JB Holmes vs. Brittany Lincicome Golf Swing Analysis

If you've been looking for that secret move to put in your golf swing to add more power, then you're going to want to pay close attention to how two of their respective tours' longest hitters — J.B. Holmes on the PGA Tour and Brittany Lincicome on the LPGA Tour — use their lower half in the downswing sequence to perfection, building tremendous power and clubhead speed. Now, let's go ahead and get started.

                Okay guys, so as I said in the opener, we're going to be taking a look at two of the longest players on their respective tours. J.B. Holmes, who is ranked 7th on the PGA Tour averaging well over 300 yards off the tee, and Brittany Lincicome averaging 260-plus yards, sitting in 3rd place for total driving distance on the LPGA Tour. One of the big things we've got to really understand before we get started is that to effectively swing the golf club at 100 miles per hour, we need more than 30 pounds of muscle available and actively engaged. You can even run your own swing through an AI swing analyzer to see how your current power mechanics stack up against what Holmes and Lincicome do here.

                A lot of times golfers get wrapped up in trying to use mostly their arms and shoulders and chest to produce all that clubhead speed, and there's just not enough muscle mass available up there — unless you've spent a serious amount of time in the gym building your shoulders and arms. Generally speaking, it's very difficult to generate that kind of clubhead speed from those smaller muscle groups alone.

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                So what we want to think about is where we have our biggest muscle groups available. We talk a lot about the core muscles — the abs and the obliques. We certainly want to talk about the glute muscles, because the glutes are really our chunkiest and most powerful muscles. A lot of times if we focus on hitting the golf ball with our legs, we'll be way more powerful in the swing and we'll be able to use ground force energy. We'll be able to move that energy up the kinetic chain and turn it into massive clubhead speed through impact.

                Let's go ahead and take a look at both players. There's one very common move that you'll see in both J.B. Holmes and Brittany Lincicome. I'm going to work both into the takeaway here — they both stay extremely wide. If you've been having trouble keeping your swing wide in the takeaway, the video “Keep the Trail Arm Straight to Turn” is exactly what you need. Both of these players do that extremely well, so you're going to see at the completed takeaway that both arms are very wide and their shoulders have rotated about 45 degrees. Then I'm going to get Brittany up to the top of her swing, because this is where the big power move starts to happen.

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