If you had been watching the International Crown this beyond weekend and you had never visible Sakura Yokomine from Japan before, you may have performed a doubletake while you noticed her swing. Terry Gannon and Judy Rankin as compared her notable-long backswing to both John Daly and Jamie Sadlowski. Here's the clip from GC (the comparison to Daly and Sadlowski isn't protected on this clip):
However, they simplest confirmed her swing from down-the-line as soon as -- and that at ordinary velocity. There's something very critical that they do not get quite right however you may only see it from that attitude. I found a Japanese video that suggests her swing DTL in slo-mo, however embedding has been disabled so I've simply blanketed the hyperlink and captured this key function at the acute of her backswing.
See wherein her club shaft is pointing? Her shaft is pointed on the ball or even above it, not down at the ground as Terry and Judy implied. (I agree with Terry said it almost disappears while it is parallel to her frame. It does appearance that way from the front view but now not from DTL.)
I assume this is a crucial motive why Sakura has been capable of make this swing work regardless of being simplest five'1" tall. (Sadlowski is five'10" and Daly is 5'11".) Being a lot shorter than the other , her swing aircraft is lots flatter. If she failed to maintain the membership on plane so properly, she'd ought to reroute the membership pretty a piece to hit the ball solidly.
As it's far, she became achieving a number of the par-5s in two, as she did on #12 within the GC video above.
If you're determined to get more distance by way of overswinging, make sure you maintain your membership on aircraft the manner Sakura Yokomine does. I cannot guarantee you will be a remarkable ballstriker in case you reproduction her swing, however I'm quite certain you'll battle if you don't.
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