WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:04.200 Hi, This is Fred Green from the Golf Smarter Podcast. 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:08.119 This is part two of our extended series with Tony Manzoni, 3 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:11.599 who passed away in twenty eighteen. Even if you've heard 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 these episodes in the past, it's a great reminder to 5 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:19.600 reiterate Tony's teaching methods that he communicates so effectively and 6 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:23.920 based on your feedback, works incredibly well. What we're doing 7 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:26.800 differently this year versus what we've done the last few 8 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.239 years is that I'm replaying these episodes in the dated 9 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:34.920 order they were originally published. Tony's book The Loss Fundamental, 10 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.479 One Simple Move Better Golf Forever is once again available 11 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:42.759 on Amazon, including the Kindle format, and his video of 12 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.200 the same name can now only be seen online. If 13 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.119 you'd like to gain access, please write directly to me 14 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:52.840 at golf Smarter podcast at gmail dot com or click 15 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.640 on the Heyfred button at golfsmarter dot com. To find 16 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.759 out more. Please visit Golfsmarter dot com. Thanks so much 17 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:02.799 for your support and enjoy. 18 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:04.000 For members only. 19 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:08.640 Golf Smarter number two fifty four recorded on October twenty six, 20 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:14.239 twenty ten, The Single Pivot Swing in detail with Tony Manzoni. 21 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:19.640 This is Golf Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golfers 22 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.239 and golf professionals to help lower your score. 23 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:24.920 It's worked for your host, Fred Green. 24 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:28.959 Welcome and thanks for downloading the Golf Smarter Podcast. A 25 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.439 few episodes ago, we had a conversation with Tony Manzoni, 26 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.159 who claimed to have unearthed the secret to Ben Hogan's 27 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:39.200 golf swing. Tony calls it the single pivot swing, and 28 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:42.159 he'll soon be opening this Single Pivot Academy down in 29 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:47.120 Palm Desert, California, where he coaches and teaches at College 30 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.159 of the Desert. Well after that podcast, not only did 31 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:53.439 Tony get a number of calls requesting a coaching session, 32 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.359 I received many emails wanting more in depth information. So 33 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.239 I called him and luckily we caught Tony before he 34 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.120 left the country for meetings in China, and he was 35 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.280 more than willing to discuss his theories in detail. 36 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:09.759 Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast. 37 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.879 Tony, Hey, how are you today. 38 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:16.159 I'm doing well and I'm so glad that we caught you. 39 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.319 I understand you're going to be leaving the country any. 40 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.360 Minute, right, Yeah, I'm going to China and meet with 41 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.800 some government officials about doing some golf courses there and 42 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.039 also created some golf schools and kind of tied into 43 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.759 what we're doing with golf illustrated here at College of 44 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:33.280 the Desert. 45 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:34.919 Wow, that's very exciting. 46 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.240 It is, and it's my first trip to Asia, and 47 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:41.360 I'm so excited about going to China because right now 48 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.919 I think that's a hotspot for all the golf activity 49 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:45.439 in the world. 50 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.439 One of my business acted We're not just golf, yeah. 51 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:52.199 Oh yeah, everything everything, and golf is kind of the 52 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:56.319 criteria for people that are working in various industries to 53 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:00.080 do business. In my golf management program, I get a 54 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.080 lot of boys from Korea and China that have been 55 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.520 sent here by employers so that they get some form 56 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.240 of knowledge about the management of golf courses and then 57 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.439 also a little bit about teaching, but primarily to get 58 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:16.840 their skills up so that they can play golf and 59 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:18.319 do business on the golf course. 60 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.039 Very interesting. Well, and part of your College of the 61 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:22.840 Desert program is golf management. 62 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:26.199 Correct, that's correct, Yes, that's correct, Very very good. 63 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.599 So when you were on the show and we had 64 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:34.400 you talking about shot Watch and among other things, but 65 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:39.360 we wanted to talk about your single pivot swing, and 66 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:42.439 I've got to ask you a couple questions about it, 67 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.240 and you were kind of vague about it, which was okay, 68 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:48.719 but I was inundated with emails and phone calls from 69 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:52.240 listeners around the world saying. 