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Copy These 3 New Bryson Dechambeau Golf Swing Speed Changes

It’s no secret that Bryson has sped up his golf swing. But what golf swing changes has he made to help do this, and can you copy them?

Actually, here are some simple things he’s done that you can copy to help you hit longer drives.

The first is that he now lets his left heel come up off the ground in the backswing. If you don’t do that already, give it a try because it will help you make a bigger turn in the backswing.

The second simple thing he does is he simply takes the club away faster. No slow backswing for Bryson now. By doing this, it makes you much more athletic in the downswing and helps you to swing faster by giving you more momentum. Give it a try.

The third thing he does, is he lets his left foot rotate out of the way in his follow-through. Compare these two finish positions.

Isn’t that a huge difference?

The reason he does that is to reduce stress on his left knee when he’s swinging so fast. But it could also allow him to swing faster. 🙂

There you go, that’s three simple things you can try to hit longer shots.

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2020 Bryson DeChambeau Swing Analysis

Bryson DeChambeau is making news in 2020 wherever he goes about what new thing he is trying next to improve (e.g. experimenting with 48 inch drivers). How much bigger is he going to get? How much longer is he going to get? What else is he going to try to improve?

Interesting stuff for sure, and it’s going to be interesting how he handles the Masters in 2020. One thing is for certain… his high, long draw with the driver has got to be a HUGE advantage and make him one of the favorites going into that tournament.

A while back I did an analysis of his swing, and I thought it would be interesting to see if much has changed since then. To see the original Bryson swing review go here. Ok, let’s get started with this new swing review…

2020 Bryson DeChambeau- Swing Analysis

From the face on view Bryson’s stance is very wide and he is standing a very long way from the ball. Interestingly, his left hand grip is pretty weak. But his setup looks like a long drive competitor to be honest. Let’s see what happens as he swings from here….

The most interesting thing about Bryson’s take-away is how he has no wrist set in the take-away. In fact, he has reverse lag with the club in the take-away, as you can see in the pictures below…

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I have never seen a take-away like that in a PGA Tour Pro. It’s common knowledge that he has sped up his backswing a lot, so I guess the reverse lag is a result of doing that. But when his club is parallel with the ground he is in a much more normal position, as you can see below.

Halfway into his backswing he has a very big shoulder turn and his clubshaft is just above the original starting line.

At the top of his backswing Bryson is in a great position. One change from the “old” swing is that his club is more across the line than it used to be. But all and all, it’s a great top of the backswing position.

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Halfway into the downswing you can see he is using the ground a lot and his head has dropped down a lot. The club is right on plane and he’s unleashing into the ball.

It’s interesting to see from the half-way point in his downswing (above) his left foot is well and truly planted and his left knee is pretty flexed coming into impact, as you can see below.

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Then look at his left foot below — see how the weight is starting to move to the outside and the left leg is straightening. Great impact position though.

From impact on, this is where he looks like a long driver competitor. Look at the left foot below… see how it’s rolling over way more to the outside!

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As he continues his follow-through his left foot is rotating to get out the way. It’s a pretty ugly follow-through, but who cares if the ball goes well over

300 yards in the air!

Now look how the left foot is completely turned towards the target in the follow-through.

You would never see this finish position compared with a Ben Hogan finish. Bryson looks like a long drive competitor not a classic golf swing mechanic.

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A lot of talk was made about how Bryson used bomb and gauge in the U.S. Open to win. But he wasn’t the longest driver that week. In fact he was 7th longest. Look at this:

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But he has added over 20 yards to his drives in his make-over and was the longest driver on the PGA Tour last season. And from a swing perspective, the biggest changes from his old swing are:

1. Much wider feet width at setup and he is standing further from the ball at setup. Compare his old driver setup with his new one:

2. Club lagging behind in the take-away because of a sped up backswing.

3. Club more across the line at the top of his swing.

4. Much more squat in his downswing and more lag in his downswing.

5. Left foot is rotated hugely out of the way in the follow-through.

6. Ugly finish 🙂

Bryson still has a one plane swing, but those changes above are much more long drive competitor changes designed for extra distance – and he’s certainly done that.

It’s interesting how his swing plane hasn’t changed much. I wonder if he’s going to look at changing that for more distance because Matthew Wolf hit it quite a bit longer than him at the 2020 U.S. Open.

Center Clubface Contact Drill

Everyone knows how much further the ball goes when you hit the sweetspot.

And there’s various ways to try to improve the consistency in doing that.

You can get some scholls foot spray and spray that on your driver, and see instantly where you are hitting the ball. Or you could get a red whiteboard marker pen and draw a circle on the back of the ball you’re hitting, and then hit the back of that and it will leave a mark on your clubface. Or you could use impact labels.

But here’s the thing…

If you are doing that and just trying to consistently hit the middle of the clubface then you’re missing a trick.

You see, if you can become good at purposely hitting various parts of the clubface other than the middle, then you can get good at hitting the middle more often. Doesn’t make sense, but a lot of things with golf improvement don’t.

Here’s a picture of an impact label that I like to use to get my students to practice this.

See how it’s got numbers on it?

Well, I get my students to try to hit the ball out of number 1, then number 2, then number 4. You need to mix this up. Then finally, you try to hit the middle of the clubface.

The least amount of shots it takes to do this drill is 7 shots. I’ve never had anyone that could do it in that little amount of shots.

But this is a great center contact drill because it improves your skill to hit the middle more often. If you do this drill consistently then you will have more skill to do what you want.

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