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Troy Merritt - Downswing Sequence
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Troy Merritt get his first PGA Tour victory of his career. In this video, I'll show you the secret to using your lower body for effortless power in the golf downswing.
- Load the trail side leg first to ensure your downswing can start with the lower body
- Shift your lead him socket entirely until it is directly in line with the lead ankle.
Hey, hey, what's up, guys? This is RST instructor, Chris Tyler, and we are back again with this week's tour analysis on Troy Merritt, who just picked up his first PGA Tour victory, so congratulations to him.
We're going to be focusing in on downswing sequence and the kinematic sequence this week.
I'm going to show you guys a great way to get your golf swing motoring from the ground up.
So, if you're looking for a way to get more power in your golf swing, then you want to pay close attention to today's review.
All right, guys, so as I said in the opener, We're going to be focusing in on downswing sequence this week.
And talk to you a little bit about how to use your lower body and give you guys a couple of reference points.
That's going to help you get enough weight shift into your lead side.
When we talk about downswing sequencing, You'll hear us a lot of times talk about building the swing from the ground up and using the lower body to really kind of drive things.
The reason why I have a baseball player over here on the right-hand side of the screen, this is actually Mike Trout, who's one of the youngest players to reach 100 stolen bases and 100 home runs, so congratulations to him.
When you start to look at the way, the similarities between these two moves as far as the golf swing and a good, powerful baseball swing, you're going to see the lower body make the hands and arms do a lot of the moving early on, all right? So, what we want to focus on is we want to get our lower body loaded up first, okay? So, the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to shift our weight.
We're going to try to shift and transfer our weight into our lead side, or I'm sorry, our trail side.
We're going to shift our weight into our trail side.
We're going to help start to load our lower body up first, and that's what Troy does really well here.
You're going to see him shift into this right hip line.
If you're unfamiliar with what the right hip line is, we've got a great video that we'll talk about here.
It's called the right hip line video.
These will be over in the recommended videos tab to the right-hand side of the video player.
Just click that.
Not all the videos that I ever mentioned during a tour analysis will be over here.
All right.
So, over here on the right -hand side of the screen, you will notice a very similar style move.
Okay? You see him kind of sitting back into his right leg.
Okay? So, now I'm going to mark the position of the hands here.
So, you're going to see the position of his hands.
Let's go ahead and mark the position of his lead leg here because they actually, obviously in baseball, they're not planted to the ground like we are in golf.
But you're going to see this big move here, this big lateral shift into this lead side.
So, he's getting planted here.
So, his hands have moved probably a good six inches or so, but his foot's moved a good six inches or so, Giving you the appearance that his lower body has really kind of pulled his hands and his shoulders into this position.
Very similar style to golf.
Okay? What we're going to be looking for, it's hard to see, but there's a little bit of a, there's a belt loop right here.
And you can use that as a reference point on the front of you.
Or you can find the, The pointy pelvic bone on the front of your body and about two finger widths inside of that's the center of the hip socket.
And what our goal is in golf is to be able to shift the center of our hip socket all the way over on top of the, the lead ankle.
We want to have that right over the top of it.
We would call that neutral joint alignment.
All right? And that's what Troy does really well.
And this is one of the big mistakes that a lot of amateur golfers makes is that they don't get a lot of shift here.
They get a lot of rotation.
So you're going to see here a big old shift right into his lead side.
So the movement from his hands and his arms and his shoulders have been derived from the lower body movement.
So if I were to pause him right here and then just wind his hips and shift his hips back up, that's going to give you the appearance to where he is now at the top of the golf swing.
Very similar to the, To what Mike Trout does over here and a lot of baseball players.
That hit for power is that we want our lower body to help us drive and start the kinematic sequence.
Okay guys.
So if you've been looking for a solution to do that, Then you've got to make sure that you get muscle groups loaded up first, and you want to make sure that you transfer and shift and load into that trail side.
We've got some videos that help you out with that.
I know that we harp a lot on lower body, so you want to check out perfecting lower body stability video.
You also want to take a good close look at how to build the swing from the ground up.
That's a great video that Chuck just released, probably one of our premium members' favorite videos out there.
A lot of, A lot of members are starting to get some great results from the drill that Chuck has set up for you guys there.
Also the load the right glute, shorten swing, start transition video.
It's another good video to help get things started off in the right foot.
Do very little with your smaller muscles in the golf swing.
And in turn, you're going to have more power just by using your big lower, your big half, your lower body, getting things really kind of pulled down in the hitting area.
And then you can go ahead and unload, you can post up, and then you can start to release here.
Okay, so if you're looking for a good way to post up properly, then check out the straight left legged impact video.
That's another good video.
And I also, to kind of finalize things here, I wanted to show you this hip work and Mike Trout's swing here.
So he almost has this Rory McIlroy kind of move where his hips go backwards.
Okay, so that is actually kinematic sequence to the finest.
So take a look at these video guys.
Make sure you take and load up your trail side first, get a good old shift into that lead side, use that belt loop as a reference point.
Make sure you're getting enough of your weight out into that side, and you'll be well on your way to having much more power in your golf swing.
Good luck guys and make it a great day.
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