Posterchild for Swinging?
 

Ok, in the Hitters Forum we have Stuart Appleby as the posterchild for Hitting. Who is the posterchild for Swinging? Do we have pics?
Ta muchly,
Alex

re swinging
 

How about Payne Stewart? David Toms? Bobby Jones? Annika S ?

Mike Weirs pics are up in the hitters thread as THE swinger, even though he's gooffy:D

Goofy?
 

Yeah, I bet he feels real goofy with that Masters jacket on.;)

Canadian baby!....

What more can you say really? :P

A fine list of those with wonderful 'swingers' Rhythm and Rotation.

Toms at times does not have the 'smooth' flow of Annika, Stewart or Jones, but he has at times, and has played some of his best golf then.

Knudson had that flow as well. Purtzer too.

And the list of model swingers is never complete without mention of Hogan.

Appetizer....
 

Here is an appetizer...entree later.....

Charles Howell III

Considering so many elements were taken by Homer from...

Hogan....

Wouldnt he be the poster child?

Just curious.

He stands on the wrong side of the ball....whats up with that :D
Alex

How about big John Daly? I think his style of play tends to cause people to overlook the fact that he's probably as pure a swinger as there is. If you've ever seen his swing in slow mo, it dosen't look like his right hand is doing much of anything. Heck, it looks like it's barely on the club!

Ever see him hit clubs left handed only?

It's a WONDERFUL drill to learn a swinging motion. I tell more advanced players to do it. If you can swing a wedge with your left arm only and produce a small draw. You know how to "swing" with a horizontal hinge.

Then just "slowly" put your right hand back on the club.

The Goose
 

How about Retief Goosen? I have a man-crush on that guy's motion. :) One of the more under-rated swingers in my mind.

I remember a few years ago my Pro giving me this drill to work on the rotation of my left arm through impact (since he is non TGM, it was his way of getting to HH better) I must of hit a ton of wedges that way, the best I got was a straight shot, guess it might be time to go back to it and get that soft draw.
Alex

Where do you put the number player in the world?

I assume you mean Tiger, and meant number 1 player...

Tiger's Rhythm is off. He needs smooooother and heavier motion.

He has a few alignments that make his move harder than it needs to be.

The good ole days
 

Amen Ed! Every year when TGC has "Tiger week" on I look at his old swing and think, :???: Why would you mess with THAT!!!!!!

He must really be a huge Homer fan and wants to win equal numbers of majors hitting AND swinging - just for the challenge!

A contender
 

Sam?

"A Slammer Dunk"
 

Good call strav! Mr. Kelley often referenced Snead 1946 book "How to Play Golf"...not for what Snead said, but what he did. Snead's record speaks for itself and his Swing was a thing of beauty.

Classic Snead
 

Beautiful example of Standard Knee Action (10-16-A) and Standard Foot Action (10-17-A) done properlly -- with a Stationary Head (1-L-1/2).

For a Textbook Golfing Machine Swinging Pattern, look no futher than Yoda. For a Classic Swinging Pattern however...this is one great motion

How about...
 

How about VJ? He sure looks like a swinger to me. And a guy with beautiful rythm.

Yes I agree...nice tempo.

But for the most classiest of the classiest swings of all, that title has to go to Bobby Jones.

Ya Bobby Jones is a guy who you'd use to explain to someone the Physics of Swinging: so smooth, it has to be Centrifugal Force!

More CHIII:

http://www.golfonline.com/golfonline...0781-7,00.html

Here's the Impact....(holy crap)......scroll thru for the rest of the sequence.

Considering that many traits of a Swinger were modeled after Hogan....

I stand by my choice (and Homers).

:)

Do you consider Hogan's grip to be 10-2-B?

Yeah Man..Throwback Posterchild!!!!

Mac's first Model for MORAD

does that L wrist look arched to anybody else?

-hcw

Annikan - do you have any sequences of Toski? or MacDonald Smith?

Thanks for the Snead sequence!

Hi Ed...

No, I do not. I see 10-2-D - but, it's just my take..........


Patrick

Definitely....10-2-D during the "Power Golf Era"...but what do you see here?

He was 10-2-D before the changes, 10-2-A After.

That left hand looks turned to the plane to me?

What does it look like at impact fix?

Todd

To truely decipher, or analyze, we need....

As Todd said...

IMPACT FIX!

There are some big claims made for this swing. What do you guys think?

Poster Child
 

Chad Campbell. One of my favorite swings on the tour.
Lets get his sequence up.

I think if you can do this model, you would be doing quite nicely. There are a few very minor items if one were being picky, but nothing significant IMO.

Like nearly all patterns, the grip defines quite a lot of the motion.

The book "How to Feel a Real Golf Swing" - Toski/Love, does a very good job of teaching this pattern IMO. Personally, I found the book associated with the model not as good.

Looks like Hogan is holding something wooden like a twig or something.

What are the "minor items"?

Plane facts
 

Off Plane in the backswing.