Golf Sport News :Gary Woodland, Power Golf Redefined

December 10, 2011

Here’s the next new thing on the PGA Tour. Given that Gary has maxed out at 202 MPH ball speed, you’d expect him to play grip it and rip type of golf. But it seems the opposite is the case, he’s taking  the thinking man’s  strategic approach and it appears to me that he’s

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Here’s the next new thing on the PGA Tour. Given that Gary has maxed out at 202 MPH ball speed, you’d expect him to play grip it and rip type of golf. But it seems the opposite is the case, he’s taking  the thinking man’s  strategic approach and it appears to me that he’s more concerned with control and winning and less with distance. His swing is “smooth as ice and twice as nice”. He’s definitely not going at it at more than 80% and still finished 5th. on tour in driving distance with an average of 310.5 yards. His tour radar stats this year were:Not bad for someone who appears to be “Smoothing it out there” and has plenty in reserve. Here’s an excerpt from a Q&A with him done by PGATOUR.com:Q. We’ve got one of the best swing analyst, maybe “the” best swing analyst in the world on the slow motion camera, and we can’t get your swing in slow motion. That’s how much club head speed there is. Do you feel like you’re hitting the ball hard?GARY WOODLAND: I don’t. The one on 17 was really the only one I swung hard at today, and I missed it. I’m trying to go 80%. I have a lot of power in the lower body, it’s pretty stable down there, and I fire through it pretty hard.It’s obviously a pivot powered swing. My hats off to his Coach, Randy Smith for being able to refine Gary’s Raw Athletic ability into what it is today. After his performance in this weeks World Cup, I expect some great things from him in 2012. In fact I wouldn’t put a Major Championship past him.Here’s a video of some of his swings this week:Here’s Gary describing his swing sequence:Hit em Straight

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