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In this analysis video, we're going to look at setup.

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Now, we're going to start the video by looking at the body.

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So we're going to look at the spine, the hips, the knees.

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And then we're going to look at the arms.

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So we're going to look at the shoulders and the grip strength.

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And then lastly, we'll look at ball position.

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So first, let's look at the spine.

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Now, it's very hard to see exactly what the spine is doing when looking at video.

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But we can get a general idea.

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And one of the easy ways that we can look at spine is if you go

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from the base of the neck to the top of the belt.

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So kind of base of the neck or the collar to the top of the belt.

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And if you do this, you'll see that the spine is roughly

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parallel to this line.

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There'll be a little bit of a curve kind of in the mid back.

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But it's roughly parallel to this line.

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You don't see a big gap between the lower back and the line.

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And you don't see a huge rounding in the mid back.

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Now, over on the right, we have a golfer who's demonstrating

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a form of seaposter.

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So you can see that there's a little bit more of a rounding.

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And you can see a little bit more space between the back or more of the curve

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is kind of on the outside of that line.

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The place where you can really identify the discolfer is in a little bit of seaposter

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is if you look in the lower back.

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So if you're looking somewhere in this space,

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you can see that the belt line is almost parallel to the ground

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where Jason Daze is pointing much more out in the direction of the golf ball.

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That's an indication of using the hips to get down to the golf ball.

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Where the amateur on the right has used more of the rounding of his mid and upper spine

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to get down to the golf ball because his pelvis is almost parallel to the ground.

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And now here on the right is a golfer who is demonstrating what we refer to as s-poster

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where you can see this general soft sort of s-shaped curve.

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And you can see that there's virtually no space between the lower back and the line

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as opposed to what we saw when we looked at Jason Daze over here.

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You can see a much more pronounced kind of hump in the mid back.

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And you can see that the lower spine is pretty flat to this.

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So essentially what he's doing is in order to get down to the golf ball.

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He's sitting into his lower back which inhibits both the abdominals and the glutes and makes

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lateral stability a real issue. Also because of the curve in the lower back,

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in order to get his upper body to face the golf ball hands up having a pronounced rounding of the upper back.

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Rounding of the upper back will activate more your pecs, your upper trap, your anterior delt

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as opposed to your lats and your serratus. So you get this rounding of the arms which makes it

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hard to use the spine to create the backswing. And now on the right we have a golfer who has a fairly

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good spine curve, pretty neutral maybe slight sea but pretty good. What we'll see here is some excessive

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knee flex. So he's in his setup posture and then as he gets ready to take the club back,

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you'll see a pretty big bounce and set into the knees where if I have a line that's drawn up from

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the toes you can see that his knees are almost approaching that line. Where on the left I have

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the line dry enough from the toes of Jason Day and you can clearly see that he doesn't

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excessively bend those knees. excessively bending the knees is activating the quads to create

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stability as opposed to sitting into the hips and using the glutes. Unfortunately the quads are not as

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sensitive for lateral movement of the pelvis and so many golfers who struggle with too much

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knee flex and setup will then struggle with too much lateral movement of the knees and feet during

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the backswing. The next piece we're going to look at is arm hang and here we've got

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Amescott and Jason Duffner and basically I've just drawn a line straight down from the outside

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of the shoulder as well as from the armpit or the crease of the shirt since it's a little

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tricky to see the true backside of the shoulder while they're wearing clothes. You can see that their hands

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fit very nicely right within this corridor. With the irons you'll tend to see them fall

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more or less within this corridor and with a drierial tendency it's just on the outer end.

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And here are a couple of tour golfers. Adam Scott and Jason Day demonstrating what I mean by

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they'll be just on the outer edge so there'll be more right in the midline of the outside of the

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shoulder as opposed to between the armpit and the outside of the shoulder. And here we have a couple

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amateurs that are demonstrating kind of the opposite. So here we have a golfer on the right with

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driver who has his hands a little bit more right in the middle of that window and then here we have

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a golfer on the left two has his hands a little bit more in that driver position. So it can

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tend to cause issues with a retention of posture when we get into the backswing and downswing.

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And this next piece we'll take a look at is alignment. Now if you're going to look at a

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alignment based on video you have to be very careful that you're making sure that the camera is

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somewhat in line with the direction that they're aiming because you'll see on a good quality video

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you'll see the ball roughly take off a parallel to the screen or straight down the middle of the screen.

