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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at shallowing the club and the different methods that pros and

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amateurs use to shallow the club. Now to start, we're going to take a look at Charles Barkley.

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Charles is unique in that he has almost no shallowing movement in transition, which is part of what's given him his flinch.

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If you look over on the right, you'll see he gets where the club is practically vertical and there's virtually nothing he can do,

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so he stops and then through the release he adds no more steepening moves in all shallow moves.

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It's a much better idea to have a general blend of this steepening and shallowing movement.

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For a quick idea of what we're going to cover in this video, the major shallowing movements

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are going to come from either the arms or the body. If they come from the arms,

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it's going to be the arms moving to the right of the body, rotating to the right,

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where away from the target, or the arms straightening. From the body, the major shallowing movements are going to be

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standing up or going into extension, side bending to the right, or limiting your body rotation.

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So keep those in mind as we look through these different shallowing strategies. So now if we jump back to

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Charles, we can see that during transition, his body flexes. It doesn't really side bend to the right.

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And he rotates a bit. You can see his lower body and upper body rotating. So he adds all three

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steepeners from the body. You can also see that the arms rotate a little bit to the left.

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The arms work more out in front of his chest. They don't fall behind his body,

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but there is an attun of trail arm straightening. So if the six possible shallowing methods,

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he uses five of them and he gets into a position where it's virtually impossible for him to continue

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his body doing anything except for stand up, which shallows it, extend that arm, which shallows it,

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limit rotation, which also shallows it. So hopefully you can come up with a better strategy for

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shallowing out your swing than the one that Charles has used to create one of the worst golf swings

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in recent history. Now for the format of this video, we're going to rapid fire look through

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different swings and someone categorized their different shallowing movements. So over on the left,

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you'll see that Adam Scott's upper body flexes slightly forward so you can see that his head is

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dropping just a little bit. His chest is getting closer to the golf ball and he's rotating. So by

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definition in order to have the club pointed in the general direction of the golf ball,

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his arms must be shallowing since his body is steepening. So now if you look subtly,

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if you look at his lead arm, you can see that his lead arm is rotating away from the target

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or to the right and you can see that compared to where his arms are here, where there is hands

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are roughly in front of his chest, you can see that as he starts going down, because of this left arm

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really working across his body that's moved it more to the right of his body. So he's steepened

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with his body and he's shallowed with his arms. Over here on the right, we have Graham McDowell.

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You can see the upper body flexing as the body rotates so he has that same pattern of

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steepening with his body and you'll see a very pronounced shallowing movement with the left arm.

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You can see that the right arm and the right elbow is actually going into external rotation

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that elbows almost working a little bit behind him, but you can see that the club is following

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the movements of the left arm not the movements of the right arm. So while his body is steepening,

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he's rotating his arms to the right and moving them off towards the right of his body.

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Those are both shalloweres. So both of these two exhibit the classic,

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kind of stock-tourswing model, where they are steepening with their body during transition

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and shallowing with the arms. So now on the right, we have Kevin Stabler on the left, we have John

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Daly. Every swing is going to give us a little bit more understanding of this global shallowing concept.

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So you can see that as he starts down, there's a fair amount of rotation of that lead arm.

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So looking at those two segments there, you'll see that they start rotating more towards

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pointing up towards the sky than pointing vertically. So there's a fair amount of shallowing there.

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And you can see that his right arm is actually an esteepening move, but his right hand is actually

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coming off of the club because he's controlling it largely with that lead hand. His other shallowing

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movement is he's controlling the amount of rotation. So if we got him in this position here and we had

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him rotate as much as say and Adam Scott, the club, if his arms stayed in the same relationship

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to his body would actually be out here, which would be more of a steepening movement. So he's

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shallowing with his arms, but he's also not steepening quite as much with his body. So now John Daly

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will see a powerful pulling motion of the arms, which is actually more of a steepening movement.

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So you can see as he gets in here, he's still kind of in that could be dangerous as far as being

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too steep for the longer clubs, but then you'll see right through there. He's now doing more of a

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shallow with his body backing up or his upper body kind of extending away as his arms are now

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doing more of the right rotation. So you'll see that he's shallowing a little bit more a little bit

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later, but as long as he's done it before he gets down into that delivery zone he'll be fine.

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So now on the left we have Jim Furik. We'll see that he didn't rotate a ton with his body in the

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in the backswing. So that is a lack of a shallow movement, but you'll see that he has a tremendous

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arm-shallowing move in transition. You can see that that arm is completely across his chest.

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It was arms are to the right of his body, but they've still rotated to the right. So that's a

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fair amount of shallowing and you'll see as a result his upper body can actually stay relatively

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close to the golf ball and rotate because those are both steepening movements. So now he's in a very

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good delivery position to apply a blend in a balanced release. We'll cover that in other videos.

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So then here we have John Senden. John Senden is a little bit more of an upper body pull.

