Dustin Johnson Swing Keys – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Dustin Johnson Swing Keys – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will highlight the key attributes of Dustin Johnson's golf swing and how you can best learn to copy some of his key movement.

We will highlight Dustin Johnson's big backswing turn, his high hands and his super fast hip turn during the down swing. We will also highlight the bowed left wrist position that he is most famous for and give you an understanding of if this move should be copied and added into your game.

Matt if you're anything like me you'll be sitting there on a Sunday night watching golf on the T.V. thinking I wish I could swing like that guy and if you can't swing like if you think I wish I could teach people to swing like it, Definitely and most of the players that we see on T.V.'s swings that we would encourage our amateur golfers our friends our colleagues the people that we teach with encourage them to come to copy people swings Dustin Johnson talk to me about Dustin Johnson swing. Would you try and copy his swing? Your average person no I think he's obviously swinging his own swing is incredibly athletic but I think there's some good things we can take away from his swing and put into our swings. I would copy the whole model as it were a lot of that line of swinging his own swing he's planning his own forum if you like actually and I think from a coaches perspective it's easy to look at certain things and say well I don't like that so we'll get rid of it but your point was let's take the things we do like take the good things and use the best bits. So talk me through two of the best bits of Dustin Johnson swing that you think is applicable to the clients you teach and the good people at home? OK so number one is he has got a fantastic set up like start very very athletic Dustin Johnson as he stands to you know he's putting the ball out some serious distance now. He does that number one by having this super athletic poised set up into it so every thing's looking really good he's balanced he's made the most of his frame obviously he is a tall guy but he's not crouched down to the golf ball he stood to it and you looked like he's going to bomb it when he still though doesn't look like he's just going to slog one a bit down. If you go ahead tell us that's a position.

So this is we can take from home is this nice strong posture here we've got the hip push back and deep who've got some sort of stable legs and some strong legs and a really good triangle through the hands and arms, and Johnson looks like he's going to hit the ball 300 yards before even swings doesn't he. I think he is not going to hit wedge that far. And I think that some of the we can see with a lot of club amateur golfers to set up the ball and they don't look confident you can't take confidence away from Dustin Johnson he has it in spades. Exactly which brings me to the 2nd part of his swing that you would encourage people to copy. So obviously one of the things which on that he's hitting it miles is you know bombing it drives over 340 or 420 was one of them is something done like that the reason he's doing that is the width he's put into his golf swing. So it's not something where now that he's created this nice athletic set up is not meant wasting get by just making a small picked up motion with his hands. As he swings back what we tend to see from him is something where it's he's moving club away it's as far away as he can get with this maximum rotation in his back swing to create this super super wide golf swing. You've got nothing left to have you're absolutely wound up. As he is making these massive massive wide arc swings that he's going through which is just allowing him to get that colossal I think it looks like want 124 club head speed with drive at the moment. Which is so the wider that swing back the faster that club head speed could come down? So if they've got a golfer that is struggling with two points it doesn't feel like they're hitting a very far there's a danger that they're in a non athletic set up a lot less width or stretch top of the back swing position and then struggling to generate club head speed. Exactly those points there could learn from Dustin Johnson set up strong wide arc to the top and then hammered out. Exactly now we talked at the start we're not to copy everything what aren't we going to copy. Well for me it's his responses you know obviously given that yes it is so athletic the position that he puts his lead wrist into is one that is going to be favorable to help stop a slice but it goes to the other end of the spectrum with it.

So as where we see someone like a John Rhan where his lead wrist at the top of the swing is very flat giving him a very very neutral face what we see with Dustin now is something where his legs at if we bow down we see my lead wrist almost at a 90 degree angle that with the club face pointing directly up at the sky. We look at this position here we've got much forearm here which often suggest neutral would be to have the face the same angle as that lead forearm. So that would give you a flat left wrist that Matt explain that the Johnson position is over here which would actually give us a very very close to club face a clock face that almost pointing sort of 45 degrees maybe 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Where do you think most club golfers are going to hit that ball if they try to they're going to go left the thing with Dustin Johnson? What he's able to do again getting back to that athleticism although him he's got a massive body speed so if you see how quickly these hips actually start to unwind during his golf swing when he's coming down. Now I would say most club golfers as they get into this position it's going left from there so what he's able to do. Now with this position and the reason why you fade it is because he's so quick so he can then just stall and hold this face throughout so as he's getting some where into impact now he's hit so all those 100 - 120 degrees or so open to the target. So he's in here able to hold it deliver into a position where it's De-lofted a lot and finish and turn through and get that little bit of a fade shot that he's seeing. You can actually see the position Matt gets into in the downswing they're just trying to mimic Dustin Johnson position the all he placed most club golfers give it a go and if they try that is the chiropractors. You know they're going to be in such an awkward position they get the bad back to get the bad hip to get into an awkward position they can't physically do it. So if they have it closed at the top they can't do the right thing on the downswing to compensate the ball's going to hook off left so that closed position is something that we're both agreeing is not something to copy from Dustin Johnson. The posture the setup the athletic back swing position is something that we would encourage people to take on board and they can learn the lessons from the pros with that one. Yeah definitely even if it was a slightly watered down position of that but this is something that you know we're going to see trouble from there. A bit extreme like Matt said he swinging is his own swing he does it very well but it's maybe not something that we're going to coach to the average club golfer just yet.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will highlight the key attributes of Dustin Johnson's golf swing and how you can best learn to copy some of his key movement.

