Michelle Wie Huge Shoulder Turn
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In this video, I’ll show you how to swing with power and efficiency like Michelle Wie. You’ll find out: 1) How pushing from your left side constricts your shoulder turn, and 2) How to tighten your backswing to improve your consistency. Check out this video now to create efficient power!
- Focus on a big body turn always
- Stabilize the lower body
- Small arm movements help get the club into a great spot at the top
Hi everyone, I'm Rotary Swing Instructor Chris Tyler.
And this week, Michelle Wee gets her first major championship of her career at Pinehurst number 2, so congratulations to Michelle Wee.
We're going to be focusing on the whole mantra behind the Rotary Swing, A big body turn and small arm movements this week to create a proper swing plane and get you to play consistent golf, just like Michelle does.
So let's go ahead and get started.
Alright, so the always exciting and youthful Michelle Wee gets her first major championship of her career, so congratulations to her.
And this week, we're going to be talking about how she's prioritized her golf swing into a big body turn and small arm movements.
And primarily, what you'll see out of a lot of players that have longer arms or longer limbs is that they'll get the hands and arms moving into a very long position.
At the top part of the golf swing and basically lose control and then they're having to rely on a lot of timing in their golf swing.
And Michelle always is really focused on the idea of using her body to her advantage, and not really necessarily having to overuse her arms in her golf swing.
And I'm going to go through that with you today.
So if you take a look here, I'm going to show you the face on view.
She does get a little bit of an early wrist set here just to get the club moving.
But if you watch this V in her shirt right here, if you watch that V from this point forward, you'll see that it moves at the same rate as the club throughout the entire swing.
And, generally speaking, what happens as we get through the take away and then start to move the golf club into the back swing?
You'll see a lot of people's rotations shut down because they start to push from this lead arm or this lead shoulder right here.
When you start to push from that lead side, You're basically loading up the shoulder girdle, where you're not going to be able to make a full turn.
But she continues to always keep her focus right on rotation.
So you can see here, like I said, She gets that early set and she's getting through the take away.
And then she's going to start to work into the vertical plane with the right arm flexion.
And she's still rotating at that same rate as the club.
She's always got a magnificent look to her tempo, much like an Ernie Els to her to her tempo when she's got her iron play.
And this right here is the top part of her golf swing.
And as I was starting off by saying at the beginning, part of the review is that.
Generally, you would see players that have longer limbs and longer arms.
And Michelle is six foot, with the club wrapped around their neck down in this area.
But she's consolidated things and she's kept things in control, which has made her one of the better ball strikers out there on tour.
If you look at a lot of her stats, the one stat that she's kind of lacking in, the one department she's lacking in, I think she's 122nd in driving accuracy.
But she's got a little bit different, a little bit longer, a little bit out of control golf swing that really tries to overpower the golf course.
But if you look at her iron play and she keeps things consolidated really short and tight, she's actually leading the LPGA Tour in most under par rounds.
She's got a lot of other stats that are great that are very attributed to this particular move alone.
So we always want to make sure that we primarily focus on big body turn and small arm movements.
And like we've talked about in the past, we've talked about the acronym Rotation Elevation Flexion, REF.
And you can see over here on the down the line view just that.
So like I said, she does get that little early wrist set.
She's got a little bit of elevation here, where her hands and arms have started to lift up just a fraction, just a small upward movement.
That's a variable.
And then she's adding the right arm flexion as she's still continuing to rotate.
And then she gets the club into a beautiful spot here at the top.
So that's really what you need to do to create a proper swing plan and stay in control is you need to make sure that you shift your focus to making sure that you're always rotating your body properly.
All right.
So there's a great video on the website called Five Minutes to a Perfect Backswing Checkpoints video.
Also, the Five Minutes to a Perfect Backswing check kind of goes through the whole game plan about getting you into certain positions.
There's also creating a swing plane.
Those videos are all fantastic.
But what you need to make sure that you're doing while you're going out to practice is that don't try to aim the golf club into a certain area with the hands and arms.
Make sure that you focus on creating that perfectly big body turn, good loaded lower half.
And then work on adding that little bit of elevation, that little bit of flexion of the arms.
You'll see how much easier it is to create a proper swing plane, get you into a really decent spot at the top of the swing and play more consistent golf.
All right.
So check those videos out, guys.
I look forward to working more with you in the future.
I hope you have a great day and play some great golf.
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