Justin Rose - Rotate and Stack Up
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Congrats to Justin Rose on his amazing Sunday finish and claiming his 7th career title on the PGA Tour. Justin has a fantastic golf swing and is known as a great ball striker. In this video, I'll show you 2 key moves in his golf swing that can help you get into a more solid impact position every single swing. I'll show you a couple of cool drills that will help you rotate and maintain your spine angle throughout your swing and I'll also show you a perfect way to get properly shifted into your lead side. If you are struggling with mishit shots round after round, then you need to pay close attention to these 2 moves guaranteeing you solid contact just like the pros.
- Rotate your shoulders perpendicular to your axis.
- Use the necktie drill cure over rotation of the spine.
- Allow the torso to shift to the lead side when starting the downswing with your lower body.
Hi guys, This is RST instructor Chris Tyler.
And we are back with this week's tour analysis with Justin Rose, who shot a final round 66 at the Zurich yesterday.
So congrats to Justin on a job well done.
This week, we're going to be focusing in on two areas that are going to help you become a better and more consistent ball striker.
It's going to have to do with the way we rotate in the golf swing and the way we stack up our lead side in the hitting area.
So let's go ahead and get started.
Okay guys, so as I said in the opener, we're going to be focusing in on two awesome areas of Justin's golf swing.
We could probably focus in on about 100 areas of his swing because he's got a very, very good move at it for sure.
But in the interest of time, We're going to be focusing in on two areas and that's going to be maintaining spine angle throughout the entire golf swing.
And then also a great way to get into a more stacked up lead side impact position.
So that you can control the bottom of the swing arc and have much more solid contact on the golf ball.
So let's go ahead and get started here.
We're going to focus on the down the line version first.
I'm going to draw some lines here for us.
Lines that I'm sure you're familiar with seeing.
You're going to see a line down his spine.
I'll go ahead and draw the tush line too, just for good measure here, because we know that when the hips come forward, that in turn can make your spine angle change.
But as we start to work through the golf swing here into the top of the backswing, hands are just a little bit deeper than what we would teach at RST, but not a big deal.
You can see here that he's maintained the angle of his spine all the way to the top of the swing here.
And you can also see that his shoulder line is now perpendicular to the original spine angle that we had drawn from the starting position.
So if you've noticed this, if you're watching yourself in the self -analyzer on the website, Definitely, take a look to make sure that your shoulder line is making a perpendicular tee to your spine angle at the top.
And if it's not, Then you need to work on eliminating the golf club for a bit.
And learn how to rotate your shoulders around your axis to be able to maintain that angle.
If you're starting to push from your lead side, you'll probably see your shoulder start to level off a little bit.
If you try to pull your right shoulder too vertical, you'll see that you'll actually increase the total amount of spine angle that you had, or you'll start to actually run into a little bit of a reverse pivot situation.
And a good way to overcome that would be the necktie drill.
We've got that on the website here.
That'll be over in the recommended video.
So, you know, as I go through these analysis, I start to recommend a lot of the content that we have available for you guys.
So, if you pinpoint some areas that you want to work on in your golf swing, then this is a great way to kind of go in order.
So, you'll see, again, we're focusing in on maintaining spine angle all the way to the top of the golf swing.
And we did that by rotating our shoulders around the axis.
We kept our hips back.
So, that's a beautiful, beautiful move up to the top.
And now, from a face-on perspective, this is one of the big cruxes of the golf swing.
Put a line up from the center of the lead ankle at the address position.
And we're going to go ahead and load him up to the top of the swing.
So, You can see he doesn't get as much of a shift over to the right side as we would normally see from a, you know, a RST fundamental move.
But he still gets a load into that right side.
And this is where his big move happens.
If you pay close attention to the center of the hip socket here, and you also pay close attention to the way his torso moves with this shift, this is an area where a lot of golfers will try to hold their head dead still.
And they try to hold the torso still as well while they're making this big sitting move left.
And then, in turn, that causes a lot of your mass to stay back behind the golf ball.
And then, we run into a mess of issues as far as ball striking is concerned.
That's where you can either bounce the club off the ground into the ball.
You can hit a lot of thin shots because you're starting more of an ascending blow than a descending blow.
So, now, Pay very close attention here through these next few frames.
How?
When he makes this big shift with his lower half, he's going to allow his torso to get over into that lead side as well.
So, it's almost like he's kind of falling into the lead side.
So, you see that there's some space there.
And then, he's kind of falling with the torso over there.
He's not trying to keep everything hung back.
And this is a great example of how to get your body into the proper position to start to post up.
And post up is really just a matter of you driving your lead heel into the ground, clearing the hips out, stabilizing the lower body, and then just releasing the golf club.
That's really kind of what we mean when we have that terminology is posting up.
So, you can see that he's shifted over into that lead side, and now he's going to begin his post up move.
And then, he just gets into a phenomenal impact position.
Maybe just a little bit out past neutral to where his lead knee is just a little bit out past there.
He could be trying to hit a cut here.
You know, golf pros are always trying to shape the golf ball.
So, You'll see the tendency is to get just a fraction out in front of it when they're trying to hit that kind of shot.
All right, guys.
So, if you've been struggling with rotation or getting yourself into a really good, solid impact position in the hitting area, where you notice that you've hung your torso back, or if you felt like you can't get this stacked up lead side here, a couple videos I want you to take a look at.
Again, in order, I would say the necktie drill, And then five minutes to master rotation if you haven't worked on being able to rotate around your axis properly.
And then, I would also say level shoulders at impact, Another great video for you to understand how.
We want the shoulders to be down in the hitting area so that you can get really solid, crisp contact.
Sitting in the left side, that's going to teach you how to get in transition, and then taking a divot in front of the ball.
It's not a video that we mentioned a whole lot, but there's a lot of good substance in there that you may want to take a look at.
So, that's going to be it.
If you guys want to really work on maintaining, or not maintaining, but if you want to become a good, consistent ball striker, then this is an awesome move to kind of mirror yourself after.
And so many different levels, and obviously, you know, maintaining spine angle, keeping the hips back, you can see that he maintains his spine angle well through the hitting area, keeps his hips back, and then also, he's got a great transition to where he's allowing the left side to get really stacked up, and then he's going to get solid, solid contact.
So, that's definitely a good way to do it.
All right, guys, so I wish you all the best, and let's get out there and play some great golf.
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