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I’ve been working off and on for 4 years with Austin, who first came to see me as a freshman in college and has now graduated and turned professional. He was 175 pounds when I first met him, hard to believe when you see him now at 220 pounds of muscle added through diligent gym work. His power is amazing: I can’t imagine that there are more than a few players (Cameron Champ perhaps) who can hit the ball as far as Austin, and Austin himself, a guy who would never brag, has told me that no one in college could hit it past him, which means he will be among the longest on any professional tour. As we all know, however, there are bunches of guys who hit it miles and will never make for a myriad of reasons, and our goal obviously is to refine his action for added control off the tee and with the wedges. Austin’s tendency over the time I’ve been working with him has been to get the shaft approaching from “stuck” behind his hands into impact, especially with the longer clubs. During this visit we made great progress shortening his swing, improving his takeaway, and changing his transition shaft movement. One of the hardest things to change in any swing is steepening shaft in transition, but Austin has done a great job of getting the shaft on plane then gently flattening it as he changes direction so that he can then steepen hit from P6 into impact. I think you’ll agree that a swing this good that produces as much speed as it does is one that has an excellent chance to go all the way to the top.
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