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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at the swing of Bryson de

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Shambo now Bryson de Shambo has had a

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great amateur career and recently turned

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professional and we're going to take a

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look at a couple things that are unique

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about his golf swing but whether we're

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going to look at two key things that you

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can learn to apply to your game right

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away that I think will help you with

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your ball striking consistency now I'm

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not going to pretend to know all the ins

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and outs of brixon swings but I am going

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to give you my opinion on what's going

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on now

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he's interesting he's a physics major

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he's got all the clubs all the irons at

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the same length the length of a 7-iron

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on a little bit more of an upright plane

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so over here on the right we'll see him

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attempt to swing on a single plane and

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this is a this is a pretty decent camera

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angle but what we'll see is that even

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with his his best efforts you'll see a

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little bit of a shallowing during

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transition because that's great club

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dynamics or club fundamentals so while

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he's probably as close to a single plane

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as anybody we've seen I think that it's

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you know it's more of a perception than

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it is a reality so what can you learn

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from what Bryson demonstrates Bryson has

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this kind of unique setup he has a

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definitely an unorthodox kind of weak

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grip but there are a couple key

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fundamentals to just good golf that you

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can pick up from his swing without

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trying to adapt the whole upright single

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like the iron if you want to give that a

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try please let me know how your

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experiment works out it's just with a

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with limited data on people trying it I

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don't have very much to compare that

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aspect to so let's talk about how he

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sequences his body for different clubs

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and what he does with his wrists that

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allows him to play with kind of a weaker

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grip

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so one of the arguments that he makes

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for playing all the same length clubs is

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that allows him to keep his swing

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exactly the same for all of his iron

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shot now we're going to use our normal

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thigh parallel check point to to get a

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rough idea of what's going on with this

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sequencing so with this short iron we

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can see that his thigh parallel

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checkpoint is kind of somewhere between

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those two frames so we'll say that he's

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getting his thighs back to parallel

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roughly when the shaft is parallel so

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now if I kind of fast forward to a

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longer iron shot if we take a look at

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that five parallel checkpoint

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we can see that we got lucky with the

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the frames of typical TV and we can see

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that he's getting his thighs pretty

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close to parallel a little bit higher up

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somewhere in the same spot because we

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saw with this one it's between those two

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frames so we can see that he's using a

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little bit earlier or a little bit more

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lower body with the longer iron than he

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was doing over here on the left with the

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shorter iron so he's not making exactly

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the same swing even if he has clubs that

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could potentially work with exactly the

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same swing now if we fast forward and we

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get to him hitting a driver we can look

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again for that same five parallel check

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point and we can see that it's before

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this frame just slightly before this

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frame so around that left arm parallel

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so as he moves moves into longer clubs

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he tends to get earlier activity of his

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lower body so one of the ways that I've

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heard others describe it is that the the

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driver in the longer swing is more of a

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total body or lower body activity while

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a shorter iron let's say 7-iron through

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your wedges can be a little bit more of

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an upper body driven swing in order to

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have the proper angle of attack and path

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for those

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dynamics now even though Bryson has

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tried to engineer a set so that he can

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have exactly the same swing you'll see

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that his natural athleticism and

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figuring out how the golf club works has

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allowed him to develop a spectrum where

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he uses more lower body for the longer

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clubs and a little less for the shorter

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clubs if you struggle with the longer

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clubs learning how to use your lower

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body can usually help out help change

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your angle of attack as well as your

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path as long as you're aware of how to

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control the clubface for this different

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engine so that's your key takeaway

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number one is that there's no one swing

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that works with every single Club and

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the best golfers in the world have

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figured this out for key number two

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let's talk about what you have to do if

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you're going to play with a weak grip so

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the second key takeaway for your swing

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is looking at the amount of flexion in

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the lead wrist

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so from this three-quarter view you get

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a good look at how much he actually bows

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that left wrist um during the downswing

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and you may think that that's incredibly

