(upbeat music) – Okay, in this video, let's take a look at Brooke
Henderson's golf swing, great young player from Canada
and incredible golf swing, and many people know her swing
to be that sort of similar to Sergio Garcia in some aspects, and certainly all the lag she creates. So let's take a look
at this amazing swing. And just real quickly, if it is your first time to the channel, please consider hitting
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hit the like button as well. So let's take a look here. So set up wise, a little bit
different from some players. Soon as she grips down
quite a bit on the club, you can see how much
she's gripped down here, and then also you can see a little more of a low hand look at address, certainly the distance
from the ground, here, quite a bit different
than a lot of players, much lower hands, a little more, sort of
a squatty setup here, more knee flex, more bent forward, we'll see from some other angles as well.
And then, dynamically,
very interesting swing, incredibly athletic, amazing
coordination, very strong grip, both hands turned a lot
to the right on the club, and that allows for the club
face to get square at the top. So as she goes back and this point here, the face is pretty open
or neutral at best, but then as she takes it back and lifts it and really hinges it like crazy. You can see as she's hinging it, the left wrist here is flattening out into a better position. And now looking really athletic, even more sitting into the legs here, and there's that very long
swing that she is known for. Club face here, square to close at the top. And now this amazing shallow move she does where she drops the arms down really gets the legs going and the core pulling like crazy. And so now she has the hips really engaging in the core, working its way around, the legs working as well. And with all that lag, she has
tremendous club head speed, hitting it nearly 280 yards on average, hitting tons of fairways, hitting nearly 80% of the greens.
So an amazing ball striker, but wow, what an athlete,
and tremendous force that she creates coming down. When we look at more of a face on view, we can see that strong grip, which I mentioned in the earlier clip, which tons of great
players have that grip. It does allow the face to stay square and it needs less flipping at the bottom. We know the hands were a little lower, little grip down on the club.
And then as she takes it up, like I said, she creates a very aggressive
hinge at the top in here. So the wrists, from this point
on, are moving quite a bit to get that club longer at the top, and with the driver, of course, we'll see in another clip
that driver, way down here. But then in the transition, those wrist flattening back out again, we can see the club face at this point, back to more of a square
position or slightly closed, massive lag, and this is that sort of Sergio Garcia comparison that we see with her
swing compared to his.
And the real difference
here as she comes into it, she's a little less bowing in the wrists, more neutral wrist positions here. You can even see even see this point here, that the left wrist,
little more cupped here, but the face in perfect position. So as it comes through, watch how, as it comes through at the bottom here, it's closing very slowly, it's going fast, but it's closing slowly, as it goes through. So from this, this frame here, this one, this one, and one this one, very, very stable club face
through the hitting area.
And that's one of the reasons why she hits all those greens. Full release. And she is a shot maker, so like a three-quarter finish here, but she goes all the way through on some, chops off a few to hit other shots, but tremendous ball striker. Driver from the face on view, something interesting here with her, is that she does create a wider base to accommodate a lot of that lag. If she had a narrower stance, it could be a little
trouble in the downswing, getting a little too steep into the ball, but that strong grip, super wide takeaway, really winding it, there's that aggressive hinge at the top.
And one thing, if you really have trouble getting a full swing, if you're working on turning
back and trying to get into a fuller position, watch how the head position changes here. So her visor here is
pointing on this angle as she starts out, and then
as she rotates it back, really allowing her head
to swivel to the right, which is really important
for players trying to get a full shoulder turn. You can tell she has a massive turn. Those shoulders are well past
90, probably 110 degrees, but if you don't allow
your head to swivel, it's very difficult to
turn your shoulders fully. This means that she's looking
a little more out of her left eye at this point, which is a big key to getting
behind the ball and really winding up to smash it. Some players are so intent on
keeping their eye on the ball, they don't allow their
head to move and swivel, and that really restricts
their back swing. So, allow that head to turn, big wind up, and then once again, pressure in the legs.
Amazing shallow move,
look where that club is. Now the hips rotating out of the way, completely behind it. There's that power move. Once again, watch the club
face as it comes down, not twisting, staying very,
very square to the shaft plane, on the way through. Tremendous, tremendous move,
unlike any other on tour. And if we take a look here, this one, the driver position slightly different.
The handle might be just a
bit higher here at address. But same basic look in the legs. Very athletic looking setup. Club face a little more open
at this point than a lot of players that have that strong of a grip. So the unique move that she
would take it up more vertical and then bow it on that long move there.
Now the club face is
square, in this position. Then as she changes direction
with that wrist getting flat, that will then keep the face
in perfect position so that when she starts rotating
hard through here, she's back on the plane. And then as she comes through, the club will just swing
right through on that plane, as she smashes it down the fairway. Looking at this swing halfway down, we can see that club face looking now down toward the ball right away, because she has put those, the strong grip and the combination of the grip and the club face from the wrist action, puts it into a perfect position,
and look at that shaft, I mean, it's right along
the original plane here. So, just tremendous. That's like a Jim Furyk position, coming exactly in along the plane. And then as she rotates,
with that face so square, she just releases it hard. And like I said, right down the center. Interestingly enough, when
we look at a wide shot here, a little pitch into the green, she does not allow that
face to get as open, which is super important
for all these pitch shots.
We want to make sure the face stays nice and square on the back swing. So as she goes up, when this
thing stops at the top here, you can see that club face is indeed on this side of the shaft, indicating she's not opening the face up, it's staying nice and square. And then as she starts it back down, she knows how to keep it on plane as well. Very, very good at sort of
modulating her power here, so she can rotate her upper body through, allow the hips to come
around, without that jump. We saw on the other
videos with the driver, how much she's jumping and
twisting with the lower body, and if she was to do that
with any of these wedge shots, we would not know her name. She would have a big struggle,
but she learned very early to get this thing working right.
You must allow the upper body in the sort of the turn through and allow the feet to stay calm, allow the legs to stay calm, so that the power is not
here on a wedge shot, like she's doing with a
full blast of the driver, she's allowing the upper
body to rotate through, and that gives her the control
for distance and direction. A lot of students will ask
me how to create more force and more power and how
some of these players can hit it so far, when they might not be
that big themselves.
But, you can see here a
tremendous twist and wind up, which certainly helps. But as the legs here are coming down, notice how it's her
legs, she's flexing down into the legs at this point. And then, as she's unwinding, as the hips come around and as the legs work themselves around, she is then using the ground
to push upward with the legs. Now she's not raising up,
she's staying in posture, which is vital to keep
the angles working right, but she's pushing up
as she's twisting open, and that's where the force comes from. That's how you create all that smash and whip on the way through. So if you're struggling for some power, you might just be turning
back and turning through and not allowing your
legs to work hard enough. And as long as you're doing
it as you're opening up, you're okay. The problem will be, is
if you jumped straight up, coming this way, up out of your posture, and you were to move
this angle up into here, that's where players really struggle, as they're raising out of their posture, instead of pushing as they're rotating.
Okay, well, that's going to
wrap it up for this video of Brooke Henderson's golf swing. Thank you so much for watching. And once again, just a reminder, if it is your first time to the channel, please hit that subscribe button. And if you liked the video,
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