@jdaog No Your hips are just supposed to turn not sway or be overactive because if your hips are overactive they can sway off the ball and once you that you are done and there has to be alot of adjusting to get back on the ball so just remember hips just need to turn and your lower body starts the downswing.
Very few pros have developed a text book swing. Ok they hit great scores somehow but it aint pretty to watch. Ernie els and tiger woods is candy to the eyes although tiger woods suffers from an over-active lower body.
Look at how the club approaches from the inside right up until the sweet spot is on the ball (check the last 4-5 feet before impact in particular), freeing up his ability to release the toe over the heel with hands and forearms. You approach the ball on this shallow, inside path, with the momentum of the club heading into the back of the ball and forward, and you won't believe how well you'll hit it. Do whatever it takes to get that, and you'll find other swing elements falling into place.
@emncaity I think you have the key there. Keep the right elbow close by staying connected allows the positive release and better contact on the correct path. Many of us allow the right arm/elbow to come away from the body and approach from outside ball and there's no way back from that.
There really isn't. You have two choices from there: release fully and hit a screaming pull-hook, or hang on and try to block the ball toward the target from a too-steep-and-outside path. Once you get into the habit of doing that, you have the classic case of two problems feeding and enabling each other, and a golfer who can't figure out why he hits the ball sort of at the target, some of the time, but has no power or "snap" to the shot--always kind of a dead ball.
@emncaity That happens when your ball bound rather than target bound. When I was a beginner I made the mistake of coming over the top all the time. My backswing was ok, but my frontswing was lousy. Basically the whole body acts as a tensioned spring meaning forget arms and hands, and focus on rythm. Ideally all the energy comes from the ground up and the hips serve as a tension point.
Could not agree with you more on being ball-bound. Some players are helped just by eliminating the idea of "impact" altogether--looking at it as a convenient fiction, thinking of it as a matter of the ball accidentally getting in the way of a swinging motion the way a footstool accidentally gets in the way of your swinging leg when you're walking through an unfamiliar room in the dark (and you know how hard that impact is).
Butter smoooooooth
FitforDaKing 1 week ago
I thought your hips were suppose to be overactive.. To start and finish swing...
jdaog 2 months ago
@jdaog No Your hips are just supposed to turn not sway or be overactive because if your hips are overactive they can sway off the ball and once you that you are done and there has to be alot of adjusting to get back on the ball so just remember hips just need to turn and your lower body starts the downswing.
iiKamranii 1 month ago
It is so utterly pathetic to see PGA pros criticized by people that probably never broke 80 in their golfing life. So sad.
Dachetwel 3 months ago 13
In slow motion you see he loses so much spine angle at impact so he can make room. Looks really cramped.
bucko06 3 months ago
@bucko06 shut up
fenderboy34 1 month ago
Very few pros have developed a text book swing. Ok they hit great scores somehow but it aint pretty to watch. Ernie els and tiger woods is candy to the eyes although tiger woods suffers from an over-active lower body.
GST1974 4 months ago
You clearly sped this video up, its way to quick of a tempo to be Ernie
cubfan304 4 months ago 8
duck hooked it!
esaitta3 6 months ago
@esaitta3 whats wrong with you
robodoboman 4 months ago
His swing is art.
solljuh 7 months ago
Look at how the club approaches from the inside right up until the sweet spot is on the ball (check the last 4-5 feet before impact in particular), freeing up his ability to release the toe over the heel with hands and forearms. You approach the ball on this shallow, inside path, with the momentum of the club heading into the back of the ball and forward, and you won't believe how well you'll hit it. Do whatever it takes to get that, and you'll find other swing elements falling into place.
emncaity 8 months ago
@emncaity I think you have the key there. Keep the right elbow close by staying connected allows the positive release and better contact on the correct path. Many of us allow the right arm/elbow to come away from the body and approach from outside ball and there's no way back from that.
Stanters1967 6 months ago
@Stanters1967
There really isn't. You have two choices from there: release fully and hit a screaming pull-hook, or hang on and try to block the ball toward the target from a too-steep-and-outside path. Once you get into the habit of doing that, you have the classic case of two problems feeding and enabling each other, and a golfer who can't figure out why he hits the ball sort of at the target, some of the time, but has no power or "snap" to the shot--always kind of a dead ball.
emncaity 4 months ago
@emncaity That happens when your ball bound rather than target bound. When I was a beginner I made the mistake of coming over the top all the time. My backswing was ok, but my frontswing was lousy. Basically the whole body acts as a tensioned spring meaning forget arms and hands, and focus on rythm. Ideally all the energy comes from the ground up and the hips serve as a tension point.
GST1974 4 months ago
@GST1974
Could not agree with you more on being ball-bound. Some players are helped just by eliminating the idea of "impact" altogether--looking at it as a convenient fiction, thinking of it as a matter of the ball accidentally getting in the way of a swinging motion the way a footstool accidentally gets in the way of your swinging leg when you're walking through an unfamiliar room in the dark (and you know how hard that impact is).
emncaity 3 weeks ago
@GST1974
It's also true that supporting the swing from the ground up, rather than forcing it from the top down, tends to cut down or eliminate the OTT move.
emncaity 3 weeks ago
beautiful.
esaitta3 8 months ago
have his glove :)
robbiekondoffisgay 8 months ago
great video - really shows the lag well... I like how els never seems to force anything
staecows 9 months ago
Poetry in motion!
1977mrcheese 1 year ago
like this angle a lot- working on some mechanics and tempo and watching these videos helps some.
McTerror1 1 year ago