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Originally Posted by lgskywalker37 i gotta disagree with you there S4P, it doesn't matter how good your BS is if your DS is bad then you won't hit any good.
don't even worry about the hips, they are passive..... just turn your shoulders to get them about 90 deg, if you can make it (keeping spine anlge) w/o hip turn, ok if not then turn them, if you can't make the full turn then pick the front foot off the ground like old school. i would say if you have over flexability instead of restricting hip turn purposly, i would flare the front foot to restrict your hip turn untill your shoulders make the full 90 deg. |
skywalker, I can accept that you disgree with me. I ask you one thing though, can you show me a or direct me to a picture of a good tour player with a bad backswing pivot who looses their tush line in the back swing? I would have to say 2-3 tour pros out of 100 might do this.
You see golfers, myself included, think there are many different ways to swing a golf club. but the thing is, we are decieved. take tiger woods and john daly, how different woudl you say they swing? now if you cut their arms off and just watched their body movements they would look much more similar to you. the biggest diffference then would be that daly pivots more and that is why he lifts his left foot, but if he stopped his pivot where tiger does then they would look really similar.
SO why do their swings look so much different? because the most noticable aspect of the golf swing is the ARMS. The arms and hands move aroudn more then the head, shoulders, hips or legs. So when we see swings what really is the biggest difference between tiger and daly or from fyrk and monty. is the arm/hand path. That isi the easiest thing we see so that is what we judge it by.
Now as far as body movemnts why do some pros loook different? mainly because their set up. Fyrk, monty, set up very upright, jacobson, johny miller set up more bent over. the angles they set at address will dictate how their body LOOKS in backsiwng. But the common thing those four will have is that the angles they set at address witll be maintained in the backswing pretty well. They will all rotate around their spine pretty well and keep their tush line, there shoulder angle, their secondary axis tilt. the other difference will relate to flexibility so some may turn the shoulders much more then the hips because their flexibility
Golf swings are much more similar across the board when you stop looking at the arms and focus on the body movements. It is really the route of the arms that gives the ILLUSION that there are a million and one different swings, well that is my take on it anyways
thank your for disagreeing skywalker, because it opens the floor for discussion and that is where we can all learn. The downswing gets all the glory but the set up and backswing did most all the work
