– Hi, Adam Bazalgette here
founder of Scratch Golf Academy. Today we're gonna have a look
at the golf swing of Jon Rahm. (energetic music) So Jon Rahm, fantastic, powerful golfer. 6"2, strong guy, one of the
really up and coming players. I'll show you what I think about his swing in different places. Some of the things I think
you really owe to try to copy.
But also towards the end some things I wouldn't recommend that you copy. We'll have a look at that as we go. If you liked the video please subscribe to the YouTube channel and scratchgolfacademy.com
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aspect of the game there. Let me just say first,
I would love to have this guy's talent, I'd love
to have his golf swing. There's some elements of his swing I've never found easy to do in mine. But it has some idiosyncrasies
and again I'm gonna show you some of the things I think you should copy and some of the things
you might wanna avoid.
So let's have a look at
him, let's have a look at some of these really strong
points of the classic moves, see why he hits the ball so well. Okay so strong, strong posture there. Beautiful start to the back swing. Everything together, club
right in front of his hands. So many players get too handsy and they get the club stuck behind them. You can see that nice
look of the ball here. Now kind of an interesting
quirk in his swing, he's got a very bowed look
in his left wrist there and yet the club face
looks pretty much square. That's really do to the fact
he's got such a flat left wrist or such a weak grip if
you'd like there to address. Not withstanding that
though, really strong turn. Look at him kind of load his right leg and his glute there and
kind of squeeze his body towards the ground just a little bit so he can really spring into motion. And you will not see a transition
much stronger than that, I'll tell you and even
though he's got a little bit of an upright look there,
he's able to really drop that thing right in the
slot and that is literally just a great position to hit it from.
Look at his address,
now look at his impact. Look how good his body angles are there. Look at his shorts, his upper body's squashed towards the ground a bit, that's not uncommon for a great player. Another thing he does
well, if we draw a line up from the ball, he really gets his weight and more importantly the handle of the golf club past the ball. And not only that, he keeps
it about as solid there through the shot as it's possible to do, especially at that speed, not easy to do but when you do these things you get that kind of dynamic look back on a plane and that kind of stability in the shaft through the ball, you are
gonna hit the ball like a star and you're gonna hit it a long way. Let's have a quick look
at the driver swing here.
There he is. And we'll just move him
over just a hair there. Same sort of a look, beautiful take-away, little bowed, face still
good, super drop-in, super dynamic and look at the
body there through the ball. So here's a little
drill that you can apply some of the things he does really well. This is the sand bucket off
the side of the golf cart. Anything heavy will do, you can
just imagine something heavy in your hands if you'd like
you can do it right at home. First off going back I
wouldn't use my hands and tip it over behind me,
it would stay in front of me just like his take-away
and most importantly as heavy as this is if I had
to toss it towards the flag, I would engage my lower
body, I'd use the ground and I would take advantage
of my core muscles there, such core muscles as I have I might add. But I would use my body a bit, I wouldn't just flick it through. Then take a golf club, I'm only about 80 yards from the hole.
Little back swings here, and really try to duplicate that feel,
just drive it through there and use your lower body properly. Hit a lot of little shots like that, take up the imaginary heavy object, make some movements with
it and actually everyone if you have it I think this will help ya. So there's Jon next to Patrick Reed, current Master's Champion. Notice how much more
cupped Patrick's wrist is. I recommend that, grip more over here, likely grip more in the fingers
I don't know that for sure.
The problem is when
you get that weak grip, particularly when you
get that wide back swing. Look how much less Patrick Reed's hands are away from his right leg. That combination of all that width and that flat stiff left
wrist really shorten the back swing and I think
for most people certainly they'd be better off letting
their arms swing a bit more, letting their wrist cup
with that slightly stronger more cupped grip, completing
their back swing a little more. So much easier to create speed from there. Of course Jon Rahm has
no problems with that, he can drive in there
and hit it a mile doing what he's doing but I think
for the average player that look on the right is
much much easier to play with. Let's have a look at
his down the line view. I'll show you one more little thought here and then we'll look at Patrick Reed. And we'll replace him I should
say with Louis Oosthuizen and here's one other thing
I think that look he gets where his arms lift a little,
he gets that bowed wrist, tough to play there, he can do it though because he's so good at
dropping it to the inside.
But I think I'd let my
left arm work a little more across the body, easier
to cup the wrist from there, more like Louis is doing
and from there much easier to drop it in than what Jon's doing but obviously he does
a phenomenal job of it. I'd recommend you go more
with Oosthuizen's look there. So let me just say it's not idiosyncrasies that make somebody good at golf. I wouldn't look at it that way, that's always the easy way to do it. I had a student come to me
and say hey Bryson DeChambeau has all his irons the same length, maybe that would work for me. The reason to me, now he's thought that through he has his reasons. The reason to me, he's such a good player is he'd be a good player
with anybody's club. He's just a highly skilled player, that's a little bit of an
idiosyncrasy so copy the things in general that you would
say are common denominators amongst good ball strike
'cause then copy the things also that you feel your body can do.
The things that are a good
fit for you physically and I think if you do that,
you'll have a lot more success when you sort of try to learn some things from some of these top
players that we all like. Okay so Jon Rahm, I hope that helps you give you some ideas about his swing. Great young player, really
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