Dave Sawtell -- The World Para Long Drive Wheelchair Champion

[JetFan1983]

I love this. I read he can hit it nearly 200 yards doing this, and that he holds the record for longest one arm drive while seated. Pretty awesome in my book. 

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And some slightly related mechanical stuff:  One thing that's really cool about this is illustrating how important it is to use the right arm correctly in the swing. Right arm only swings are a good way to learn how to swing both on plane and swinging the arms faster. When you swing with just the trail arm, you don't have the lead arm to help with the weight of the club, so you are forced to shallow the club in order to sustain how heavy the club gets after the transition. Keep in mind that it should probably be one's priority piece before trying to do it a lot, but otherwise, it's a cool drill. Works well for short game stuff too. I think this also can help someone swing the arms outward more as well if they have too much depth at 5 (or something like that). 

Anyway, cheers to Dave Sawtell! 

 

[boogielicious]

1 hour ago, JetFan1983 said:

I love this. I read he can hit it nearly 200 yards doing this, and that he holds the record for longest one arm drive while seated. Pretty awesome in my book. 

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And some slightly related mechanical stuff:  One thing that's really cool about this is illustrating how important it is to use the right arm correctly in the swing. Right arm only swings are a good way to learn how to swing both on plane and swinging the arms faster. When you swing with just the trail arm, you don't have the lead arm to help with the weight of the club, so you are forced to shallow the club in order to sustain how heavy the club gets after the transition. Keep in mind that it should probably be one's priority piece before trying to do it a lot, but otherwise, it's a cool drill. Works well for short game stuff too. I think this also can help someone swing the arms outward more as well if they have too much depth at 5 (or something like that). 

Anyway, cheers to Dave Sawtell! 

 

Thanks for posting.

[nevets88]

That backswing is so long, he sees the shaft at P4. That's some flexibility and control there. Higher hands - more power.

[iacas]

Demonstrates also how little we truly get from the ground. He's not even using both arms.