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If you have a if you take a video and you happen to see the golf ball either shoot off more to the

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right or typically it'll go more to the left. That's a pretty good indication that

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especially at this level of golfer that you don't have the camera set up in a proper position

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to look at their alignment. But now let's take a quick look at alignment of Zack Johnson and Charlie

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we hear. What you'll typically see is that the the hips the shoulders the knees the thighs

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will roughly be parallel to where they want the ball to start. In addition if you look at the

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forearms you'll typically see a little bit of the lead form so you'll typically see a little bit

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of the left forearm on the top side just like so. That happens from having a little bit more

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bend in the trail or right elbow for right hand golfers than is in the left arm and you can see just

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a little bit of that space on each of these two general. And here a couple more golfers to demonstrate

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this importance of camera angle also to look at triggers because what you'll see is

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here both of these two golfers look like their forearms are barely parallel. Yes you can see a

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little bit of Jason days for arm right there but they for all in ten purposes they look like

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they're pretty parallel. Now if we we take Jason day to that frame right when the club starts to

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move back which is there you can now see there's a little bit more of the forearms showing.

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So part of his triggers the preset some of this rotation. We can see a similar movement over here

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with Tom Watson if you wait until right there where the club starts to move you can start to see

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the forearm appearing. So don't be fooled by the position that they're in before they start taking

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the club away. Check to see exactly when you in your video are starting to take the club away.

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And here are a couple of examples of amateur's who tend to aim their upper bodies and

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forearms a little bit more to the left and varying the degrees. So over here on the left you can see a

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golfer and as he goes to initiate his take away which happens right there we still see the left arm

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underneath the right and it's not until the club is right about there about a foot behind the golf

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ball that we start to see that left forearm indicating that the left shoulders as well as the

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forearms were pointed well to the left before he started to take the club away. Over here on the right

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you'll see it much more subtly. This is a pretty good mid level handicap and you'll see

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that here he's starting to take the club back already and we still can't see the left

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forearm and then there we go. So again about in that foot behind the golf ball range

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now if you were to look at him this is the shoulder position that it looked like Jason Day Adam

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Scott and some of those other golfers were in but now he's got the club about a foot behind the ball.

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So this could just set you up slightly to err on the side of hitting some poles or slices if that's

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your preferred ball flight. And here a couple more examples just to demonstrate the principle that I

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talk about where I think that the closer you are to the club or the closer you are to the grip

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the more important the line minutes. So here are two offers is Tommy Gany and an amateur that I teach

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who if you look at their upper body if you look at their forearms if you look at their shoulders

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they're roughly parallel to where the ball's going to start. If you look at their feet they're a

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little bit closed. I think it's fine to have your lower body be a little bit closed or open that can

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actually help account for tell this height, leg length issues, all those kind of things but I rarely

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see golfers who succeeded a really high level who have their upper body in forearms completely out of

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alignment. And now we're going to look at the face-on position so that we can look at grip strength

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and ball position. So first we're going to look at ball position and if we look at ball position there's

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a couple things that I like to do. You're going to draw a vertical line up from the back of the line

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and you're going to draw a vertical line up from the back of the ball and then you're going to draw

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a horizontal line from the tip of their left foot and the horizontal line from the tip of left foot is

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just a confirm the camera angle. If you look on the left you can see that roughly the tips of

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both feet of Jason Duffner are touching this line. So unless he has a closed stance which we could

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always check from the down line we know that this camera is pretty much perpendicular to the

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direction he's trying to hit the ball if the ball is in the center of the screen. If you look

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over on the right you can see that not only is the ball not in the center of the screen but there's a

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pretty good amount of distance or space right there where I made a few little hash marks. There's a

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pretty good amount of space between the left and the right line. So essentially this is not a very

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good camera angle and if we were to look at his ball position from here it would look like it's

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pretty much in the middle of his body and in the middle of his stance. Now we have a video of Adam Scott

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where the golf ball is more in the middle of the screen and we can see that his toes are much closer

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to parallel to this line. As a result we can see that the ball position he's hitting with the

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driver is much more towards the front half of his body or almost even with the outside of his

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left knee left shoulder where with the iron Jason Duffner has a little bit more of a mid stance and

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mid chest or right off of a logo if you had one on your shirt and right off the inside of the

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inner thigh. We'll look at a few more. And here we have Justin Rose both with an iron on the right

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and a driver on the left so that you can see the difference in ball position and setup. So on the right

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you'll see that the line up the back of the golf ball goes roughly through his shirt pocket or

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just of a left of his zipper or just on the inside of his right thigh and also of his left here.

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All those are pretty good acceptable ball positions for playing your typical iron shot.

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Now over here on the left you'll see the ball position just outside of his left ear or more in line

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with the left shoulder or almost the left knee. And here we have Roy McAuret. So on the right we have

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him with the iron pretty good camera angle. Balls roughly in the middle of the screen and you can see

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if we draw the ball position line roughly goes through his left eye. So as we get into the shorter

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clubs you can see that it's going more and more in front of the face and less and less in front of

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the shoulder. Here we have decent camera angle. The toes are roughly parallel so the lens is pretty

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parallel so the golfer but the ball is positioned forward in the screen so it'll make it look like it's

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a little bit more forward of his body but we can see it's well front of where he is playing his iron.

