Here is Jeffy's "review" and my comments to the review in bold.
Below are my thoughts as prepared Saturday with a couple of subsequent additions. I think you are being led in the wrong direction by your scientists on some important parts. I'm am curently reviewing the literature and will be prepared to discuss my concerns with you, and them, at the Anti-Summit.
Remember, I wish you the best!
Highlights:
Wants a stronger grip: assists wrist flexion and extension through impact. I like this: strong grip overwhelmingly dominates on tour.
The grip I advocated in the video, for the record, is "slightly strong."
But 1 for 1 with judge, jury, and counselor Jeffy.
Erect stance: the body will "react" better to the club. I agree that bent over is restrictive.
2 for 2.
Slight shift into back leg at start of the backswing. I like this too: Snead and Hogan!
3 for 3.
NO conscious weight shifting thereafter, in the backswing or downswing. What weight shifting occurs will be in response to swinging the arms and clubs (this is straight out of Manuel de la Torre/Toski/Flick). Not sure this will work as desired: sacrum needs to move at least a bit towards the target.
Key word here is "conscious." I teach EVERY golfer I teach to move the lower body plenty forward.
So we agree...sort of.
4 for 4.
Turn the back to the target: do whatever you need to accomplish this: turn the hips, close the stance, flare out the right foot. Works for me. More cowbell!
5 for 5.
HOWEVER: wants to minimize body movement; he references 60 year old Tom Watson as a good example of full shoulder turn and stable body. Hmmm, a 60 year old? Makes sense, though: lateral movement is a speed killer.
The type of golfer we are addressing moves all over the place in the swing. I'll take Watson.
5 for 6.
At the top have SLACK in both arms. Sounds sketchy. All the bombers straighten the left arm as they reach the top. Dinkers like Mediate leave the arms bent.
"Feel like you have slack" in both arms. However 6dof3D PGA Tour data suggests ramrod straight—something many golfers think is desirable—is NOT being done.
5 of 7.
First move from the top is to move hands, club and CLUBHEAD away from the target, what he calls the "out toss": like using the right arm to toss a basketball into a hoop that is directly opposite from the target. David Glenz taught me this in the mid-‘90s and Jim Hardy advocates this for players with steep swing planes ("two planers). My concern, though, is it increases the moment of inertia and will slow rotation.
Golfers for the most part, trying to do it, don't do it, but set in motion other desirables.
5 of 8.
This early right arm extension will create a BETTER lag angle for most people at left arm horizontal. I remember Glenz saying the same thing. Since all the bombers fold in the arms from the top, I have to believe this will lead to higher moment of inertia and less rotational speed.
6dof3D PGA Tour data suggests that the right arm is straightening from the top faster than almost anyone thinks.
5 of 9.
Retain shoulder turn as much as possible. NO tug with the shoulders: very important. This must be for timing the arm swing, will definitely kill rotational speed.
Most folks unwind too quickly from the top and pull their hands inside the desired downswing hand path. If you are going to be an arm dragger, you have to start somewhere.
5 of 10.
At the point where the clubhead starts to throw out, pour on power with wrists and hands to assist uncocking of wrists. Won't look like you are doing it in video, though. As far as I'm concerned, once they start to uncock, pouring on the wrist torque doesn’t hurt.
Every study ever done suggest that there is one really good time to "push" a little and start bending the path of the hands and torquing.
6 of 10
Avoid turning the body too much toward the target at this phase of downswing. Don’t understand this “anti-rotation” emphasis. Disagree: not what the bombers do.
If you are an "arm dragger" or a "handle dragger" you better have some arm release.
6 of 11.
Never really addresses what to do with the legs in downswing until now:
When clubhead gets below horizontal, use everything in your legs and butt to pull the club directly inwards towards the player (this is his "going normal"). The hands will reach the low point a few inches before impact and will be rising through impact. This was a huge revelation to them: allows players to have forward lean and shallow attack angle. Mike Jacobs had a 14* negative attack angle the first time he went on Trackman four years ago! Took divots the size of beaver pelts I assume. Agree: this move is visible in the bombers for sure.
All the folks who supposedly knew that low angle of attack + deloft = compression, did a terrible job of getting the word out.
7 of 11.
At this point there IS hip rotation toward the target. FINALLY!
Obviously, it will happen well before this.....geez....
7 of 12.
Through impact, the right wrist will fully straighten and left wrist will quickly begin to bend back (Glenz taught me this also; still teaches it). Uses short and crooked Luke Donald as an example. Palm of left hand will be as if placed on a wall between player and target and left arm won't rotate much. References Ralph Mann/Fred Griffin model and TaylorMade model that both show left wrist bent in follow-through. Just now noticing that "all the great players" have a bend in the left wrist post impact, not a heavily rolled left forearm like he taught for 20 years.
A lot of thinly veil shots at me and MJ in the last two comments.
The rolled forearm is the best slice cure ever.
Jeffy agrees, but took too many shots for a checkmark. But I'll take it anyway.
8 or 13.
This should produce a "free-wheeling" release without hooking.
Here is a video of a former "handle-dragging" student after being taught these concepts.
CW swing on Vimeo
Seems to me this is a nice "old fart" pattern, which may be effective for the majority of students he's gonna see now that he is high-priced. It also reverses the negative effects of the blocking hand action that he taught to achieve a "flat left wrist". But, doesn't going wide at the top INCREASE the player's moment of inertia of the upper body, arms and club, slowing rotation? Sadlowski doesn't do this. And all the bombers rotate the body early. This new pattern is more along the lines of Rocco Mediate, one of the shortest hitters on tour.
Gee, I don't know where to start....
Pretty much what you would think would come from a noted swing scientist like Jeffy.
8 of 14.
Jeff's review: He agrees with me 57%