70 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:53.719 Wait a minute, I want more. 71 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.280 You tease this as Ben Hogan's secret, and you really 72 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:59.240 didn't even talk about it. So it's not much that 73 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.039 I would call some back and say, hey, can you 74 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.080 do a second episode, you know, in a couple of weeks. 75 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:06.319 Usually we'll do long interview and cut into two, but 76 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:08.479 this time we had to call you back and get 77 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:11.879 you to talk more about the single pivot swing. 78 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:14.400 I hope you well, I can do that. I can 79 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.399 do that for you because it's really a passion of mine, 80 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.839 and I think we've kind of got a ground swell 81 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:25.079 moving right now with this thing. When I came up 82 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:28.720 with the method, through years of research and especially watching 83 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.959 Ben Hogan, I wasn't sure myself, because when you're thinking 84 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:34.959 a little bit out of the box as an instructor, 85 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.279 there's always a question, well, you know, have I flipped 86 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.120 my wig here or have I really found something? And 87 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.560 it took a while for me to realize that this 88 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.399 is valid, this is what Hogan did, because there's been 89 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.600 a lot of people saying they knew what he did, 90 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:52.759 and I think this is an aspect to it. I'm 91 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.279 not sure it's everything he did, but I know that 92 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.040 I know that in watching some of the film that 93 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.160 I have of him, especially in this later year, this 94 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.360 is exactly what he did. Wow. 95 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:06.279 All right, Well, and one of the comments that I 96 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:09.079 received was, I can't believe he doesn't have a website, 97 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:10.160 not even a simple one. 98 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:12.120 So you need to explain this. 99 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:16.199 And it's like, well, I'm finishing a book with a 100 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.519 gentleman by the name of Paul Servantis, who's a very 101 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.240 very fine co writer. Uh, and I speak in a 102 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.920 certain way, so he's tried to keep that flavor in 103 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:29.720 the book without editing me out of it. And so 104 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.600 Paul does have a website that he's building at this 105 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.800 present time, and we will have a lot of information. 106 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:39.800 And then Golf Illustrated, because I'm working with them with 107 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.720 a single pivot golf school. They have the Golf Illustrated 108 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:46.199 has just gone online and they have a pretty large website, 109 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.720 and we're going to be doing kind of golf viignettes 110 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:52.560 that we'll be putting on there myself, Al Geiberger, Mike Lyons, 111 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.519 and Brian Geiberger. That's the for some of us, and 112 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:58.560 also a young lady by the name of Karen Gottwald 113 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:03.279 who's our female instructor about to single pivot, how you 114 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:05.319 have to set up to it, because setup is really 115 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.079 important in making this happen. What we're eliminating in the 116 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:13.639 single pivot golf swing is we're eliminating the lateral move, 117 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.959 the shifts from the right leg to the left leg. 118 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:21.319 And it's not an invention. There have been many great 119 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.720 players that played off the left side, but no one 120 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:27.160 has ever really explained it in detail how you do 121 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.959 it and what are the functions and so forth. So 122 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.920 that's what that's what my role has come has happened, 123 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.240 is that I've I've watched this and of course I 124 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:39.120 give lessons to a lot of people, especially elderly people, 125 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.720 and now that this doesn't work for young people because 126 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.279 my golf team are all you know, they all kill 127 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.920 the ball and they're all playing off of one axis. 128 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.920 But I saw that older people people that always said 129 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.399 I can't get over the left side, I can't finish 130 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:56.079 the swing anymore. I can't get any distance. I've increased 131 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:01.040 their distance just two to three clubs by just putting 132 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.000 them in the right position, by setting them to the 133 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.839 ball correctly, and then keeping them there throughout the motion 134 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.000 so that there's