Learning from Tour Player Swings, Part 8 (Center of Mass to Hand Distance)
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Mark, Lou, and Greg continue to take measured data from Tour (and, in this case, also amateur) swings and see what it tells us for making real improvement in our games. In this episode, Mark pulls up data on the distance between the golfer's center of mass and the edge of his hand, both at address and at the top of the backswing. Because these can both move (and they move quite differently between pros and amateurs), the distance answer might be surprising (it was to Lou and Greg!). From this, though, they suggest ideas that could make your swing—and your scoring—better.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk more golf swing today. |
| 0:02.2 | I like these golf swing episodes. |
| 0:03.6 | We're going to measure an average tour pro with an iron is what we're actually going to look at today. Lou and Greg, welcome. You ready for your test? Can't wait. Can't wait. I'm very excited. Who won the last one? It's all been a bit crazy lately. I think it would be me. I think it was. Greg never forgets who wins. that's amazing. |
| 0:22.3 | I know. |
| 0:23.2 | Until he loses. |
| 0:24.7 | Yeah. crazy lately. I think it would be me. I think it was. Greg never forgets who wins. That's amazing. I know. Until he loses. And then he goes, oh, I can't remember. Doesn't matter. Let's move on. Nobody cares. And obviously the listeners at home, you feel free to guess and hopefully learn a bit as well. So it's an iron swing and it's the average tour player. So the system |
| 0:38.3 | I'm using, they like compiling, I think from a certain amount of their tour pros. And we're |
| 0:44.6 | going to look at the distance between the centre of mass of the golfer. So think like tummy button, |
| 0:50.7 | but inside them. So right in the middle of their tummy hips around the area, |
| 0:57.7 | right at the base of the spine, but inside them, center of the tongue. We got to pause. |
| 1:02.6 | You call it a tummy button in the UK? Like, I can't get past it. I have no idea what you said |
| 1:07.4 | after that. I'm like, tummy button. Who calls it that? Everyone, when I do this |
| 1:11.1 | in videos, I have to put a disclaimer in sent. I know half of you are giggling at this, but that's |
| 1:15.7 | what I call it. What is it? A belly button. You call it a belly button. There's no way. |
| 1:20.6 | You can't be serious. Tommy button. All right, start at the beginning again. I've completely lost my train of thought. |
| 1:29.9 | So center of mass of the golfer, |
| 1:31.9 | so right in the middle of their body, |
| 1:34.1 | right at the kind of top of their pelvis |
| 1:36.0 | inside their tummy or their belly, |
| 1:40.2 | if that's what you're calling it. |
| 1:42.1 | Okay, and I want you to tell me |
| 1:44.0 | the distance between the center of mass and the base of their |
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