May 31, 2010
Congrats to Zach Johnson on his record breaking 21 under par victory. He made a bushel of 20+ footers this weekend posting back-to-back 64’s. That’s Ryder Cup good! And to top it off, Zach just may be the nicest guy on tour! But I wouldn’t be in a hurry to copy his putting style! Zach lives and dies with that straight right arm/cupped left wrist approach to putting. When he’s on, he’s terrific. But he’s just not off as often as we’d like to see him be. The same goes for his overly strong “kid grip” in his full swing. When his timing is on, he stripes it, but again that isn’t often enough.
As I constantly remind my student’s: quality fundamentals + talent will win more often than talent and timing alone.
Our Close But No Cigar Award this week goes to Brian Davis (and for the 2nd week in a row, Jeff Overton). This is also Brian’s 2nd runner-up tournament in a month. Remember the penalty he called on hiself in the play-off at Harbourtown? To get into the winners circle Brian needs to learn the feel of driving his right shoulder blade into his left heel as the first move of his downswing. Right now his right shoulder gets “outside” on the way down so he can’t attack from the inside corner of the ball. This “over the top” move causes him to lose power and pull shots left – particularly in crunch time. He missed left 3 times down the stretch this week. When he makes this adjustment, we just may see him finally break through!
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