How Will Zalatoris Rebuilt His Swing | Film Study | Golf Digest
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2024
- Will Zalatoris stormed into professional golf, making a name from himself at the top of the game and impressing his peers. But the swing that got him there was also his downfall. Back surgery followed and he was forced to rebuild his golf swing. In this Film Study, our very own Luke Kerr-Dineen breaks down the changes Zalatoris and his coach, Troy Denton, had to make to his swing and how they could affect his game in the future.
Senior Editor: Luke Kerr-Dineen
Director of Content: Jamie Kennedy
Editor: Baranowski
Executive Producer: Christian Iooss
Footage credit: Titleist
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Joaquin Niemann just bookmarked this video
I was just gonna say the same thing 🤣
LMAO
😂😂😂😂
He’s done if he doesn’t change asap
Add Mito Perreria to that bookmark
I agree! Niemann is next in line for injury if he continues on his current swing technique. I sadly predicted Will's back injury. Happy to see him out there, truly one the pga's most watchable players. Talented, humble, smart, a market asset. Best wishes Will! Major titles await you!
Absolutely love those swing studies. Bravo
These film studies are always awesome. Great stuff 👍
Just an excellent piece of artistic sports journalism
Great explanation… I hope to see Will at the top again he’s definitely one of my favorites
Funny how I stumbled on this, I was getting my right shoulder too high around impact and was forced to stand up too quick, now I tried keeping shoulder tilt downward great finish but did notice lower back pain.
There is such a fine line in that hitting area. I think getting the angle close, then using the arms with speed may help.
I'm not sure how new this insight really is. I recall seeing stories in Golf Digest 30 years ago discussing how "reverse C" moves - side bend in the modern slang - tend to be the sign of back problems to come.
Trying to create this side bend has caused me long term sciatica, back hasn’t been the same since.
Sounds like you herniated the same disc that Zalatoris did. Coincidentally, I herniated the same disc as well, and I am of the same skinny lanky build as Zalatoris.
Herniated discs used to be an older body, or an overweight body type of issue. They’re now becoming prevalent in skinny, lanky golfers as well.
nice video
A missing piece of information is when Will went to TPI, they found one his hips weren't very flexible for the amount of side bend he was using. Hence why all that force was going through his lower back. Side bend in of itself isn't always an issue
If your right hip is higher than the lower back while twisting, it’s always the issue
@@jordan19862000 I agree. In Will's case his lack of hip mobility lead to that mis match
I hurt my ribs 2 weeks ago with too much side bend.
Who was the low am in the Masters last year? He’s got a crazy move and I worry about his back long-term.
Was it Bennett?
Sam Bennett, to be honest in a similar vein I’m wondering about Gordon Sargent’s swing. I swear seeing his swing makes me want to donate my spine to him.
@@alexanderjefferies7740
Don't do that. He'd ruin your spine faster than he will ruin his own.
He needs to straighten the trail leg on the back swing, too, and keep it softer on the through swing. The main issue is having way more should tilt than hip tilt and not the reverse c.
needs to get a LIV contract asap
A lot of good players start moving their head back during the downswing in an effort to create side bend. You could see that when he was younger he wouldn't do that but developed it as he went along. It happens a lot when trying to hit up with the driver. That's how it gets excessive for a good player. In the shots shown now, he's not doing that anymore, so they corrected it. Need hip slide on downswing to get side bend started but don't have head moving back.
Theegala also.
Reminds me of neiman and hovland
Mike Austin swing is the best on your body and you can hit far as well
so this video doesn´t apply to Joaquín Niemann I guess
Everyone is different the problems might come soon ( I hope not ) he's only 25 I'd be surprised if his motion is the same at 30
It applies to JN as well. He won’t be doing it for long
5 minutes later and I’m convinced those are the same swings
Agree. All I see is the left wrist is bowed more at the top of backswing which shallows the club coming down. His old swing required a drop move with the arms to shallow the club. Now his arms just return on the same plane and club shallows automatically
I always thought his arched back, combined with the C-shape, caused problems. Wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t arch his low back.
He's hardly shiftered, hardly noticeable, he could flatten that plane a bit more, yet, or he'll end up like Jason day with a long time off, this new kidd Knapp has some bad angles well
Back to the top? How about getting there first?
Side bend is not the issue..
Not even GD knows how Will Z damaged his spine and will in time take him out of golf all together.
Instead GD talks, "side bend"
Jack Nicklaus G.O.A.T. and Johnny Miller released tension on their lower back by
inverting their left foot(left big toe) through impact. Will Z keeps his left big toe down. That move will destroy the lower spine/pelvic basin.
The so called TURN in golf swing is a pivot around the right hip joint in BS and pivot around the left hip through impact. Read, The Hogan Manual of Human Performance: GOLF, 1991.
should allcap the name
Zalatoris is going to injury his lower back/pelvis again. He still keeps his big right toe down at impact
This stresses the spine where it is fused to the pelvis. The stress has to go the left heel and left big toe has to release.
Every golfer has to release the big toe(left foot) and preferably invert the foot as Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller did.
Correction: Big left toe has to release at impact.. preferably the left foot inverts, with weight on to the left heel NOT the left toes.
Watch Scottie Scheffler release his left big toe and invert his left foot....it will keep his lower back free of injury for many years....not an accident or style points.
Gordon Sargents swing is just a back injury waiting to happen
is scottie doing to do this? swing your swing.
He's got one of the most unique swings in golf. Luckily for him, if you watch it, theres not a ton of back bend. He somehow has turned the golf swing into not just a rotation, but forward motion because of his feet.
Scottie's feet sliding, and literally leaving the ground at points, alleviates a lot of pressure and tension
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So much wrong with this video. The conflation of side bend and tilt is just for starters.
Amateur golferfesessess
Dude is a major problem
Dear GD: get a new narrator for these videos.