But what immediately caught my eye was a short article called A Swing for the Ages: How Watson Got Straighter that Jack Nicklaus wrote. It’s accompanied by a foldout showing Tom’s swing in both 1980 and 2009, which is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’ll come back to that in a moment.
Jack says the secret to Tom’s swing is his shoulder turn, which I generally refer to as a coil. His coil today is not quite as big as it was in 1980, but it’s very close. He also mentions that Tom lets his body react to the swinging of the club to generate power, rather than swinging to positions. Both are things which weekend players can learn from.
But what struck me most were the pictures comparing the downswings. You can look at the complete sequence here at the Golf Digest site, but I’ve clipped the two frames that caught my eye. (I hope they don’t mind!)
Don’t believe it when they say your game has to deteriorate as you get older. Tom Watson is proof that it doesn’t.
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