European Tour rookie Matthew Fitzpatrick changed into the 2013 US Amateur champ, and he got his first win on the British Masters this past weekend. He jumped as much as 59th inside the OWGR -- making him the youngest participant within the Top100 -- and 12th within the Race to Dubai with the win. Not awful for a 21-12 months-old!
He's now not distinctly long; his 2015 common is simply brief of 288 yards. Still, he makes accurate use of that distance, as he manages to hit simply over seventy one% of his fairways and almost seventy six% of his GIR.
But Matt has one of the greater uncommon movements you will see in a golfing swing. This slow-mo video from teacher Rob Chruszcz indicates the swing in more element, but I've isolated some key frames in the photograph farther down on this submit.
At deal with Matthew does not look very distinct from absolutely everyone else. In truth, he would not look that different when his hands are at waist degree or at shoulder degree either. But take a look at that pinnacle of the backswing role!
As you could see in case you watch the video, Matthew uses his arms lots extra than maximum players. He loops the club at the pinnacle, no longer only "laying the club off" (which makes the club face factor as much as the sky like Dustin Johnson) however additionally dipping the membership head manner under parallel, then losing his arms at the way right down to get again on plane.
It's thrilling to evaluate Zach Johnson with Matthew. Both flip very unexpectedly as they bring the club all the way down to hit the ball, but Zach hits the ball along with his right hand -- this is, Zach's proper hand is transferring a bit faster than his left at impact, inflicting him to "fling" the membership head on the ball and uncock his wrists. If you observe a image of Zach at effect, the club shaft and his left arm form a fairly immediately line.
Matthew, by comparison, swings each arms at roughly the same pace, which reasons him to preserve a few wrist cock. His arms are still ahead of the ball while the club head makes touch. However, the 2 players are almost the same peak and pressure it approximately the equal distance -- Matthew is perhaps 5 yards longer -- and their accuracy is set the same.
It might be exciting to look how Matthew does going ahead, since he's on track to qualify for all of the majors in 2016. (He simplest desires to make the Top50 in the OWGR to do this.) It's clear that loop is natural to his swing and he's very good at repeating it. Let's desire that no person attempts to alternate it and ruins his game.
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