Join V1 Coach Steve Priest as he breaks down PGA Tour and Ryder Cup star Matt Fitzpatrick’s golf swing in detail ahead of the Ryder Cup. In this swing analysis, Steve highlights Fitzpatrick’s unique setup, precision ball striking, and the mechanics that have made him a world-class competitor—and shares what everyday golfers can learn from his technique.
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So this is Matt Pitchpatrick’s swing. U obviously part of the European Rder Cup team for this year’s event over at Beth Page Black in New York. Um so pre2022 obviously when Matt won the US Open his back swing was quite different to what it is now. So how he used to take the club back was a much more upright swing compared to what he’s doing now. So that is the plane line of his driver. And what you’re gonna notice is he is very much on that plane with his hands as he takes it away, even slightly underneath that plane. Now, how he used to take the club back was much more upright. So then he would get himself to a position where his hands were more here at the top. Um, which at the time meant he was generally a fader of the golf ball and his angle of attack was much more steeper or negative obviously on a Trackman. So he’s hitting down on it. So at the time his ball speed was struggling to get much above 170 which meant that he was one of the shorter hitters. So what did he do to change it? Cuz his actual swing speed was quite high. So the major thing he’ done was got himself a lot more underneath that plane. So then when he gets to the top of the swing, as you can see, his hands are quite a bit lower than that circle I’ve drawn, which gets his left arm position much more parallel to his shoulders, uh, which we’d consider to be more of a sort of one plane swing position. Uh, trail arm as well would be a little bit lower than what it used to be. So what this is then encouraging as we see as well his left heel lifted quite a bit to get more hip turn. Uh again just increasing that turn on his back swing. But what this was enabling him to then do is on the down swing he then was able to shallow the club much more easily. As you can see there, club coming much more from behind him, creating tremendous lag and also how he’s used the ground with his uh stamping down with his left foot and left heel and that starts to get his hips out of the way. So you can see there he’s creating a lot more sort of leverage into the golf ball which is then shallowing the swing out um and creating much more of a draw flight. So his ball speed, like we said before, was 170 pre202. And then when he went on to win the US Open, his ball speed had gone up to over 180 mph. So he’d gone from one of the being the shorter hitters to actually being one of the longest hitters in the field that week. Had a little dip in form last year, uh, but this year more back to form. several top 10 finishes um and to a lot of close calls in a lot of the PGA Tour events. As you can see when he comes through the golf ball because coming from that shallow angle, the release pattern slightly different to what it was. You can see the club head just rotating through and closing there as he’s coming through the impact. Uh so again, generally he’s now more of a drawer of the golf ball than a fader of the golf ball. So hopefully with my bias European cap on, we’ve got uh a great team this year and hopefully Matt is going to be a big part of delivering points for Europe. So this is Matt Fitzpatrick’s golf swing.
