Adam Scott Pivot Analysis

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Brian Manzella

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A modern, flexible example of many of Brian Manzella's pivot teaching preferences.

In the first pic, Adam sets up NICELY behind the ball, not trapping himself by setting up too far forward.

In the second pivot, he rotates around a point between his shoulders and actually, his whole spine.

Look at the nice (green triangle) "look of lean" at the top.

This is the opposite of left side "sag."

He tilts his axis well on the downswing as well.


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roll - gybe

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Just a comment from someone in the learning process:
"Turning around the spine" was an absolutely horrible image for me.

I think Adam Scott is only turning around his spine on one axis. I was given this advice and spend a year plus with a terrible pivot, and I'm still a little messed up.

This advice made me fix the location of my entire spine - including the middle - and turn my chest back with level shoulders. At the top, my entire head was outside of my right foot. (Since the spine is on the back rather than through the middle, this turn has the effect of a screen door on the upper body.) I think I have a picture somewhere - I'll try to find it.

On the way through, I thought no more axis tilt was needed - because I needed to keep that angle fixed and "turn around my spine." I hit it poorly, but I was turning around my spine. I lost balance, distance, athletecism, and control. However, "turning around my spine" was to be a key feature of my new swing.

I did not just have one lesson with this person - I had one and a half years of lessons. So it's not like I took a little comment and ran with it, but I certainly could have run with it even worse had I only had one lesson.

Much better images are "turn around the base of your neck" and "turn around the top of your spine" - at least for me.

PS: i have no right to be picky, but in picture #2 you can see that adam's spine has changed it's orientation in at least one axis (the dtl axis - not sure what the biomecanical term is). there is really no way his spine can be in front of the red line in #2 and in line with it in #1 while rotating around the entire spine in all axes.

The fact that tgm is so specific has helped me understand so much about the golf swing, and I think that is what brought me to it. Communication makes all the difference.
 
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blehnhard

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I would say his hands are both 'turned' the same amount. Tough to tell is this front view, but in order for his clubface to be that 'square' (90 deg open), he would have to have a slight 'cup' in the LW at the top. LW looks nice and flat in the 'impact interval' picture.

I personally like his grip - I use a slightly turned Left Hand (2 knuckle) and a similar Right Hand as AS shows above. I play a slight fade off the tee - not an accurate drawer of the ball with the driver. I can move irons both ways.

Bruce
 
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shootin4par

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It looks like his right hand V points to his chin, his left hand v probably goes somewhere between his left ear and shoulder, would you consider that "turned" the same amount?
 
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blehnhard

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To me, it looks like the RH "V" is at the right ear, the LH "V" is somewhere between his right ear and right shoulder - using that, I would agree his RH is slightly 'weaker' than his left.

I think the point I am trying to make is that his left thumb is on the 'aft' side and that his right hand is not 'on top' of the grip - his right palm is facing the target.

Bruce
 
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Ricky1990

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I thought I had a neatral grip and I can see 3 knuckles on my left hand lol!

My left hand grip has always been pretty strong though. But it feels quite neatral to me.
 
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Jim Kobylinski

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Jimmy A. said:
Brian,

What do you think about his left arm being so locked and rigid (at least it appears that way) at address?
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Not brian but you can see in his full swing that his left arm does bend a little at the top as to not introduce tension. So it doesn't really matter what it looks like at address.
 
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Bobbing of the head.

:eek: Scott's head seeks the correct position during the swing. He manages to play well inspite of of this snare. Some teachers have no idea about this essential.
 
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shootin4par

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four barrels said:
:eek: Scott's head seeks the correct position during the swing. He manages to play well inspite of of this snare. Some teachers have no idea about this essential.
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violation of new rule
 
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shootin4par

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jr33 said:
4b should donate 1 dollar to the jar for violating the rule
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ok then, we need to come up with a charity to donate it to

brian, good on you for fixing, but remeber you have to fix who ever qoted his quote as well, the name is still up in my post
 
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