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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the swing of Alex Noron.

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More importantly, we're going to take a look at this practice move or this rehearsal swing

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and what you can learn about it in the plight of your own game.

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Now Alex Noron has been a great putter, but in the last few years he's found something

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that's really improved his ball striking and he's climbed all the way to 13th in the world.

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In this video, I'm going to help you understand how his practice routine is helping his

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ball striking.

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So, over here on the left we have an older swing and over here on the right we have

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a more current swing.

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This is prior to his big jump in World Golf rankings in ball striking improvement.

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This one over here on the right is demonstrating the swing that has helped him climb close

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to the top 10.

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Now whenever I work with a new student, I always show them their video or take a video of

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their swing and ask them what do they see.

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And they always key in on one or two things.

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They may say, I've got a flip or a scoop, a chicken wing, I've got a cast, I'm not turned

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enough, I'm standing up, whatever it is they always focus on one thing.

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And then what I'll usually ask them is, okay, if we change that, what else would we have

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to change?

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And that's where sometimes I get the kind of frozen look like I'm sure if I just make

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that one change, I'll hit the ball better.

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But Alex pre-shot routine and rehearsal swing helps us understand is that usually there's

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like four or five things that you would have to change when you make one change.

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The key is finding one drill or one feeling that allows you to combine some of those things

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into one playing field.

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So if we look over here on the left, we will see a few of the things that he wanted

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to change and why they use that rehearsal drill.

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So at the top of the swing, you'll see his initial movement is a little bit more of a pull

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of those arms down.

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He does have some shift of his lower body, but his lower body doesn't really start

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to get going until down somewhere in this zone.

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So that first transition move is more of a pull down of the arms.

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Now when he pulls down with the arms, you'll see right about halfway that right elbow

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gets kind of stuck on the side of his body and becomes just kind of a pivot.

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You'll see that right through there that right elbow doesn't come across his body too much.

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It stays more behind his body as he releases the club out.

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The momentum of the arm kind of pivoting around that elbow back there then causes more

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of a scoop action on the way through.

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If we look over here on the right, you'll see from the top of the swing it's a little

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bit more of a blended or a unified transition movement.

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You can see that his lower body and his core are helping bring his arms down into position.

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And then you can see down here his elbow is much more in front of his body and it continues

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to move in front of his body all the way during the release.

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So instead of having a look of the arms pull the elbow gets stuck and then the hands flip,

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he has more of a unified pull arms getting front and then whole arms release together

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not just the wrist.

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These are some of the differences that have helped him elevate his ball striking the

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near top 10 status.

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Here's an older swing from down the line.

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It's not a great camera angle but it was one of the best I could find.

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And then here's that same practice session from about a year ago.

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Now many golfers also would look at this and they might have looked at the face on and

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they might have said that the swing looks pretty much the same.

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And I would keep in on in that face on view is somewhat subtle or unless you know

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what to look at.

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But sometimes it's those subtle differences that really create the difference between

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your quality shots and your bad shots.

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You don't always need a complete swing overhaul.

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Sometimes you just need a few movements to work a little bit better together.

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So now if we look at the down the line there's where we can see more of that arm pull

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and you'll see that as he does that arm pull, this left shoulder is actually looking like

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it kind of elevates.

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Now over here you'll see that that left shoulder stays down a bit longer.

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That's what helps create some of the space for that right elbow.

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Here you can see that right elbow gets stuck behind and then right through there is where

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he's releasing more of his wrists instead of his whole arms.

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From this view he's able to shallow the shaft a little bit better with his arms and then

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he's able to release everything through the arms, the wrists and kind of the body together.

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Here because that arm got stuck and had to work more out towards the target or work more

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out towards the golf ball you'll see a little bit more of a stall pattern accompanying

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a little bit more of a hand flip.

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Here there's a lot more connection going on during his release.

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So now if we look back at his practice swing we might understand a few of these pieces a

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little bit better.

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You'll see that that left shoulder stays down to help create some of the space that

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right elbow gets well in front and the body, the lower body and core is rotating through

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that early transition point.

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You'll also see that he's organizing the club more with the forearm so he's creating

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nice that little shallow movement with his forearms and you'll see that there's a little

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bit of variety in that one.

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You can see this, he's focusing where it appears that he's focusing more on the body,

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the lower body portion and he lost the club shaft just a little bit coming down through

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here.

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So it appears that he's able to focus on a few different areas with this one unified

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drill.