Rickie Fowler - Swing Changes
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Congratulations to Rickie Fowler for winning the 2015 Players Championship and claiming his second PGA Tour victory. In this video, I'll show you how one big change early on in Rickie's swing allows him to get into a more powerful position at the top and also a much better position to release the club for more speed. If you want more speed and more efficiency, then check out this awesome swing change now!
- Rotation and elevation will move the club into a tour quality takeaway position.
- Get the hands in a more elevated position at the top of the swing to help increase clubhead speed
Hey, hey everyone.
This is RST instructor Chris Tyler.
And we are back with this week's tour analysis on Ricky Fowler, who was able to win the 2015 Players Championship in an awesome, awesome playoff and one of the richest purses in golf.
So $1.
8 million awarded to Ricky Fowler for his phenomenal play over the weekend.
We're going to be focusing in on a couple of the swing changes that he's been able to make and how it's been able to, with him correcting things early on in the swing, it's ultimately allowed him to get into a better spot at the top, which in turn has allowed him to pick up a little bit more speed.
And also he's now protecting his body a little bit more down in the hitting area.
So let's go ahead and take a look at this.
Okay guys, so as I said in the opener, We're going to be focusing in on some of the changes that Ricky Fowler has been able to make over the last couple of years.
And ultimately has been able to get him a little bit more distance and also protect his back.
Because late in the 2013 season, I know Ricky was struggling a little bit with some back pain.
And hopefully these changes have got him into an area where he's protecting his body.
He's obviously swinging much more efficiently here, picking up a good seven yards on average from where he was back in 2013.
And we're just going to spend some time going through some of these changes, Just so you can see how the cause and effect relationship works with some of these moves that he's been able to overcome and make much better.
So just taking a look here over on the right hand side of the screen, I have the golf swing of old.
I've got an elbow plane line drawn, this is where it's up from the hosel of a golf club through the base of the elbow.
You'll see us use these lines very frequently around the website.
But you're going to go ahead and see a very big difference here as we start to get into a completed take away position here.
Okay, notice how his hands have worked down towards his trail thigh here.
All right, you can see how they worked really, he's been noted for dragging his hands to the inside, trying to hold the club out in front of him.
Where this is the one of the newer changes that we see out of his golf swing here.
So getting into a completed take away position here, you can see that his hands are much higher up in relationship to the plane line here.
There's the hands are not working inside towards the thigh, club heads more in line with the hands here.
And in turn, what this little bit of elevation is done for him, It's going to allow him to work his hands and arms more into the vertical plane and get into a little bit more of a vertical position at the top of the swing.
And I'll get further into that in just a moment.
But if you've noticed that your hands are getting too pulled too inside, you might be lacking a little bit of shoulder elevation.
And we've got a good video on the website called the pool noodle shoulder elevation video.
And all that is, is just a slight upward movement of the arms coupled with some rotation.
And that in turn will get you into a very textbook looking position here, Which will make it much easier for you to get things into a vertical position at the top of the swing.
All right, so from here on the right hand side of the screen, okay, you're going to see that hands were inside and then up into the top of the swing.
Notice how low his lead arm is in relationship to his shoulder line.
Okay, so this is a much flatter position.
And then now that he's got a little bit more elevation from the earlier on part of the golf swing, now you can see that his arm, his lead arm is much higher in relationship to the shoulder line.
Now, it might not look like a big drastic change to you at home, but this is a pretty good size change for a golf professional.
Okay, so now with having the hands and arms into a little bit more of a vertical position up here, this is in turn going to allow him, He tends to allow the club to get really flat coming down, or used to allow the club to get very flat coming down.
And you're going to see over here as his hands and arms start to drop, this club comes in very shallow.
So you can see where his hands are, they're approaching the trail thigh, and this is where the club head is.
You can see how quite a bit low it is in relationship to the plane line here.
And now with this new move with a little bit more of a vertical position, you can see that this club gets on the plane line very early.
Hands are approaching in front of that trail thigh, stays on the plane line here, and delivering the golf club from a much, much better angle of attack here, a much better path.
So this is a great change that he's made in his golf swing, and in turn, he's been able to pick up more distance with it and also been able to protect his back.
So it's great news for Ricky and his future within the game of golf, and he's just going to continue to get better and better and better.
All right, guys, so just a couple of things that I want you to take notice of or work on.
If you notice, like I said, that your hands are getting a little bit flattened to the inside, you want to work on making sure that you add a little bit of elevation to the mix.
If you've had a really difficult time with creating a very consistent takeaway, then one of our best videos on the website is move one, the takeaway.
Just talk about a slight two-inch movement of the shoulder blade in towards your center, and that helps create some very consistent movement.
And you can couple that with the shoulder elevation video there, the pool noodle video, and in turn, you'll have a very good position to start to work up to the top part of your backswing.
And then for those of you players that have been noted, to get the club a little bit stuck and a little bit flat on the way down, we have another great video that's called Trace the Plane Line.
That's a video that we talk about how to get the club a little bit more out in front of us.
On the way down.
And ultimately get into a better angle of attack and a better path.
So check those videos out, guys.
That's going to be to the right of the video player.
There's a tab that says Recommended Videos.
Just click that tab.
You'll see those videos populate, and you'll be well on your way to making some great golf swings.
All right, guys, I wish you all the best, and let's make it a great day.
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