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I know you were expecting another look at Bryson’s swing, but I thought I would do something a bit different after watching him get it up and down over and over at Winged Foot. Here we see two pitch shots, one from an angle well outside the ball and one from directly down the line, which illustrate how Bryson uses a smaller version of the body movement he utilizes in his full swing to hit these short pitches. I constantly hear advice from instructors to “keep the legs quiet” when pitching, but here we can see that Bryson does not follow that recommendation. Rather, he lets his hips move both back and forward while “catching” the club and producing a trailing clubhead that he drags through impact with a forward leaning, leading edge type release that finishes with his hips and chest facing the target in the longer of the two. This is more of the “mini-swing” idea that I like to teach as opposed to reinventing the wheel to hit the ball 10 to 40 yards. The key is the sequence, and we can see that Bryson’s club shallows in transition just like it does with his fuller swings.
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