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Post by imperfectgolfer on Aug 22, 2012 7:04:15 GMT -5
Here is Sam Snead's swing.
Why do you think that he has a tendency to come slightly OTT?
Jeff.
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Post by gmbtempe on Aug 24, 2012 10:57:59 GMT -5
I always thought it was the backswing action that forced the move.
This for my money is the best swing of all time, better than Hogans, less going on with it, more repeatable.
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Post by mchepp on Aug 24, 2012 11:50:43 GMT -5
This for my money is the best swing of all time, better than Hogans, less going on with it, more repeatable. The more and more I study it, the more and more I agree with you. I actually like watching swings from his older years because I can see more of his intent. His younger swing is faster and the video wasn't that good.
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Post by imperfectgolfer on Aug 24, 2012 13:36:30 GMT -5
Greg,
It is difficult not to love Snead's swing action.
Regarding his tendency to come slightly OTT, I think that it is primarily due to the fact that he spins his pelvis in his downswing action, and he lets the right buttocks immediately leave the tush line at the start of the downswing.
His pelvic motion is different to the pattern adopted by other professional golfers - who perform a left hip clearing action (hip squaring action performed by pulling their left buttock back to the tush line) at the start of the downswing, while keeping their right buttocks on the tush line.
Shawn Clement described this type of pelvic motion.
Jeff.
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Post by gmbtempe on Aug 24, 2012 14:44:07 GMT -5
are you saying a bit of a goat hump move?
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Post by imperfectgolfer on Aug 24, 2012 17:57:36 GMT -5
Greg,
No - not goat-humping, which is a diagonal shift of the entire pelvis in a direction that is right-of-the-target. Snead's pelvic motion is a pure rotary motion, but he doesn't keep the right buttocks back against the tush line when he pulls the left pelvis back to the tush line at the start of the downswing. I think that what Shawn Clements demonstrates is a delay in the outward (toward the ball-target line) motion of the right buttock when the left pelvis is pulled back towards the tush line. I believe that this momentary delay in right hip joint motion is only possible if one "weights" the right leg-foot at the transition, thereby impeding the motion of the right femoral head, and therefore acetabulum (right hip joint). That phenomenon happens in golfers who push off a "weighted" right leg/foot at the start of the downswing - as Shawn Clements demonstrates in his weight shift action. It is obviously possible to start the downswing with a left hip clearing action (pulling back of the left pelvis towards the tush line) without pushing off a "weighted" right foot - and that will create a "purer" rotary motion of the pelvis (hip spinning motion).
Jeff.
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