Daisy Nielsen Golf Swing Review
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Daisy Nielsen has a world class golf swing with solid Rotary Swing Tour fundamentals. In this golf instruction video I walk you through her powerful post up and release move that gives her effortless power.
Hello everyone, Chuck Quentin here, founder of Rotary Swing Golf.
And I wanted to do a swing review here that's a little bit different than what you typically see.
We've done a lot of Tour Pro reviews and those types of things, But I wanted to show you how.
A lot of other professionals, who aren't necessarily on the PGA Tour yet or LPGA Tour yet, are employing the RST fundamentals in their golf swings.
And this is a perfect example.
This is a young lady named Daisy Nielsen, And she exemplifies so many RST traits that you see in my golf swing or in other Tour Pro swings, or more importantly, what I talk about in the videos.
And so it's always nice to see from a different person's perspective, a different golf swing, what we're talking about in so many of these fundamentals of swings.
The first thing I want to do is play her swing back.
I'll do it, play it back in slow motion, but play it through one time so you can see it.
Lots of good things going on.
Great turn.
A little across the line at the top, we'll talk about that more in a second, but really the big thing I want to talk about is this great post up and release, because really at the end of the day, that's what the golf swing is all about is we want to release that club with unleash the fury, I like to call it.
So I'm going to walk you through this step by step here and talk about some of the great things in the swing and some of the things that can be improved, But you're going to notice that Daisy's swing looks pretty much like most other great ball strikers out there.
And that's because all the Tour pros who are great ball strikers use the exact same fundamentals you're learning on Rotary Swing.
com.
So let's talk about what some of those are.
As we go back during the takeaway, you'll notice we always like to talk about when the club's parallel to the ground, that the club should be towed up and right over the toes.
This is a camera angles a little bit off here.
And there's a couple little tweaks that I would make here, but this is negligible, the club is slightly towed in, almost towed up, that's exactly in the range that we want to see, we either want to be towed up or slightly towed in.
Our right arm is starting to fold a little bit early here, but it's negligible, everything in the big picture scheme of things works, But it can cause you to stop turning, and many amateur golfers start folding this right arm and right wrist early, and that stops the turn because they start focusing on loading up the right arm instead, which obviously we don't want to do.
So lots of good things going on here in the takeaway.
Keep going back, club gets a little bit inside again, negligible stuff.
Halfway back, she's in a good position.
As she nears the top, I mentioned earlier, she gets just a little bit across the line.
You can totally recover from this position.
The tendency is going to be for you to come a little bit too far from the inside and have to rotate the hands a little aggressively, but you can always, you know, you can recover from here.
It's not a big, big deal.
The big thing that you're going to notice that I want to really focus on here is the transition.
And one of the things that I talk about in a video, you hit the ball with your legs, Talks about this post up move and how critical it is, and how it creates so much of your power in the swing.
And I'm going to, and she illustrates it perfectly.
Right here, a great squat move transition.
So I've talked about the video squat to square.
She's illustrating it perfectly.
A lot of people want to do the squat move and make it this giant sit down.
It's not a giant sit down.
This is really ideal.
This is all the flexion you need to load up your legs to be able to spring off them as you come down.
So you'll see once we get here, she's about squared back up with her hips.
This is squat to square and this is where it should bring the club down for you.
Without you having to overuse your arms, you're going to be using your lower body to unwind the downswing.
So if you look at that squat to square video, this is exactly what it's all about because this is setting her up for the next critical move, which is what I talk about in the video you hit the ball with your legs, how she's going to post up for power.
So club's in a good position here.
Maybe dropped a hair from the inside.
She's a little bit too far from the inside here, but just going to tend to create a little bit of a push draw, which is totally fine.
But this is the big move.
I want you to watch her lower body.
Just focus on the lower body, her legs.
And watch how that left leg and the right leg straighten up as she jumps off the ground effectively.
Now she's not actually leaving the ground.
She's not hitting the ball that hard.
But this is what it means to post up and release the club.
And the timing of it is really ideal.
She's posting up as she's releasing the club.
And that leads her around to a perfect follow through.
So this is what you're looking for.
Now from face on, I'm going to show you what this looks like from the face on position.
Okay.
So now from the face on view, I'm going to move this swing over here on the right to the impact position so we can have them compared side by side here.
We'll go back just a couple frames.
Close enough there.
Now from face on, I'm not going to get into critiquing her swing too much here because she does a lot of great things.
A couple of little things here, obviously, as you'll notice as she goes to the top, she's starting to kind of hang on that left side there.
And so the tendency, notice how her spine angle leaning a little bit toward the target here.
And if you start to drive very aggressively off that right side, you're going to end up in front of the ball and then you're going to really start blocking it.
And since she already has a tendency to get across the line, she has to be really quiet as she starts down to keep from dropping the club too far underneath.
But she does a great job of keeping her head from moving too far out in front.
And then because she posts up so well, she stays back behind it.
Technically her head's out a little bit in front of the ball there, but she's going to push off that left leg to get back behind it here.
And that's what I want you to focus on.
So focus on her left leg here.
And watch as she posts up, what does that look like? And we'll go through really slowly here.
You'll notice that her left leg is actually moving backwards.
I'm going to draw a little line here so you can kind of get an idea of what that looks like.
So watch the left leg and watch it move back as the hip moves back and her leg straightens up.
She is pushing off the ground with her left leg to not only push her hip up and down, but to push her leg back or, excuse me, push her hips back.
Why is that? Well, I've talked about a million times in the push versus pull videos and all the physics videos I've done on Rotary Swing.
com, which is you're always trying to move your body in the opposite direction you want to move the club.
Which way is the club moving in this instance? It's moving down toward the ball, of course, because it's starting from up here in the air, and it's moving out away from the golfer.
So it's moving, if we look at it this way, it's moving down, didn't want to do that there.
Sorry about that.
It's zoom out here or not.
There we go.
It's the club is moving this way.
Wrong angle.
Here we go.
All right.
Club is moving down this way and it's all down and out away from the golfers is moving in this direction.
So these two directions, you want to be moving the exact opposite of those two with your body.
That's how you're using centripetal and centrifugal force to work for you.
So that's why you see her left knee moving back, and of course, it's posting perfectly in a neutral, which is exactly where it's supposed to be.
Notice how her right foot rolls to the inside.
You've heard me say that a million times.
And especially if you've attended one of my golf clinics, you know that every time your right heel comes up in the air during the clinic, you owe me a hundred bucks.
So this is perfect because she's not pushing hard off that right foot.
She's pushing hard off the left foot.
And that is moving the left hip back, the right foot stays down, rolls into the inside, and then she's released the club fully.
You can see her left glove here already because the club face is rotated over, which is exactly what it's supposed to do.
You should never be trying to hold that golf club face square to the target.
You must release it.
So another great RST fundamentals-based golf swing.
And if you want to learn how to do these fundamentals, you've got to work through the RST five-step system.
That's what you're learning.
So when you look at her release of the club, what are you learning there? Five minutes to the perfect release video.
You're learning how to post up here properly.
What are you learning? You hit the ball with your legs, creating lag, all these things.
The RST five-step system is going to show you how to swing exactly like this, exactly like the tour pros you see every day on TV.
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