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And this week I’m going to be focusing in on two key moves in Brooks kepa’s golf swing that allow him to maintain consistent power and consistent ball striking I’m also going to be discussing a drill that’s going to help you overcome loss of spine angle in the
Hitting area let’s go ahead and get Started okay so the 24-year-old Florida State graduate Brooks Kea gets his first Victory on the European tour with a late charge on Sunday and fights off Ian polter so congratulations to Brook on his first European tour Victory this week I’m going to be focusing on two
Really key areas of his golf swing that he does so well um in order to be able to maintain a lot of consistent power and a lot of consistency with his ball striking and you’re going to be able to understand when you start to look at
Your own golf swing on camera how these areas can affect your game in a number of ways and how it can probably lead to a lot of the problems that you’re seeing on the golf course I’m also going to go through a drill towards the end of the
Analysis that you can try out at home that’s going to help you overcome um the hips coming forward and that early extension of the spine I know that’s one of the more common areas that we see from golfers is that we see the hips coming forward we see a lot of right
Side dominance and uh in turn that creates this mess of spine angle problems where you know we really want to think of the spine as being kind of the the axis and we want to rotate around it and keeping it as as neutral and uh no change to it as possible so
That’s that’s the idea in order to play consistent golf is that we want to be able to rotate around our axis not have much change in shape of the spine and we also want to keep our head very quiet so let’s go ahead and take a look here I’m
Going to Mark a few lines on the screen for us I’m going to mark down the spine here I’m also going to Mark a line down off the back of the tush this is a line You’ll see us use quite often here at rotary swing is that we draw line
Straight down from the back of the tush because if the hips were to come forward you would notice that the spine angle changes quite a bit especially in the downward move all right I’m also going to Mark the trail shoulder here the position of the trail shoulder and then
From a face on perspective what I’m going to Mark is where the head position is at a dress and I’m also going to Mark a line from the trail shoulder down into where that head position was so from a Down the Line perspective let’s take a good close look
At what he does so well here gets good load up to the right side all right loaded up into that trail side very well he’s got the hips still staying back and he’s still been able to maintain his spine angle beautifully okay so you see how the spine angle is virtually dead
Exactly the same as it was at a dress and then in the downward move you’re going to see a very common move here a little sit to the left side to that lead side gets over there and then he’s still keeping those hips back down into the
Hitting area so notice how these hips have not come drastically forward he’s been able to maintain that original spine angle he’s actually maybe even increased his angle but another big note here is take notice of where his right shoulder is it’s virtually exactly where it was at the address position we don’t
See it moving forward we don’t see it um outbreaking through this line and that’s one of those areas for amateur golfers when you get to the top part of your golf swing you start to push really hard from the right arm and the right shoulder so if you’ve noticed yourself
On camera with that right shoulder moving through that line or your hips coming forward chances are you’re going to be a really steep swinger of the golf club and you’re going to be more over the top so if you’ve been one of those people that have fought over the top
Really kind of pay attention to what your right shoulder is doing in the downward move try to keep it a little bit more relaxed a little bit more passive and let the left side of the body really kind of control things that are going on you know and we’re talking
From a right-handed perspective this week so um again if you look at the uh the face on view and for those golfers that have really kind of struggled with a lot of lateral head movement either in the takeaway the back swing or the downward move Brooks does something
Extremely well on his golf swing that he really want to pay close attention to here so you’re going to see from a face on perspective we get loaded up to the top you can see the head moved maybe an inch inch and a half or so not a big
Deal we want to we want to allow the head to move just a little bit so if you’ve noticed your golf swing in your golf swing when you watch it on camera that you see a lot of this maybe four five six inches of lateral head movement
What that can be attributed to is this lead arm or this lead shoulder pushing across your Center all right when you start to push your lead shoulder across your Center what that’s doing number one is it’s not allowing you to rotate your shoulders perpendicular to your axis
Which is the spine and when that happens then your chances are that your spine is starting to change shape it’s starting to either straighten up and it’s also creating a lot of lateral head movement so now you can kind of grasp a hold of the idea of how important it is to be
Able to rotate the shoulders perpendicular to your axis that’ll that’ll teach you number one how to keep the head more quiet and it’ll also teach you how to build up power in your midsection if you’ve been one of those people that gets a lot of this lateral
Head movement you won’t be able to feel those abs and those obliques really starting to contract so really focus on you know get yourself a mirror or a camera focus on it from a Down the Line perspective and and take a good close look at it see okay I’m going to load up
To the right I want to rotate my shoulders around my Axis and make sure that you’re maintaining that spine angle as it was at a dress position all right so from a downward move here from a face on perspective he does something extremely well on his golf swing so
We’re going to get him down into the hitting area here you’re going to see the head move forward just a slight amount and then as he’s starting to get the hands down in front of that trail thigh you’re going to see that the head goes back in behind the original
Starting point here so what he’s done because he’s got a driver in his hands he’s got the ball position a little bit more forward you can see that he’s increased his access tilt he hasn’t lost his spine angle again so let me show you from a Down the Line perspective so down
Into the hitting area okay you can see that the spine angle has been able to maintain the same but his axis tilt has increased which in turn has got the spine now facing a little bit more outside of his lead knee and he’s got his head back in behind the golf ball
