Post by Richie3Jack on Jul 7, 2015 15:43:04 GMT -5
When I first started to get into learning about the swing in my college years, I had heard about Jackie Burke and he was a bit of a mythical figure for me. I knew he coached at the U. of Houston which had powerhouse teams with guys like Couples, Elk, etc. And so many Tour players would have some sort of 6 degrees of separation with Burke. I also saw a video with Elk's son, Sam. Sam is now in high school and was brought along slowly into the game with Mr. Burke as his teacher. While I think Sam has a long ways to go, he was clocked at 118 mph on Trackman and is developing into a heckuva player. I always like to quote the old football coach Bum Phillips when he said "coaching is not about how much you know, it's about how much you can get the player to do." I think Mr. Burke personifies that and I really wish golf instructors would follow suit.
I was looking at Jackie Burke's swing and was going to show you all of what I feel are critical parts of his swing in one picture. But, I decided to split these up so we could focus on each picture correctly.
First, here's the caddie view of his swing on video:
The first thing I noticed is that Mr. Burke had a strong grip with the left elbow facing near the target. He could use this later on to keep the face square. It appears Mr. Burke hit high and long fades, so he may have put that strong grip to use. He also has his feet flared out as well
The thing about the strong grip is that for decades, even today and especially back then, it was a steadfast belief that a strong grip would create a hook. But, I think it is pretty apparent that Mr. Burke hit a high fade, bucking that belief. These days instructors understand that a strong grip is more likely to create a cut and they are not so afraid of it. But, back then a strong grip was considered the death of a good golfer. Good thing Mr. Burke didn't listen.
Anyway, here we see a great position at p4. The left knee is 'kicked inward' and he has dual IR of both hips. We can't see the clubface here.
The only thing I don't really care for is that Mr. Burke is flat footed with no left leg extension. However, he obviously played incredible golf doing that. What we do see is incredible pelvic rotation with the left hip behind the left ankle. Very, very hard to accomplish when flat footed and with the left leg still in flexion.
He finally raises the pelvis by getting the left leg into extension.
It would be interesting to see how all of that came about in his swing. It's very rotational, but not very 'push off the ground' (until well after impact). That usually means lower trajectories, but he appears to hit it quite high. Maybe all of that rotation and little 'jump' was in part of him trying to subconsciously keep the ball flight down.
Now for the DTL video.
Here we see great pelvic rotation in the backswing and then great pelvic rotation in the downswing.
We can see the right shoulder is externally rotated.
He has a nice amount of lateral bend which is in part why he is able to get the pelvis to rotate.
He does lose his right shoulder ER a smidge early.
But overall, a fantastic swing.
3JACK
I was looking at Jackie Burke's swing and was going to show you all of what I feel are critical parts of his swing in one picture. But, I decided to split these up so we could focus on each picture correctly.
First, here's the caddie view of his swing on video:
The first thing I noticed is that Mr. Burke had a strong grip with the left elbow facing near the target. He could use this later on to keep the face square. It appears Mr. Burke hit high and long fades, so he may have put that strong grip to use. He also has his feet flared out as well
The thing about the strong grip is that for decades, even today and especially back then, it was a steadfast belief that a strong grip would create a hook. But, I think it is pretty apparent that Mr. Burke hit a high fade, bucking that belief. These days instructors understand that a strong grip is more likely to create a cut and they are not so afraid of it. But, back then a strong grip was considered the death of a good golfer. Good thing Mr. Burke didn't listen.
Anyway, here we see a great position at p4. The left knee is 'kicked inward' and he has dual IR of both hips. We can't see the clubface here.
The only thing I don't really care for is that Mr. Burke is flat footed with no left leg extension. However, he obviously played incredible golf doing that. What we do see is incredible pelvic rotation with the left hip behind the left ankle. Very, very hard to accomplish when flat footed and with the left leg still in flexion.
He finally raises the pelvis by getting the left leg into extension.
It would be interesting to see how all of that came about in his swing. It's very rotational, but not very 'push off the ground' (until well after impact). That usually means lower trajectories, but he appears to hit it quite high. Maybe all of that rotation and little 'jump' was in part of him trying to subconsciously keep the ball flight down.
Now for the DTL video.
Here we see great pelvic rotation in the backswing and then great pelvic rotation in the downswing.
We can see the right shoulder is externally rotated.
He has a nice amount of lateral bend which is in part why he is able to get the pelvis to rotate.
He does lose his right shoulder ER a smidge early.
But overall, a fantastic swing.
3JACK