If you haven't peeked at the video section over at LPGA.com, you're missing some unique materials. I found this recently-added video from Golfing World that looks at why Yani has had such a precipitous fall from the top of the world rankings.
I discovered Simon Holmes's evaluation very helpful in some of approaches. First, right here's the video:
First, he notes that Yani got lots of her duration from gaining knowledge of how to hit the ball low within the wind. She delofts the membership face by the manner she moves, which causes the ball to come out lower. She does that through shifting difficult to her lead foot in the course of her downswing, and that reasons her to lean the shaft ahead.
However -- and that is what you could examine from this video -- that circulate works against her in her wedge recreation. The identical flow that gives her lots of distance makes it very hard to manipulate how far she hits her wedges, specifically below pressure, and so she would not get the number of birdie chances you may count on from a protracted hitter.
This additionally facilitates provide an explanation for why she's getting higher lately however nonetheless appears erratic. On the times she figures out the way to hit her wedges close, she is going low. But on the other days, she regularly struggles to break par.
Note what Holmes says about midway through the video: "Sometimes a strength in one area of your game is a weakness in another." This is something you should remember when you try to improve an area of your game -- changes made to improve one aspect of your game may actually hurt other parts that you already do well. I think is part of the reason the pros sometimes try to make changes and it backfires on them, such as when Luke Donald recently went after better driving and ended up hurting his short game.
Sometimes you could improve a difficult a part of your recreation with a easy strategy trade. Unless you have fundamental issues with your swing, it's normally pleasant to attempt drawing near the problem from a strategic perspective earlier than you start tinkering with your mechanics.
Remember: Length isn't everything in golf, so don't expect it to solve all your problems.
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