Rickie Fowler Swing Analysis
Rickie Fowler Swing Analysis
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An analysis of Rickie Fowler's golf swing from the Rotary Swing Podcast.
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Rickie Fowler takes the "Hands in, club out" adage to the extreme, leading to a very, very steep plane going back | Pushing with the left shoulder, he gets the club completely vertical, even pointing the wrong direction, in the backswing | The top of his swing is distinctive - the swing is very long, reminiscent of Ben Hogan | Coming down he pulls extremely hard with the left, gets back on plane & recovers into good impact position | It's an extremely arms-dominated swing with a very hard release with the right hand | He gets up off the ground through impact, which could damage his knee, long-term
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All right, Josh, so I've got Ricky Swing
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here up on the left, and I'm going to use
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Tiger as an example.
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He's a pretty easy example to pick out on
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things that are done pretty efficiently.
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So at setup,
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the only thing that you'll notice that is
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a little bit off in Ricky Swing, and off
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is a relative term here, is he's set up a
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little bit on the balls of his feet. Of
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course, we know that the balance is
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obviously through the ankles, that's how
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the body's designed to bear weight, but
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nothing horrible here, because he's not
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going to stay on the balls of his feet.
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He's a very athletic kid, so he makes
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some good moves to get back, But the one
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thing you are going to notice that's
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pretty unusual looking for most people in
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Ricky Swing is the plane that the club
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travels on, and you're going to see this
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here.
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He's basically got his hands in. And this
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is, we use an adage in golf instruction,
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hands in, club out, and this is taking to
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the extreme. So his hands are well inside
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of the club head at this point, and the
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club head is way outside, and this is
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going to make the club shaft look really,
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really steep here in just a second as we
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keep going back. We use Tiger as an
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example because he's got a beautiful
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plane.
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As he goes back, you'll see the club head
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much closer in line, and there's a huge
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difference here. So just for the viewers
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at home, we try to kind of create a
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little circle here where the hands are,
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and if the club head's in that line, that
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one's a little off,
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club head's in that circle right around
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the hands or right through the center of
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the hands, we're in good shape, we're
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close to it. But you can see Ricky's is
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well outside of it. So as we keep going
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back, he's going to get really steep as I
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mentioned, and this is because as he
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starts the club back, he really pushes
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his left shoulder around, and when we
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look at the face on view, this will be
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really obvious, and he's really pushing
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that left arm deep around his body. As he
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goes back,
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now the club shaft is really, it's kind
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of actually pointing the wrong direction
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at this point. So, Tiger at the same spot
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is actually going to get the club on
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plane, and Ricky's on plane if he was
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lefty, actually. This would be a good
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position if he was left-handed, but it's
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a pretty crazy position. Now,
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interestingly enough, this is due more to
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him not really manipulating the club
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much. He's not getting any rotation of
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his forearms or his wrists to let the
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club come back around. He's really just
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kind of shoved it back and cocked his
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wrists, and that's what's created this
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position. Whereas Tiger's allowed some
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forearm rotation and some left arm
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internal rotation. It's allowed the club
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to work on a natural plane, which
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obviously this is a little bit unnatural.
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So,
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at this point, the club shaft right
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about,
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let me go back a couple more frames, is
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almost vertical.
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So, pretty steep here in terms of plane.
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And what's really interesting is, I mean,
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this is literally as vertical as it gets.
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What's interesting about this is that
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when we look at the downswing, Ricky's
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going to be much, much shallower, and at
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the top of the swing, going to be much
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shallower. And you're going to start to
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see why this is happening, because as
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he's pushing his left arm deep across his
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body, his hands are very, very deep, and
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they're going to get really deep at the
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top. And that's what's going to allow him
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to kind of put all these pieces together
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at the top. Whereas Tiger's is just a
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little bit more balanced than neutral.
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It's just a little bit less moving parts
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here. He's really just rotating his
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torso, and he's not really moved his arm
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deep across his body. You can see they're
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right about in front of his chest still.
