Matt Every - Right Shoulder Drill
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Congrats to Matt Every for winning the Bay Hill Invitational for the 2nd straight year! In this video, I'll show you a great way to use your lower body to motor your downswing and I'll also show you a neat checkpoint for your trail shoulder at impact. If you have struggled with being over the top or spinning your body through the hitting area, this simple checkpoint could be the key to your ball striking success!
- Allow the lower body to unwind the shoulders in downswing transition.
- Keep the trail shoulder away from the trail ear for more power.
- Keep the trail shoulder behind the trail ear to eliminate shoulder spinning issues.
Hey everyone, this is RST instructor Chris Tyler checking back in with this week's tour analysis.
Matt Every just picked up his second straight victory at the Arnold Palmer Bay Hill Invitational, so congratulations to Matt.
And if you've been struggling with using your upper body too much in your downswing, then you want to pay close attention to this review.
I'm going to give you a really clear checkpoint of what you want to do with your trail.
Shoulder down in the hitting area and show you how to motor your golf swing with your lower body.
Now let's go ahead and get started.
Okay guys, So this week, we're going to be focusing in on a common issue among amateur golfers.
And that's just using your upper body too much in your downward move.
I'm going to show you a good checkpoint that's going to help you get into a much better impact position.
And, in turn, not allow you to keep spinning through the hitting area and give you some time to release the golf club.
So let's go ahead and take a look here.
I'm going to show you a couple of videos that we have here on the site and if you look at Matt's setup position here, I'm going to go ahead and mark the total amount of knee flex that he has, and then I'm also going to mark where the shoulder line is here, right off of his trail shoulder.
I'm going to go ahead and work him up to the top part of his golf swing and go ahead and move him on up.
So he's in a good spot here.
He's got a little tiny over rotation of the trail hip here.
Right legs kind of move to a little bit more of a straight position, but he actually recovers fairly well from here.
So you'll take notice of where he has his shoulder line and his hands and arms, and you're going to see a good move here with his lower body.
You're going to see that he kind of sits down just a little bit, making a subtle squat, almost increasing the total amount of knee flex.
Just slightly from where he had it at address.
And you can see that that little move right there has now.
Dropped the hands and arms to about chest height, where they're right in line with his sternum, which would be right around the center of the chest there.
So that little move there has actually brought the hips back to a square position.
We have a video on the website that Chuck did that's great.
It's called the squat to square drill.
And this is a video that's going to really help you motor your golf swing from the lower half and get you into a proper downswing sequence.
So at this point, since he's squatted back to square, then he's going to use the lower half to continue to pull the hands and arms down into the hitting area.
So you can see here.
The lower body is giving this little bit of a clearing move and now we're back into almost a virtually square position with the shoulders.
We are at this point in the golf swing, when we're getting ready to release, I would say we're probably about five degrees closed with the shoulders.
So you're going to see just a little bit more unwinding of the torso here these next few frames.
You're going to see that shoulder come right back into the spot where it was, and then he's going to go ahead and release it on through.
So you see these next few frames, the right shoulder doesn't move forward from where it was at all.
And this is a really, Really big, common mistake for a lot of golfers that try to motor their golf swing from the top half of their body.
So a good checkpoint for you to really kind of feel when you're out hitting balls is take notice of where your right shoulder is in relationship to your right ear.
See how the right shoulder is behind the right ear?
You want to try to feel that that right shoulder stays behind the right ear as long as possible.
In the downward move.
And really kind of feel like you're motoring the golf swing from the lower half.
So when you get down into the hitting area and you're ready to release those hands and arms.
Try to feel as though your right shoulder is extended away from your right ear and it's behind the right ear.
And that'll, in turn, allow you to get into a much more square position with the shoulder line and give you some time to release the golf club.
So that's going to be it for this week's review.
This is a great way to overcome some of those upper body issues.
You really want to allow the lower body to drive the golf swing.
And a good video for you to really fully understand that would be that squat to square video.
Also there we have the flagpole concept video that Chuck just put out as well.
And then a good drill for you guys, For those of you that have been struggling with being over the top or being a little bit steep in your downswing.
We have a good drill that's called the over the top stick drill.
But I would suggest that you go out there and take notice of where your right shoulder is in relationship to your right ear.
Really try to feel like you're holding that shoulder back as you're sitting into that lead side.
And then go ahead and hold it away from the right ear and behind the right ear.
While you're releasing the golf club, and you'll be hitting much better golf shots day in, day out.
Alright guys, I wish you all the best.
Now make it a great day.
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