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So just something for you to factor in when you're taking a look at your ball position for your

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irons and your driver. And here we have an example of a higher handicap golfer and we can see that

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if we look at the driver the ball's in the middle of the screen. Stance is parallel. He's just got

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that ball pretty much in the same place just slightly ahead of where he had the iron. Both of them

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are roughly in the middle of his pelvis as well as just off his left eye or left ear.

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In general I would say that amateur tend to play the ball more further back or away from the

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target than professionals but that's a dangerous generalization. There's obviously going to be

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people who do it at both extremes. Here we have two amateur golfers, one hitting an iron where it's a

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little bit more off of his right eye and another golfer hitting a driver where yes it's ahead of his

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ahead even with his left shoulder but you'll see because of his stance it's not actually very far up compared

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to his lower body. So part of the reason why amateur golfers tend to want to play the ball further back

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is because they have trouble getting the path of the club to go out to the right and you'll learn

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more about this as you go through the system but they have trouble getting the path of the club to

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get out to the right so having the ball further back limits how much the club is swinging to the left

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naturally. In the last piece of the set up puzzle that we're going to look at is grip strength.

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Now looking at grip strength on 2D is a little bit limited I typically look on 3D to see how much

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extension is in the left wrist or in the right wrist and factor that into how I'm calculating the

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grip strength. But with 2D one of the ways that you can look at it is if you look at their hands

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and you look at either the angle of the forearm to the wrist like so or if you just look at how much

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of the glove is showing. So here we can look at the forearms of the wrist of Justin Rose not measuring

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an angle just kind of identifying and noticing that there is a significant angle or looking at how much

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of this logo of the glove you can see on the back of a left hand essentially the left hand is

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pointing more at us the golf ball or the camera than it is pointing at the target. The tour average

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that I see on 3D is going to be about 25 degrees of wrist extension with combined that with a

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little bit of rotation and we happen to see this hand pointing a little bit more at the camera with

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most golfers. Here are two more examples we've got tighter woods on the left grandma down on the right

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tighter woods has moved more towards a weaker grip well he originally moved towards a weaker grip and

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now seems to be moving back a little bit stronger but you can see how much he has right there

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and if you look at grandma down you can see the majority of his glove he tends to have a stronger grip

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believe somewhere around 40 degrees of extension on 3D. Now it's also ideal if the hands are

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somewhat working together so if you were to look at the bees on the fingers that's one way

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that is typically been taught to look at grip strength so if I were to draw a line up the

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be between the thumb and the first joint you can see that roughly it's hard to see the the joint on

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the left hand but these would roughly be parallel to each other. Where if you were to look at this

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amateur here, hey knowing what we know about grip strength we can barely see any of the back of his

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left hand is primarily facing right at the target where that bee is pointing straight up towards his

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if we look at the bee on the right hand the right hand is pointing actually outside of his shoulder so

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his hands are a little bit not positioned but the bigger problem is that the left hand is in a very

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weak position. Now if you have a weaker or hand that's facing more the target or turn more to the

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left on the club you have a weaker grip and you struggle with a ball that curves off to the right

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this is something that you should definitely look at and versely if you have a stronger grip where

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these bees are pointing more well off to the left light so or sorry turn but right on the club so

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they're pointing outside your shoulder and you struggle with a golf ball that overhooks or over

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curves to the left again that is probably something that you should at least consider.

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Here's another amateur doll from the right and you can see if you look at the back of his left hand

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you can see that while the bee on the right hand is pointing over towards the right or

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over towards his shoulder you can see that his the back of his left hand is pointing very much

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in the direction of the target as the golfer that complains of hitting fades and so having a weak

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grip has been a big problem for him and strengthening the grip has helped him overcome

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the tendency to hit and moosely a ball that curves off to the right. Now I know that we've covered a

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lot in this video so just to summarize we've looked at the spine curve we've looked at the amount of

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hip hinge and how that relates to spine curve we've looked at the amount of knee flex

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and we've looked at the armbay and then over on the left we've looked at your ball position

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how that relates to whether it's an iron or a driver and we've looked at your grip strength.

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Now I know that sounds like a lot and frankly it is but the good thing is it doesn't take any

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real athleticism in order to have a very good consistent setup it just takes discipline and repetition

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and so within the site we've broken down each of these pieces and associated drills with them

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that you can practice either at home or at the course in order to build this consistent repeat

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well pattern but anytime you're learning a movement you've got to put in a significant number of

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repetitions 500 thousand 1500 repetitions so that the brain can really refine that pattern

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and feel comfortable with it. I don't expect you to just memorize these different pieces

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and then go to the course and hope that it works out that's never going to work. You need to put

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in a little bit of training but a little bit of training helps build that consistent setup that you're

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looking for which builds the repeatable golf swing that you're here to learn.