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Paula Creamer Golf Swing Analysis
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In this video, you’ll find out: 1) How minimizing the lateral movement in your head position keeps your ball striking consistent, 2) How your spine angle is key for consistency throughout your swing, and 3) Why getting your arms deep behind your body in the backswing requires a major compensation that may be destroying your consistency.
- Keeping the head as quiet as possible will help ensure consistent ball striking
- Maintain spine angle through the backswing and into the hitting area
- Allow the head to move post impact by the momentum created by the club
Hey hey everyone, this is Rotary Swing Instructor Christopher Tyler.
And this week, the Pink Panther is back with a big victory at the HSBC, making a 75 foot bomb on the 18th hole to capture a big victory.
Congratulations to Paula.
I'm going to go over some of the key areas.
That's made her one of the best ball strikers over the last 4 or 5 years and a very consistent ball striker on the LPGA Tour.
So stick around.
Alright, so the LPGA brings us a lot of big excitement this past weekend.
With Paula Kramer making a 75 foot putt on the 18th hole to win the tournament and capture her first victory since 2010.
So congratulations to Paula and I know she's happy to be back in the winner's circle.
She's one of those hard workers out there.
I want to go ahead and highlight some of the things that she does really well in her golf swing to help maintain some consistency through her movement.
And I also want to kind of highlight some of the areas that she could work on to improve.
So that you know how to analyze your own golf swing and you know how to make some of the corrections.
I'm also going to point out some videos along the way that are going to help you make the corrections.
If you notice that you have some similarities to what Paula does in her move.
One of the things that you may or may not know is that Paula actually averages between 73 and 75 percent greens in regulation year to year.
Over the last four years she's been averaging right around 73 to 75 percent so that's fantastic.
So she's doing a lot of things within the movement to maintain that consistency.
And we're going to really touch base with head position and spine angle.
Okay, So you're going to notice here.
I'm going to mark a position on her head and then I'm going to go ahead and mark her spine.
Angle over here on the down the line view.
And we're going to just watch a few of these areas really closely.
So you're going to see as she starts into the backswing here head stays very quiet, does not move off this line.
And then into impact she stays right on that line as well.
There's very little movement from the head throughout the entire movement.
So you can see that she's not creating any lateral movement out of the head, which is allowing her to stay centered.
And that's a really big.
Key to the rotary swing is that we want to use as few moving body parts as possible, and we want to be able to stay as centered as possible as well.
And that way we're creating as much rotation around the axis, around the spine and in turn that's going to lead to a lot of consistent ball striking.
So you can see here.
Her head stays as quiet as possible, even till her hands are up into about her chest high position.
Then she kind of, she allows the momentum to pull her head up and out of the shot there.
So that's one of the things that she does extremely well.
Now as far as some of the compensations that she makes within her golf swing, We're going to go ahead and just look at the down the line view here.
And we're going to talk about some of the things that she could do a little better, so she doesn't have to make so many compensations.
And for you hip spinners out there, Let's go ahead and really pay close attention to this next part because this is going to really help you understand why.
You may not be able to have as consistent style shots as Paula does.
And one of the compensations that she makes in order to correct her hip spinning issue.
Alright, So you can see here.
She's getting to the top part of her golf swing and she's maintained her spine very, very well.
And also you can see here, this is one of the things that she gets her hands and arms a little bit on the deep side.
You can see how deep they are behind her body.
So she's going to have to work very hard with the lower half and spin very hard to make room for the hands and arms to pass in front.
Now when you get the hands and arms in this deeper position, like I said you're going to always have to use the body quite a bit more.
If you were able to get the hands a little bit more on the vertical side here, a little bit more shoulder elevation there, that's a good video on the website understanding shoulder elevation.
If she had a little bit more elevation here, she could work a little less hard with the lower half and not run the risk of spinning out.
So let's go ahead and look as she makes her way into transition, into the downswing, and you're going to see what she does here.
She's going to maintain spine, okay, She's got quite a bit of head movement towards the golf ball, but it does not move laterally.
And you're going to see that she's really got the hips spun open really far here.
So she's pushed her off that right foot, alright, And you can see that she's actually increased the spine angle, and this is one of those things that with hip spinners, when you push off that right foot like she's doing you can see here that she's increased her spine.
Hip spinners would actually be standing way vertical here with the spine.
And that's where she's made a lot of good compensations in order to correct this wide, open hip area.
Alright, so that's one of the areas that she, like I said when we were talking here, Is she's got to make some compensations for her move? And when you have the hands and arms deep in that position, You're going to have to use that lower body as much as possible to clear out and make room for the hands and arms to pass in front.
And that's what she's doing here.
So you can see that she's going to maintain this angle, okay, so she actually increases it even more.
She's got a lot of side bend here and now she's post impact, as I showed you over here in the face on view, and she's still maintaining that angle and increasing it.
So that's how she's able to stay down through her shot and able to compress the golf ball and, in turn, hit solid golf shots.
If she was a hip spinner, a true hip spinner, and didn't have some sort of compensation within the spine there, she would hit a lot of blocks or a lot of hooks.
So if that's something you're experiencing, Make sure that you understand that you can use the right foot effectively by trying to break the hip line.
I know that we've talked a lot about that in the past, but you also want to be able to maintain the spine as consistently as possible throughout the move.
And there's another good drill on the website for you guys that are struggling with maintaining spine.
It's called the Merry-Go-Round Drill.
It's in the downswing section.
Make sure you check that out.
That's going to help you understand how you can rotate around the axis and give you the correct feelings of rotation within the body.
And not allow you to feel like you can push yourself up and out of your posture.
those of you that are really wanting to work on getting consistent ball striking, really focus on getting your head to stay as quiet as possible throughout the move.
Keep it quiet into impact and post impact.
And then also work on trying to maintain your spine as long as possible.
That spine angle into the backswing, into impact and then into the follow through.
Really try to hang on to that angle.
And that's ultimately going to allow you to build consistent ball striking.
And then you can hit more greens.
And then hopefully you have better and more chances to make birdie.
Alright guys, so get out there, work on your spine angle, work on your head positions.
I wish you all the best.
Keep up the good work and I look forward to working with you guys more in the future.