not a lot of weight on the 135 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.240 right side, so they can clear their left side. They 136 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.160 can turn their chest left of the target and get 137 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.680 the right shoulder pointing at the target. And while they 138 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:18.560 do that, the left arm stack is connected high on 139 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:22.680 the chest. And that's the secret of this. It's playing 140 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.000 off of one axis. Now we're not tilting the shoulders, 141 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.000 so this is not stack and tilt. And I don't 142 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.680 mean to infer that what they do is wrong. I 143 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:34.120 don't like to get into those things. But you can't 144 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:37.240 hurt your back doing this. When you're tilting your shoulders, 145 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:39.720 especially on the through swing, you're going to end up 146 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.000 in what we used to call a sea position, and 147 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:43.839 there's a little bit of strain on the lower back. 148 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.480 And all the people that played from that era that 149 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.519 finished with the head back and the body kind of 150 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:53.519 in a sea position, they all were troubled with their 151 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:57.040 back in later years. And Hogan, if you see any 152 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.120 pictures of him, he posts it up so that he 153 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.800 was on a straight line because he didn't work that way. 154 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:04.120 He didn't work down and under to hit the golf ball. 155 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:06.560 When you do that, you have to turn your arms over. 156 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.600 There's two ways to square the golf club. You can 157 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.639 turn your arms over and hit it, or you can 158 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:13.800 rotate your body and keep your arm connected to your 159 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.920 body like it's a lever connected to a gear. So 160 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:18.519 when you set up to the golf ball, the first 161 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.519 thing you're going to do is you're going to set 162 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.079 up sixty forty sixty percent of your weight on your 163 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.639 left foot and forty percent on your right. And why 164 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:30.720 you're doing that is because you're aligning your left hip 165 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.879 to the outside of your left foot, and that's impact. 166 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.639 Is when we hit the golf ball, whether we sway 167 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:38.360 off the ball and come back to it, that's where 168 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.759 we're going to end up. But with this concept, we're 169 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.039 going to get against impact to start with. So we've 170 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.600 positioned the legs in the proper position, and now all 171 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.200 we have to do is rotate the upper part of 172 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.519 the body and we're gonna coil the body without moving 173 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:54.519 that center, and that's our head we're going to stay. 174 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:57.600 Our face will be right down on the golf ball. Okay, 175 00:08:57.919 --> 00:08:59.840 So the right shoulder and the right hip are going 176 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:02.320 to turn behind us, and that's going to pull the 177 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:04.879 arm around the body with the rotation. 178 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.519 So I'm going to stop you for a second here 179 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:12.039 because as you're describing this, not only am I trying 180 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:14.200 to do this, I'm standing up, I got a club 181 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:14.559 in my hand. 182 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:15.080 I'm doing this. 183 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:19.639 I'm sure there are people who listeners right now who 184 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:23.120 are on a commute train standing there doing this with So, 185 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.279 so let me just let me just kind of visualize this. 186 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:27.519 So when I'm bringing my hands back, I'm not bringing 187 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.240 my hands up. I'm bringing my hands more. 188 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:32.600 You're you're not well, yeah, but you're not bringing your 189 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.320 hands back. Your arms are connected to your body and 190 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.039 you're turning your You're turning your upper torso, and your 191 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:43.720 arms are being moved to a position behind you. The 192 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:46.600 arms are in front of you, okay, and they're going 193 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:48.320 to stay in front of you in the addressed position. 194 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.639 But as your body, as your body is rotating, it's 195 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:55.240 it's turning, it's turning around. The right shoulder is now 196 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.960 being displaced behind the spine, and the right hip is 197 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.639 being displaced behind the so your right side is turning. 