Tom Weiskopf Swing Analysis: 14 Years of Brilliance

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Wayne Defrancesco Golf Learning Center

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Between 1968 and 1982 Tom Weiskopf won 16 PGA Tour events including the British Open in 1973, a year in which he won 7 times world wide and was ranked #2 in the world. Weiskopf came close to being remembered as one of the all-time greats, but suffered 4 runner-up finishes in the Masters and a runner-up and 4 top 4s in the U.S. Open. Just as players in the 2000’s had to deal with Tiger Woods, Weiskopf played in the shadow of Nicklaus and Watson, and by the mid-80’s had all but ceased to compete, not returning to competition until turning 50 in 1992 and playing the Senior Tour, where he won 4 times including the U.S. Senior Open in 1995. Weiskopf looks like a prototype for todays average Tour star, tall (6’3”), and lanky strong, hitting the ball longer and higher than most while exhibiting great control with his shorter clubs. We also see comparisons to today’s players as he utilized a full wind up backswing with his driver while keeping his iron swing much shorter. What stands out as a huge difference between Weiskopf’s technique and today’s swings is his large amount of lateral movement, both off the ball in the backswing and with his lower body in the forward swing. He, along with Nicklaus, Watson, and Johnny Miller (among others) finished his swing in a pronounced “reverse-C”, as his leg drive continued well past impact while he kept his head and upper body behind the ball. Other items of interest in his swing are his right forearm takeaway, his flat or even bowed left wrist and the top of his swing, and his “hands out” move in transition which kept the club nicely in front of him in the downswing.

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@spencerjsteel Жыл бұрын

What a talent he was. I'm almost 54, so he'd stopped playing regularly by the time I was in high school, but he said one of the funniest things on a golf broadcast that I can remember. When Nicklaus got to 16 tee in the final round of the '86 Masters, another broadcaster asked him what Jack was thinking. Without missing a beat he said something like "If I knew, I'd have won this thing".

@KevinByrne-l4t 5 ай бұрын

I followed him, jack Nicholas and jerry pate on the Wednesday practice round at the 1976 British open, he outdrove Nicholas on every hole and hit every fairway, nicholas played the best score wise, pate was terrible, i think he was overawed.

@cameronlawoffices898 Жыл бұрын

Funny you should show him on 12 at ANGC, where he once made a 12. I caddied in the same group as him. No pro minded playing with him. I think most of his reputation as a jerk arose out of alcoholism. I never saw him hit one fat. Not ever.

@kiplingvisintini5783 Жыл бұрын

i think he said jack was long but i was longer.75 masters i think he drove it about 350 off 18 hole watch the flim.holy shhit.

@nicholasschroeder3678 3 ай бұрын

Nicklaus said it himself in his book that Weiskoff was the only player out there that consistently outdrove him.

@Oldag75 3 ай бұрын

"A little bit of a temper." At Colonial one time, watching a fairway to my front, I heard behind me a quiet whop-whop-whop...... The noise came from a club Tom had thrown from the tee of the next hole. But I did get his autograph on a Colonial program after he'd finished the round.

@batman48195 Жыл бұрын

I had heard that since the ball spun so much that the reverse C came from them hitting up on the ball as much as they could to launch it with the least amount of spin that they could.