Best flipper on Tour?
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shootin4par
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my guess would be no one
DanSchulte
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Tom Watson
DanSchulte
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Watson is my hero, so please don't ever think I was trying to insult him, only making an observation. Now to try to answer the question, I came up with his name from years past watching him pick the ball, and therefore interperting this as having been flipped, certainly not aggressively swung down, out and then forward. This may not be valid, don't want to argue the point just giving my opinion of what I saw years ago, thanks for the comments and questions. Dan
Tom Bartlett
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Andy Bean...Buddy Gardner
BigBadDonkey
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Nick Faldo?
Not Faldo. And not Watson. Best all-time flipper was the man who's tournament starts next week.
http://www.megspace.com/sports/moetown/videos/bjones_niblick_clip1.html
http://www.megspace.com/sports/moetown/videos/bjones_niblick_clip1.html
Ryan Smither
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Paul Azinger?
Best Flipper? Seve?
Seven-Fingered Shot
One of the most frustrating aspects of playing from the rough is the fact that it’s difficult to develop any finesse. Particularly around the green, it’s tough to make the ball land softly and stay near the target.
Recently, however, I developed a shot that can do some tricks. The idea originally came from one of the masters of touch, Seve Ballesteros. While practising sand shots with me one day, he taught me something I’ve since adapted to the rough.
Let’s say you want to hit a high, soft shot over a bunker and make it stop near the pin. That’s a tall assignment from the rough, but with this technique, it’s possible. After setting up for a high shot, make a normal swing, but just before impact, release the pressure in the last three fingers of your left hand. You don’t really let go of the club, but you do lighten that pressure down to almost nothing. The result is that your right hand flips through and under the left, flipping the clubhead under the ball and upwards. At the end of the shot, the bottom of the club faces straight towards the sky. The shot flies very high, comes almost straight down and sits tight after it lands. (Greg Norman, Shark Attack)
Seven-Fingered Shot
One of the most frustrating aspects of playing from the rough is the fact that it’s difficult to develop any finesse. Particularly around the green, it’s tough to make the ball land softly and stay near the target.
Recently, however, I developed a shot that can do some tricks. The idea originally came from one of the masters of touch, Seve Ballesteros. While practising sand shots with me one day, he taught me something I’ve since adapted to the rough.
Let’s say you want to hit a high, soft shot over a bunker and make it stop near the pin. That’s a tall assignment from the rough, but with this technique, it’s possible. After setting up for a high shot, make a normal swing, but just before impact, release the pressure in the last three fingers of your left hand. You don’t really let go of the club, but you do lighten that pressure down to almost nothing. The result is that your right hand flips through and under the left, flipping the clubhead under the ball and upwards. At the end of the shot, the bottom of the club faces straight towards the sky. The shot flies very high, comes almost straight down and sits tight after it lands. (Greg Norman, Shark Attack)
tourdeep
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swinger allowing centrifugal force to perform its magic. Hitters may have a stronger right hand. There is a thread addressing grip pressure.
I've saved this article...
'Evaluation of golf club control by grip pressure measurement'
Budney & Bellow
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alberta
From Science & Golf
Proceeding of the First World Scientific Congress of Golf
This paper discusses grip pressure and its relative importance in the mechanics of the golf swing. Two aspects of grip pressure were investigated; the first was whether golfers should deliberately apply light or firm grip pressure. The method involved a specially designed golf club with pressure transducers which conform to the shape of the grip.
The second objective was to determine the precise moment (and corresponding position in the downswing) when the golfer "hits" with each hand. In this paper, the pressure impulses related to the "hit" with the hands are related to results from a dynamic model of the swing. In relation to this aspect, professional golfers demonstrate common features. Differences as to the timing of each hand and the extent to which each hand is involved in the late hit impulse is shown to vary considerably amongst golfers.
The diagrams associated with the pressure measurements show that for an 11 handicap golfer the right hand pressure (presumed by the researchers to be indicative of the 'hit') peaked 0.03 seconds (1 video frame) prior to impact, dropped and then went up again at impact. The duration of the drop in pressure is so small that the 2 sides of the trace touch.
For two professionals (they only included graphs for 2 as they were all similar) the right hand pressure peaked 0.07 and 0.05 seconds (apx 2 video frames or '6/100s') before impact, went down and was near zero at impact and then continued down to zero shortly (equiv. to apx 1 video frame) after impact.
In addition right hand pressure in transition (top of swing) increased for the 11 hdcp and decreased for the professionals.
birdie_man
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Cool stuff man.....I guess these guys weren't Hitters eh?
BigBadDonkey
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I never noticed Faldo take much of a divot, in his later days anyway, which made me think he could be a bit of a flipper.
Brian Manzella
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Exact same way Ben Doyle teaches it.
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