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And so you'll see that because the upper body pulling and the arm's steepening is part of his

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power source, you'll see that his upper body tends to move away from the golf ball. He tends to

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stall that rotation and straighten that right arm. So his major shallowing movements are the upper

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body moving away and that right arm's straightening a little bit fuller with the driver than someone who

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has more of a gradual blend of the shallowing movements. It should be noted that from those who

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have ever watched John Senden play, he's a tremendous ball striker, but he swings well within himself.

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He never looks like he's swinging hard. He swings with full control. If you have a hard time

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getting more of your arms to shallow and body to steep in, he is a great model to look at,

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but understand that you will never be able to swing really hard without having control issues off the

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tee. So on the left we have Lee Westwood on the right we'll look at Bill Hoss. So Lee Westwood

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has a very pronounced upper body kind of crunch move. So he has steepening movements there,

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but you can see that Lee Darm is rotating as he goes into that transition move to get more facing

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in the sky and remember by definition, if the club is on a shallower path. So here it is in the

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backswing if it's on a shallower path, but his body has flex forward and rotated to the left.

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That means that the arms had to have done the shallowing movement in order for the club to not

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steep it. So he doesn't do as much of the arms working across his body. He does it more with the arms

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rotating, which helps him shallow it out. Bill Hoss is an interesting one where as he gets towards

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the top of the swing he is very pronounced upper body early extension move. So the upper body works

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away from the golf ball. That's a major shallower. Most people who do that would also

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extend the spine and stand up, but he actually flexes slightly forward. So he stays down

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even though he's moving his whole body away from the golf ball. So that requires some body timing,

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but he's very good with that and it doesn't require that he makes as big a shallowing movement

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with the arms. He doesn't have a lot of the arm rotation. You can see that the back of the left hand

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isn't really working more so that it's pointed up towards the sky. It's actually saying

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pretty much the same compared to his body, but he does have a fair amount of the arms working more

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to the right of his body or working across his body. So his major shallowers are going to be

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the upper body moving away and then the arms working more to the right of his body,

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which allows him to then have more of a classic release even though he still has that

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unique movement of his upper body moving away significantly from the top of the swing as a shallowing

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move. So on the left we have Charlie Wee over on the right we have Jeff Ogilby. So Charlie Wee,

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you can see a pretty good shallow movement of rotating that lead arm, but you can see that the

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he doesn't have a ton of a shallowing from the arm staying across his body. They're actually working

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more out in front of his chest. So as a result, he stalled some of his body rotation or limit some

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of his body's rotation to rebalance that back out. So on the right we have Jeff Ogilby.

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You'll see that he is also a little bit more of that arm pull. You'll see the arms are in a

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steepish position. So now he's going to have to add some shallow movements from here in order to

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not have the club slam into the ground. So his major shallow movement is going to be that

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extension of the body working away. So his body moving up this way, pelvis moving in that way,

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ultimately moving all of this away from the golf ball, which helps allow him to get more of a full

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extension of that right arm. He's not too bad. It's the last pretty good sequencing,

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which you see that the major shallowing movements are coming more from that extension and lack of

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rotation than true arm movements. So on the left we have Joe Durant, one of my favorite swings

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and Hunter Mayhand on the right. Joe Durant we can see a very pronounced shallow movement

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from that lead and trail arm. So you can see the back of his left hand facing almost parallel

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to the way our his shoulders are parallel to his spine perpendicular to his shoulders. However you

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want to look at it, that allows him to have a very good amount of late body rotation through the

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shot, which I think helps him with a lot of his consistency. Hunter Mayhand you can see doesn't have a

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ton of the shaft or arm rotation. He gets it more from the arm staying to the right of his body

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or working more to the right of his body. And then because he hasn't had a ton of rotation of

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that lead arm, but the shaft is still shallowing with steep body movements, we know that the only

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thing that could probably be doing it is going to be that right arm. So he gets more of the shallow

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from the arm's working across his body and more of that right arm shallowing as opposed to the

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left arm, but with the body bending forward, rotating, doing mostly steep movements in order to have

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that club in a shallow position here. We know that he had to have done shallow movements from his arms.

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So here we have a couple interesting ones, Kenny Perry and Keegan Bradley on the left. So Keegan

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has a little bit more. He gets some arm rotation, you can see that lead wrist, lead forearm,

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lead shoulder, shelling the club there. But you'll see that his right arm is in a fairly steepish

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position. And so what he ends up doing is he shallows with side bend late. So he's probably in

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more of a steep position right here. And you'll see that he has a fair amount of that right side bend

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coupled with extension. So he's having some major shallow movements through there, which means that in

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order to have the club somewhat on plane, his arm and release pattern is going to be a little

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bit more in the steep category. Over on the right with Kenny Perry, you can see he's got his classic

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loss of posture in the backswing, but then applies really traditional movements during the transition.

