His swing is the envy of all golfers. Here are the keys to Adam Scott’s marvellous motion.

Adam Scott owns one of the most textbook golf swings in the game, one that every swing coach will try to teach a new student. As Scott prepares to launch his 2025 season on the PGA Tour, let’s take a closer look at the fundamentals in his swing sequence that could make a difference in your game.

Photo 1: The first thing you’ll notice is Adam’s set-up ensures he has square body lines, a balanced posture and level forearms, which sets him up to make an athletic motion.

Photo 2: His take-away has him maintaining a ‘triangle’ between his hands, arms and shoulders while keeping the clubhead outside his hands with a stable lower body.

Photo 3: Here, his upper body rotates and the club swings up the plane between his arms as he prepares to load his golf swing.

Photo 4: The club and arms stay on plane as his upper body winds up under his spine angle. The lower body is loading and as he is rotating into his right leg, which looks picture-perfect.

Photo 5: Adam is loaded fully here where his left arm swings across his chest with a flat left wrist and a square clubface (clubface parallel to his left forearm). His hands are extended over his right shoulder, illustrating a wide arc on the backswing. His upper body has rotated 90-plus degrees with a hip rotation of less than 45 degrees to create a powerful coil between the upper and lower body with his weight on the inside of his right heel.

Photo 6:  This is where Adam begins to unleash his swing where the lower body starts the downswing by shifting his weight to his left foot, as the upper body stays turned and arms swinging down from the inside.

Photo 7: The club is in a good position here to release the arms, wrists/hands and club from the inside as the hips and chest continue to unwind.

Photo 8: You’ll notice the club being slightly inside Adam’s hands so he can attack the ball from the inside.

Photo 9: At the point of impact, his lower body is more open than the upper body with the right shoulder down and behind the strike. His arms are now fully extended as they swing and rotate back to the inside of the target line.

Photo 10: The club exits back through his shoulder plane with a square clubface (the toe of the club points over his left shoulder), demonstrating a sequenced full release of his body, arms, hands and club through impact. He stays in the posture he established in his set-up throughout the entire swing.

Photo 11: His right shoulder, hip and knee continue to rotate up to the left leg as the club continues to complete the golf swing.

Photo 12: Just as he started, Adam has a balanced finish with his right side fully released past the lower body as a result of the freedom and flexibility of his motion.

Spend some time studying Adam’s wonderful swing sequence and more importantly understanding the action as it will improve your golf swing and lower your scores.   

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Todd Anderson is the director of instruction at the PGA Tour Performance Center at TPC Sawgrass, home of the Players Championship. The 2010 PGA of America Teacher of the Year has seen his students amass more than 50 victories across the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour, including two FedEx Cup titles. He is currently rated by Golf Digest as one of the top 20 golf instructors in the United States. In this tutorial, Anderson breaks down Adam Scott’s golf swing, which has helped deliver 14 career PGA Tour victories, including the 2004 Players Championship and 2013 Masters.