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In this concept video, we're going to take a look at the cast or the upper body dominance

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swing pattern.

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Now the cast or upper body dominance swing pattern is really a transition air, but sometimes

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if it's subtle, you won't see the evidence of the cast until down in the release.

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But overall, it's a transition air, and what it is is getting your upper body too active

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too soon.

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So if we were to break down your body into thirds, say the hips in the lower body, and then

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the trunk in the core, and then the shoulders and arms, we want to control and create

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our speed from a blend of all three of these.

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The cast pattern is getting speed primarily from the shoulders and the arms early during

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the downswing.

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It shows up pretty easy on 3D.

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It typically looks like the club sensor or the club shaft is moving faster than the rest

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of the body pretty early in the downswing.

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On video, if you see someone who's doing it in more of an exaggerated fashion, what

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will typically look for is a straightening of the trail elbow or a flexion of the trail

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wrist going this way, or an early rotation of the upper body compared to the lower

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body.

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In general, that tends to look like something like this.

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The arms kind of getting active too soon, or it could be more like this where the upper

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body is rotating on top of the lower body and the lower body is not really leading the

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downswing.

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Either way, it gets the club moving faster than your body, so it tends to limit your ability

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to create speed.

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Typically golfers who cast can have pretty good short games, but they'll struggle off

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the tee.

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As you'll see in the analysis video, there are a few pros who do it.

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There's even a long drive guy who does it very well.

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But all in all, it tends to be more of a weak controlled pattern as opposed to a maximum

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power generation pattern.

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Now often, the cast is accompanied by something that we call a forward lunge, and you'll

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start to see why these two kind of go hand in hand.

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With the cast pattern, I'm going to get this club head far away from me sooner than if I had

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a normal tour sequence that we tried a tee tier.

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So if I was to get that club away from me, and I did all the other good movements that

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a tour pro would do, I'm typically going to have the club bottom out.

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So the forward lunge is a lack of right side bend and a shift of the upper body kind of

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towards the target kind of like so.

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I'll tend to have my upper body very much on top of my lower body and have a little

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amount of side tilt.

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This prevents me from hitting the ground behind the ball, but it tends to give me a steep

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angle of attack and a very small flat spot.

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So this can result in a lot of problems with your long irons, your hybrids, and particularly

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the driver.

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Since the cast is a downswing problem, we know that it relates to how we're controlling

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path, how we're controlling face, and how we're creating speed.

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Typically, as I mentioned earlier in this video, it is going to be an upper body dominated

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power producer.

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So as opposed to getting that initial movement happening from the lower body, I will

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tend to have the initial movement happening more from the upper body kind of like so.

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So one of the ways that you can work on it is by learning to get your lower body to initiate

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and learning to get the feeling of more speed from the lower body.

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Typically, this results in a feeling of a later tempo or typically a smoother swing.

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Now from a face and path perspective, the cast is pretty interesting.

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Typically, what's going on in a cast pattern is you are going to have an open clubface

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that you tend to keep open and you use the cast in order to get the club to go to the left

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or rather to get the path to go to the left so that this open clubface is now pointed

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at the target.

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It is possible to have my body closed enough so that this cast brings it from the inside

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and I can still hit a draw.

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So typically, casters are going to struggle with drawing them all, they'll typically hit

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poles or slight fades unless they're hitting down as they would wish short arms.

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So typically, the way that that's going to look is there my clubface is kind of in an open

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position.

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And now if I was too cast by spinning my upper body and straightening my arms kind of

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like so, you can see that I can get that clubface that is open to the path facing at the

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target by taking this path and moving it a little bit more outside to end.

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That's typically that upper body spin or that upper body dominated pattern.

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Now from a face perspective, getting the club to extend out away from me causes the club

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face to actually want to close.

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The more that I have this club in a lag position or the more that my hands are leading

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the club head, it will tend to force that face open unless I'm doing the motorcycle move,

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which we teach in the transition session.

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So by having that clubface open, if I could either do the motorcycle move to close it or

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I could cast and release that arm.

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And when I release that arm, now the clubface is pointing the direction of the target,

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but I did so with a very vertical shaft as opposed to in the full swing stock program where

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we're trying to have a little bit of shaft lean that would result in an open clubface

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unless I was to close it using this rotation.

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So a castor is typically using the whole shaft to square the clubface instead of just

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shaft rotation to square the clubface.

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If you're going to work on the cast pattern, as you'll see in the drills, there are three

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primary areas that you'll need to improve on.

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One will be getting your arms to lag a little bit and getting the club to be narrow in

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transition.

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Two will be getting the club to shallow in transition slightly different way because

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the cast pattern gets the club out of way for me.

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So it creates more of a shallow angle of attack just from the simple fact that I'm getting

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my arms away from me.

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Now it's a little tricky because typically that's accompanied with a deep upper body movement

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so those two balance out.

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So if I'm going to take away the shallow, I need to add a shallow in a different way.

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Lastly, the thing that I'm going to have to do that's probably going to feel the most

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uncomfortable is I'm going to have to create the early part of the downswing speed

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from my lower body and my trunk and my core as opposed to you from my shoulder blades,

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my shoulders and my arms.

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So let's go through those one by one.

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First let's talk about this narrow.

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So if I go up to the top of my swing, the cast pattern tends to get wide very early from the top

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of the swing.

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So the opposite of that would be as my lower body is leading if my arms were to get narrow as we

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teach in the transition sequence and as you'll see in this cast section that allows my body

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to rotate inside then without having my arms extend and bottom out behind the golf ball.

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As a result, my arms will extend a little bit later than in the cast pattern and help me

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produce this more shallow angle of attack with a long flat spot.

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The second piece would be looking at the shallowing component.

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So the shallowing component would be letting my arms fall as a result of my lower body

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leading the golf swing.

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So we talk a lot about those hands staying high and letting this club kind of shallow,

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where a castor will typically shallow by getting the club away from me as opposed to getting

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the swing path of the arms a little bit more horizontal.

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So that's one of the other challenges and then the last one is the general sequencing of learning

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to get that lower body to initiate the downswing.

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Now if you've played sports where it was a reward to be kind of upper body dominant, say you were

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alignment in football or wrestler, something where you did a lot with moving your upper body

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in big movements, this is going to be a little bit of a challenge.

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If you played other sports such as striking sports like tennis, baseball, hockey, lacrosse,

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or if you played lower body dominant sports like soccer, this will tend to feel a little bit more

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athletic and it'll actually be reminiscent of how you use athleticism in those other sports.

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And typically what you'll have to do is remove the barrier of how you control the face and path

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to allow you to be more aggressive with the lower body or to be more athletic and initiate with the

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lower body. So the cast pattern is a great pattern to keep because you want to use it for

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your finesse wedges, your distance wedges, but if you're using it for your stock full swing,

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it's definitely limiting your distance and power potential.