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Hey Pro.
I have a few questions regarding the impact position that are more theoretical in nature. You sometimes hear that a golfer should attempt to get their impact position, specifically the shaft, on the same shaft line that they had at address with irons (assuming that they had a good setup position). Yet, when you review many of the swings of the PGA players from the "behind the line view", not many of them actually return the club on the address shaft plane line. Indeed, most of them appear slightly above it. Even more surprising is that many of the players that are said to have "beautiful" swings, come in significantly above the address shaft plane line with irons. For example, Luke Donald appears to come in approximately 8 degrees higher than his address shaft plane; Adam Scott and Ernie Els appear to come in about 5-6 degrees higher than their address shaft plane. Sergio Garcia and Vijay seem to be about the only current PGA players that consistently come back down to the original address shaft plane.
Questions:
With irons, do you know the typical/average degrees that pga players come in over the address shaft plane (i.e. 4 degrees)?
Players that come in much higher appear to have a more pronounced/quicker release of the hands after impact while players with lower hands appear to have a later release that is based more upon their body rotating open rather than releasing the hands. Is that an accurate representation?
Can you achieve more leverage/distance by coming in a bit higher than the address shaft plane?
What are the pros/cons about getting back down to the original shaft plane? Coming down 4-5 degrees higher than the original shaft plane?
Thank you GolfTEC pro!!!
I have a few questions regarding the impact position that are more theoretical in nature. You sometimes hear that a golfer should attempt to get their impact position, specifically the shaft, on the same shaft line that they had at address with irons (assuming that they had a good setup position). Yet, when you review many of the swings of the PGA players from the "behind the line view", not many of them actually return the club on the address shaft plane line. Indeed, most of them appear slightly above it. Even more surprising is that many of the players that are said to have "beautiful" swings, come in significantly above the address shaft plane line with irons. For example, Luke Donald appears to come in approximately 8 degrees higher than his address shaft plane; Adam Scott and Ernie Els appear to come in about 5-6 degrees higher than their address shaft plane. Sergio Garcia and Vijay seem to be about the only current PGA players that consistently come back down to the original address shaft plane.
Questions:
With irons, do you know the typical/average degrees that pga players come in over the address shaft plane (i.e. 4 degrees)?
Players that come in much higher appear to have a more pronounced/quicker release of the hands after impact while players with lower hands appear to have a later release that is based more upon their body rotating open rather than releasing the hands. Is that an accurate representation?
Can you achieve more leverage/distance by coming in a bit higher than the address shaft plane?
What are the pros/cons about getting back down to the original shaft plane? Coming down 4-5 degrees higher than the original shaft plane?
Thank you GolfTEC pro!!!