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Perfect Swing ?

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    #32
    mike12
    Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭mike12


    Even DJ's bowed wrist, every teaching Pro in the world would have said it was a no-no, now they think it's fine.
    There are good looking and ugly swing rather than perfect swings.
    A good putting stroke is more important, Rory is the perfect example.


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    #33
    backspin.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭backspin.


    Some horrible swings coming on stream now in the PGA. Daniel Berger's swing is one of them.


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    #34
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭valoren


    I would define a perfect swing as a repeating one that produces an incredibly consistent ball flight. It is the result (the ball flight) that defines the process (the swing). The flight on the ball is the feedback you need to work with.

    Hogan and Moe Norman are regarded as being the best ball strikers of their era. Even Hogan himself admitted that in any tournament he would only produce 4 or 5 'perfect' swings, that he won because his misses were more manageable than the rest of the field as he developed, refined and repeated a power fade swing to rid himself of a big missing gremlin hook that almost made him quit the game for good. Standing on the 18th fairway at Augusta for example Hogan would simply know he would fade the ball into the green. There was simply no way he was going left. The saying is that you eliminate one side of the course with a repeating ball flight. Moe Norman was regarded as a freakishly straight hitter. His swing certainly didn't look great but it was brutally effective and more importantly repeated for him under pressure.

    So it's down to a consistent ball flight. Colin Montgomerie played a fade. He would aim down the left and right as rain he would curve his drives back into the fairway time after time. He didn't faff around trying to hit draws. He won all those money titles because of that consistency. Lee Trevino simply tried to hit the damn ball as straight as possible figuring that if he happened to go a bit left or right he would be ok. If you can stand over the ball in a pressure situation and be 100% confident of where it will go (although it might not!), then you have a perfect swing for you.

    So a perfect swing is one that you are confident will repeat for you with a consistent ball flight.


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