- Welcome back to Naples, Florida.
I'm at the beautiful club at Mediterra.
I'm Adam Bazalgette,
two-time PGA Teacher of the Year Award winner down here.
Today's subject, a great golfer, Adam Scott.
My wife and daughter's favorite player is named Adam.
It's just not this one, it's that one.
So we'll have some fun with it,
we'll have a look at why he's such a great driver.
Stay tuned.
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So Adam Scott, great player in general.
Again, we're gonna focus particularly
on why he's such a great driver
and I'm gonna come back at the end of the video
try to show you a couple of things
I think you can learn from his swing and apply to your game
and make you a little bit better driver I hope.
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So let's get started, Adam Scott.
So there is Adam Scott hitting a driver,
let's just check it out a little bit
that down the line view on the right
will show you beautiful posture.
He's six feet tall, born in 1980s, won 13 times
on the regular tour including of course,
the Masters a couple of years ago
and 29 times worldwide, so a very, very successful player
and he's noted to be a great driver of the ball.
And let's have a look here as he goes, great posture.
He's always taking the club out away from him a little bit
sort of a Butch Harmon look,
a little bit like he did with Tiger,
obviously it's working great for him
but typically I would see most great players
a little bit more in there with their left arm
but hey, the club's in front of him,
everything's moving together
and he just slots it beautifully at the top.
So there's nothing not to like about that backswing really.
Great dynamic start with the downswing,
club's on plane the whole way.
By on plane you mean pretty much
that club's looking at the golf ball.
So he doesn't have to adjust it or reroute it,
or drop it in or anything,
gives him an added layer of consistency.
Club coming beautifully from the inside,
he's got such good body motion through the ball there.
You look at his trunk turning
and look how the club's right down
that target line that, you know,
he's gonna drive it pretty straight doing that.
And Adam also has a really good sustained look
in the club out there that will
check out a little bit from the other side.
Now let's spend most of our time looking
from the front angle here.
And let's say, there's a short iron.
So we've got a short iron and a driver.
And the most obvious thing you'd notice
is the relationship at address.
It looks like a wedge or a nine on there on the right,
he's just a hair behind it with maybe
the middle of his face or the middle of his hat,
but round numbers his body's on top of the ball,
and when you look at the driver set up,
it's not that way.
So the reasons that account for that are threefold.
Ball position.
You can see the ball's up off the instep here,
much more in the middle of the stance there.
Next thing you'd notice,
with the stance of course,
he's wider there on the driver.
And the final thing,
he has just a little bit of secondary tilt with the driver.
And if it's there,
with iron it's minimal.
So that combination,
that wide stance and that secondary tilt,
and the ball being forward,
change his relationship to the golf ball.
And that is so important when you want
to drive the ball well.
Look at a short iron swing here.
Beautiful motion,
great extension,
great pivot,
but look at the relationship of his body
to the golf ball there.
Let's do that on the driver.
Again, his head's pretty darn still.
Look at the back of that grandstand.
It's not like he's moving way off the ball.
He's right about in that spot.
But look at the relationship
of his upper body to the golf ball there.
I mean, his center of his body is completely
in a different relationship
and it's due to the setup
and it makes all the difference
for driving it well
because for the iron,
you've got to have just a little bit
of a downward hit where the bottom
of the swing is possible.
Right there you can see the bottom
of the swing in front of the golf ball,
but to drive it well or to drive it
really, really well,
you want to be very, very level at the bottom,
and you can see once he's hit the ball,
the club's already starting it's upward path
and that's to me just due
to how he sets up to the ball.
Another thing he does really well as he comes through here,
not only as he created a great flat spot right there,
but the club shaft stays really stable
well out into the forward swing.
he doesn't stall his body
and flip at the ball.
And you can see he recruits his core here
if you look right there really, really well
and times it well.
I have a tendency to use that
but jump too early when I hit a drive
and then stall with my core as I hit.
He's got it moving right there,
and it sustains that nice wide spot.
So, you know when you have
a swing that's as good as his,
it's on plane,
it's got a great setup,
you have great width in your backswing,
they're great,
you know just a solid look,
but your relationship to the ball is such,
as his is,
that your position allows
you to hit this thing level
to slightly up consistently.
And you're able to sustain the club
in the arm so well,
so long for impact.
And of course,
you can do it with the speed of this guy.
You're gonna drive the ball really well.
And you talk about people having confidence in their driver.
Sergio Garcia certainly does.
He certainly does.
They're two of the very best,
but the reason they have confidence,
they hit the thing so blasted well.
If I drove it as well as him
I'd feel like a million bucks too.
I'm telling you, confidence comes primarily from knowing
you can do something well
having demonstrated in the past.
And that is a swing that'll work.
So let's have a look at a couple things
you can take away from this.
So let's look at two things I think
you can apply from Adam's swing
that would help you become a little bit better driving.
Now let's say we're not trying to do a swing lesson
or a driver lesson per se.
But what are the things you could modify
a little bit from your swing you have already,
and let's assume it's reasonable.
What are the things you could modify to them
that would help you become a better driver?
Well first thing,
we noticed his setup was very apropos for a driver.
I've put a little alignment rod in over the top
of the golf ball there.
Fortunately with the sun angle,
that's creating a nice little stripe.
So I can place my left instep about there,
I'm gonna get a little bit wider stance.
Here's the thing,
I'm gonna tilt my spine slightly,
bumping my lower back there,
my upper body,
just a little here,
until about the time I feel that stick
somewhere around the outside
of that shoulder there.
Which is about the relationship he had.
Then the thing is you've got
to memorize what that looks,
what that feels like.
And I'm telling you,
your eyes play a big part of this.
We all, once we've had a few thousand balls,
have a certain familiar setting with how
the ball looks underneath us.
It's just subconscious,
we're used to it.
So once you're in the new position,
or once you're in the position you like,
have a look down there,
see what it looks like to you like that
and kind of memorize that feel.
Not just the address,
but memorize what that would feel like
hitting the ball from that kind
of relationship to the golf ball,
and kind of mark in there visually.
So that would be number one.
Number two.
We noticed that Adam had a fantastically use able,
usable sort of flat spot at the bottom of his swing.
So I'm gonna put a tee there,
maybe put this a little bit out in front
of where impact would be.
And then make a couple of baby practice swings.
First thing,
it might set up feeling like I could come in,
and clip the tops of both tees,
and that would give me the sense
that I've got a good flat spot down there.
Now once you've done that a couple of times
on a small scale,
come to the side of the tee's,
you can mentally picture what it would be like,
and here's a couple of things you can do.
Rehearse that on this scale a little bit.
Then, you remember Adam had such
a great solid look out here,
the club didn't flip over?
Start to engage your core a little bit
to widen that out,
and just practice that area.
So you're practicing the flat spot,
and the sustained club shaft out there.
Once you've done a little bit,
obviously add some speed,
I would recommend keeping the backswing
really short initially,
and doing a mid-size to full follow through.
So,
like that.
So I'm starting to really blueprint that.
Once you've done it a few times,
hey, try a few shots on that scale,
and of course,
ramp it up to the big scale.
So I think if you can get yourself in
the right relationship to the ball,
memorize it a little bit,
you can start to mimic his flat spot
and how he sustains the width there through the ball,
the stability of the club shaft,
and just practice it of course.
You're gonna see a little bit of a difference
in your driving at least I hope you will.
Well I hope looking at Adam Scott's golf swing there
was helpful to you
and maybe you can take a couple of things away
that make you a little bit better driver.
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