Paul Casey Golf Swing @ 2009 US PGA
Current world number three, Paul Casey, at the 2009 US PGA Championship practice range at Hazeltine National Golf Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota – www.iseekgolf.com
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love the quality
great swing, and great quality
didnt he pull out on wednesday or something like that?
at 0:44 look how both his heels are in the air!
he’s really powering through at impact
thats amazing
thats not a good thing haha lol i used to do it
is it me, or does he have a really strong grip
i think he just has really muscular hands, like his fore arms lol
Agreed. Nobody in the world is working on a “heels-in-the-air” theory of powering through impact.
Stop at :44 and look how far his shoulders are still aimed to the right while his arms are swinging down, just before impact.
I used to get a lot of disagreement about this when I was teaching, but to me that’s maybe the one thing I see in almost all good swings and almost no bad swings–shoulders staying contained on the downswing until very late. To someone who hasn’t been doing it, it feels like your shoulders are closed to the target even at impact. Can’t get fully released otherwise.
Check where Tiger is until waist-high on the downswing and even beyond–and how much the hands separate from the right shoulder early in the downswing. If you don’t, you’re over the top. It’s a myth that the shoulders, arms, and trunk should move forward as a unit on the downswing. They’re moving at the same time, because you have to move shoulders and torso to support the arm swing, but they’re not moving at the same rate, and the shoulders shouldn’t be dragging the arms.
Well I would say that because of the inclination of the spine angle, the shoulders as you say ‘drag’ or rather pull down the arms is a result of the hips and lower body unwinding and pulling down the hands to impact. I believe that there is no independent rate because the unwinding of the hips pulls down the upper torso, shoulders and arms, just like in the backswing the rotation of the shoulders pulls the hips and knees back, and there is no independent rate of hip and knee rotation going back
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Its simply a reaction to the rotation of the body. In case I misinterpreted your point, apologies.
Sorry, make that :43–it’s at the point where the club is not quite to impact yet.
I understand that’s the theory, and it’s quite possible that somebody who’s already learned to swing the arms and club and to release the club from the forearms (and wrists, dep. on various factors) feels that the arms & hands are “passive” on the downswing, that’s it’s all pull and rotation, etc. But in terms of pure physical observation and fact (as opposed to feel), that’s not what’s happening.
In virtually every good player’s swing, the independent swinging of the arms downward starts right at the outset of the downswing or so fractionally thereafter that it’s not possible to have been caused by rotation. You can see this in a DTL view of almost any good player’s swing, where the hands and forearms are moving downward (on plane) independently, away from the right shoulder, right from the start of the downswing much earlier than rotation could have caused.
(part 3–sorry, should’ve labeled part 2, which begins with “In virtually…”):
If you hold the entire upper structure (including arms and club) exactly as it is at the top of the swing, keeping the hands in the exact same relationship to the right shoulder, and then simply rotate, you’ll find that the club has to go outside and on a steep angle down to the ball–the very definition of over the top.
(part 4:)
Don’t misunderstand–I’m not saying the rotation is passive, or that the shoulders don’t add some strength to the motion of the arms. I’m saying that the rotation of the trunk and the movement of the shoulders can’t be the _cause_ of the swinging of the arms and club without a complete distortion of path and plane, and a deterioration of contact. I understand this goes against a lot of current theory, but it’s in agreement with a lot longer-standing theory.
This cat absolutely smashes the ball! watched him at the shell houston open, playing with John Senden and Geoff Ogilvy. On hole 6 Senden hit driver perfect and everybody was ooh and aah; Casey pulls out 3 wood smashes it about a foot next to Senden’s ball. The sound of his impact is unreal!
These vids from the US PGA are great , u can compare all the different swings from the same angles and is really helpful for someone has inexperienced as i am who is trying to coach his son. My boy got onto the practice ground at Turnberry during the Open and chatted wt most of the pros including Mr Casey he was really nice . It really goes to show that no two swings are exactly the same and it is the position of the club at contact with the ball that counts.
clearly paul casey is, and its working for him…. much like it works for me.
You’re wasting your time with these idiots, man, you’re knowledge is way to advanced for their ‘latest craze’ type of minds. You’re right on with what you’re saying….