6 steps to stripe it like major-winner Keegan Bradley

It appears like yesterday: Keegan Bradley, PGA Tour rookie, beating Jason Dufner in a playoff on the 2011 PGA Championship, in one of many extra thrilling main finishes in current reminiscence. In actuality, Bradley, now 36, adopted his PGA win with simply two different victories. His current triumph on the 2022 ZOZO Championship, nevertheless, hints that Bradley is rounding again into kind.

Keegan stands six-three. Like most tall gamers, he’s battled deal with posture and shoulder-tilt points that shorter golfers often don’t have to take care of. In basic, the taller you’re, the extra you may have to bend ahead at deal with to attain the ball. Simply turning across the backbone angle you determine at setup — as taught — creates a steeper-than-ideal swing airplane. As a younger golfer, Bradley fought the difficulty by consciously turning his shoulders “flat” and leaning his torso to the proper as he swung again. While this resulted in an excessively inside-out swing and unpredictable pushes and hooks, he tempered it, largely, with the assistance of GOLF Hall of Famer Jim McLean early in his PGA Tour profession.

Today, Bradley’s swing has morphed into a pleasant steadiness of extra orthodox turns and tilts, coupled with a free-arm swing. As you possibly can see from the sequence above, it’s no marvel he’s again within the winner’s circle.

Here are the six keys to his swing.

1. Address

Attention tall golfers: The extra bent over you’re at deal with, the extra you’ll want to swing round your physique to preserve from getting overly steep.

2. Takeaway

A large one-piece takeaway—as taught—is hard to make once you deal with the ball like Keegan. That’s why he units his wrists comparatively early and rotates the clubface to extra of a toe-up place. The adjustment works.

3. Top

Players who set their wrists and rotate the face early have a tendency to lay off the membership on the high. Bradley fights this with a Johnny Miller–esque upright and barely across-the-line place.

4. Downswing

Keegan is pulling, rotating and reducing his arms right into a stable supply place, letting his palms lead the membership. And take a look at that proper elbow: properly tucked, which shallows out his downswing and retains the face from closing too early

5. Impact

Notice how Keegan’s hips are rather more open than his shoulders, a transfer that helps preserve his proper arm bent and his palms ahead. The consequence: a power-rich inside assault.

6. Release

Talk about letting go! To get one of these extension, preserve your higher chest again whereas straightening your proper arm and wrist post-impact.