I will never be accused of having looked at too many golfers’ swings, because I have invariably focused on the male subset of swingers, but I came across the Sybervision video featuring LPGA legend Patty Sheehan’s swing that just blew me away.
I have featured Mickey Wright’s swing in the past, but this swing model of Sheehan’s is absolutely the closest thing I’ve seen to the MCS Classic Golf Swing model I built between 2014-2017, to be completely honest.
She has everything in the model, with the only exception being the shaft angle of the persimmon driver, but that’s the way I would have built the model in the persimmon era:
- “Leaning A” setup with the address weight and spine angle,
- Head over the right side,
- Hips slightly turned to the target,
- Slight forward press with the hands to trigger the swing,
- Stable head position on the back pivot and
- The “short-stop slide” foot release.
She even has the “Trebuchet Drop” head action from the top to impact!
Absolutely unreal – and the reason I was gob-smacked is that I’ve been trying to get myself to the model’s metrics and have yet to nail it on video, yet here is Patty decades ago using virtually the same swing model that I built looking at the greats of the PGA Tour past and present.
This, my friends, is how I would expect to see someone swing if they came to me for swing help and followed all of my video instructions to the T.
Looking down the line:
- Upright stance, no squatting or bending over the ball,
- Weight balanced over the feet,
- Relaxed spine,
- Slight “kick-in” of the right leg.
Really incredible stuff here – no wonder she garnered 6 major titles and over 30 professional wins in her time, and had she been taller than her 5’3″ (161.5 cm) build, say Mickey Wright’s size (5’7.5″ or 175 cm), I daresay she would have won a good deal more than she did.
That stick-figure swing is something else, isn’t it?
It shows how cleanly and purely she leveraged the club with her hips and leg action, and the only thing she could have possibly wanted out of this swing would be to have possessed longer levers, hence the “even better if she’d been taller” observation.
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DJ, what do you mean by “She even has the “Trebuchet Drop” head action from the top to impact!”
Hi Bob – if you look at Patty’s head in the face-on swing gif., her head moves slightly down and back on the down swing to impact.
I coined that phrase years ago to describe that head motion seen in some swingers.
DJ
DJ, thank you for the reply. Have you put in writing the moves or feels to develop this head movement?
Welcome, Bob.
It’s actually a compensatory move due to the head not being in its optimal position for impact at address.
So, instead of the head moving on the back pivot (something no athlete likes to have happen), the head remains in stable position until the transition, it moves down and back in unison with the arms and club dropping.
This is something I used to do years back when trying to emulate the Austin/Dunaway swings, because as a lifelong sports participant, I couldn’t force myself to move my head for the life of me on the back pivot.
So, it’s not something that improves someone’s swing but rather a compensation for a slightly out of place head position in the setup.
It takes tremendous hand-eye coordination to pull off and the optimal thing is to have a stable head from address to impact. 😊
DJ, thank you again for the 2nd reply. From what I am gathering, place the head in line with the right foot and keep it there. I have been studying Austin/Dunaway and you for years but I have wasted too much time with other swings. No more! Rainy day here in Detroit so time to get watching E=MCS 1 and 2. Have you ever studied Tom Duke’s stuff? His website no longer allows purchase of his/Dunaways’ swing system.
Most welcome, Bob. No, I haven’t heard of Tom Duke, but I haven’t been in the Austin/Dunaway camp since late 2012/early ’13.
And yes, if you still have the “E = MCS” swing video, that is all you need for getting back on track swinging with mechanical correctness! 🙂
OMG Mike Dunaway rose from the dead and came back a female 👏👏
Fun fact, Roger – she is only a year younger than him, so they were swinging away relatively at the same time!
That was the missing part in my swing , swinging under not around thanks
Very welcome Fred – it’s amazing how a great swing, slowed down, can make things click, isn’t it? I’ll never get tired of looking at this swing, and until I can do better myself mechanically, the following would be the poster-child for the MCS Classic Golf Swing: