Yesterday Hana Jang were given her first LPGA victory on the Coates Golf Championship, an event she misplaced in a playoff remaining season after Monday qualifying simply to get inside the occasion. In fact, she turned into runner-up in four LPGA events in 2015. But she was already a chief big name at the KLPGA with six wins, two of which had been KLPGA majors.
And Jang is quickly becoming a celeb within the US as well, in big component because she's only a amusing individual. You can study a bit approximately her on this bio from the Seoul Sisters weblog. And in step with this ESPN article, she discovered to talk English through looking animated Disney flicks. You gotta love someone who thinks outside the container!
But at the same time as Jang isn't tall -- she's only 5'5" -- she nonetheless busts the ball an extended way. According to her LPGA stats, final 12 months was her shortest 12 months (255 yards, probable because she became Monday qualifying for such a lot of occasions) even as she commonly averages 10-15 yards farther. How does she do it and nevertheless hit such a lot of fairways (near 80% maximum years)?
Here's a YouTube video from 2013, her high-quality yr on the KLPGA.
I've grabbed a body from this video showing a cut up view midway down in her backswing, just as she enters the effect zone. I've also grabbed a comparable body from this 2015 video at the CME Group Tour Championship. Here are the 2 pictures:
I've isolated this position because I've written about it before as part of a four-post series I did between 11-25-15 and 11-29-15, specifically in this post about Cristie Kerr and Inbee Park getting in this same position. The trick here -- and what I want you to understand -- is that Jang is a long hitter and yet she doesn't have anywhere near as much wrist cock at Kerr and Park at this position. As you can see, the shaft of her driver is NOT parallel to the ground.
It's clear that, while wrist cock is vital, it's no longer nearly as vital as maximum of us suppose!
In this publish about lengthy force champion Jeff Flagg I covered this quote:
WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT WHEN I SWING? My best real concept is, Right hand and arm drive the swing. That's it. I'm actually seeking to make a sidearm throwing movement?Like a 3-6-three double play in baseball. If extra golfers swung with the same movement, as if they were skipping stones, they had pound the ball.This "bent trailing elbow position" I talked about in the Kerr-Park post and that you can see Jang doing in this one is the same "sidearm throwing motion" Flagg talks about.
I would advise going lower back and re-analyzing the Kerr-Park put up (since there is no feel in repeating it all) and comparing it to what Flagg and Jang do. I'm severely starting to think this is the placement that most velocity drills are looking to get you into so you can get distance. I think I recognise the appropriate drill to help you paintings on it -- once you realize what you're seeking to learn, that is -- and I'll try to do a submit on that next week. This post is long sufficient already!
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