Learning from Tour Player Swings, Part 4 (Sway)
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In today's episode, Mark compares motion capture data from two elite players—this time, Jon Rahm and Rickie Fowler. The point of comparison: how much do they move their center away from or toward the target at different points in the swing. Lou and Greg make their best guesses, but then the discussion turns to how "sway" in the swing affects other swing characteristics, and how that might be relevant to your game and helping you improve.
Where to find us:
Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe
Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline
Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline
Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe
Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner
Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA
The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Really interesting swing video or episode, not video podcast today. |
| 0:04.7 | Greg and Lou in the house. |
| 0:05.8 | We'll do our normal competition, guys. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm going to share some gears, measure gears information. |
| 0:11.5 | So that's 3D capture of two world class players. |
| 0:13.5 | We're going to be looking at John Ram's swing. |
| 0:15.4 | So anyone listening to picture that in your head. |
| 0:17.8 | And we're also going to talk about Ricky Fowler's goal swing. |
| 0:20.5 | Now, I don't know when |
| 0:21.4 | these captures were taken, subject to how they might move now. They generally stay quite similar |
| 0:27.6 | to what you'll see, but there could be discrepancies if they've moved these numbers a bit. But as |
| 0:32.5 | the point of these captures were taken, we're going to be talking about pelvic sway. So to give an |
| 0:37.2 | idea of what pelvic sway is, to be talking about pelvic sway. So to give an idea what pelvic |
| 0:38.0 | sway is, people would be thinking hip sway. And when I say sway, that can be away from the |
| 0:45.0 | target and towards the target. Okay, so sway doesn't just mean people think the word sway and they |
| 0:50.9 | think right, swaying off the ball and moving away from targeting that's a bad thing |
| 0:55.7 | and they then forget that you might need to go the other way as well so we're talking pelvic sway and |
| 1:00.9 | pelvic sway the measurement I've got is from the center of the pelvis so as if you imagine you cut |
| 1:06.8 | the human open and put a dot right in between their pelvis, basically, |
| 1:11.9 | which you would see when people draw those lines on like trail, hip and lead hip, |
| 1:15.8 | how much people are moving. |
| 1:17.4 | It might translate a bit out onto that. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

