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Today we’re going to take a look at the great “Slammin’ Sam Snead.” Snead had an excellent golf swing that’s been modeled after and discussed for many, many years. It’s a silky smooth swing that Jim Hardy referenced as basically a model one plane golf swing.
We’re going to examine it to see what’s going on in this golf swing analysis and what we can take away from it. We’ve got two swings to look at; an iron view from face on and a wood from the fairway down the line.
The camera angle is slightly off in the face on view, so you can’t really get an idea of ball position here. His feet look pretty square, but the ball is probably not as far back in his stance as it appears in the photo, so take that into account.
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We’ll draw a couple of lines on the outside of his legs and the side of his head so we can see how much movement was going on in his swing relative to his setup position, and what we can learn from it. If you want to compare your own mechanics to elite models, tools like the AI swing analyzer can reveal these same movement patterns in your swing instantly.
As he moves the club back through the takeaway we see that his head stays very, very centered. There’s no extraneous hand movement at this point, no big shift off the ball by any stretch of the imagination. His hips are really just turning. The lines we’ve drawn show that his trail leg hasn’t moved; he’s not moving or shifting off the ball.
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