A small swing change has rejuvenated Rickie Fowler’s career. In this episode of Film Study, Golf Digest’s Luke Kerr-Dineen breaks down exact how and why the six-time PGA Tour winner rebuilt his swing.
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Wow I completely forgot how laid off he was
If butch is your coach there's nobody out there that's gonna give you something better…ask tiger and ricky
Extraordinarily good content. Great swing analysis. Would love to see more of this
Kevin Mcallister doing a voice over
Rickie's fault explained. His right arm was too internally rotated, and his left arm was externally rotated too much. Fix: reverse arm movements. Externally rotate the right arm more, and internally rotate the left arm more. Go to 4.33 at the end of the video. You will see less internal and external rotation of both arms.
The player who has the most internal and external rotation of his arms on the backswing is Matt Woolf.
He keeps the center of mass of the club head in front of his body longer by lifting his arms more as opposed to using his body.
The biggest fault I see with amateur golfers is that they roll both arms in the backswing causing them to get the center of mass of the clubhead behind their hands. This has the opposite effect of the clubhead coming over the top of their hands on the downswing. "Out-To-In Swing Path". They would do well to copy Matt Woolf's backswing.
And he has a smokin hot wife now!
What's with the obsession with the driver and iron swings? Sure its nice to be consistent enough but the biggest factor is his short game that has been just phenomenal, putting bar none. Just watched Tiger winning a tournament in 2013, he was missing fairways, greens constantly but I dont think he missed more than two chip ins in the whole 4 rounds. 90% were inside 3 feet for an easy par putt. Every long putt was also within few feet. That's how you win a tournament. Short game. And he attacked par 5s viciously to get eagle chances. The rest of the holes, he was surprisingly conservative with his approaches.
This fellas voice is something mental
Laid off look at the top. Lol
He finished top 5 in 4 majors in the same year so the swing he had obviously wasn't the problem. Is he going to be more consistent now? Yeah maybe but there wasn't really anything wrong with his swing. He just married one of the hottest women in the world and didn't care about golf as much and can you blame him? Look up Allison Stokke and you'll understand.
No, I thinks the haircut.
weird. the current trends are all opposite of this. everyone is trying to shallow out and flatten at the top. sure he was an extreme example but its just strange that we're all trying to do exactly what he just undid
You need to look at his swing a year or so before he went back to Harmon, because it was different than the 2010 swing.
Dang! Really was wondering what Rickie had been working on. Makes perfect sense.
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His swing when he started must have been good. There is nothing wrong with the takeaway .. the club head outside of his hands is also correct and gets you on plane.
If his ranking drops and he suddenly wasn’t swinging consistently, it must have been something that changed. What changed? Couldn’t have been the swing that he started out with as it looks great ..
Regards.
Obviously he should do whatever is best for his game. That being said, I loved Rickie’s old swing. It was so unique to him.
Martin Kaymer also have same move. And after he won the major tournament he change the swing and till now he is still struggling…. What is good doesn’t mean better for everyone.
yeah that 2010 swing was not what he won the players with, or what was causing the struggles the last few years before the resurgence. i'm not sure exactly what he and butch have been working on lately, but it wasn't that… he got rid of that takeaway 10 years ago
Getting stuck has nothing to do with the "arms being stuck behind the body", it is the position of the clubhead lagging behind the hands in the mid downswing, which actually is more probable if the hands come too much in front of the body in the downswing, as you can see in the clip of Tiger at 2:57. The club is far more likely to get stuck if the golfer is across the line than laid off. This analysis is just wrong. Plus, hasn't Rickie won more with his old swing?
How many tour players actually do the so-called bad take away?
Rickey “bad” takeway would be IDEAL position for most am golfers
Did you guys know Rickie is colorblind? That's why he wears orange. Thought it was white.
Pole vaulting his, I mean with his Mrs has finished since the baby and now he’s back.
This prognosis is false. His wavering ball striking was due more to criticism. That’s why it progressively deteriorated. Now, that criticism has reached its zenith. Successfully undermining his greatest strength. Fowler has a strong and capable lead hand and arm. He’s being asked to pacify his strength. In pressure situations he’ll want to lean on that. It would be better to create confidence in the strength that got him his success.
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Dont put a curse on him now. I follow Ricky and so happy for him for his win. But come on
He literally said it himself that it was due to his takeaway and yet everyone on here is trying to argue it.
Entire vid would be 1000% better if there was another narrator… Sorry
Rickie was way better tee to green in 2012 than 2023.