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in this analysis video we're gonna take

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a look at Patrick Reed now Patrick Reed

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is one of the young stars on tour he is

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currently fourth in the FedEx Cup and

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fifteenth in the world ranking and he is

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20th in strokes gained tee to green and

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21st in stirrups game pudding so he's

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got a pretty good well-rounded game but

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we're gonna talk about some of the

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idiosyncrasies of his swing and how they

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help explain some of his driving

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accuracy problems and why he's such a

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good bunker player so stay tuned we're

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gonna take a look at what makes his

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swing work and how you can apply some of

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it to your own game when I do these

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analysis I think it's important that we

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focus on the things that kind of look

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weird or the idiosyncrasies of his swing

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and talking about why they work because

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all of these tour golfers are going to

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have pretty good swing paths pretty good

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face control you know compared to the

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average golfer they're gonna have very

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good sequencing there's gonna be a lot

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more similarities so when we start with

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Patrick Reed we're gonna look at the

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transition and the release because

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that's where we see a lot of the the

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weird moves one of my favorite lines is

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what looks weird and what is this doing

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for the golfer so if we take a look at

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the face on view you'll see that the

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first thing that looks weird in his

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transition is his right leg tends to

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straighten and his left foot tends to

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replant in a more closed position so

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here he was at the top of the swing and

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you can see that his lead foot was

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pointed slightly out that way and then a

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few frames later it's pointed pretty

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much at the golf ball now during the

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release what's gonna look weird is that

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he's going to basically have that left

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foot spin and moved behind him as he

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releases the club

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so from this face on view it's a little

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better frame rate you'll be able to see

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there's that straightening of the leg

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he's replanting his foot in a little bit

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more closed positioned and then as he

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comes down and through the release you

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can watch

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there's his the toe of his left foot and

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as he comes through you can see that

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the toe of his left foot is now

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somewhere back there so why would this

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golfer have this little replanting with

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the feet and then change of movement

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during the release that's what we're

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gonna discuss so that you can understand

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how he is able to get the club to swing

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the way that he does so if we jump back

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to transition and we look at the engine

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of his swing you can see that his lower

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body tends to rotate relatively quickly

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and compared to his left foot he doesn't

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seem to have very much lateral movement

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of the lower body so from the from the

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down-the-line view that would give the

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appearance that his hips are gonna be

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more level here than you know someone

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who has a little bit more of the access

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tilt or hip slide so there's a couple

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reasons that he might be doing that but

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one of the most likely is if we take a

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look at the face on when he when he does

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this little hip rotation move we'll see

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in a later video that he's gonna be

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shallowing out the club with his arms a

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pretty good amount so in order to get

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the the path right he's gonna have to

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have a certain amount of steeps and a

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certain amount of shallows now because

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his upper body is pretty much on top of

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his lower body that's going to

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inherently add a little bit of a steep

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so in order to prevent that he's gonna

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keep or I guess in order to balance that

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he's gonna keep more of his mass in his

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upper body behind the golf ball now

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because of that the left foot is basic

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or though yeah the left foot is going to

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be more unweighted at impact and it's

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gonna have freedom to kind of slide and

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rotate as he goes through now the one of

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the questions is always well why doesn't

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he have more of this lateral movement so

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that he would have more of a look like

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that as he came into the ball instead of

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straight up and down well part of what I

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see going on with his movement is when

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he if he was more side bent here

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we're looking at this down the line if

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he was Morse I'd been hearing he had a

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little bit more of that hip bump then in

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order to have the same path he would

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have to have the the arms work a little

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bit more across his body the white

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movement that we described on our site

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now Patrick Reed is one of the larger

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golfer and he's got a little bit more

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mass in his stomach and so that white

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movement would be very very difficult so

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you will tend to see with golfers who

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are a little bit stockier like this that

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they're gonna have more of a rotational

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movement and not take advantage of some

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of the lower body translations now part

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of that will show up in his some of his

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statistics so he is currently a hundred

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90th in driving accuracy and when it

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comes to Club that speed he's twenty

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ninth but his total rank in distance is

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73rd so there are a number of guys who

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don't swing the club as fast as he does

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but getting more out of it as far as the

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launch characteristics and part of that

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is going to be because of this lack of

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tilt and how that relates to the longer

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swing but that's also part of the reason

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why he does pretty well with the the

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wedges his iron ranking is higher than

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his driver ranking so he would fit into

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more of a stacked type swing not stuck

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in told but stack doesn't his upper body

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is more on top of his lower body doesn't

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have a huge amount of that access though

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so he's gonna struggle a little bit with

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the path with the driver as well as

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maximizing his distance now let's talk a

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little bit about how he shallows the

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club during transition because I think

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that's one of the key movements that

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makes him one of the more promising

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rising stuff so here we have a great

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close up with a good frame rate of

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Patrick Reed going into his transition

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so we know that the lower body is gonna

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do a little straightening pivot move but

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what I want you to look at is I want you

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to look at the movement of his arms and

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shoulders so just that's a reference

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line not giving you any amount that you

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should be striving for you can see where

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he has the club there now as he starts

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going up towards the

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as he's ending his backswing and kind of

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starting transition you'll see that the

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the club has already started to shallow

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out slightly and now as he starts down

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you can see that it's shallowing out

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even more so one of the things that we

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talked about with the arm shallowing is

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this difference between the club moving

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or the grip of the club moving straight

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down versus moving more out you can see

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that Patrick does a great job in

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transition of getting the club to

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shallow and move more out so now because

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he has the arms and a very good shallow

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position he can get away with having his

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body and a little bit more steep or a

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little bit more stacked version and just

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rotate around because most of the

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shallowing has happened from the arms

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with a little bit of shadowing happening

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from the body backing up now that's also

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part of the reason why he appears to

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have that that stall through impact to

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allow the the clubs that kind of tumble

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and catch up but the the shallow piece

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that he does in transition is really

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beautiful and part of the reason why I

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think he has had the success that he has

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had but that's also part of the reason

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why he's able to hit the ball with this

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much curve or as much draw as he tends

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to so it's one of those catch-22 or I

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guess one of those trade-offs of how

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much you want to draw the ball how much

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you want to have the ability to shape

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your shots Patrick Reed has his pattern

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figured out and he knows it very very

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well if you'd like to have your favorite

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golf swing work