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Just to show everyone I’m not picking on the TV announcers, here I commend Peter Kostis on an insightful biz hub swing analysis of a Tiger Woods drive at Pebble Beach. He correctly notes the nice backswing positions, then points out the fact that Tiger, while trying to swing his left arm more against him with the club more out in front of him (as he does in his “over the top” practice swings) is not really accomplishing what he is attempting to do and thus gets the club stuck behind him as he approaches impact. The result is and in to out pull hook, not a bad miss considering that the ocean is to the right and he can play out of the fairway bunker. Unfortunately, Kostis can’t leave the “level” thing alone, and makes reference to Tiger “dipping” a bit with the driver, although he does not blame the stuck position solely on that.
So while Peter does a nice job on that shot he bolloxes up another later in the broadcast when he does another analysis of Tiger hitting a fairway bunker shot. His comment is that Tiger should practice from fairway bunkers because he “maintains his level” so much better when he hits out of one. Of course, it doesn’t take a genius to draw a line on top of Tiger’s head to show his head movement, which, also of course, is dropping a full 6 inches, just as much as he does with every other shot. Someday someone will show Kostis and Faldo one of my videos and they will stop making asses out of themselves describing things that do not exist in reality. I’m trying to convince people that loading into the ground, which causes pivot induced lowering, is entirely desirable in a golf swing and is something to strive for. It is in evidence in just about every great player in history. Why they can’t or won’t learn that their belief in “staying level” during the swing is not a good idea I can’t really figure out, so I’ll just keep on pointing it out until they get it right.