Sean O'Hair - Big Shoulder Turn
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Congrats to Sean O'hair for making a great comeback in professional golf. Sean worked his way to the top of the leader board, and came up just short in a 3-way playoff. In this tour video, I'll show you a perfect way to put more rotation in your backswing. I'll also show you some of the common mistakes that could be making it impossible for you to get a full shoulder turn. You will see how how keeping your trail arm straight could be the perfect solution to getting you into a much more powerful backswing position. Let's build up some real power in your golf swing now!
- Keep both arms straight and relaxed into the takeaway, with 45 degrees of shoulder turn.
- If you struggle with not making a full turn at the top of the swing, try keeping your trail arm straight, longer into your backswing.
Hey everyone, this is RST instructor Chris Tyler checking back in with you for this week's tour analysis.
I know we just saw Jordan Spieth win the Valspar Championship, but we also saw a familiar face get himself back into contention once again, Sean O'Hare.
This week I'm going to be talking about rotation and how important it is in your backswing.
If you've been struggling with making a full turn in your backswing, you want to definitely take a look at this video.
I'm going to kind of shuffle around priorities and get you into a good spot so you can get a good loaded up position at the top of your swing.
Now let's go ahead and get started.
Alright guys, so as I said in the opener, We're going to be focusing on a great way to build more rotation into your backswing and your backswing, Which, in turn, is going to help you with getting a much more powerful position to start your downswing sequencing from.
And I think one of the big things that people are getting kind of confused about is a video on the website called the Keep the Right Arm Straight to Turn.
Now, if you focused on in your golf swing or if you noticed that you're making a full turn, then that video is not really a good thing for you to focus on.
You want to focus on other areas of the golf swing.
But I think a lot of times students get too hand and arm involved and they lose the big picture of what we're trying to achieve with our rotation in the backswing.
So that's what we're going to do this week.
We're going to focus in on what Sean does in his golf swing.
And give you a good, clear example of what you can do to make a much more fuller turn.
So, looking at this from a face-on perspective, okay, here we are at a completed takeaway.
This is where the club shaft would be parallel to the ground.
You're going to see that the shoulder line has rotated about 45 degrees or so.
And he's kept both arms very straight.
Okay, so what we're doing here is we're establishing a lot of width and we're doing that by rotation.
So the movement from the hands and the arms at this point has all been facilitated by the rotation.
Now, One of the most common mistakes that we see with amateur golfers is that they'll start to push their lead arm across their center.
So you'll start to push really hard.
And what that will cause, or what that will make happen, is.
You'll start to get a lot of flexion in your right arm very early on.
Now that's going to collapse your width, and it's actually loading up your shoulder girdles and not allowing you to make a big full turn.
So for those players that have struggled with making that full turn, What we're talking about is we want you to try to feel as though you're going to keep your right arm straight or longer into your backswing.
Now in all actuality, when we get to a completed takeaway, What we would be looking to do here is we'd be adding the last little bit of right arm flexion and the last little bit of elevation, all coupled with big rotation.
Okay, so it's really important that when you get to a completed takeaway, the right arm would start to flex.
We would start to elevate the arm just a little bit and then we would always continue to rotate, just as we did in the takeaway.
Now, Going back to what I was talking about with the big issue is that.
If you've noticed that, you try really hard to make a big full turn, but your arms are just doing so much of the work, then you want to try to keep your right arm straighter longer than you ever have before.
That's going to allow you to shift your focus back over to a big body turn and allow you to get into a much better spot at the top of the swing.
So you can see, I've got a good video over here down the line if you watch.
Okay, so this is where we're at.
The club shaft is now parallel to the ground.
He's rotated about 45 degrees.
Now if you watch his trail arm here, you're going to see that he's still keeping it pretty straight.
He's not just flexing the right arm and not rotating.
He's adding some gradual flexion to this and some gradual elevation, and he gets everything up into the top part of his golf swing with this big full turn.
So you can see here from a face-on perspective that he's got a big 90 degree, even maybe a little bit more than 90 degrees of shoulder turn.
So the point is to offer a little bit of clarification about some of the problems that people have been maybe privy to with seeing that.
Keep the right arm straight to turn video.
If you've noticed that you're building a lot of tension in the arms trying to fight with this, then get the golf club out of your hands for a while.
Work on some rotation.
If you've noticed that, your width collapses very early on in your golf swing, where your right arm kind of bends, Then that's another great way for you to try to overcome that is.
Try to keep it straighter longer into your backswing, and that'll help you shift the focus, believe it or not, back over to making a fuller turn.
Alright guys, so let's get out there.
Let's work on making sure that we keep both arms really straight and relaxed.
If you've been struggling with getting a big full turn at the top of your swing, Then try to keep that trail arm straighter longer than you ever have before, and you'll be well on your way to building a power point.
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