Jack Nicklaus 13th Hole 1986 Masters
Second shot to the par 5, 210 yards to the green
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…. let it rip from there. I think Nicklaus loaded the shaft as well as anyone ever did. he used a softer shaft in his driver, but that move into his left side let him lag it w/ out getting laid off and stuck like a Sergio or, as we know, Tiger. Hogan and Nicklaus had the luxury of being able to hit the ball as hard as they coudl w/ out the fear of hooking the ball. Must be nice. This particular shot is testament to that point. His approach into 15 half an hour later was even better.
You notice how teachers have backed away from the “let your head move” digression of the ’80s-’90s? Tiger has been improving as his head has gotten steadier, and you don’t really see people moving hugely off the ball and then trying to time that lateral slide back through the ball anymore. Turns out keeping your head pretty much in one places actually works, along with making a wide arc, coiling the upper half and releasing from the ground up…amazing, that those old guys knew anything.
jack always worked on keeping his head dead centre and rotating around it.
Yup. Had a pretty passable career doing it, too.
EH FUCK ALL OF YOU GUYS. DuMB PIECES OF SHIT. EMPTY SKULLs.
Watch his head in relation to the bushes behind him. His head remains almost stationary throughout the swing.
sucha nice noise, i could listen to that all day
It might be sick to keep coming back here just to hear it again, but I do it anyway.
Interesting dialog on lateral movement. It reminds me of Curtis Strange in his prime and how much his head moved laterally. He won back-to-back US Opens in a time when nobody was doing that, and it tells you how good his timing was. Incidentally, I saw Strange last year at a Champions event, and his head is now almost perfectly still – no lateral movement. It would be almost impossible to maintain that level of timing in your 50′s in my opinion.
So smart. I agree. You “can” violate almost any fundamental if you’re talented enough, but some fundamentals add stability to your game for decades and make it easier to find the ball with the clubhead in more or less the same way most of the time.
Incidentally, I don’t think it’s any coincidence that as Tiger has quieted his head movement (a little) over the years, his consistency has improved. Faldo’s another one who is just dead-quiet from the start of the downswing through impact.
Very true, although Hogan fought a ferocious hook early in his career but thats the way those Texas players learned to play back then.
The important key is not so much whether the head moves or not (its gonna move a little no matter who you are) but that your head stays behind the ball.
Same here. What a striker of the ball!
such a crisp shot…sounded like a bullwhip
@addamsmith hit behind it barely!!!
@addamsmith Jack Nicklaus 14th hole approach is called pure buddy
WHY do you only show tee shots with no results as to where the ball ends up?
Nicklaus was the greatest.
WOAH! Did you hear the sounds that made!?
you don’t have to see where that ball when it was stuck in the screws…. what a sound i love that sound.
@googs247
You said it.
Seriously, it’s like a drug…I have to keep coming back here periodically, just to hear the sound…
jack is a jedi master of golf
that’s a nice stack and tilt move.
@emncaity Me, too