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unique what makes it look unique is

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because of his weak grip that's where

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average is somewhere around 20 25 30

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degrees somewhere in that range where

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basically wherever that lead wrist is it

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set up it's going to be more flexed at

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impact some guys with really strong

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grips never get fully deflection some

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guys with strongest grips do get into

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flexion with weak grips you'll almost

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always in fact I can't think of a single

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example of at or level golfer where they

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have a weak grip and they don't hit the

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ball with a significant amount of flex

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in that lead wrist so I'll show you one

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or two other kind of weaker players who

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exude the same pattern or who utilize

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that same flexion of the lead wrist

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earlier in the downswing so here you can

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see from the down the line view he's got

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a pretty flat left wrist and then by the

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time we get him to the next really clear

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kind of shaft parallel frame you can see

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that there's a significant amount of

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flexion otherwise this would be in line

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with that lead forearm

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now one of the things that he does

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that's fairly unique is you'll see him

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actually increase the flexion through

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the release to the point where you'll

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still have some flexion in some shots

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like this one well into the

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follow-through so here are two other

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weak grip players we've got Corey Pavin

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who isn't known to beat for being a

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really long hitter but with a really

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weak grip you can see that he gets into

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a similar significantly bowed position

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you'll see that Alan the way through he

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he doesn't really increase but you can

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see that the left wrist there is still

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relatively flat now over here on the

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right is will Mackenzie who's had some

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some good success on tour he also plays

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with a very weak grip and so when he

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gets down into that delivery you'll see

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he has a similar looking exaggeration of

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that flexion in that lead wrist and

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you'll see as he goes through he has a

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significant amount of flexion in that

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lead wrist as well very similar to some

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of the wrist mechanics of Bryson D

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Shambo so what you'll see is if you are

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going to try to hit some tore trajectory

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with a weak grip you're probably going

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to have to hit the ball with a

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significant amount of flex in that lead

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wrist if you tend to grip it weak and

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then come back with that wrist and more

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of a straight or even extended position

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you're going to have a hard time doing

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the body pivot that helps create speed

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and the proper angle of attack and path

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in order to get those tore launch

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conditions so you've got your two kick

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takeaways use more of your lower body

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when you're using your full swing and if

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you're going to have a weak grip both at

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wrist like crazy or if you have a

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neutral grip if you both at wrist it

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won't look like you're bowing the wrist

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quite as significantly as someone who

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does have a weak grip now I want to give

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you kind of a little bonus takeaway we

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is there certain shots that just require

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certain physics down in order to pull

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them off so Bryson understanding physics

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has totally adopted a bunker game that

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does not fit this kind of one plane

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model so you can see that he sets up

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with much more of a squat position his

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he's got a significant angle the the

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handle is low you can see that he's

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smart enough and he's good enough

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athlete that he's made the adjustments

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in order to be able to hit a bunker shot

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so it's not that he's just trying to

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simplify absolutely every shot he's

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figured out a way that works for his

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full swing I think he probably could

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have gotten to this level with more of a

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conventional setup and makeup but as a

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it's more important to kind of be

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committed to what you're doing and since

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his physics mind decided that it made a

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whole lot of sense to have every club

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the same length even though his swing

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doesn't cut isn't exactly the same with

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all of them he's figured out a great way

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to build something for him to build his

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golf game around that being the single

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linked Club but even with that concept

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of the single leg Club you can see over

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here on the left that he has recognized

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that he has to make adjustments to hit a

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bunker shot you'll also see that he has

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more of a cupped wrist and you'll see

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that even though it's blurry as he comes

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through you can see that that lead wrist

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is not getting into flexion because that

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would expose too much of the leading

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edge and make the bunker shot incredibly

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difficult so one of the great things

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about golf is you have to learn to adapt

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your swing to the the scenario in front

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of you there are certain shots that

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favor

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using certain techniques and there are

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certain shots that favor others if

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you're confused about what to do for

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