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If Sergio wins the tournament, he has the greatest swing ever. If he stumbles, leave it to Brandel Chamblee to find the real reason why. In this clip you hear Brandel state absolutely that “no great player has ever re-gripped the club as the club was going back”. Of course, he sees Sergio’s thumb come off the club just prior to the takeaway and, as usual, jumps to an extreme conclusion (this is why Sergio has so many last round failures) without really closely analyzing what he is talking about. If you watch Sergio and focus on his grip it becomes more and more obvious that his grip is actually back on the club when he takes it back. Granted, there is room for confusion here as the movement of the right thumb off the club happens just barely before the takeaway begins, but there is a rhythm to the off and on movement of the hand and you can see that it functions as a trigger. The second major issue with Chamblee’s statement is that Sergio is not the only player to do what he is doing, as I show by playing swings from both Nick Price and Brandt Snedeker. Price has almost the identical action as Sergio (right hand off and on then back) while Snedeker actually does what Brandel accuses Sergio of doing, which is taking the club back while the right hand is in the process of re-gripping the club. Now, he may not think that Price is a great player (I do), and he may also not regard Snedeker as great (maybe not quite yet), but to say that no great player in history has ever done what Sergio is doing is quite simply wrong.
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