Jordan Spieth vs. Rory Mcilroy
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Jordan Spieth and Rory Mcilroy show you how to get more consistent and also a great way to control the bottom of the swing arc.
- Focus on load and rotation for a good backswing.
- Keep your hips back.
- Stack up your lead side for control of the bottom of the swing arc.
Hey, hey, what's up everyone? This is RST instructor Chris Tyler, and we are back with this week's tour analysis.
We've got Jordan Spieth back in the winner's circle again, who just wanted to play off the John Deere, so congratulations to Jordan, who's in domination mode this season.
Also, Ricky Fowler picked up a big win over the Scottish Open, so we're going to be doing both players here at the same time this week.
We're going to show you guys some of the goods and the bads of these particular moves, And also give you some related videos that are going to help you not only become really efficient with your golf swing.
All right, guys, so here we are with this week's tour analysis.
We're going to be talking about a couple of face-on driver swings from both Jordan and Ricky.
I know that Ricky's gone through a pretty good-sized swing change over the last couple seasons, and he's done a really good job with being able to protect his back, And that was one of the things that he was getting a little bit concerned about was how he didn't load into his right side properly, which allowed his spine to lean more towards the target at the top of the swing.
You're going to see a much different look now from Ricky here.
I'm going to get both players loaded up to the top, So you can see that both players have been able to maintain axis tilt here really well at the top of the swing.
If you're unfamiliar with what axis tilt really is, we have got several videos on axis tilt on the website.
It's very, very important.
If you've noticed that your spine at the top of your golf swing is leaning more towards the target, that can actually compress your lower vertebrae and can start to put a lot of tension down there, and that's not what we want to do.
We want to be able to be able to protect the body ultimately.
Axis tilt is a big area of the golf swing that a lot of people try to overlook, And it starts right from a good setup position and then being able to rotate around your axis properly.
You need to also be able to make sure that you're shifting your weight into your trail side.
Now, this is where the big difference in both of these golf swings kind of come in, and I actually tend to like Ricky's downward move here a little bit better than I do Jordan.
Even though Jordan's got the lowest scoring average on tour, he's the number one putter on the planet right now, I just like Ricky's impact position because he's a little bit more safe with his lead side here.
I'm going to go ahead and explain that to you.
As we start to work in transition here, I'm going to go ahead and draw some lines up from the center of the lead ankle here on both players.
This is where they're getting ready to start their downward move here.
They're going to make a big shift into their lead side.
Now, if you watch Ricky here in his downward move, he makes a much bigger shift of his hips over to the lead side here.
He tends to stand a little bit bow-legged at the address position, where his knees kind of flare out, and he stands with his feet kind of bowed outward as well.
From this appearance right here, it's going to maybe look like he's a little bit out past neutral here, but he's made a pretty good-sized shift into that lead side.
You can actually see the weight starting to come off the right foot here.
Now, with Jordan, it's a much different move.
You're going to see him start to get unwinding over here.
You can see that his shift was much less than what Ricky's was.
Because you can see the center of his hip sockets quite a bit further back, where their arms are in virtually the same position here.
They're both almost parallel to the ground and actually back Jordan up just a fraction here.
What the big difference here is, is that aside from the weight shift over to the lead side, You can see that there's quite a bit more weight down here in Jordan's right foot that he can use to push up off of.
That's one of his signature style moves in his golf swing is that he pushes really hard from his right leg.
You're going to see that pretty closely here through these next few frames is that he's going to push really hard.
Now, watch his lead ankle as he's starting to drive.
See how he's starting to roll to the outside part of that lead ankle.
Now, think about this.
We're swinging the golf club effectively over 115 miles an hour.
That golf club becomes very heavy.
This can actually start to put a lot of stress on those outer portion of those ligaments out there, on the outer portion of the ankle.
And also can cause your spine to lean back away from the target even more through the hitting area, which in turn would create a lot of secondary axis tilt.
That can also start to compress the lower vertebrae.
This is more of what I would consider a dangerous impact position.
Even though his ball striking is coming around, he's a fantastic driver of the golf ball, hits a ton of fairways.
You got to remember, tour players, 81% of tour players will sustain a golf related injury that keeps them out of golf for eight weeks or more throughout their career.
We want to be able to do our best to be able to protect and preserve the body.
All right, so now here with Ricky, if you watch through these next couple frames, okay, you're going to see that his left leg moves to a pretty straight position here.
Okay, you can see a much more stacked up lead side appearance here.
This is where you can see this nice stable left foot.
This is a much better impact position for being able to protect the body.
And ultimately, Ricky's, you know, he hits it a little bit further than Jordan.
He's got a little bit higher club head speed here.
He's been able to use the kinematic sequence and also be able to protect his lead side now, Which is going to be critical for him as he starts to move forward and play this game for several years to come.
All right, guys, so if you've been struggling, If you noticed that you've been working to roll to the outside part of your lead foot too early in your golf swing, then chances are you're not getting enough weight over to the lead side early enough.
So you need to work on your weight shift quite a bit.
So that's a big, big thing for you guys all at home.
If you've noticed yourself on camera, Either kind of hanging back in the hitting area or you're rolled to the outside part of that lead foot, then we need to work on getting more weight shift into your lead side much sooner.
And we've got several videos on the website that are going to help you out with this stuff.
And these videos, as I do every single week, They're going to be over in the recommended Videos tab to the right hand side of the video player here.
Just hit that recommended tab.
They'll all populate.
So what we're going to be looking at first, we're going to be looking at impact alignments face on.
That's a great video for you guys to get a good understanding what you're going to be trying to do in impact.
To make sure that you're looking for a good, solid impact position that's going to be safe and efficient.
You're also going to check out the straight left legged impact video.
You're also going to check out the perfecting lower body stability.
All right, I'll put in a couple of access tilt videos over here as well, just in case you guys are unclear as to what that means.
Make sure you have access tilt at your address position and make sure that you're rotating to the top of your swing properly.
So you're setting yourself up to work in transition properly.
All right, guys, so that's our review this week.
Again, congratulations to both players.
Jordan is in domination mode.
Ricky, it's good to see him win over there.
And I'm looking for an exciting British Open.
I hope you guys are as well.
Now let's make it a great day.
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