198 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.320 There's no there's no lateral move back. There's no there's 199 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.639 no sway back to low power. You're coiling. Imagine a 200 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.360 wall against your right shoulder. Okay, you're going to turn 201 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.320 inside that wall with your right side, and that movement 202 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:19.639 will take the club back into a position. And everybody 203 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:23.480 is different because we are all built differently. Some people 204 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.919 have a lot of flexibility, some don't. Some are short waists, 205 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.720 some are long legged. So there's no position you can 206 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:32.679 say you have to take the club here. So by 207 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:36.080 connecting the arms slightly on top of the body at address, 208 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:39.159 we from a single axis, which is the left leg, 209 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.679 and we we stay against that brace, almost the feeling 210 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.759 of there's an imaginary wall on your left side. Okay. 211 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.559 So now from that position, you're going to coil the 212 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.360 upper body staying centered. Okay, so when we coil, we're 213 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.240 not going to tilt our head to the right. We're 214 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:55.559 going to stay right on that ball. So the right shoulder, 215 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.480 right hip go behind us, and the club, the arms 216 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.159 will follow. The left ear was going to go across 217 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.200 the chest. This is a big this is the big key. 218 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:06.480 It's going to go across the chest, and the left 219 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:11.480 arm should sit fairly high on the left pectoral muscle. Okay. 220 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.120 Years ago, there was a great player by the name 221 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.240 of Dick Mayer. He won the US Open, the World Open. 222 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.360 I had a little problems with alcohol in his later years. 223 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:22.519 And I met him and he used to watch me 224 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.519 hit balls, and he used to say, son, you've got 225 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:27.759 to keep your left arm on your tit and he 226 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.919 meant the nipple. Okay. And and he wrote a book 227 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.440 subsequent to that that gerald Ford was in the gerald 228 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.039 Ford Library. He gave me the book, and in that 229 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:40.320 book it says that everybody has an area in the 230 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.639 body that defines where the left arm should be in 231 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:45.559 that'sh the left arm should be right above that nipple 232 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.759 of the on the man on the left pectoral muscle. Okay. 233 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:51.519 And he would watch me hit balls and say, you 234 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:53.039 got to keep your arm up on your tit. And 235 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:55.639 I used to think this guy's whacked out because I 236 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:58.279 had no idea what he was talking about, until I 237 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:02.679 learned that that was position is paramount to hitting the 238 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:07.080 ball solid and straight, time after time after time, because 239 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.480 when the left arm stays high in the chest, the 240 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.519 only way it can move because it's connected to the body. 241 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:16.519 Is the rotation of the body opening up through the target, 242 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.879 kind of like if you've ever seen Anika Sorenson play, 243 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:24.080 Anika was very It was a real rotator of the 244 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:27.159 golf swing, and it looked like her body was facing 245 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.840 the target at impact. And that's exactly what it was. 246 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.559 So if people in the audience would stand up, if 247 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:35.919 they can do this and put their arm right across 248 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.039 their body and then take their right arm and hold 249 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.039 their left arm high against the chest, and then just 250 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:44.200 turn the body and see how the arm moves with it. 251 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:46.759 It's not coming off the chest, it's still pressed against it. 252 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.039 But if you keep turning left, the club will square itself. 253 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.480 Now, you talk about seniors being able to do this, 254 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:02.080 what kind of to me? The way you're describing this 255 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.639 In this rotation, it seems like a lot of flexibility 256 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:06.279 is required. 257 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:07.919 I mean you have, Oh, no, none at all. I'm 258 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:12.120 believing I'm about as flexible as a solid pretzel. I 259 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:17.080 can't touch my toes. Okay, I'm lucky if I can 260 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.519 get past my knees when I bend over. But I 261 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:21.879 can do this, Oh yeah, I can do this. Hey, 262 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.240 I'm seventy four years old. You know an atrophy is 263 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:27.360 snuck in there somewhere. Now. I try to stay as 264 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:30.360 limber as I can, but really I'm not going to yoga, 265 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.200 I'm not doing stretching. But what I found is that 266 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:36.000 all all, if you put your arms across your chest 267 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:38.399 like you see guys criss cross their arms, and you 268 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:41.159 get in swinging position, you set yourself off against the 269 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.000 left side brace and just turn the top part. You're 270 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:45.559 going to turn it enough to where your back is 271 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:49.600 to the target. Even less than that is fine, okay, 272 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.840 But if you're turning your right side behind you, this 273 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:54.919 is the ticket. If you try to turn your left 274 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.679 shold over to your chin, it's harder to do if 275 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.000 you take your right side and pull it back behind 276 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.879 behind you towards the target. That's the keyword, towards the target. 