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Ricky's are getting pretty low here.
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They're closer to his belt, and they're
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getting deep. And as we continue this
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trend,
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now we get into kind of the, I would
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consider this probably Ricky's trademark.
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He'll be kind of known for this position
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at the top of the swing, or really close
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to the top of the swing. We're actually
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not there because he gets pretty long.
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Compared to something that would be
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typically considered more conventional or
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more, you know, what we advocate for
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rotary swing tour, keeping the arms more
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in front. Tiger got a little disconnected
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here, but this is pretty close to ideal.
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And as we get to the top with Ricky, he's
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going to be really long.
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That's actually the club head poking out
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behind his elbow.
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It's going to drop,
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come back a little bit more as we get
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closer. Now you can see the club head
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dropping out. This is part of the
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transition here.
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But this position is created during one
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dynamic move that's pretty interesting.
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As he goes back, if we go back to the
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beginning, his elbow, if you imagine his
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elbow pit,
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this is on the front side of his arm,
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he's pointing towards the sky.
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At this point,
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he radically internally rotates it. And
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that's what creates that laid off look,
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which gives off planes. It's actually a
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much better position than it was at. And
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so as he rotates his arm, that's what
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creates this old school Ben Hogan-esque
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look.
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It's all just due from that really quick
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left arm internal rotation. And Sergio
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Garcia has a similar move and ends up in
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a similar position, although he keeps the
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club a little bit more in front of him,
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going back, and it's a little bit
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steeper. And then he shallows it out to a
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similar position.
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Long story short,
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teaching somebody to do this is crazy. I
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mean, you wouldn't really ever try and
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teach somebody this move. And I'd be
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interested to know how Ricky developed
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it. If he's just being a smaller kid, he
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tried to figure out every way that he
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could create as much speed as he could.
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And just always learned to swing his arms
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deep across his body. And that's how he
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developed this move. Because as he comes
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down, he really whips the club around.
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And he's really pulling hard with his
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left side, left arm to get the club back
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down. Obviously, it's not going to get in
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front of his body too easily from where
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he is. But he does a great job of not
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really pushing off the right side. When
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we look on the front view, he does a
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really good job pulling with the left.
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Gets into a decent position.
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And then as he continues to work down,
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he's on plane here. Believe it or not,
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he's made incredible compensations. If we
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remember on the way back, his shaft was
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here. And now it's actually on plane.
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Kind of the opposite of Charles Barkley,
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if I remember the Haney project. This is
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kind of what Haney was trying to get him
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to do. In a little bit of a goofed up
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fashion, taking it way outside and
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dropping it to the inside. Well, Fowler's
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kind of learned to master that move.
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Whereas Tiger just said, yeah, I'm going
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to take it up on plane and down on plane.
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It's a little bit easier. And we
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obviously advocate keeping the club on
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plane and parallel to the plane
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throughout most of the golf swing.
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As he comes down, he's actually recovered
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into a great position. It's just a
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testament to his athleticism and pounding
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thousands of balls to groove this motion.
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Because it is very unorthodox. But as he
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comes down, he's actually in a great
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position here.
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Hips are open. Shoulders are square. Arms
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are back in front of the body. You're
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going to see something pretty similar to
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Tiger in the same move.
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The one thing that I did notice on a
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couple other swings I looked at,
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you know, getting the club that deep
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behind him and trying to shallow it out
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that much. He did get stuck a couple of
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times where he tended to come in a little
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bit underneath. And he couldn't really, a
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couple of shots that I saw him hit were
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very, very high. And so when you're
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trying to shallow out from a very steep
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position to a very shallow position, It's
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going to be pretty tough to control
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trajectory and not tend to hit some
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blocks as you come too far from the
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inside.
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And because of that, Ricky's developed a
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really, really hard release of the golf
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club,
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which you can see there. The right arm
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really releasing the club hard. Does VJ
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look a little bit like that?
