He developed a swing concept he called supple quickness, generating
clubhead speed by relaxing the muscles.
The weekend hacks are bombarded with advertorial messages on how this club will add this
much clubhead speed and this much loft for this much distance.
But he's demolishing the ball well over 300 yards and clocking some of the
fastest clubhead speeds of anyone on Tour.
A bright jumble of shiny parts and gadgets spills across Johnson's desk: cell phone cases, camera bodies,
golf clubheads, folding knives, and nasty - looking three - inch - long cannon shells.
The clubhead is wider and longer.
In doing so, Tiger wowed Chamblee with
his clubhead speed, especially.
After impact,
the clubhead should travel slightly left of the target line while the ball starts out straight at the target.
As she addresses the ball with one waggle, takes her customary one practice swing and then launches a Titleist nearly 310 yards (about 20 longer than her normal drive), you realize that this is perhaps the most efficient transfer of energy from a moving object (
her clubhead) to a stationary one (the ball) that you have ever beheld.
The equipment companies are most concerned about selling drivers, hammering you with buzzwords about crushing it and improving
your clubhead speed.
«I know I've hit a good drive when I feel the ball being compressed by
the clubhead,» he says in a written exchange, his preferred method for conducting interviews.
That distance and
clubhead speed is fun and sexy to talk about, but his advantage this week lies, as it so often has, in his ballstriking with the irons.
His backswing is overly long and his right elbow flies out, but somehow he returns
the clubhead to the ball with considerable force and precision, sending it some three hundred yards down the middle.