What’s REALLY Behind Scottie Scheffler’s UNBEATABLE Golf Swing?

Explore the unique aspects of Scottie Scheffler’s swing and question common beliefs with this golf instruction video. Understand how these patterns can help your golf swing.

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▶️Frontal Plane Rotation: https://youtu.be/bqL2eI1IeBo
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Timeline
00:00 Introduction
00:55 Moving parts
02:02 Footwork
03:40 Wrist hinge
05:09 Frontal plane rotation
07:20 My best version
08:35 Conclusion

So, how is it then that Scotty Sheffller seemingly, you know, breaks all the rules of the golf swing and still becomes the most dominant player over the last, you know, two or three years? Could it be that those rules about the swing weren’t correct in the first place? Surely not. But I do think we need to rethink as to, you know, what do we hold true with a capital T about what makes the golf swing work? Clearly, there’s some stuff in Scottish Sheffford swing which is really working. So, that’s what we’re going to do in this video. event, we’re going to have a look at three or four aspects of Scotty’s swing um that really kind of challenge popular assumptions about how the golf swing works. But I want to spend more time on what I believe to be the big defining part of his swing. And it is not his feet. It is more around how he rotates his body. Because I promise you this, Scottish Sheffller didn’t get to where he is now by doing drills like this. Okay, first up then is that massive assumption in golf coaching, um hopefully less so these days, that less variability is better. So fewer moving parts is more consistent. And we see, you know, people practicing, don’t we, with with sticks and training age and trying to trying to be really precise to have as little variability as possible. I think we can all agree that Scotty Sheffller has absolutely smashed that out the park with with his movement. But you know what? We we kind of knew this um hundred years ago uh Nikolai Bernstein famous famous Russian um movement scientists studied um blacksmiths and he found that really high skilled blacksmiths who have a very repetitive motion down on the anvil have a lot of variability in their movement. So that so the whole concept of coordination is rather than having a repeatable motion which has low variability we have movements that synergize. So in Scotty’s um situation as he if he were to get the wrong kind of torque or pull on the handle then that is synergized with the way the hips and the feet work so that we get that really predictable delivery. Okay, let’s talk about those feet. So, I’ve covered this in more depth in another video which I’ll link down below. But, um, the origins of Scotty Sheffller’s sort of slippery sliding around feet are that he sees the golf swing as energy going in that direction and he really tries to max out all that lateral force. But while that’s going on, if you watch the feet, he’s actually got the obviously the the feet are sliding, but he’s got the trail foot sliding behind the lead foot, much like a a bowler. So someone doing um someone someone sort of bowling down an alley would have that trail foot sliding and that reduces to use Pete Howen’s phrase outside rotation. It stops the body kind of climbing over this way and it kind of acts as a counter torque to the uh to the motion on the club. So the club’s trying to twist this way but he’s got his foot going the other way which really helps him stabilize the club face. So, it’s that combination of lateral forces moving this way and the trail foot kind of stabilizing the club face with counter torque. So, I suppose the opposite of that then is golfers who have a lot of this kind of outward torque, outward rotation. They would tend to finish with their weight being pulled over that front foot or stepping in. You’re never going to see tour players stepping in that way. They’re doing everything they can to stay back and counter the forces on the club moving that way. So Sheffller is moving like so that trail foot moving this way and some of my students would move more this way. And what happened to wrist hinge? I mean when I when I was growing up I was of the understanding that you know we work on concepts like L2L and I was of the understanding that the wrists really provide that sort of angular momentum that whip down at the bottom and and certainly if you watch old videos of Hogan he seems to have all this wrist hinge and lag and the industry was of the assumption that that is where power comes from. Um but clearly not because Sheffller has hardly any wrist hinge. I mean, when we start, we have a little bit of that sort of vertical hinge, so radial ulna, uh, to start with. I don’t think he adds any more than what he has to start with. So, he looks like this at the top of the swing, gets his arms up because of the way his body’s rotating. We’ll come to that. Um, and then drives down and through. And again, hasn’t got much wrist hinge in the follow through. So he has this very sort of stiff wristed