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Yeah, VJ's very similar. He's even
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letting his hand come off at that point.
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And he's doing that in order to get the
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club face squared up. And you'll see
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Tiger's a little bit more natural
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release, Which is when the right arm and
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club shaft are kind of parallel to the
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line right over the toes as a normal
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release point. And Ricky's arms are going
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to be quite a bit out of the way from his
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body. So it's a very, very arms dominated
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golf swing, but he makes great moves at
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impact. And this is, you know, very
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similar position to Sergio at impact.
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Sergio's shaft actually comes out really
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flat underneath his shoulder here. You'll
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notice Tiger hasn't come out quite a bit
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higher as we come through. He's going to
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be more on the plane here. But, you know,
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gets into great positions at the point
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that it matters.
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If we look at his face-on view, his swing
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actually looks relatively very
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conventional.
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So, face-on view, pretty good setup here.
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Nothing particularly unusual about this
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setup at all.
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Since he has a very similar move to
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Sergio, one of the interesting
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correlations you can draw. Sergio is able
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to do a lot of the things that he does
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with the club because of a very strong
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grip. And it's hard to tell from this
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video. Some other video I saw, Ricky
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actually kind of had a weaker right-hand
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grip and a relatively neutral left-hand
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grip compared to Sergio's. So, it's hard
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to tell from this video here.
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Here you can see his right arm is way
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above his left. And this is just showing
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how he's pushing his left shoulder and
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left arm deep across his body. And the
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right arm is getting pushed up. And
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that's how he's getting that really steep
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shaft plane that we saw going back. And
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you can see pretty quick, he's going to
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start moving his left shoulder way under
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his chin. So, it's a big pushing motion.
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And that's why he looks like he has so
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much tilt of his spine away from the
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target.
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Really steep here.
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And then, as he starts back down, he
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actually gets, like I said, in a
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relatively good position.
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You can see his left leg starting to
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externally rotate to get him a little bit
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back on the left side.
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And then, as he starts to come down, You
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see that trademark Hogan-esque and Sergio
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move, where the left arm is internally
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rotated and is now shallowed out. And
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that's what creates the appearance of
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having a tremendous amount of lag. As he
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keeps pulling really hard with the left,
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he stays back behind the ball. And you're
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going to notice his left foot is going to
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be way up in the air here pretty quick.
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He's pretty much not even touching the
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ground at this point.
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His left heel is well off the ground.
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He's maybe just the very corner of his
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shoe is touching the ground. And
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everything is starting to break down here
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a little bit. His left elbow is broken
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down a little bit. His left wrist is
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hinging a little bit.
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This may not have been one of his best
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moves here, but obviously going at it
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pretty hard at this point. So, he's
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losing control. This is pretty typical.
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He's pulled out of the shot so much with
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his arm that everything is starting to
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break down.
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And then, as he comes through, he's in an
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okay impact position. Not absolutely
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ideal, but again, we saw from down the
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line he recovers pretty well.
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And you're going to see a ton of
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extension here as his arms really release
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away from his body. But he's, again,
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totally up in the air. And he's got to be
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careful with this because eventually if
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he keeps rotating,
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if he doesn't keep jumping up in the air
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to get off the ball of his foot, which
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he's on here, he'll eventually tear up
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his knee. And so, he's got to, at some
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point, you know, he's a young kid and
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he's strong and he's athletic and he's
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going to get away with it for a while.
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But we saw Tiger's move is identical to
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this. It used to be identical to this
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before he learned to get his weight back
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over his ankle. So, his hip could pivot
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safely without, you know, taking the
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balance joint away from the knee. So,
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eventually this will catch up with him.
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And I imagine this will be something he
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changes by the time he gets into his 30s.
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He'll either develop knee problems or
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just realize he needs to kind of tone it
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down a little bit and get a little bit
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better. Fundamentals there.
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But, long story short, that's a quick
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review of his swing.
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