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So flexing forward and rotating both steep. You can see that the arm stand at the right of his

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body as they are rotating. So he gets that great combination of shaft plane from steepening the body

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and shallowing out the arms. So over on the left here we have Matt Coacher on the right way of

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Sergio Garcia. With Matt Coacher you can see he is the the Jim Hardy school and the one plane

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school talks about really rotating the arm so the left especially that right arm in transition.

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Now if he were to actually do that we would see the shaft work more and more towards vertical.

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But what you'll see is that he doesn't do that. He's actually shallowing out with his arms because

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his upper body is staying flex forward as it's rotating. Those are both steepeners. So the club should

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steepen a lot based on what his body is doing and what he is described as trying to do with his arms,

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but we can see that he's not actually doing that. His arms are shallowing quite nicely.

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Get him into this classic delivery position and then from there he has a very good release.

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It's no wonder that he's one of the consistent solid iron players solid ball strikers.

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Now Sergio Garcia has his trademark kind of shallowing movement where he has a fair amount of

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that forearm rotation. So if you look at his elbow you can see that not a ton of the rotation is

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happening from the elbow. So he's having a very big shallow movement from the forearms.

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He has the same upper body flexing forward as it's rotating. So those are both steepening movements.

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But in the arms disconnect from his chest a little bit earlier in the downswing which is also

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a steepening movement. But because of the forearm rotation he's able to get the club in an

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overall shallow path. Now looking at a couple of the legends you we have been hogan and jacknickless.

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So been hogan on the left. You can see that his arms are well across his body so he's kind of

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pre-shallowing and they're already rotated a fair amount. So he's pre-shallowing some of the movements

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of his arms. But you can see in transition he still has some shallowing movement especially from

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that lead arm. Back in the hand the blur is getting more and more facing the sky.

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And at the same time you'll see that his upper body is flexing slightly forward as it's rotating.

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So in order to get into a position like this where the club is coming more along that right forearm

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plane there had to be some some shallowing movements from the shoulders if the body stayed

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flex forward and rotate it or flex more forward and rotated because those are both steepening

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movements. And then over here on the right we'll see who I think had one of the best shallowing

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movements in the game. You can see that those arms really shallow early and a good bit.

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And that allows his body to rotate and to to get into a very similar looking delivery position

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to what Ben Hogan wasn't. Even a little bit more flexed forward which means that his shoulders

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and his arms by definition had to have had more of a steepening movement or more of a shallowing

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movement to balance out that extra steep. So now as we take a look at a handful of amateurs you'll see

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a different rates in different combinations. So over on the left you'll see that the body movements

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are fairly similar where the body staying flexed and rotating but the club is in a totally

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different position because the arms have not shallowed and so because the arms did not shallow,

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they didn't rotate. The club ends up being very vertically and now he has to shallow more during

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this midsection of the downswing instead of during transition.

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Conversely here's a golfer who's shallowing largely with the body. You can see a big

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pronounced shallow movement with the body so then by definition in order to have a club path that's

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not incredibly shallow that means his arms are working in more of a steep fashion. So this is a

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little bit more of that paradoxical where the body is doing most of the shallowing in transition

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and the arms are mostly steep. So now we have a couple examples of good golfers who are just

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slightly steep with the arms in transition. So you'll see that the gentleman on the right

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has the arms to the right of the body but there's not a lot of right rotation so the arms

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aren't shallowing a ton during that rotation move. And so as a result his body has to stall a little

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bit and go into more of an extension pattern late during the release which gets the path.

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Having a tendency of working too much in doubt here's a golfer who gets more of the shallowing

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movement with the arm working across his body. You can see a fair amount of the arm working across

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his chest but because there wasn't a ton of arm rotation you can see there's a very little arm

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rotation from that lead arm. So as a result he now has to stall and release those arms or the other

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way to look at it would be the brain knows that it wants to stall and release those arms to square

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the club face and so shallowing the club would open the face more than he would want for that release

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pattern. So what you do in transition and what you do in release often go hand in hand. Part of the

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reason why torporos are able to make this great shallowing movement during transition is because they

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have such a clean balance of the steepest in shallows during the release. So a very good wipe

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very good early club face closing, very good timing of the arm extension. Those two go hand in hand

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hopefully this video helps you visualize some of the ways that you may be organizing the steepest

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in shallows to analyze it, look at it from down the line, look at it top of the swing and then

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look at it when the club is about parallel. If when the club is about parallel if the club is

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well inside or well outside, well inside would be more of a shallow pattern, well outside would be more

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of a steep pattern and then you can isolate the different or look at the different body parts to see

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which one might be contributing. As a quick refresher the major shallow movements are going to be

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right rotation of the arms, moving your arms to the right of your body which is known as

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horizontal adduction of the left shoulder or straightening the arms. Straightening the arms is one of

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the common ways that amateur shallow the club very late. From the body's perspective, the shallowing

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movements are going to be extension or standing up, limiting your body's rotation or right side bend.

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Figuring out your combination of steepest in shallows will ultimately help you understand

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the overall pattern of your golf swing and what you need to work on and when you need to work on balancing.