Also take notice of where the right shoulder is okay you can see that the right shoulder is virtually where it was at the address position and this is where he’s going to be starting his release he’s going to be starting to un un unravel that angle in the right arm
And that right hand and he’s going to start to extend through the hitting area but pay very close attention to these next few frames as I start to work through here you’re going to see that he maintains his head position behind the golf ball very long so the hands are about pocket
Height all right now we’re going to work a little bit further now they’re at about chest height here and the head is still behind the golf ball hands are now getting up around the shoulder height and now as he’s starting to get up into his finish position that’s when the head starts to
Come forward all right so you can see that what he’s done and and the reason why we actually only have one follow-through video on the website is because what a follow through really is and if you have yourself well enough trained to get speed at the right spot
And that’s in the hitting area a follow through is really just the safest way to decelerate the golf club it’s we want the hands and arms to when they’re decelerating the golf club to be able to pull us up onto our right toe so if you’ve notice that you get your head
Moving out in front of the original position too early then double check to make sure that your Trail shoulder has not moved across your Center pushed across your Center just as it would in in the takeaway or the back swing if you push it across your Center then you can
Run the the risk of having a lot of lateral head movement you can lose spine angle and then in turn um you’re going to just run into problems with maintaining consistency and ball striking and uh that can be a big issue so all right so the big things that you
Want to work on in your golf swing are you want to make sure that you keep the head more quiet all right you really want to try to keep the head in behind the golf ball especially into impact and then post impact still allow the head to
Stay very very quiet allow the hands and arms to feel like they’re reaching and extending out in front of you and then allow you know once things get you know past the 9:00 region or past the hip region allow the hands and arms to pull you up onto your finish position up onto
That right toe and uh that’ll help you keep those hips back it’ll help you maintain spine angle and it will certainly help you not um get that right side pushing across your Center and steepening up the golf Pub so a good drill as I told you guys I would talk
About for you guys to try at home this is one that I have a lot of my students it’s actually one a drill that I do myself is if you stick stick your tush up against a wall and grab yourself like a seven or an eight iron and what you
Want to do is just have your tush light lightly touching the wall and then go ahead and just make some good nine to three golf swings and what you want to do is go ahead and and shift your hips to the right make sure you feel your
Your weight load into that right side that right leg for stability and go ahead and swing the arms back to the 9:00 region all right so pause hold that in a static position and then shift over to the left side and feel the weight over into that left heel left ankle area
And then once you feel that happen then go ahead and swing the arms and release all the way through to the 3:00 position but as you’re doing this try to keep your right tush back lightly touching the wall all the way through the hitting area that’s going to give you the
Correct sensation of how to keep the hips back and it’s also going to train you um how to keep maintain spine in Angle now this is not a drill that I want you guys to overdo but I want you to be able to feel the differences so if
You’ve ever seen your hips coming forward um and you’ve lost the tush line quite a bit then try this drill out and then slowly start to work yourself away from the wall and then work on making sure that you know how to load and unload properly without getting yourself
To be pushed and and getting those hips to come forward also double check your right shoulder position make sure that you don’t start your downward move and start to push your right shoulder across your Center because that can cause you you know to lose lag it can cause you to
Steepen the clip up and then we have a mess of problems with being over the top we create a Big Slice or a big pull hook all right so those are the drills I want you guys to try out so make sure that you’re watching your spine angle make
Sure that you’re watching your head position keep it in behind the golf ball and then make sure you’re trying to keep it in behind the ball as you’re extending out through to the 3:00 position and you’ll be able to play a lot more consistent a lot better golf
All right couple videos on the website I want you guys to check out that’s going to be um losing the tush line that’s in the advanced downswing section that’s a great video to show you how to maintain your spine angle um you actually talk about how we increase we actually
Increase a little bit of the tush line in the downward move and uh it’ll help you overcome a lot of those issues that you’ve been struggling with also I want you to double check another great video on the website it’s called roll of the right foot it’s going to help you
Understand what the right foot’s doing in the downward move you can see here Brooks has got his right heel up off the ground quite a bit this roll of the right foot video is going to teach you how the right foot can act as more of a breaking mechanism and it’s also going
To give you kind of a little bit of a checkpoint for those of you golfers that have really struggled with a hips coming forward all right so those two videos they’re going to show up in the recommended videos to the right of the video player check those out that’s a
Great couple of videos that can help you overcome a lot of these u a lot of these issues also if there’s a video if you’ve been struggling with you know your takeaway seeing a lot of that lateral head movement um we actually have a a video that’s called um head moving off
The golf ball I’m also going to put that in the recommended videos for you guys to check out as well and understand that we really want to in order to maintain consistency we want to be able to rotate our shoulders around our axis which is our spine we we want to maintain that
Spine angle and we want to keep our head as quiet as possible for a lot of consistency and a lot of consistent power all right guys so let’s get out there and play some great golf I look forward to working more with you guys in the future let’s make it a great day
