Brandel Chamblee on Bent Right Wrist
 

Anyone catch Brandel saying that Luke Donald has become one of the better iron players around this year because he made a swing change?

The change? He now maintains the bent right wrist! (Brandel even mimicked it on camera.) Prior he was apparently a timing-based flipper that "released" the right hand through impact.

Is it me (and it could be, since I'm now aware of TGM thoughts) or is a lot of golf instruction slowly coming around to a least some of the TGM imperatives and essentials?

I'm with you, Brian. I guess that's why Homer called them Imperatives and Essentials.
I am making cards with them listed for my high school players to carry in their pockets and bags. They will also be found in my bag and in my pocket.
I think Kev was correct last week when he basically stated that's where it all starts. If you're not onto those, you're on to nothing.

I believe many are coming back to TGM, It's the good stuff and is now a friendlier neighborhood... :)

I wonder why LD drives it so crooked while he hits irons so straight? Maybe straightening the right wrist still with the big stick trying to get it out there with the longer hitters?

Kevin

I think you are right -- over swinging could really lead to a massive flip (does for me).

I think Nobilo or maybe Brandel said something like Faldo was a big man who swung like a small guy -- kept the angle and never "released" fully giving a short but controlled shot. He then said that LD is a smaller guy that swings (or swung) like a big guy with a fully "released" (through impact) right hand.

I hope he learns to at least hit the tee ball straight. He'll be tough if he does that.

I'm watching the golf on DVR right now...should be interesting to watch LD with Dustin. Now THAT would intimidate anyone except the longest hitters!

With the woods he seems to move his head too far back. His iron play is so good in part because he sets his head in impact fix and it never moves. With the driver, he widens the right foot and the head moves back a little far. I could be wrong but that is what I see. He has a great looking swing. I wonder if his driving would improve by a narrower stance, a little more right hip clearing and a slight straightening of the right leg, standard hip turn. He tries to stay flexed with the right knee which seems to push the weight to the heels on his drives. I still would take that swing in a minute.

As long as you take the putting and short game, it comes with a nifty little $17M US and $7M GBP (from 2001 - 2010) revenue stream. I'd take that, too!

Did you guys catch Martin Hall on the wedge pitch shot?

Might as well have been Ben Doyle the way he desribed hitting in front of the line, bent right wrist, flat left wrist, clearing the hips.

Good stuff, and TGM 101.

That was really good! :salut:

Great show, look forward to the next one. Hall really emphasized hitting down, which makes a huge difference in the wedge game. As Homer says, if you wonder if you hit down enough, you probably did'nt. On fifty yard wedge shots, bury that club deep.

Gully Man
 

The Clubhead's Down-and-Out path through Impact produces 'On Line' divots. Just 'Down' produces chunky and probably left divots.

That said, Homer Kelley loved Lee Trevino's Wedge Strokes:

"He makes a gully".

Lee's 'gully' with the Wedge is the result of three factors:

1. The steepness of the Plane Angle;

2. His back-of-center Ball Location (more Up Plane, therefore mandating that the Clubhead move more Down Plane to Low Point);

3. The extreme Loft of the Clubface that drives the Clubhead more downward (and less backward than with the lower-Lofted Clubs) during the Impact collision with the Ball. This is the 'equal and opposite' reaction of Newton's Third Law.

:salut: