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in this analysis video we're gonna take

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a look at the swing of Jason Day

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now Jason Day has been number one in the

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world before he's one of the leak

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golfers of the last five years in this

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video we're gonna talk about what he

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does to dominate so well off the tee and

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why he's such a good wedge player and

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we'll also talk about one thing that he

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does with his body and one things that

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he does with his wrists that will help

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you immensely if you can put them into

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your full swing so for starters let's

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talk about the one thing he does with

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his body that makes him such a

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consistent driver and wedge player and

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for these two really high-quality clips

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a lot of thank mikaël field he's got a

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great youtube channel and he said I

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could use them definitely go over and

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check out some of his other videos he's

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got some really good high-quality

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slow-motion looks like it's off a tripod

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a couple of really good camera angles

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here so here we have Jason from the same

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exact day using driver and then a wedge

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and the thing that we're gonna key in on

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is Jason is the king of the anti stall

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and what I mean by that is many golfers

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struggle with kind of their body

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stopping at impact and having lots of

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hand action and wrist release down at

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the bottom what we'll see with Jason is

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that through impact and into the

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follow-through you'll see the club head

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the hands and the torso tend to rotate

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almost at about the same rate so one

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little image that I'll draw for my

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students is if you look at the

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relationship of these three segments

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when it comes to driving the ball the

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later you can have the club catch up

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with your chest usually the better so

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you'll see when we take Jason through

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it's not until he gets to about here we

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can see the angle of the club out that

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way we'll move this a little bit more we

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can see the angle of the club out that

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way pretty much in line with his chest

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so between impact and that

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follow-through position right in there

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his chest was still leading hits arms

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and hands now he does a great job of

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getting some good ilnur deviation which

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we'll talk about next and he maintains

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that connection of the or the

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relationship between the hands the club

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head and the chest for well into the

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follow-through and you'll see that it's

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not until he has the club up to about

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here that he really uses his wrist to

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absorb the speed of the club when many

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golfers struggle with a chicken wing

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it's that the club is passing their

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chest by way of what the wrists are

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doing down here at the bottom so if you

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imagine that Jason throws his chest

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right there and the club just started

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passing like this well something would

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have to absorb the speed the wrist by

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itself wouldn't have enough capability

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so he would bend the elbow shrug the

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shoulder and have a little bit more of a

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classic amateurish finish but because of

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the relationship and how jason has

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squared the club face he's able to keep

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the chest ahead of the club for a long

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period of time that's a trademark that

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you'll see with a lot of good drivers

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the golf ball and that's also a

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trademark that you'll see with a lot of

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good wedge players now the difference is

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you can see the timing wise that Club is

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pretty much in front of his chest right

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now so just after impact it's not

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waiting all the way until shaft parallel

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but he's going to maintain the

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relationship of that chest arm hand

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connection because he's using his his

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core in his body to move his arms in the

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club more so than he's using his wrists

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for someone who has some of the best

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hands and is consistently up in the

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elite category as far as strokes gained

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around the Greens you'll see that he

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does very little with those hands and

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wrists in his wedge shots let's talk

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about one more thing that we can

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highlight from these face-on views

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so looking at these two different impact

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positions if we're looking at a

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relationship between say the ankle the

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hip and the shoulder you'll see that

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there's slightly different alignments

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with a good long Club swing or a driver

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swing you're going to see the body

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having this tilt away from the target I

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call that a bracing position and it

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involves using your hips in your core to

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absorb the speed of the club trying to

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pull towards the target that way

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typically good long irons and good

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drivers the golf ball are gonna have

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this tilt or access tilt away from the

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target if you see this in your wedge

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game you're likely to struggle with fat

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shots and thin shots and may even fall

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into having the yips

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now on the contrary with the wedge shot

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you'll see a fairly vertical or stacked

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position on top of the golf ball with

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more level shoulders and earlier

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straightening in the arm the swing will

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be more powered by the body and or sorry

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more powered by the arms and the body is

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getting things in position so that that

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arm powered movement makes solid contact

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now if you look like this with wedge

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shots you probably have very good

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contact but if you look like this with

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your driver you'll typically struggle

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with a steeper angle of attack and

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probably hit either low pulls or low

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push cuts I think it's important to

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recognize that while the swings may feel

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very similar there are some major key

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differences in how elite golfers swing

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the club with the driver and what they

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do with their wedges if you're trying to

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make the exact same swing with all clubs

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it's likely that you'll struggle with

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one end of the bag or the other

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now from the down the line we're going

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to take a look at how Jason blends his

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steeps and shallows we can see an early

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transition that he's got a good

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contribution of his legs for producing

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power we can also see that he's using a

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little bit more of an arm Pole in

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getting the club in a more vertical

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position than a lot of the elite ball

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strikers now one of the things that

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appears to be towards the higher end of

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tour average is you can see that his

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upper body is working away from the golf

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ball a fair amount during his downswing

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now I've found that golfers who have

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that tendency on their 3d tend to have a

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hard time hitting half shots and kind of

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touch shots and this may be one of the

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reasons why Jason is known for having

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one gear and swinging pretty much full

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at every single full swing now from that

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steepening position one of those shallow

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movements is moving away with the upper

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body like so but one of the other big

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shallow movements that he uses is the

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unhinging of the wrists and that's a

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common one that we'll see in most body

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powered swings now what you'll see is

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from right about here somewhere around

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delivery position you'll see that

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there's a fair amount of unhinging of

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the wrist and the club is working more

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vertically down the screen than it's

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working out so the body rotation will

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contribute to causing the club to go out

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that way across the screen but it's the

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arms unhinging that bring the club down

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so if you tend to see that from about

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shaft parallel somewhere right about

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here

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if you tend to see that from here to

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impact is when you tend to get steep and

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you tend to struggle with more pulls or

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diggy contact then it's likely the

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unhinging move that you have to practice

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I have a few different drills that I

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like to use to work on it but it's one

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of those key moves for creating

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shallowness down at the bottom of the

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swing if we compare that to his wedge

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shot you'll see that he has a similar

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amount of unhinging through here but

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we'll see that there's a little less

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body drive and as a result in having

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less of the access tilt which we saw

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from that face on view

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see that as he gets the impact he's got

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a little bit earlier straightening of

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the yarn he's using more of his arms and

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his shoulders as his power source but

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still getting a pretty good amount of

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unhinged to help shallow things out

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we're over here you could see that he

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still has some a fair amount of bend in

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that arm because he's powering it more

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with his lower body but he still used

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that unhinged movement in order to

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create some more shallowness to his path

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so if you want to hit the ball like

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Jason work on unhinging of the wrists

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through the key time during the release

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and work on your body continuing to

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rotate on the way through it's also

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important to understand that Jason is

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not the pinnacle of iron success he's

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typically around a hundred ELINT or as

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far as strokes gained with his approach

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shots but he has had a few good years

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where he's done exceptionally well but

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historically he tends to be around 100

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if you tend to get steep with your arm

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movements in transition then know that

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you're gonna have to shallow it out

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somewhere one of the most common ways is

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what Jason demonstrates which is moving

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the upper body away from the golf ball

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if you want to understand your pattern

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better then head over the golf smart

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academy.com there you'll learn about all

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the different key movements that build

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up the stock Tour swing if you're not

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quite ready to sign up for a free

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these different movements then please

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