Tommy Fleetwood’s Short Follow Through, Explained | Film Study | Golf Digest

Tommy Fleetwood has become one of golf’s best ball strikers but what is the key to his swing? In this Film Study, Luke Kerr-Dineen explains the small but important secret to Fleetwood’s swing, how he’s worked on it, and why it makes him such a consistent player.

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Every golfer’s swing has a signature move and Tommy fleetwoods is his follow through it’s kind of short and a little Punchy and it looks a bit like tin Cup’s unfinished swing well I have a short follow through has an unfinished look the reverse SE the Golden Bear Tommy’s

Always balanced follow through is the end result of his golf swing but to learn from one of the best ball Strikers in the game we need to understand the journey it took to get there let’s dive In some people will say that follow-throughs don’t really matter because they happen after you’ve already hit the golf ball and that’s sort of kind of true but not really that’s because even though they happen after the ball is hit they often leave clues about what happened just before in the swing

Itself the reason why Tommy fleetwood’s follow through is so important to his goal swing is because it lands him in this position right here with his left arm relatively close to his torso most tall players these days hit left to right Fades they like that shot because it eliminates a big left Miss

And the extra spin gives them a little more margin for error on Mish hits but Tommy Fleetwood grew up hitting a draw and that’s still his stock shot today he does this because if you look closely he swings slightly from in to out or out to

The right of his Target but his Club face points slightly to the left of that the difference for form between those two things creates a slightly negative face to path of about 2° face to path is a metric which measures the difference of the club face Direction and the direction of your golf

Swing and Tommy’s slightly negative face to path is Right In The Sweet Spot for a tight draw but when those two vectors start getting too far apart mainly if he starts swinging too far out to the right that’s when those bullet draws start turning into big high hooks aka the

Dreaded left miss this is something Tommy used to struggle with in his golf swing look here at his move as a junior his arms would often get stuck behind his body which would force him to fling his arms all the way out to the right he

Would try to time this with a big roll of his wrists you can see it show up in young fleetwoods follow through in what teachers call a high right exit look how much higher his arms are then compared to now and how much more his wrists have

Rolled the club over if you look at his short f through from face on you can see the second big problem it helped solve the common amateur golfer is not creating enough side bend on the down swing but lots of Junior golfers who have lots of flexibility and not much

Strength often struggle with the opposite problem they generate too much Side Band Tommy said that was his problem too and you can see why look how Tommy’s head moves severely down and back on the downswing that move would leave his upper body way behind his lower body

Body that’s what caused him to swing so far out to the right nevertheless Tommy Fleetwood is really talented and he was a top Junior golfer because he learned that move really well but his golf swing it could be inconsistent and at times uncontrollable Tommy’s short follow through forces Fleetwood to keep his

Upper body more centered and on top of the ball as he turns through he’ll often clear his left hip so he can use his body to push the club around him that’s a feel he talks about a lot that allows him to swing a little into out but never too

Much Fleetwood grooved his short follow through by focusing intensely on the Impact Zone the space from the club parallel just before impact to Club parallel just after impact he practiced dialing in this part of his swing by hitting lots and lots of punch shots so much that that abbreviated punt shot

Follow through just kind of gradually became his actual follow through he’ll often these punch shots with his Impact Zone driving range drill that shows up on social media anytime he’s warming up the sticks are there from preventing his downswing from getting too into out and they kind of double check to make sure

His Club face and swing path is right where he wants it to be years of hard work and repetition taught Tommy that sticking his finish like a top class gymnast is a crucial part of his routine and that’s what he does he sticks the Finish over and over again

It’s the secret that has allowed Fleetwood to play Within the fine margins that other players just can’t and has transformed him into one of the most dialed and best ball Strikers in the game today