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in this analysis video we're gonna take

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a look at the swing of Billy Horschel

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now in 2014 Billy Horschel was the

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leading money on tour thanks in large

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part to his brilliant ball strike now in

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this video I'm gonna help you understand

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why Billy's swing has a slight bias

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towards iron play hopefully helping you

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understand what your swings bias may be

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with any tour pro analysis it's easy to

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point out the similarities Billy has a

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great one-piece takeaway good pressure

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shift off the ball tremendous

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flexibility in order to create this good

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looking position at the top of the swing

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from the down the line position we'll

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see a pretty good means of body angles

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you'll see relatively good shaft lanes

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you'll see a good athletic position at

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the top all the classic traits as he

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starts down see a very good shallow move

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with the arms you'll see very good

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sequencing where his thighs are reaching

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parallel about the time his lead arm is

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parallel to the ground and all the

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common traits that we would expect to

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see with a Elite Tour level ball striker

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so what I want to highlight on is

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something that happens during his

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release that makes his swing a little

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bit more biased towards the angle of

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attack that works better with an iron

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so the movement during his release that

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we typically see more representative in

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an iron pattern would be more of a

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vertical posting as opposed to a shift

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away from the target with the upper body

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one of the things that I see on 3d is

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the best drivers the golf ball tend to

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create a great differential between the

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location of their upper body in the

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location of their lower body at the

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point where there are quit reaches its

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greatest right around here so if we kind

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of create a rough representation of

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where the center of his pelvis and the

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center of thorax is we can see that

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there's a little bit of separation there

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the great drivers of the golf ball tend

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to be up in the six to eight inch range

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airing closer to the 8 inch zone and

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what I'll frequently see is starting

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from right about here you'll actually

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see the thorax moves slightly away

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while with irons you'll tend to see it

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drift slightly towards you can see that

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Billy has a little bit more of that

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upper body kind of drifting towards the

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target which can increase the angle of

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attack and make shallowing out the

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driver a little bit more precarious so

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as we're seeing this year he's still a

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good iron player everybody's struggling

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off the tee and it's resulting in a

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little bit harder or a little bit higher

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scoring average let's take a look at a

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couple other pros demonstrating the

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opposite version where the upper body

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moves a little bit more away from the

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target as opposed to what Billy's

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demonstrating here with his driver so

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here we have a couple clips of someone

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like Rory McIlroy we'll also look at

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Adam Scott and what we'll see is as he

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goes into that bracing kind of ramus

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zone here you'll see that his upper body

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tends to follow that similar pattern

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that we saw with Billy Horschel where he

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goes more vertically and it's supposed

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to move and then just continues moving

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through the shot in the follow-through

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when we look at him with a driver you'll

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see that as he starts going into the

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bracing right around here you'll see

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that his head and his upper body

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actually move slightly away from the

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target finishing their max movement away

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from the target right around this zone

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and then it's not until the lower body

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re-engages that his upper body gets

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pulled forward this would be more the

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classic pattern that we'll see with very

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good drivers of the golf ball that Billy

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seems to be lacking now whether he's

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lacking it due to technique coaching or

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physical restriction is in his pelvis

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that part remains to be seen so now we

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see Adam Scott demonstrating that

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similar difference in racing strategies

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over on the right we have a short iron

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and you'll see that that upper body

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tends to continue drifting towards the

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target through the release we're over

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here on the left you will see that

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there's a clear shift of his upper body

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you can use that gentlemen and

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background as a reference and then as he

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enters the bracing you

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see his head and thorax slightly working

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away from the target and it'll reach it

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to maximum away from the target kind of

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in this zone right out in here which is

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pretty typical for a very good driver of

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the golf ball Adam Scott is currently

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the number one ball striker on tour so

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seeing what he and rory mcilroy who i

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believe is in the top five are

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demonstrating as the difference between

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kind of the ideal driver and the ideal

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iron swing we can see how someone like

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Billy Horschel has all the makings of

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creating power and consistency but his

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bracing strategy for his upper body

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tends to be more of a pattern that we

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would see for an iron even when he's

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swinging a driver and that can cause

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some of the trout difficulty that we're

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seeing with him off the tee so now that

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you've seen a couple examples of the

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alternative where there's a bracing

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strategy where the upper body moves away

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or a bracing strategy where the upper

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body continues to move toward you'll

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tend to see the pattern if we jump back

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and look at Billy Horschel you can see

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that upper body kind of drifting toward

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and then even with the driver slight

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movement away but you'll see that it

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quickly turns into movement toward well

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before he reaches that follow-through

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position where we see it maxed out with

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great drivers the golf ball-like Rory

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McIlroy or Adam Scott so if you'd like

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to understand your personal bias head

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struggles that you have either with the

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Dreyer driver or with the wedges and

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