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Who would have figured that a guy who had never won on Tour, barely kept his card in 2018, and had missed 5 of the last 9 cuts would play his way into the history books by becoming only the second player (Lee Trevino was the first, over 40 years ago) to ever win a tournament and not make a single bogey. Poston’s backswing is classic for a tall, thin player: on plane one-piece takeaway, perfectly planed up to the top while maintaining his hip depth and compressing into the ground, then hitting a gorgeous top of the swing with the left wrist neutral and the left arm fairly upright. From there Poston, after dropping his hands a bit in transition the way most upright swingers do, adds flex to the knees while staying nicely out over the ball, adducts the right upper arm in front of his ribcage and drives his right leg back and to the left, forcing the feet to both slide a few inches away from the ball as he rotates into impact. It’s not so noticeable at regular speed (he has great fluidity and never appears to be swinging very hard) but in slow motion, as you will see, it is pretty crazy. This lower body action is exaggerated but it does exactly what I teach constantly, creating space for the arms and hands while shifting pressure and clearing the hips. It will be fun to watch Poston going forward to see if this performance was an outlier or shades of more great play to come.
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