In case you didn't see Morning Drive on Wednesday, Henrik Stenson was on the show for maybe 90 minutes. While he was there, he did several teaching spots. There was one I really wanted to highlight.
In the following video Billy Harmon and Damon Hack get some pointers on how to hit solid iron photographs:
This clip reiterates several things I mention often in this blog. I need to factor out that Henrik's teacher Pete Cowen teaches a classic swing move, which makes a speciality of the top frame's role within the swing more than the lower frame's. (The contemporary swing focuses on the decrease frame.) However, many of the fundamentals are the identical and Henrik had a exceptional drill that works properly with either swing. I'll get to that in a second.
First permit's look at some of the things I've referred to earlier than that Henrik keyed on.
Henrik talks about beginning his downswing with a downward move, not a leg push toward the target. The hips move toward the target later in the swing as a consequence of the proper downward move. This is necessary for the stability that allows him to hit the ball consistently. He describes the way he feels this move as his right (trailing) shoulder beginning his downswing.
He also talks about feeling as though the higher and decrease body begin down almost together. (In reality, Billy Harmon makes a point of stressing this concept.) The lower body braces towards the ground so the shoulder coil can start to unwind from the top of the downswing. The lower frame HAS to begin first -- as I've stated again and again, it's bodily not possible to start a properly-coiled downswing every other way -- however the are working together so intently that it may be tough to locate the difference in the beginning.
Note also that Henrik demonstrates two wrong methods to do it -- one involves the decrease frame turning in the direction of the goal too quick (which causes him to lean backward), the other entails the top body transferring an excessive amount of towards the goal (once more causing an unwanted lean). These leans damage your ability to hit the ball solidly.
A quick note: There's a strange comment about the muscles turning the skeleton rather than the skeleton turning the muscles. What he means is that the muscles can contract and make you move without causing a lot of excess body movement, but you have to make large body movements to get the skeleton moving. Henrik's swing doesn't use a lot of big movements in the downswing.
The drill I referred to starts across the four:00 mark. It doesn't require a club so you can do it while you watch TV. Henrik in reality takes his cope with role and places his hands fingers down in front of him as though they have been on a tabletop. He then swings them up to approximately shoulder height on his trailing side, as if he turned into setting his arms in opposition to a wall. Finally he swings them back down to his cope with role.
Study this section of the video. You'll see that he maintains his legs and hips quite quiet on the way back; he can do this because he's only coiling his shoulders partway, just as I had you do inside the exercise drill for hitting a draw final week. Then as he turns again to deal with, he braces his trailing knee and it does move his body barely ahead as he movements down. See how his left leg flexes as his weight shifts to it?
This drill will help you learn how to make a solid downward move at the ball and get a great weight shift WITHOUT lots of extra lower body motion. If Henrik says something this simple enables him, don't you think it's really worth a try?
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