Since lots of you can now not be familiar with Danny Willett's swing or technique to the sport, I notion I'd skip on a few matters I've both heard or found which can assist you understand what he does.
The photo above comes from a Golf Digest slideshow of Danny's swing. The slides show him from face-on, and from down-the-line from both the back and front. The most notable thing is his strong lead hand grip, which gives him a tendency to cock his wrists much earlier than coach Mike Walker would like. (Walker says in the slide sequence that they're working to make it a bit later in the backswing, in order to widen his swing.)
The slideshow additionally notes that Willett used to throw a javelin, and his trailing hand movement is just like that.
Here's a YouTube video of Danny's swing, just so that you can see it at each everyday speed and in gradual motion. The video indicates both face-on and down-the-line views.
In a Golf Digest article that deals with his background as well as his win at the Masters, Danny says this about his swing:
?If you set the membership correctly early inside the swing, all you sincerely ought to do is flip,? Says the previous Walker Cup player of the swing that stood up nice to the strain of an with no end in sight thrilling Masters Sunday. ?It?S that simple. If I get the membership in role with my shoulders ?Loaded,? I can just raise to the turn then come backtrack. At my quality, that?S all I think about.
?I don?T think my swing is ever going to trade in the way it appears. But the feeling of it has changed. It feels wider. But once I see it on digicam it nevertheless appears narrow to me. But I don?T have to reflect onconsideration on it definitely. At first it became a conscious move, but no longer now.?
And many of the range of things I heard from assorted TV analysts:
- I wrote in my book Ruthless Putting that you can learn most of the mental things you need at a good church, while in Think Like a Golfer I tried to explain how the language of sports psychology parallels theological terms and how "God talk" often sheds important light on the sports concepts. It turns out that Danny doesn't doesn't use a sports psychologist at all, depending instead on his father's advice... and his father is a retired pastor.
- Danny is an old school putter who picks a target on his chosen line that's only a foot or so ahead of the ball. As he put it, "Every one-foot putt is a straight putt." It certainly simplifies his approach.
- And Danny's go-to shot is a slight fade. Although he can move the ball either way, he tends to play his fade most of the time. Although it may have affected his ability to go low on the par-5s a bit during the rough weather (he was only even par for the week), on Sunday he went -2 on the par-5s. And overall, his 54-hole score was even par starting the final round, so his consistency served him well in the tough conditions.
Hopefully this pass-segment of Willett trivialities gets you better familiar with Danny. He debuted in my RGWR at #three this week with a main and two other ET wins over the last yr, and he entered the OWGR Top10 at #nine Monday morning. Better get used to hearing his name!
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