotate his body. Watch the center of his 141 00:04:28.500 --> 00:04:29.720 chest. You can actually see his logo 142 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:30.540 moving here as well. 143 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.560 Continues to rotate and now he's adding 144 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.779 what we call flexion, right arm flexion. 145 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:37.899 So through a completed takeaway you're 146 00:04:37.899 --> 00:04:38.939 going to notice that this right arm 147 00:04:38.939 --> 00:04:39.720 starts to break. 148 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:43.300 Okay and then in turn that's helping give 149 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:45.000 the golf club lift into the top of the 150 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:45.319 swing. 151 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.639 Also the last bit of elevation was added 152 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.339 here. Now this is a very very good spot 153 00:04:50.339 --> 00:04:52.439 here as well. We use the base of the 154 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.139 chest, The base of the pectoral muscle 155 00:04:54.139 --> 00:04:56.759 right here, as kind of the focus point of 156 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:58.240 where we want to have our elevation. 157 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:00.779 So, right arm flexion and elevation are 158 00:05:00.779 --> 00:05:02.300 what's going to help give the golf club 159 00:05:02.300 --> 00:05:04.300 lift into the top part of the swing. And 160 00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:06.399 if you couple that with good rotation of 161 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:08.339 the body and good rotation of the club 162 00:05:08.339 --> 00:05:10.920 face, you're going to have a perfectly on 163 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:13.259 plane golf swing just like this. So 164 00:05:13.259 --> 00:05:14.800 extremely important that you focus on 165 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:16.139 those things in order. So if you've been 166 00:05:16.139 --> 00:05:17.500 struggling with getting your golf swing 167 00:05:17.500 --> 00:05:19.579 to look like it's on plane, it's always 168 00:05:19.579 --> 00:05:22.220 best to start with rotation of your body. 169 00:05:22.660 --> 00:05:24.819 Okay, and then work on rotating your club 170 00:05:24.819 --> 00:05:27.399 face, and then work on adding the slight 171 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:29.579 amount of elevation and the slight amount 172 00:05:29.579 --> 00:05:30.639 of right arm flexion. 173 00:05:31.180 --> 00:05:32.759 And in turn that'll help you move the 174 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:34.540 golf club into a perfect spot every 175 00:05:34.540 --> 00:05:36.459 single time. And we've got some videos 176 00:05:36.459 --> 00:05:37.519 that help you out with that guys. We've 177 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:38.939 got five minutes to a perfect backswing. 178 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:40.660 We've got five minutes to a perfect 179 00:05:40.660 --> 00:05:43.100 backswing checkpoints video. We also have 180 00:05:43.100 --> 00:05:45.240 an elevation video that can help with a 181 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:46.800 small drill. It's called the pool noodle 182 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:48.740 shoulder elevation video. That gives you 183 00:05:48.740 --> 00:05:50.480 a couple checkpoints where you can use to 184 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.279 start building in your takeaway and also 185 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:53.480 build into your backswing perfect 186 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:54.000 elevation. 187 00:05:54.579 --> 00:05:55.920 And then we also have one that talks 188 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:58.019 about the rotation of the wrists. It's 189 00:05:58.019 --> 00:05:59.819 how to use your wrists effectively and 190 00:05:59.819 --> 00:06:01.899 efficiently in the golf swing. All right. 191 00:06:02.019 --> 00:06:04.000 So these movements alone will help you 192 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.000 overcome a lot of your swing faults. You 193 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:07.699 won't see the club getting flipped inside 194 00:06:07.699 --> 00:06:09.399 too early. You won't see the hands 195 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.300 popping out away from the body much. You 196 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:12.779 won't run into these positions at the top 197 00:06:12.779 --> 00:06:13.819 of the swing that you're going to have 198 00:06:13.819 --> 00:06:16.439 to, in turn, recover from, which can make 199 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:18.120 the game very difficult. Because now 200 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:18.899 you're relying on a lot of 201 00:06:19.419 --> 00:06:21.000 compensations and you're relying on a lot 202 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:22.980 more timing. All right. So if you've been 203 00:06:22.980 --> 00:06:24.180 looking to build a perfect backswing, 204 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:25.819 this is a great one to mimic here. This 205 00:06:25.819 --> 00:06:28.240 is pretty much textbook throughout the 206 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:30.160 entire golf swing, and this will 207 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.959 certainly make your golf swing get on 208 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:32.980 plane every single time. 209 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:34.660 All right, guys. So that's this week's 210 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:36.319 analysis. Get out there. Let's put 211 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.399 rotation, elevation, inflection to work 212 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.740 and let's play some great golf.
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