Rule the Fairways Like the Queen

It's outstanding how little useful pictures of Jiyai Shin's swing there is out on YouTube. It's tough to find lots recent photos. But I determined these clips that have to provide you with a pretty precise usual experience for what she does.

First, this brief little piece suggests Jiyai from an angle at the back of her. You can see that she maintains her one-piece takeaway until her lead (left) arm is sort of parallel to the ground. That's while her trailing elbow starts offevolved to bend:

Here's a short slo-mo evaluation by using Judy Rankin. From this perspective you may virtually see the little "drop" flow she has at the top, very tons the manner Ben Hogan used to reroute the club onto a lower aircraft as he commenced down:

And here's a longer video showing Jiyai's swing -- in each normal and slo-mo -- from specific angles:

I simply want to choose out a couple of factors with a purpose to pay specific attention to -- things that don't get a lot attention all through the TV analyses:

• Note that she doesn't jerk the club away from the ball on her backswing. You don't hit the ball with the backswing; you hit it with the downswing. You go back slowly, change direction slowly, and then unleash on the downswing. The purpose of the backswing is to get you into a strong position to hit the ball; you develop power on the way down, not on the way up.
• Note also that her trailing (right) knee stays slightly bent all the way from address to impact. That makes it easier to keep your hips from sliding away from the target on the backswing, which causes a sway; and it keeps you from standing up, which stops you from from coming over the top and hitting it thin. If you're lifting your head, I'd bet good money that you're straightening that trailing knee during your swing.

If most of you would just pay attention to those two things -- make a slower backswing and change of direction at the top, and keep that trailing knee flexed all the way through impact -- I bet you'd be more accurate and longer too. (And before you say that Jiyai isn't so long, compare her to Paula Creamer. Jiyai is 5'1" tall, Paula is 5'9" tall, and for the year Jiyai averages 243 yards while Paula averages 245. InBee Park, at 5'6" tall, hits it 254 -- a mere 11 yards farther than Jiyai. Who's hitting it farther for their size?)

Spend a little time analyzing the movies and see if you can't choose up a little of the Final Round Queen's consistency.