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Pat Perez Swing Analysis

It’s always educational to look at the technique of successful PGA Tour players, especially one as consistent over the past 18 years as Pat Perez, who has won at least $900,000 in 14 of the 18 years since gaining his card in 2002. Perez turned pro in 1997 after playing for a national championship team at Arizona State, and it took him 5 years to attain his PGA Tour card. I happened to have filmed him in the 2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine on a Saturday morning after finishing my 2nd round and missing the cut ( Friday’s round was…

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Collin Morikawa Swing Analysis

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I love seeing players of my stature (I’m 5’8, 165 lbs.) like Collin Morikawa (he lists as 5’9”, 160 lbs.) achieve success on the PGA Tour especially when it seems like so many of the best players these days are much bigger, over 6 feet tall and over 200 lbs., not much of it being fat like in the old days. The big guys have a big advantage: technique combined with strength produces distance with less than 100% effort. The physically smaller player must make up the difference by maximizing efficiency and being more accurate with longer clubs. Of course,…

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Shaft Position at P5

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In this video I look at the swings of 4 Tour players from last months tournament at the 2019 Greenbrier Classic. I focus on where their shaft is when the left arm is parallel to the ground in the downswing (P5). The eventual winner Joaquin Niemann is the flattest and has the most shaft shift in transition, while Adam Long and Scottie Scheffler both flatten slightly with a hands out move, and Robbie Shelton is the steepest by far, flattening the shaft much later. All obviously are effective, and I always marvel at the wide variations in technique that produce…

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Joaquin Niemann Swing Analysis: Just Call Him Gumby

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I have done Niemann’s swing not that long ago but here he is at 20 years of age winning a Tour event by 6 shots and the swing just blows my mind. I’m all for lowering in the swing (this website is called Pivot Compression after all) but Niemann takes it to another level, and I’m sure you’ll agree when you see his eyes perpendicular to the ground (which means his head is parallel to the ground) at impact. The amount of right-side bend is truly amazing, and it happens after a totally conventional and on the money backswing. The…

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Sam Snead Swing Analysis: The Sam Snead Squat

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I am hearing a lot of questions from everyone about the “new” idea that the “Sam Snead Squat” is the way to go, which is another way of saying (erroneously, but I’ll get to that) that the initial pivot move in transition is entirely rotational, one which produces a right leg action that “holds” the upper right leg as the pelvis changes direction, and as the left leg rotates and the left knee moves back toward its starting position the result is the classic “squat” look. There are two important things to consider regarding the theory that there should be…

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Erik Van Rooyen Swing Analysis (PGA European Tour)

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This guy looks to me like a sure bet to be a top 10 player in the world. He’s big, perfectly built, flexible as heck, and has developed not only a great swing but it solid in all other facets of the game, with his best stat being his putting. Here I focus on his swing, which demonstrates just about everything I like to teach. I like his on plane takeaway (slightly away from the body) with the clubface neutral, his athletic right loading (especially with the driver), his great width and extension against a very quiet lower body (more…

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Viktor Hovland Swing Analysis: Unconventional but Effective

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Hovland has made an auspicious debut on the PGA Tour, coming within a couple of shots of securing his Tour card after only 10 events, making 8 cuts and earning just under $650,000. His swing is unconventional, but the pattern he is utilizing is becoming more prevalent with each class of college players trying to make it on Tour. His bowed left wrist and the high left arm at the top keeps the arms well out in front of the body while his hips and pelvis perform in a classic fashion that adds depth in transition and stays deep through…

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J.T. Poston Swing Analysis: Odd Leg and Hip Action Works Does the Job

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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…

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Swing Analysis: Shane Lowry- Old School Open Face and Cupped Left Wrist at the Top

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With the recent ascendency of shut face, bowed left wrist top of the swing positions among the highest ranking players (DJ, Koepka, Schauffle, etc.) it was refreshing to see Lowry rotate his forearms and let the left wrist remain extended (cupped) to the top of the swing and well into the forward swing. From watching his right arm action, it would not be a stretch to think that he has limited external rotation ability in his right shoulder, or it may be that he has just always swung that way. His backswing is almost a carbon copy of Angel Cabrera’s,…

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Swing Analysis: Gary Woodland Demonstrating the Fade Pattern

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In this video we see U.S. Open Champ Gary Woodland keeping his arms and club in front of him in order to facilitate a left to right ball flight. He uses a right forearm takeaway (as the right wrist extends and rotates it slightly flattens the left wrist and turns the shaft onto the left forearm flying wedge {LFFW}) and moves everything out away from his body to achieve all of his upward progression by the time he gets to P3, something that DJ, Koepka and old Tiger swings also show. Woodland differs from the others when he down-cocks and…

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