There's been plenty of communicate approximately Brendan De Jonge's "over-the-pinnacle" swing and the way properly he hits a golf ball the use of it. And Brandel Chamblee made an excellent point about it -- he said that thousands and thousands of weekend gamers have been all looking and wondering why their OTT swing failed to get the equal effects.
I'm going to answer that question for you on this publish. First, permit's take a down-the-line take a look at Brendan's swing considering this is where the OTT flow is so evident.
Although you would possibly think Brendan's swing is uncommon, it surely is not. Just examine this vintage slo-mo pictures of the excellent Bobby Jones -- you may see a totally similar motion.
Part of what gives Brendan's swing such an extraordinary appearance (and the swing of Bobby Jones, as well) is that neither has a one-piece takeaway. Both pull the membership dramatically to the interior on their backswing, which places each the club and their arms waaaaay underneath the right backswing plane and receives their palms extraordinarily near their trailing hips.
Because of that takeaway, their backswings are extraordinarily flat. (Brendan's is sincerely flatter than Bobby's because Brendan delays bending his trailing elbow even longer than Bobby does.) And because of that past due elbow bend, each are forced to raise their fingers -- and consequently the club -- nearly immediately as much as the top of their backswings.
But here is wherein each Jones and De Jonge leave from the usual OTT swing movement.
In a general OTT swing, the hands attain the pinnacle of the backswing AND CONTINUE UPWARD, arcing up and forward, some distance above the correct swing aircraft and never touching it once more until the membership head reaches the ball.
But as both Jones and De Jonge reach the top of the swing plane. THEY START DOWN ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. As a result, both actually succeed in coming down ON the correct swing plane! Here, take a look at this still I snagged from the video of Brendan's downswing. At this point, most players making an OTT move would have their hands well out in front of their bodies. Brendan's hands, however, are pretty close to the correct position for an on-plane swing. A line drawn from the head of the club down the shaft, if extended to the ground, would point at or just inside his aim line (the line drawn from the ball to his target).
And sure, I realize that it seems like his stance is closed from this perspective, but it really is distortion as a result of the digicam lens. See how the dark grass stripes at the left of the tee and the ones on the proper of the tee each point inward? Look at the only walking beneath Brendan's ft and you will see that his ft are parallel to his goal line.
Although Brendan De Jonge appears to have an OTT pass, he simply makes that move plenty lower than maximum weekend players do. As a result, his downswing is on aircraft -- definitely, at impact his arms are simply slightly above the aircraft and the club head is travelling barely out-to-in, which is not similar to an OTT circulate. An out-to-in route influences the ball at a much shallower perspective than an OTT course, like an on-aircraft swing does. It's what gives him that mild little cut shot that he performs so properly.
It's not a move I would endorse, clearly because I think the backswing feels an awful lot too cramped with my hands so near my trailing hip. I additionally think it is a piece tough to keep from lifting my arms too excessive at the top of the backswing, which creates that bad OTT move. But now you realize why it really works for Brendan and no longer for you. If you may get your hands on the proper aircraft in your downswing, this may be a totally reliable move.
After all, it labored for Bobby Jones and it works for Brendan De Jonge. It works very well indeed.
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