Stretch in the Golf Swing
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is one that will likely help you hit the ball with more power but less effort: Mark talks about stretch in the swing, mostly the backswing, with Lou and Greg. What is stretch in the swing? How can someone like Rahm, with relatively little stretch the backswing, hit the ball as far as someone like Bubba Watson, who had a ton of stretch? And how can everyday golfers incorporate this idea to improve their own games?
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| 0:00.0 | do you stretch enough in your golf swing that's what i'm going to ask today that's what we're |
| 0:05.2 | going to chat about today in today's uh podcast i don't like this episode yeah luke doesn't like |
| 0:11.3 | yeah i've just clicked like this already before his upload starting because i know where this is |
| 0:16.1 | going with both of you guys where this is going this is about stretching it just get it |
| 0:21.2 | get it out of the way now |
| 0:22.7 | if there's one person here |
| 0:25.3 | who's not that great |
| 0:26.6 | as stretching |
| 0:27.3 | for many reasons |
| 0:29.0 | it's a little tiny arms |
| 0:31.6 | swimming pools nearby |
| 0:34.1 | you can fall in them |
| 0:35.3 | do his angling |
| 0:36.1 | anything could happen |
| 0:37.1 | who knows where this is |
| 0:39.7 | set it yeah awesome so i've got some interesting ideas around stretch because i do think it's one |
| 0:45.1 | that we see i definitely see lots of amateurs not stretching much in their goal swing like the |
| 0:51.2 | the the the premise around amateur swings generally is keeping everything |
| 0:55.5 | close and tight, connected, and where they feel safe, they don't like to try and push things |
| 1:01.9 | away. And then often when they do push things away, they push them away at the wrong time. |
| 1:07.0 | So often they're happy to make a stretch at the takeaway, push everything away, and then they kind of all breaks down from there on. |
| 1:14.3 | So when you start looking at pros to amateurs, there's some interesting numbers and feelings around stretch. |
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