Women and Hitting

[jpvegas1]

Watched the women's US open last week and used my meager knowledge of TGM to categorize the women's swing as either hitting or swinging. The only person I saw that I would put into the hitting camp was Laura Davies, everyone else I thought to be a swinger. Would this be due to lack of strength, because women generally more flexible? [?]

 

[densikat]

I havent seen a woman who is a hitter yet. I guess this may come down to tricep strength, or instruction for women is aimed towards swinging as is most instruction.

Laura Davies cannot hit from her top position, she can only pull from her top position, which means she is swinging.

 

[Tball88]

Morgan Pressell may hit. The reason I say this is on the golf channel a couple of years ago(I believe when she qualified for the US Open at age 13) they talked a lot about her strong right hand grip(almost under the club) and how she bent the right wrist back to shut down the face providing more of a strong draw to give her extra distance. So if she's not hitting, she' switting and getting some right hand action into her swing. She still plays that big draw.

 

[EdZ]

Pressel uses angled hinge (she must or she would hook the heck out of every shot). I would consider her motion a hitter's move. A great pattern that is easier to do than most because it is anatomically more in synch with the flying wedges alingnments. Unlike players who use a weaker/neutral left hand, there is no need for any 'waiting for CF' in her motion and she rips at it with all she's got. A VERY 'solid' pattern, one that I think more people should look into. It does raise the question of the importance of the transfer power advantage of the horizontal hinge (power related). She has a lot of 'mass' at impact.