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in this analysis video we're gonna take

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a look at the swing of Tommy Fleetwood

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now Tommy Fleetwood just shot 63 in the

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final round of the US Open

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another great major performance this

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young golfer is one of the elite ball

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strikers on both the PGA as well as the

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European Tour at least over the last

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couple years he is near the top of the

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stats as far as strokes gained four off

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the tee as well as approach shots into

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the green in this video we're gonna talk

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about two things you can learn from his

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game and his approach that help them

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become such an elite ball striker and

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what you can apply to your own game in

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order to improve your ball striking

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Tommy does a number of things really

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well in this wing and so when analyzing

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it it's hard to focus on just one but

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we're gonna focus mostly on the release

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pattern that the consistent release

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pattern between his driver and his iron

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and what he does differently with his

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pivot in order to adjust for the

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different shots so if I fast forward

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down to the release in in our system we

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define the release from delivery

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position so somewhere right around chef

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45 we're kind of right about here all

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the way through until the arms parallel

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in the follow-through we're until the

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club is parallel in the follow-through

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so roughly that movement through there

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now what we'll see that Tommy does so

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well is he's going to delay the

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straightening in their arms even though

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the wrists have started a little bit

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earlier so the wrists have started

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unhinging through here and then they're

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going to start rotating but we'll see

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most of the rotation of the forearms

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happening as the trail arm extends so

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basically he gets into this position and

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then you'll see that through the ball

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the majority of the movement is more

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that right arm extending while the lead

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forearm is rotating over or supinating

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that combination tends to produce very

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consistent clubface control as well as a

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widening art so now

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if we if we say that okay the good

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release pattern comes from delaying the

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straightening in the trail arm and

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having more rotation of the forearms

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instead of having a flipping of the

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wrist

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well what changes between these two

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shots so over on the right we have an

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iron short iron and over on the left we

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have the driver we look at the timing of

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the arm extension when we look at the

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driver we'll see that he's going to

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reach pretty much that maximum

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straightness right around there or it's

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going to be extending more towards the

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target and we can see that in this

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position which we refer to as

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follow-through position you've got great

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alignment between the hip socket and the

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heel and then you've got a great

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alignment between the upper body and the

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lower body or basically the ribcage his

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shoulders are well behind where his

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upper body is from the face on view with

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the iron you'll see that the timing of

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that trail arm straightening it's

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reaching its maximum somewhere right

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around here so a little bit earlier

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compared to the driver that's because

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it's a little bit more of an arm

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extension down into the ball instead of

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an arm extension towards the target or

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through the ball now

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what we'll see if we get him to about

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that same position is that his upper

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body is a lot more on top of his lower

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body the ability to maintain a similar

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release pattern with these different

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pivots is one of the traits that I saw

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among the elite ball strikers who were

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able to lead statistically both driver

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as well as iron statistics now if we

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look at the impact location you'll see

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that even though he's doing a very

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similar release you can see that the

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pretty much the entirety of his upper

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body is behind the golf ball where here

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you can see that the pretty much I'd say

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half of his upper body is in front of

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the golf ball or maybe even a little bit

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more that creates some of the different

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angle of attack as well

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as power sources that tend to work

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better with the iron compared to the

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driver now quickly from the down the

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line I'll see that in order to have such

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a good release he's gonna have to do

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some things pretty well in transition so

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you'll see a very good shallowing of the

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shaft and you'll see a very good

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sequencing where the lower body and the

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core are rotating well before his upper

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body starts rotating towards the target

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more down here you'll see that as we get

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to that start of the release there's a

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good relationship where the club shaft

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is almost at a 90 degree angle to where

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his pelvis is pointing

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so his pelvis was pointing let's say 30

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40 degrees over that and then the club

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is pointing more out in that direction

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so you can see that by having the club

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more in this shallow position it allows

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him to execute the better release

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pattern that we saw from the face on

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view as he approaches that

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follow-through position that we like you

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could see that the club is slightly

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outside of the hands the hands are

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pointing relatively out at the belly

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button and through the ball he's even

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though his lower body has lifted from

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the way he's creating power you'll see

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that his chest

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pretty much maintains about the same

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height as it rotates through to the

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follow-through it's not until it goes

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past follow-through position and into

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the finish that the chest or his upper

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body starts raising up away from the

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ground I found this great clip of Tommy

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explaining one of the big pieces of

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advice he would give to most amateurs

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when it comes to practicing on the range

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just pretty much through the chest and

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the reason the reason we do this is

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basically because you have less room for

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error and it just sinks things up a

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little bit more you can feel a bit more

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connection and you

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the key thing is practicing the 9:00 to

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3:00 or 10:00 to 2:00 or waist height

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shots there's a really good way of

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refining your release pattern if you

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have trouble making solid contact or

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hitting the ball well from these little

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nine to three shots then it's a good

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sign that you need to work on your

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release pattern more so than you need to

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work on your backswing or transition now

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here are two shots from the masters

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early in 2018 what you'll see is he's

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going to pretty much execute the same

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release pattern but you'll see that with

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the long iron on the par-5 he's gonna

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have a full release similar to what he

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was doing with the driver that's great

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for the longer clubs where you want a

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little bit more shallower path and

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you're gonna have a little bit more body

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powered control of the swing but what we

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find with Tommy that I think he does

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exceptionally well is he is pretty much

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mastered the art of a near full distance

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three-quarter shot that he hits inside

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of about a hundred and eighty yards more

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times than not I find that this is one

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of the traits that really elite iron

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players on tour tend to do is they tend

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to be able to shift from making this

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full cut with the driver in long clubs

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to a little bit more of the ten to two

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or three quarter punch shot with the

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shorter irons so if you want to master

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your ball striking just like Tommy you

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need to build a really solid release

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pattern to use throughout the bag and be

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able to adjust your body position and

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pivot depending on the club that you're

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swinging if you do that

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you'll hit longer and straighter drives

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as well as hit more closed shots with

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your approach shots into the green so

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here's one last great view of a

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slow-motion swing with the driver where

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you can really see through the ball the

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the wrists are having

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of a rotation or the forums are having

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more of a rotation movement as that

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right arm is extending more at the

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target if you master that combination

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through there it's very easy to have

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consistent clubface control and a long

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flat spot down at the bottom of the

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swing that tends to result in better

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consistency if you like the detailed way

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that we break down the golf swing then

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you'll love the drills and concept

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videos over at golf Simone Academy comm

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below I've included a link to a list of

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videos relating to the release so that

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you can start training your pattern just

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