277 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.480 Because at the top of your swing, your weight is 278 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:11.080 now seventy thirty. You're braced against that wall and on 279 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:12.559 your left. 280 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.960 Side, the seventy being on the left side. 281 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.480 Left side you started sixty forty. Because you're displacing your 282 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.480 weight behind you and it's going behind you towards the target. 283 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:27.080 You have now braced up seventy thirty. The left knee 284 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.120 has not pulled back from the ball or pulled back 285 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:32.159 to go towards the ball or behind it. The left 286 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.799 knee is pointed straight to the toe of the left foot. 287 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:40.120 Okay, rotation in your rotation, your your knee has pointed 288 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:42.840 to your foot. You're not banking your knee on that rotation. 289 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.879 Well, you're You're both knees are bent. Okay, I'm because 290 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.320 I'm trying to talk you through this. Okay. As I 291 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.840 as I turn my right pocket and my right shoulder 292 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.600 behind me, okay, towards my left heel towards my left heel. 293 00:14:55.639 --> 00:15:00.600 As I do that, my left knee points towards my toe. 294 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.039 Should on your left. 295 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.519 Left foot, left foot, the right leg will elongate, it'll 296 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.759 get it won't lock, but it'll get. It'll get steeper. Okay. 297 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.879 So now you're now you're braced on your axis that 298 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.000 you're going to swing around. Okay, So you're there. Okay, 299 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.480 Now all we're all we're doing is we've coiled the 300 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.720 top part of the body. Our legs are in position. 301 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:24.679 So now all there is left by staying connected high 302 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.200 on the pectoral muscle. Okay, we just unwind our chest 303 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:32.039 through the target around the left leg, and we finished 304 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.440 with the chest pointing left of the target and the 305 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.559 right should're pointing at the target. And trust me when 306 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.000 I tell you I have a I've got an eighty 307 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.679 six year old man that when he first came to 308 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:44.200 me and he took the club back, he looked like 309 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:46.559 a tree falling to the right. He had no conception 310 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.200 of turn. I've got him on his left side now 311 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:51.480 and he's hitting the ball farther now than he did 312 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:54.360 when he was in his fifties because he's hitting it 313 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.000 with his whole body. He's not working down under so 314 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.039 that his arms have to flip over so that the 315 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.000 arms leave the body. He's hitting it with his chest, 316 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.159 his core, his hips, and the last thing through is 317 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.519 the clubhead, so as his body unwinds, the clubhead hits 318 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:12.879 the ball. Now, if you're on the right side and 319 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.240 you try to do this, you're gonna you're gonna spin 320 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:17.679 out open. You're gonna spin open, but you can't get 321 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.679 open enough. When you're on your left side. As you 322 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.720 as you start unwinding, you can open up as early 323 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.399 as you want, and you're just gonna hit the ball harder. Okay, Now, 324 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.159 Now the key here, the key as we do this 325 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.039 is that the left arm must stay on the chest 326 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.600 as you open. Okay, So you're gonna be turning level. 327 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:40.000 You are not gonna work be working down. You're gonna 328 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.639 stay level like Hogan did in his later years, and 329 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:48.320 you're gonna smash the ball. And the by product of 330 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.360 this is that whether you pull it or push it, 331 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.320 and we will do that for our life, no one's 332 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:55.240 going to hit it dead straight at the pin every time. 333 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.120 They're gonna push it a little right, but there'll be 334 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:59.399 no side spin on the ball because the club the 335 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.480 clubhead is held square throughout the heating area. There's no 336 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.319 rotation to square it. It's square from the beginning to 337 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.680 the end. Okay, So you'll pull it or push it 338 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.839 dead straight. So your your shot dispersion is going to 339 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.279 get real narrow, real narrows. So you're going to start hitting. 