I think that Annika Sorenstam has a perfect golf swing.
Features that I like about her golf swing include the following-:
1) She uses a natural rightwards-centralised pivot action where she doesn't sway to-and-fro, or bob up-and-down. She also doesn't try to keep her USC stationary throughout the backswing, and therefore she doesn't need to use an assertive "butt tuck-under-the-spine" pelvic thrust motion in the downswing.
2) Her downswing/followthrough pelvic motion is rotary, and it is perfectly time-coordinated with her upper torso rotation.
3) She immediately comes-up post-impact and there is no reverse C posturing in her followthrough/finish.
4) Her knee action is very limited - her knees only move in order to allow the pelvis to rotate. There is no knee over-flexing in the early downswing or knee over-bending into impact.
5) She has a compact backswing and never over-swings.
6) Her LAFW is intact throughout her backswing, downswing and followthrough.
7) Her RFFM has a perfect relationship to her LAFW throughout the backswing/downswing.
8. There is no hand crossover release action in her swing.
9) Her rhythm is impeccable. Her arms rotate at the same rpm as her body. She looks like a human pendulum that has no extraneous moving parts.
looks like restricted flying wedges to me (with the ball between the arms) = reduced power.
Anika is long. It is humbling to watch that swing hit the ball longer than I do on my course. I walked over twelve holes with her and watched her on the range several years ago and was amazed hour far she hit it with so little effort. There ought to be a sybervision video of her swing Guess we could make one.
I guess she holds that ball between her arms with extensor action and not by inward pressure like the Hogan banded arms!
Golly got to say more. The swing analysis by deFrancesco was filmed in Asheville NC Cliffs at Walnut Cove. 2 or 3 years ago and I was there!. I just realized it.
She was really on that day. Walnut Cove was used on the BMW Nationwide tour until recently. It had the highest stroke average of any course on that tour that year. The players hated it. It is a Nicklaus course. I walked with Jack when he opened it and I heard him say it was too hard. I walked with Gary Player when he played it and he also said it was too hard. Also Bruce Fleischer is of the same opinion. Annika's tee shot on No 3 is a vivid memory even now. It is an uphill Par 4 well bunkered off the tee. Annika playing from the men's tees easily flew it over the middle fairway bunker. It requires about 235 or 240 carry up hill. I don't remember her score but her ball striking was awesome.
She is indeed very cute and nice and I do miss her.
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