Excellent analysis. I have been analysing swings for 55 years, Min Woo's swing is quite new and different though there are some similarities with Wilco Nienaber and one or two others. One point that you may have missed is that Min Woo's downswing starts with his hands moving the grip down almost in a straight line (seen from the front) while holding the club in a laid off position for the first two feet (the club is not in the swing plane of the hands). The advantage is that there is very little centrifugal effect so release is delayed while the club accelerates. I believe that this is how a slim, not very muscular young man can generate such speed. It does require a lot of training and flexibility, difficult for older players. Bryson also delays the centrifugal release to an extreme.
Wow this is crazy because I’ve been messing with that “feel” of bringing my left arm straight through contact. It’s surprisingly consistent!! I feel like my arm and hand is a chainsaw (violent) ripping through the ground to the target
Good, but the over use of the word early extension has caused it to lose all meaning. Back Extension by definition is related to the angle between the femur and spine. Usually when you extend, or stand up out of posture, your butt cheeks move away from their starting position (goat humping). But that's just a correlation, hip positioning is not what actual extension is. Is that space between his cheeks and the red line caused by him actually extending his spine, or moving his weight on his toes, or something else like too much right side bend and forward sliding? The next word is "Early". So did the angle between his spine and femur change in the downswing and was it done too early? Brooks Koepka extends like crazy through his downswing, but his butt stays on the starting vertical red line and he keeps his spine angle.
yeh I don't like the term early extension, if im honest, I don't like a lot of golf terminology. It such a loose definition, I like your thinking. There a big difference between extending early and moving the butt cheeks off the line!
Trust me i know early extension and thats not lol. Also, theres no mention of him being super laid off at the top which to me is one of the most stark characteristics of his swing, and how he gets back on plane
The term Early Extension is too broad of a term and often over used. Yes he comes of that wall with his butt but if you were to compare his address to say Adam Scott’s address, his but is a good 2-3 inches further back with maybe a touch more knee flex. That’s really where I see is so called “Early Extension” coming from. He doesn’t loose posture, he doesn’t slide like a Nicklaus. I’d say the way the 2 EE are 2 totally different things. Nicklaus slid, Woo doesn’t but rather just sets up further back with his pelvis and moves slightly up into a good impact spot. If woo simply set up with his hips over his heels, not behind them, he wouldn’t EE. If he didn’t have the EE with his current set up he’d have to manipulate a bunch of things, he’d probably get that trendy head dip move many young player have from excessive lead hip depth & decreasing his spine angle, etc. maybe I’m old school but I prefer to see the spine angle stay relatively the same at impact as address rather than decrease or increase with a fairly steady head. Of course the head can rotate some with the swing & move a touch but idt the excessive hip depth & head dip will be taught like it is now in 5 years. There’s a happy medium in basically everything in the swing and of course every swing is like a finger print(different), the amount of side bend needed for some of the newer swings we see with tons of lead hip depth isn’t good for the spine similar to how the opposite of getting real EE where the spine gets basically compressed but there’s a godly locks spot where all things are ideal. It’s funny how many changes I’ve seen in golf instruction over the past 30 years or so. We always think we now know what the best way to swing a club is but it always changes, trends come & go, then come back again, on & on. Another thing with his trail foot coming up is lessening the amount of torque that would be on his lower back and lifting the trail ft can cause EE depending on how the pressures shift but can also help increase the lead hip depth. The trail side needs to come off the wall if the lead side is going to get back on/through it.
How come when Min Woo Lee and Bryson DeChambeau swing at 190+ mph, they look like they are swinging out of their shoes to get to those speeds, whereas Cameron Champ and Martin Borgmeier look like they are swinging with such ease yet still reach maximum clubhead speed?
