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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at this week's winner

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Charlie Hoffman now Charlie Rock Hoffman

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has won over 20 million dollars and this

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is his fourth win in about ten years on

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tour we're going to see what we can

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learn from his golf swing and how you

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can apply what he does it impact to help

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you straighten out your drives and iron

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consistency now Charlie Hoffman is a

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great example for a lot of golfers who

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struggle with steep arms Charlie does

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have a little bit more of a steep arm

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pattern and while he's not one of the

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most elite ball strikers he does have

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enough good rounds to really get it done

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out there four wins and again over

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twenty million dollars in about ten

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years he's doing a lot of things that

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work pretty well so we're gonna discuss

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what he does in his golf swing and what

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you can learn from it

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to apply it to your own pattern

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especially if you have steep arms so now

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if we look at the backswing this is

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obviously not a perfect camera angle

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he's definitely not playing the ball

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that far back with his driver but you'll

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see the arms stay relatively straight as

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he completes a little bit more of a

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one-piece takeaway or a body driven

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backswing and you'll see from the

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downline view is one of the few golfers

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that tends to have a little bit more of

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this flat shoulder plane from the face

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on view you can see that his shoulders

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are pointing a little bit more you know

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higher above the golf ball not down kind

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of at the golf ball in that zone and so

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that gives the appearance that his arms

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are extremely flat his arms compared to

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your shoulders are slightly flat but

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they get exaggerated and look very flat

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because of the angle of a shoulder tilt

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that he has at the top of his swing so

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he's already shallowed with his body by

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using some of this a loss of posture or

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increased or decreased shoulder tilt as

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he goes to the top of the swing but what

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we'll see is as he starts down he can he

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stands up or moves a little bit away

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from the golf ball so if I draw a line

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there you can see that his upper body

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works away from the golf ball and his

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lower body works towards the golf ball

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but you'll see he gets you know shaft

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starting to work on plane or

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closer to plane or whatever you want to

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call it basically what we'll see is that

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while his arms work in a little bit more

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of a vertical fashion compared to his

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body through there we'll see that he

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balances that with his with his body

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starting to go into this shallow kind of

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early extension pattern now what he does

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really well is because he doesn't he's

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not pulling aggressively with his arms

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he's not swinging super hard as he goes

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into this shallow pattern he's able to

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redirect it or stop that shallow pattern

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once he gets into this delivery position

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so now if you were to kind of relook at

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these lines even though he had momentum

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going away from the golf ball and

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standing up you'll see that now he's

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going to start really pouring it on with

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his body and you'll see that that

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rotation kind of keeps him in in his

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body positions pretty well in fact what

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you'll what you'll see is that through

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the golf ball if you were to look at the

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path of his hands you'll see that he

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does a great job of having them exit

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left so that he can have some of this

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shallow angle of attack most golfers who

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most amateur golfers who get into this

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kind of early extension pattern would

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tend to have the arms work down and the

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hands would be working well out to the

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right through impact and that would tend

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to cause some of the big blocks and

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overhook patterns but Charlie does a

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great job of really weighting not

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overpowering it with his arms and then

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using body rotation through the release

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in order to get a very good hand path

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from the face on view we know that he's

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standing up and getting away from us

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through there and then we'll see once he

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gets to right about here we'll see that

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body stabilized pore on and kind of

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rotate and from the face on view one of

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the things that I want you to be able to

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pay attention to is when his arms kind

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of catch up with his sternum so you'll

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see with a lot of Tour Pros and really

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good ball strikers that their arms will

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get into this extended position roughly

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when they're out in front of the chest

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now most amateurs are going to have

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their

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chess pointed closer to the golf ball

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when the hands get out in front of them

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and so then you'll see the arms Bend as

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they pass because Charlie does such a

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good job of turning his upper body

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through the release basically from here

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all the way through there if you look at

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kind of where his shirt buttons are

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pointed and you imagine that there was a

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light shining you'll see that he turns

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his upper body really well through the

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release so his arms don't catch up with

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his sternum until very late in the

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follow-through

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and then it's not until after his arms

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passed that his arms start to bend now a

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lot of golfers try to get their

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shoulders perfectly square at impact

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from this face on view you'll see that

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his chest is well open compared to the

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golf ball we're pointing much further

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down the target line here we have a mitt

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impact and you can see that his chest

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would be pointing kind of somewhere out

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in that zone along that line roughly I

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say 30 or 40 degrees out in front of the

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target line now even though he's done

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that and yes his left shoulder is open

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compared to the target line you can see

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that his forearms are coming in on a

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good path so that the club is still

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swinging from the inside so a lot of

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amateur golfers who get steep with their

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arms and don't shallow it out during

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transition when if they were to rotate

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then the forearms would tend to be

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pointing way to the left and the whole

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overall movement of the club would be

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very steep through impact so Charlie

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shows the great combination that we're

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looking for of getting the body well

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open at impact while having the club

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still come slightly from the inside so

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if you are trying to get your body more

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open at impact to kind of replicate what

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Charlie and a lot of these good golfers

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do what you may find is if you start

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hitting the ball well off to the right

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when you get open and impact or if you

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find that you start hitting it thin then

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it means that what you're doing with

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your arms and your hands doing the

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during the release is preventing you

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from getting your body open at impact so

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you have to complement what you're doing

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with your body

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with what you're doing with your release

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and if you find that you hit a lot of

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straight shots with a body that's square

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then just trying to get your body open

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is usually going to make you hit it

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worse but as Charlie's demonstrating

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getting your body rotated side Bend and

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going into extension so that the chest

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is pointing well out in front of the

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golf ball at impact helps delay the

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timing of the arms and gives you a

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little bit more consistency so if you're

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trying to create that body position that

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Charlie demonstrates impact you're going

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to have to work on how you square the

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club face during the release if you want

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to learn more about the release we have

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a whole section of 20-plus drills on how

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the arms and the hands work how the body

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works and how the club should work from

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about waist height to waist height if

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