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List is one of the longest hitters on the Tour (he’s averaging 320 this year), which is pretty amazing considering how smooth and effortless his swing appears to the eye. He is a big fellow at 6’2”, 190 lbs. (that seems to be the new Tour prototype) and has paid his dues over the 9 years he’s been a pro, playing mini-tours and the Web.Com before getting his card at the end of 2015.
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While you may have heard of Boros, I bet you have never seen his swing, which, as you will see in this video, was gorgeous. It had a lot of Hoganesque attributes, and while it wasn’t quite as technically excellent it certainly had the wonderful flow and sequencing that Hogan exhibited.
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m the biggest Tiger fan in the world and I’m quite happy that he is back playing. It will be fun to watch if he plays well, but no fun at all if he doesn’t. My guess is that he is healthier now, and if he can avoid getting hurt again he should be able to build up the confidence he needs to swing freely.
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Justin is a young Tour winner who hits it miles while weighing in at somewhere around 150 pounds. It is a marvelous thing to watch his incredibly fast hip action, and the fact that he can synch his upper body with the lower is a testament to his talent and physical ability. We focus here mostly on his driver swing, but at the end of the video I show an iron shot that looks way more conventional and more controlled, which is of course what you would expect from such an excellent player, much like Phil Mickelson.
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Here is a video that is proof that if you are gifted enough you can hit the golf ball exceptionally well while doing a bunch of things that most teachers would regard as poor technique. At full speed Reed’s swing looks perfectly normal, and since he routinely hits great shots and wins lots of money you might figure that it would be something to emulate. When we slow it down, however, we see that a lot of what he does any decent teaching pro would never think of teaching.
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So right off I have to admit I was wrong in the video when I said Cabrera Bello was not a big guy. At 6’2” and 180 lbs. he definitely qualifies as “pretty big” in my book, and when you look at the definition in his arms and overall look of fitness you would have to surmise that he is quite strong as well. He would rank around 90th on the PGA Tour in driving distance (he is not ranked as he is not a Tour member) and his GIR percentage of just under 70% would place him at 8th.
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Here are a couple of wedge shots by Justin Rose from the recent Ryder Cup. The camera angles are good, the shots are great, and the swings are just about flawless. There’s not much left to do but watch and enjoy.
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This is a great companion to the Jimmy Walker high soft bunker shot video I did a few weeks ago. Here Castro takes his Pitching Wedge and hits what amounts to an open face punch shot from the sand that finishes about 6 feet from the cup. In contrast to Walker’s shot (wide open stance, out to in cut across swing), Castro plays this from an almost dead square stance, then makes an on plane backswing and flattens the shaft on the way down while keeping his left wrist cupped and the face open. He cuts off the finish at waist high, producing a shallow but driving strike.
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Grillo has a wonderful swing which produces Dustin Johnson and Jordan Speith-like impact positions without the bowed left wrist at the top of the swing. The secret here is his great pivot movement combined with wonderful use of the right arm and the squaring of the face with the left forearm and wrist. Grillo’s right arm action is not like Hogan’s at all in the backswing as he externally rotates his upper arm and elbow almost immediately in the takeaway and keeps it in front of him during the backswing, but in the forward swing he drives the elbow way in front of his ribcage and gets his hands forward at impact as much as anyone on Tour.
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There’s not much to say about this one except that Summerhays has what I consider to be the best swing mechanics on Tour, or at least he swings as close to what I prefer in a swing as anyone. Watch and enjoy!
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