We will highlight Dustin Johnson's big backswing turn, his high hands and his super fast hip turn during the down swing. We will also highlight the bowed left wrist position that he is most famous for and give you an understanding of if this move should be copied and added into your game.

Matt if you're anything like me you'll be sitting there on a Sunday night watching golf on the T.V. thinking I wish I could swing like that guy and if you can't swing like if you think I wish I could teach people to swing like it, Definitely and most of the players that we see on T.V.'s swings that we would encourage our amateur golfers our friends our colleagues the people that we teach with encourage them to come to copy people swings Dustin Johnson talk to me about Dustin Johnson swing. Would you try and copy his swing? Your average person no I think he's obviously swinging his own swing is incredibly athletic but I think there's some good things we can take away from his swing and put into our swings. I would copy the whole model as it were a lot of that line of swinging his own swing he's planning his own forum if you like actually and I think from a coaches perspective it's easy to look at certain things and say well I don't like that so we'll get rid of it but your point was let's take the things we do like take the good things and use the best bits. So talk me through two of the best bits of Dustin Johnson swing that you think is applicable to the clients you teach and the good people at home? OK so number one is he has got a fantastic set up like start very very athletic Dustin Johnson as he stands to you know he's putting the ball out some serious distance now. He does that number one by having this super athletic poised set up into it so every thing's looking really good he's balanced he's made the most of his frame obviously he is a tall guy but he's not crouched down to the golf ball he stood to it and you looked like he's going to bomb it when he still though doesn't look like he's just going to slog one a bit down. If you go ahead tell us that's a position.

So this is we can take from home is this nice strong posture here we've got the hip push back and deep who've got some sort of stable legs and some strong legs and a really good triangle through the hands and arms, and Johnson looks like he's going to hit the ball 300 yards before even swings doesn't he. I think he is not going to hit wedge that far. And I think that some of the we can see with a lot of club amateur golfers to set up the ball and they don't look confident you can't take confidence away from Dustin Johnson he has it in spades. Exactly which brings me to the 2nd part of his swing that you would encourage people to copy. So obviously one of the things which on that he's hitting it miles is you know bombing it drives over 340 or 420 was one of them is something done like that the reason he's doing that is the width he's put into his golf swing. So it's not something where now that he's created this nice athletic set up is not meant wasting get by just making a small picked up motion with his hands. As he swings back what we tend to see from him is something where it's he's moving club away it's as far away as he can get with this maximum rotation in his back swing to create this super super wide golf swing. You've got nothing left to have you're absolutely wound up. As he is making these massive massive wide arc swings that he's going through which is just allowing him to get that colossal I think it looks like want 124 club head speed with drive at the moment. Which is so the wider that swing back the faster that club head speed could come down? So if they've got a golfer that is struggling with two points it doesn't feel like they're hitting a very far there's a danger that they're in a non athletic set up a lot less width or stretch top of the back swing position and then struggling to generate club head speed. Exactly those points there could learn from Dustin Johnson set up strong wide arc to the top and then hammered out. Exactly now we talked at the start we're not to copy everything what aren't we going to copy. Well for me it's his responses you know obviously given that yes it is so athletic the position that he puts his lead wrist into is one that is going to be favorable to help stop a slice but it goes to the other end of the spectrum with it.

So as where we see someone like a John Rhan where his lead wrist at the top of the swing is very flat giving him a very very neutral face what we see with Dustin now is something where his legs at if we bow down we see my lead wrist almost at a 90 degree angle that with the club face pointing directly up at the sky. We look at this position here we've got much forearm here which often suggest neutral would be to have the face the same angle as that lead forearm. So that would give you a flat left wrist that Matt explain that the Johnson position is over here which would actually give us a very very close to club face a clock face that almost pointing sort of 45 degrees maybe 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Where do you think most club golfers are going to hit that ball if they try to they're going to go left the thing with Dustin Johnson? What he's able to do again getting back to that athleticism although him he's got a massive body speed so if you see how quickly these hips actually start to unwind during his golf swing when he's coming down. Now I would say most club golfers as they get into this position it's going left from there so what he's able to do. Now with this position and the reason why you fade it is because he's so quick so he can then just stall and hold this face throughout so as he's getting some where into impact now he's hit so all those 100 – 120 degrees or so open to the target. So he's in here able to hold it deliver into a position where it's De-lofted a lot and finish and turn through and get that little bit of a fade shot that he's seeing. You can actually see the position Matt gets into in the downswing they're just trying to mimic Dustin Johnson position the all he placed most club golfers give it a go and if they try that is the chiropractors. You know they're going to be in such an awkward position they get the bad back to get the bad hip to get into an awkward position they can't physically do it. So if they have it closed at the top they can't do the right thing on the downswing to compensate the ball's going to hook off left so that closed position is something that we're both agreeing is not something to copy from Dustin Johnson. The posture the setup the athletic back swing position is something that we would encourage people to take on board and they can learn the lessons from the pros with that one. Yeah definitely even if it was a slightly watered down position of that but this is something that you know we're going to see trouble from there. A bit extreme like Matt said he swinging is his own swing he does it very well but it's maybe not something that we're going to coach to the average club golfer just yet.