Post by Richie3Jack on Jun 26, 2015 9:00:34 GMT -5
Here's a swing that pre-Kelvin I really didn't care much for, but now working with Kelvin I have seen it in a more positive light.
I'll start off with the release, first.
Personally, I think she has a small underflip going on here.
The problem is that the camera isn't that great and it distorts the picture. But to me, the left arm package combined with the top-half of the shaft appear to show a small underflip.
The good news is that she's not rolling the release. So, she can still hit it far and straight as the clubface is staying square. But, she may have issues with trajectory and hitting below the CoG of the face. So she could play a round where she is hitting drives 30-yards past her competitors, then hit a drive that may go shorter than her competitors even if it looks like a solid drive.
What I perhaps find most interesting is how quickly Lincicome starts her downswing by 'moving the middle.' The left picture shows her in her backswing and she is at the top of her swing on the right. Notice how the 'triangle' formation I drew has altered.
I think more golfers would see either a similar shaped triangle or a more narrow triangle formation at the top of the swing. Hers has widened due to the pelvic movements.
P6 is a bit more telling as to why she can underflip.
She's using 'punch' elbow (right elbow to the side of the right hip, not out in front of the hip). But notice how closed her shoulders are and her hips are open. This open hips to closed shoulders ratio can provide a wallop if the golfer can managed to unwind those shoulders before impact. I think she overdoes it and while she does get the shoulders to 'unwind' into impact (pic below) it creates an underplane swing which throws the path well out to the right. But, she underflips which is going to help get the AoA upward which shifts the baseline left and will make this path not so far out to the right. Classic compensation move causing the underflip, but still allows her to have power.
Shoulders have 'unwound.' But, the ball is apparently launched a good amount to the right due in part to the path looking to be quite a bit out to the right.
We start to see from transition as to where that underplane move originates.
She gets a lot of pronation of the left forearm, but does not really externally rotate the right shoulder. I think this makes the underplane move possible as with right shoulder external rotation there's less degrees of movement than left forearm pronation and you can get into pitch elbow which helps sustain the lag better and gives you more time rotate to square up the path better (IMO).
There's a lot of things I like about this swing, but in general I like Gerina Piller's downswing and release more. More stabilized club head and better pelvic rotation. Piller is ranked 11th in Distance and 81st in Driving Accuracy to Lincicome's 2nd in driving distance and 119th in driving accuracy. And Lincicome is about 3 inches taller and probably has about 25 pounds on Piller.
3JACK
I'll start off with the release, first.
Personally, I think she has a small underflip going on here.
The problem is that the camera isn't that great and it distorts the picture. But to me, the left arm package combined with the top-half of the shaft appear to show a small underflip.
The good news is that she's not rolling the release. So, she can still hit it far and straight as the clubface is staying square. But, she may have issues with trajectory and hitting below the CoG of the face. So she could play a round where she is hitting drives 30-yards past her competitors, then hit a drive that may go shorter than her competitors even if it looks like a solid drive.
What I perhaps find most interesting is how quickly Lincicome starts her downswing by 'moving the middle.' The left picture shows her in her backswing and she is at the top of her swing on the right. Notice how the 'triangle' formation I drew has altered.
I think more golfers would see either a similar shaped triangle or a more narrow triangle formation at the top of the swing. Hers has widened due to the pelvic movements.
P6 is a bit more telling as to why she can underflip.
She's using 'punch' elbow (right elbow to the side of the right hip, not out in front of the hip). But notice how closed her shoulders are and her hips are open. This open hips to closed shoulders ratio can provide a wallop if the golfer can managed to unwind those shoulders before impact. I think she overdoes it and while she does get the shoulders to 'unwind' into impact (pic below) it creates an underplane swing which throws the path well out to the right. But, she underflips which is going to help get the AoA upward which shifts the baseline left and will make this path not so far out to the right. Classic compensation move causing the underflip, but still allows her to have power.
Shoulders have 'unwound.' But, the ball is apparently launched a good amount to the right due in part to the path looking to be quite a bit out to the right.
We start to see from transition as to where that underplane move originates.
She gets a lot of pronation of the left forearm, but does not really externally rotate the right shoulder. I think this makes the underplane move possible as with right shoulder external rotation there's less degrees of movement than left forearm pronation and you can get into pitch elbow which helps sustain the lag better and gives you more time rotate to square up the path better (IMO).
There's a lot of things I like about this swing, but in general I like Gerina Piller's downswing and release more. More stabilized club head and better pelvic rotation. Piller is ranked 11th in Distance and 81st in Driving Accuracy to Lincicome's 2nd in driving distance and 119th in driving accuracy. And Lincicome is about 3 inches taller and probably has about 25 pounds on Piller.
3JACK