motion which is partly why he doesn’t slow the club down particularly elegantly because that wrist hinge apart from delivering all the energy out at the ball also recovers the motion of the club back towards us. So where does that leave us on wrist hinge then? Well a little bit is a very good idea. I would say that we want we would want 90° between your lead arm and the club maximum. Any more than that you are probably going to rob yourself of speed. you’re going to open the club face and you have to actually slow the handle down quite aggressively in order to get the club head at the ball. So, he has found a way to not do any of his hings really and and generate all his power from elsewhere. Partly again why he has such a stable club face, right? All very interesting, but this is what I believe to be his absolutely defining movement and and the thing that really kind of sets um Scottish Sheffer Swing apart. It’s the way that he rotates his body. So, let’s understand rotation in in two planes. Now, first of all, you’ve got rotation around this horizontal plane. So, you’d be rotating around a vertical axis and on a horizontal plane. And that is somewhat like a discus thrower. And you can see as I do that, as I twist the disc representing my pelvis, as my pelvis rotates like that, you’ll see what it does to my knees. You’ll see how my rib cage and my spine have to work. And you’ll probably see my pelvis kind of backs out that way. And then it backs out the other way. That is rotating in a transverse plane. And what Scotty Sheffller does is next to none of that. He has a whole lot of rotation in this manner. So this is frontal plane rotation. So rotating around a horizontal axis. So the rotation is on this sort of more vertical plane if you like. So that is more akin to more akin to a cartwheel. So he’s got he’s got this action. And I did a whole video on on frontal plane rotation and actually um which I’ll link below again and actually referenced Colin Montgomery who again based his whole pattern on purely frontal plane rotation and he had another player who was incredibly consistent seven order merits in a row built around incredibly stable club face which is starting to sound familiar isn’t it? So both of those players have more of this this tilting motion. And key things to look for there are as we move into back swing, the knees won’t have this kind of broken deck chair look. The knees will stay almost very still as the pelvis slides a little bit to the right and the spine tilts like so. This is also how Sheffller manages to get his arms up. Because if you think about it, if I’m if I’m rotating in this manner, to get my arms up is kind of against the grain of the motion. And we often see that with with perhaps older golfers, don’t we? struggling to get their arms up. Whereas, if I’m kind of rocking and rolling this way, I mean, even even I can get my arms up in that manner. And that’s his motion. He has frontal plane rotation this way. You’ll see his spine starts to tilt back here. His pelvis is that side of his head, which needs to be rectified on the way down, but it does it just sort of rebounds the other way. He’ll drop the arms and the body starts to work back in the other direction. Club head out. to that outside rotation as as Pete How would put it, the club would stay in front of him more and that motion really helps to add to Scottish Sheffer’s superpower which is club face stability through the ball. So, not rotating in this manner, definitely not doing drills like this, but more rocking, cartwheeling, rocking and rolling and keeping the arms in front of the body. Right. Okay. Let’s have a go at this. So, what have we got? We have got no wrist hinge. We have got energy moving in that direction. We’ve got counter twisting of the feet. But most dominantly, we have the frontal plane rotation. Let’s give this a shot. Scotty Sheffller. I don’t know how, but it’s gone straight. I definitely think there’s something in this. Okay. So, where where does that leave us then? Am I saying we’ve all got to swing it like Scottish Sheffler? Well, you know, if you’re familiar with the channel, then, you know, that’s absolutely not not my position. But what I am saying is, you know, if you’ve got if you’ve got a swing that could do with borrowing some of those patterns, then absolutely explore them. If your feet kind of crumble and your your knees crumple and your feet kind of roll out in the back swing, then there’s a there’s a fair chance you’ve got too much transverse rotation. If you are really narrow in the down swing and a bit steep, um you struggle with the club face, there’s a good chance you hinge your wrist too much. And I think particularly if you find that you’re you hit a lot of balls to the left um and you’re off balance, just just be mindful. Have you got too much of that outside rotation? So if you want to go into any of these concepts in in more detail, I’ve definitely done videos of these on the past which I I’ll link down below. Um but before I see you next time, keep practicing and good luck. Play well.