Camilo Villegas аt tһе 2009 US PGA Championship practice range аt Hazeltine National Golf Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota - www.iseekgolf.com Download a HD version here - forums.iseekgolf.com
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he averages 311 per drive. he is #1 on driving distance. enough said
lol perfect golf swing?? so you hit every fairway and hole every second shot? plus hole in one every par 3
Your an idiot who obviously knows nothng about golf from the second you said about power… The power comes from the strike and general quality of your swing and so does consistency and what makes a good golf swing is that it is simple and repeatable which is why moves like dropping the club in and coming over the top are bad although coming over the top is better than dropping it in which you are probably going to disagree with aswell
you know camilo swing with his right arm? he just keeps his left arm straight, i went to colombia for a month in meddellin up in the valleys where camilo played golf, i met his teacher when he was growing up and he tried to teach me the same technique i just hate cutting off my swing there but camilo is strong as hell
Your back should be at the target your club should be at a 90 degree angle with your arm .
if he took it all the way back to parallel it would be pointing right at the target
no man if your clubshaft at the top is pointing at the target it will mean you are getting the club too far across the line at the top, ideally it should be parallel to the target line. camillo looks a little laid off at the top, because of his 3 quater swing but he is perfectly on plane
is his shaft at a weird angle when he gets to the top? i thought your club head was supposed to be more at your target
look at the power and lag created at 1:08
also, show me ONE swing where someone maintains posture through impact, it’s not even possible, even tiger doesn’t do it and he is as fit as they come, and has the best fundamentals in the game. You need a lesson in teaching, what makes a great golfers isn’t little fundamentals. What makes a good player is 1) develop a swing that produces power and 2) repeat that swing until it is second nature to you and can be repeated under pressure. Get to know the tournament game.
villegas is long on tour i dont know the exact yardages and neither do you. And I never said anything about fairways hit or whatever you’re talking about. And believe me, I’m a good player, not some coach who can’t play the game, when it comes to hitting fairways in tournament golf, it has nothing to do with fundamentals, it has to do with confidence and trusting what you’re doing. Villegas trusts his swing, and thats why he is among the top players in the world. You don’t play golf, so shutup.
Many guys on tour routinely rip it well over 310 yards, even somebody as old as Kenny Perry hits well over 300 yards. What it comes down to is percentages of fairways hit, and that can only come from correct fundamentals, something Villegas lacks, and a lot of it comes from loss of posture. Loss of posture before and during impact is common among 80% of golfers, its something I try to teach to all of my students, and as a teacher for the past 6 years its the reoccuring symptom for bad shots.
are you kidding?? the one thing that I think everyone can agree on is that camillo has one of the most powerful swings on tour. The guy weighs 150 and hits it 310, you don’t do that just because your fit.
X-treme x factor. this is where his distance came from!
no such thing as a fundamentally sound swing, arnold palmers wasnt even perfect but what counted was that he got all ball, and put the club back into plane, but anyways…. damn look at the lag he gets!!!
I think the problem with Villegas’ swing is that he hasnt changed his swing mechanics from when he was lanky and only hit it 230 yards. Then he started working out adding muscle but basically kept the old swing, and I think the old mechanically faulty swing itself was responsible for a lack of distance not muscle. Its like tuning up a car to 800 horses but not changing the chassis, drive train or brakes, all you have is power and chaos.
Villegas’ swing is even stranger from a face-on view. Too much shoving and heaving and ’70s-style dragging the club through for my taste–but he makes it work a lot better than I would’ve thought just by looking at the action. You wouldn’t pick him to be in the top half of GIR leaders, and yet he was among the best through the first half of this year.
He has legs coming out of his shoulders!!
mattyco1234 is a hack, ask him what his handicap is. ………
it has nothing to do with thinking or analyzing. it’s a fact that my golf swing is perfect. arguing that fact is like arguing that the earth isn’t round. it’s just stupid.
And you know nothing about the golf swing if you seriously think that you have a ‘perfect’ swing.
well my swing is perfect so i already knew that. but there is no player that maintains his spine angle perfectly through impact. it’s not possible. tiger is very close but he doesnt do it. you know nothing about the golf swing if you don’t think camilo has a good swing.
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I am a qualified golf instructor and have been teaching for 4 years, to say I know nothing about the swing is a tall order. Also I have studied bio mechanics relating to the swing and looking at Camilo’s swing his spine goes from perfectly straight at address to arched at impact, that tells you he is doing something not fundamentally correct. Similar to your swing, ur spine straightens throughout ur backswing, try maintaining the spine angle throughout the swing. All the best.
Camilo’s swing is not fundamentally sound. If you pause at 0:38 you will see fundamental errors at impact, particularly his right heel completely off the ground which means he blocks his hips from rotating through and therefore has to flip his hands to square the face. If u look at Tigers 2009 swings you will notice his right foot almost flat at impact even with a driver, nor does he dip his chin into his chest like Camilo, in fact ur swing is fundamentally more sound at impact than Camilo’s.
he’s definetly not working on any of those things. his swing is really fundamentally sound, its really obvious that you know absolutely nothing about the golf swing or camillo’s golf swing. i can guarantee you that camillo is not working on any of the things you’re talking about. However, if you do want to see a very fundamentally sound golf swing, check mine out.