I did a pretty thorough study of Jones's putting stroke when I was doing my book, and Jones's stroke wasn't "wristy" the way most people think.
As Nicklaus states, the ball has played a large role. This left side action of the body carries the club to the outside of the line of flight.
He played one round with his clubs and the next with steel-shafted persimmon woods and irons and a balata ball from the mid-80s. IBM recorded driving distance data at 11 PGA Tour events in 1968. A driver two inches longer and two ounces lighter enabled Campbell to generate more speed. The best coaching tips and latest golf news delivered straight to you. Two decades later, he’d gained 13 yards. https://www.golfchannel.com/video/how-swing-golf-club-bobby-jones Study the career of Fred Couples to grasp the impact technology has made on driving distance at the game’s highest level. His swing would have needed huge overhauls to be as affective with steel shafts.On the putting, I agree with the end, but not how you got to it. He averaged 268.7 yards in driving distance, which was eighth on the PGA Tour. Without a doubt the most common fault in golf is slicing.
Drives exceeding 350 yards are seemingly routine for Dustin Johnson.
This is an excerpt from a book in the Online Classics Golf Library, an ever-expanding collection of golf books. Subsequent study of the golf swing has proven that the club cannot and does not travel back and forth on the same line. With the driver, he observed a 25-30 yard difference on well-struck shots. Today’s era benefits from lighter shafts, larger clubheads with springy faces and a solid core multi-layered golf ball. He recorded a top measured speed of 130.9 mph. Jones,Hogan,Snead,etc all great...but TW blows them all away. Add to this the common suggestion of a tight grip with the last three fingers of the left hand and you have a hand action which will throw the face of the club open. Today, such drives are routine.
I'm with you whole heartedly. The Limerick Summary: Tour Championship & FedEx Cup, Tiger's Mystery Putting Lesson with O'Hair, The Sonnet Summary: The Samsung World Championship, The Limerick Summary: The BMW Championship, Steve Stricker’s “Dead Hands” Approach Shot. In all, 14 pros averaged 120 mph or better. After one or two such slices, everybody in the foursome becomes a coach and the routine advice offered is this: “You are pulling your club from the outside in—you are coming across the ball from outside in—now what you must do is to swing from the inside out.” They continue: “Imagine that the ball is sitting on home plate and you are driving it to second base—but don’t try to swing straight through the second base, swing from inside out—swing out towards first base.”. Considering their length off the tee would’ve put them in the top 10 in 1980, it’s fair to assume they’d rank at least as high today. A recent study also sheds light on the subject. He used his right wrist as an unpowered hinge, and the movement of his right arm and hands created a long low backswing very similar to a modern stroke. This year at age 52, Love was one of the eight golfers who had a 400-plus drive.
You have to be your own swing doctor and see if this doesn’t answer a question or two that you might have but don …… […].
What can the player do but pull the club across the line of flight as the club is brought into the ball?
All this brings up the subject of just where the club does go as it travels from the ball to the top of the swing and down again into the ball and the follow through. And as much as I love Tiger, the fact remains that he hasn't broken all those records set by the "old timers." Otherwise, no change. Even 15 years later he still hit drives that distance in a Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf match against the equally long-hitting Sam Snead. It’s not a stretch to believe Trevino. Membership and lifetime access to the OCG library can be yours with your purchase of. Nicklaus cranked a 341-yard blast to win the PGA Championship’s long drive competition in 1963 with the “old ball.” When he was 18 years old, he and Arnold Palmer drove the green on a 330-yard par 4 at Athens (Ohio) CC, a story Nicklaus shared at Palmer’s memorial service. It is regrettable that the pictures were not regarded for their true worth. Sign Up to get the latest. the home of children's writer Mick Michaels (yep, that's me!). One payment, continuous books on golf sent to you to read on your computer or print out and read while sitting on your couch or easy chair. These days in pro golf, power is prevalent. It's not just about being bigger and stronger. I both agree and disagree with you, Court. He averaged 297.5 yards in driving distance, which was 24th on the PGA Tour. Fairways are mown at roughly ½ inch on the PGA Tour now, significantly lower than in the past, although courses benefit from extensive irrigation. The tape showed Jones driving the ball 250-260 yards, and measured his swing speed at 113 mph.
According to shotlink data, there were 200 measured drives of 375 yards or longer during the 2015-16 PGA Tour season, including eight surpassing the 400-yard barrier. Well Said. Still, the question lingers, how far would golf’s legends hit the ball with today’s equipment? When Tour pros put the Titleist Pro VI in play in late 2000, they automatically hit the ball 10-15 yards farther with each iron.
The gap stretched to 50-60 yards on mishit shots. No sport psychologists, no swing/putting coaches. Any swing instructor method can work for you.
[…] Bobby Jones Swing | Break 80 Golf – Golf Practice is … – Craig’s take: Bobby Jones swing is HIS swing. In a fourball match at the 2016 Ryder Cup, 6-foot-5 Thomas Pieters belted a drive 324 yards. Love the old timers but no. (In fact, on a long putt, Jones's hands could move as much as a foot or more.) One popular topic for debate in most sports concerns how well great athletes from other eras would compete against today’s stars. Would Tiger have run up such an impressive record if he had to play against Bobby Jones? After logging in you can close it and return to this page. It’s reasonable to assume Jones, who was one of the longer hitters of the day and the game’s greatest amateur, would have no trouble keeping up if given modern equipment. His wristy, "popping" style of stroke would not work very well on modern greens - but I have no doubt that he would have learned to putt just as well with a modern stroke since great putting has more to do with feel and reading ability than pure mechanics. Experts on the business and game of golf. In the last 20 years, it exploded. Much to their surprise they discovered that Bobby Jones’ golf club did not go back and forth on the same line—as a matter of fact, it did a decided loop.
This is about having a two-plane golf swing and being ok with it. You have to be your own swing doctor and see if this doesn’t answer a question or two that you might have but don’t take it totally literally. Andrew Loupe led the PGA Tour with 125.5 average clubhead speed. The advent of graphite makes all of Jones's swing techniques viable again. He was truly a master of the game.I doubt that Tiger, Jack or Arnie would have been able to hold a candle to Mr. Jones. Ben Hogan hit his driver 265 yards, according to an article in the June 10, 1949 issue of Time Magazine. Adding 35 yards for increased speed, hotter driver and better ball, Nicklaus would've averaged 311.0 last season. Today's golfers are stronger,faster, and better fueled. Suppose I told you that we have records of Jones’s performance with an oversized, deep-faced driver? “If we had (the new) golf ball in my day," Lee Trevino told USA Today in 2007, “The best of us would have hit it 300 yards and Jack Nicklaus would have hit it 360.”. Brandt Snedeker, who is slightly shorter than average, played back-to-back rounds on the Sea Island Plantation course for an article that appeared in USA Today.
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