Hey hey, Rotary Swing golfers. It is my great pleasure to bring to you the 2015 Master's Champion, Jordan Spieth, who is now #2 in the world golf rankings. We're going to be discussing a topic that we've covered in the past, and that's how to use your trail foot properly down in the hitting area so that you can use it as a brake, and that's gonna allow you to release the hands and arms independently from the body and be at max speed at impact — and it can also help you be a lot more accurate. So let's go ahead and take a look at this.
All right guys, so as I said in the opener, we're going to be discussing a topic that has created a little bit of controversy in the golfing world about how to use your trail foot properly in the golf swing so that you can stall the lower body out and in return release the hands and arms independently from the body so you can be at max speed at impact. It's something that Jordan Spieth does really well — even though it's not necessarily what we would consider a Rotary Swing model swing move, he still executes it well enough that I want to showcase it. If you want to check how your own release compares to what Jordan does here, try running your swing through an AI swing analyzer for instant feedback. So let's go ahead and take a look.
I'm going to go ahead and get Jordan down to an setup position. We're going to go ahead and work into the takeaway. Notice how the hips start to shift and load up into that trail side. And then as he starts to work his hands and arms up into the vertical plane, pay very close attention to his hips. I'll point out his belt loop right here. Pay close attention to his hips — how they're not really moving or rotating at all. Okay, so he's got that trail side loaded up and ready to go. And if we want muscle groups to fire in order, we want to load them in order, so obviously we want to start our downswing sequence with the lower half. You can see him shift and load into that side, and now he's going to start his downward move with a really strong transition. So let's go ahead and take a look at this.
So now he's going to start to unload here. He gets back into that square hip and square knee position. This is a great move. We actually have a video on the website that I'm sure you guys have all seen — it's the Squat to Square video that Chuck did. It's a great video to teach you how to start the downward move with the lower half, provided that you've already loaded your trail side up properly. All right, so you can see that Jordan has done that really well — unloading into that lead side. And now this is where he is going to start to push with both legs. He's actually using his trail foot to push down in the hitting area, and he's also driving up off of that lead foot as well.
All right, so the reason why I say that this is not necessarily a model swing move: we would normally like to see the trail heel down on the ground, rolled all the way to the inside part of the trail foot. And when you start to push really hard from that trail side, you can see that Jordan is actually rolling to the outside part of the lead foot here — and in turn, that can put a lot of strain and pressure on the knee and the outside part of the hip girdle. It can start to stress the labrum as well. Obviously, he's still making a very good pass at impact, and as I'll show you guys in the next few moves, this trail foot becomes a very effective brake in his golf swing mechanics.
So let's go ahead and mark a few things here. I'm going to mark where his foot is off the ground, and I'm going to mark his belt loop. Okay, this is his belt loop; this is his club face. All right, so he's at the release point of the golf swing. Now watch these next few moves. He's going to stall the lower half out. The lower half is not really rotating at all. Notice the trail foot as he's releasing through here — the trail foot is not lifting up off the ground any further than it was. And the belt loop actually hasn't rotated any further either. It moved a little bit forward because he's still transferring his weight into that lead side.
So this is a great example of how to use that trail foot as a brake so that you can release the hands and arms independently. Jordan Spieth has now moved this golf club a good seven to ten feet from where it was at the starting point of the release. This is something you can actually try out. If you held a golf club at the 9 o'clock position with your wrists kind of locked in place and then just spun your body back and forth, you would notice that you can't get the club moving very fast — because the club is only going to move as fast as your body is rotating. But then if you shifted your weight to the lead side and just released your wrists, you would notice that you can get the club moving really fast. The GOAT Drill system is designed to train exactly this kind of efficient energy transfer through the hitting zone.
And that's what we're trying to preach here — we want to work efficiently through the hitting area. We want to load the body up, unload it, stall it out, and then release it. In turn, you're going to be at max clubhead speed at the hitting area where it counts the most. So that was the whole point of today's review: I wanted to show you guys a really clear example of how Jordan Spieth uses that trail foot and, in turn, plays some of his best golf. He's hitting a lot more greens, his putting stroke is world-class, and it's just a great example of how we want to use the lower body to drive power through the swing. Just be a little safer with it by making sure that lead side is properly stabilized.
A couple videos that are going to help you out with that are Perfecting Lower Body Stability, the Squat to Square video, and the Role of the Trail Foot. Those videos are all going to help you with your lower body sequencing and help you power up your golf swing for distance. All right guys, so that's our review on the 2015 Master's Champion, Jordan Spieth. I hope you guys have a great day — let's play some great golf.
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