Brian Manzella
Administrator
Padraig Harrington.
Ok.
He is a world-class player, with a good golf swing, and he was due.
Sergio?
The "world's best ball-striker" hit it very well, and for the most part, putted halfway decent. He'll win a major one day, and then he'll win a couple of more. But he will never dominate. Doesn't have the disposition for it.
Tiger?
Simple. He is trying to make a golf swing that is next to maxed out. He is only so-so at it, and he has hit a million balls with it.
Hey Tiger, guess what? Nicklaus, Trevino, and Hogan eliminated the left side of the course. Snead the right. Casper did both, but separately.
Here is my elvauation of your patterns:
You used to have a fairly strong left hand grip, took it inside, had a more closed face at the top and hit a hard draw. You were a double-shifter, and you had a late random release (1997 Masters).
Butch came along, fiddled around for a while and settled on telling you to get wide and outside on the takeaway, with a short arm swing and a full shoulder turn. You had a slightly stronger than neatral grip, at least 10 degrees weaker than the old one. He told you to make a single-plane downswing, and swing more in front of you. What you wound up doing when you played your best was a reserve-shift plane angle variation, with a random release and a pretty darn straight lane line (2000 US Open). You went bad when you started adding too much right arm and going toward zero shift.
Now you are Haneyfied. Or is it Haneyfried?
Anyhoo, your grip is very neutral, you backswing very round, you change of direction is warped—literally, which gets you below plane and below the sweetspot, and you swing too far to the right and you try to gather up the marbles, even on a draw!
Dude, that ain't going to work.
Here is what I would do. I figure it would take us about two hours tops.
After you win 10 more majors in 3 and half years, we both can retire.
Ok.
He is a world-class player, with a good golf swing, and he was due.
Sergio?
The "world's best ball-striker" hit it very well, and for the most part, putted halfway decent. He'll win a major one day, and then he'll win a couple of more. But he will never dominate. Doesn't have the disposition for it.
Tiger?
Simple. He is trying to make a golf swing that is next to maxed out. He is only so-so at it, and he has hit a million balls with it.
Hey Tiger, guess what? Nicklaus, Trevino, and Hogan eliminated the left side of the course. Snead the right. Casper did both, but separately.
Here is my elvauation of your patterns:
You used to have a fairly strong left hand grip, took it inside, had a more closed face at the top and hit a hard draw. You were a double-shifter, and you had a late random release (1997 Masters).
Butch came along, fiddled around for a while and settled on telling you to get wide and outside on the takeaway, with a short arm swing and a full shoulder turn. You had a slightly stronger than neatral grip, at least 10 degrees weaker than the old one. He told you to make a single-plane downswing, and swing more in front of you. What you wound up doing when you played your best was a reserve-shift plane angle variation, with a random release and a pretty darn straight lane line (2000 US Open). You went bad when you started adding too much right arm and going toward zero shift.
Now you are Haneyfied. Or is it Haneyfried?
Anyhoo, your grip is very neutral, you backswing very round, you change of direction is warped—literally, which gets you below plane and below the sweetspot, and you swing too far to the right and you try to gather up the marbles, even on a draw!
Dude, that ain't going to work.
Here is what I would do. I figure it would take us about two hours tops.
1. Slightly stronger left hand grip, about where it was with Butch.
2. More inside takeaway, especially your hands. This will help us at the top.
3. Completely eradicate the laid-off business, and no more left wrist arching!
4. Allow your NORMAL change of directions, and natural shoft to the elbow plane.
5. Teach you to draw a straight plane line. You got close with Butch, but he didn't allow it, or think it was possible with a double-shift. I know better.
6. Stop this "gather up the marbles" crap. (For those of you who have no idea what the heck that is, it is the FORCED turning of his right plam toward his face near the finish)
7. Have the shaft of the club finish more like in 1997, pointing more toward the ball. Like Nicklaus.
8. Show you how to adjust it all for draws and fades, and teach you something you really need—and "out shot." A driver that will NEVER TURN LEFT AND NEVER EVER miss the fairway right. It would be like cheating.
2. More inside takeaway, especially your hands. This will help us at the top.
3. Completely eradicate the laid-off business, and no more left wrist arching!
4. Allow your NORMAL change of directions, and natural shoft to the elbow plane.
5. Teach you to draw a straight plane line. You got close with Butch, but he didn't allow it, or think it was possible with a double-shift. I know better.
6. Stop this "gather up the marbles" crap. (For those of you who have no idea what the heck that is, it is the FORCED turning of his right plam toward his face near the finish)
7. Have the shaft of the club finish more like in 1997, pointing more toward the ball. Like Nicklaus.
8. Show you how to adjust it all for draws and fades, and teach you something you really need—and "out shot." A driver that will NEVER TURN LEFT AND NEVER EVER miss the fairway right. It would be like cheating.
After you win 10 more majors in 3 and half years, we both can retire.