340 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.359 You're gonna hit a lot of greens and a lot 341 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.079 of fairways, and you're going to hit the ball much 342 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:25.279 more solid, which will make your average hit further. See 343 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:27.319 you when we move off the golf ball. And it's 344 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:30.799 a trend in teaching. At one time, the Nicholas's the Palmers, 345 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:32.480 they stayed right on the ball their head and did 346 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:35.039 not move. It didn't move because they didn't make that 347 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.839 little lateral move on the backswing. And then all of 348 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.480 a sudden, instructures start saying it's okay to move your head, 349 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:44.160 and I'm here to tell you that's a bunch of bs. 350 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.400 It isn't okay to move your head because you got 351 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.839 to move it back to the place you started, because 352 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.799 that's your center before you hit the golf ball. And 353 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.279 you know, unless you're neurria of or somebody like that, 354 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.279 how do you do that, especially when you get past fifty. 355 00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.960 So that's why so many people. You know, we have 356 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.039 a driving rain chair at the college and you see 357 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.079 people and they're just locked back on that right foot. 358 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:06.640 The ball goes right and their instructor says, will shift 359 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:09.200 your weight. Well, that's that's the problem. They did shift 360 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:10.759 their weight. They put too much weight on the right 361 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:16.319 foot early. Yeah, once you get back on that right 362 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:19.599 side unless you unless you have an athletic body. And 363 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.160 even the athletic guys that are arm swingers every now 364 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:24.880 and then, they're all all over the place. I mean, 365 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:29.559 you look at Dustin Johnson, a tremendous athlete, tremendous strength. 366 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:31.440 He can hit the ball two miles, but every now 367 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:33.319 and then he can hit it so far off the 368 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.640 Fairwey Mickelson another arms swinging around the downswing. But you 369 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:38.599 can see it when the when the arms come down, 370 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:41.519 the body can't. The body can't rotate and the arms 371 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:43.880 come down at the same time. One. So if the 372 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.240 body doesn't, if the arms come down, the body is 373 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.759 going to follow the arms when they when the when 374 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.119 you're a rotator, the arms always follow the body. And 375 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:54.799 and and because you're not turning the club over, the 376 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.240 clubhead isn't going to be opened a long time, closed 377 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.559 a long time, and square for just a moment. So 378 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:02.559 now you're you're eliminating one of the things that happens 379 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:04.519 to all of us as soon as you get anxious, 380 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.599 as soon it means something. You know, our eye hand 381 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.319 coordination runs down our leg I mean that, I don't 382 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:13.640 care who it is. Uh. You saw Dustin Johnson in 383 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:15.759 that one tournament where he stood in a bunker. Well, 384 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:17.480 he didn't have to be in that bucker if he 385 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:18.960 could have just hit the ball in the far away. 386 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.079 But because he's he has to square that club with 387 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.119 his arms. As soon as it gets really important, you're 388 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.200 gonna you're just you're gonna hang on or you're going 389 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:30.200 to release it too early. See. And that's what Hogan, 390 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:32.680 that's what he really figured out. And in his later 391 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:35.559 years he made statements, I square the golf club with 392 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:38.640 my body. Okay, well that's how. But he didn't tell 393 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:40.759 you how to do it. That's what the single pit 394 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:43.839 was school and concept is about. It tells you how 395 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:46.119 to do it. And I want to tell you. Uh 396 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.240 and I don't mean to brag, but I am going 397 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.759 to brag. Since I've been teaching. Yes, since I've been 398 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:57.160 teaching this, I have had nothing but repeat business and 399 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:01.440 nothing but referral business, and people tell sending me emails 400 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:03.240 and tell me I never hit the ball like this. 401 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:05.200