In this somewhat rambling video I take a look at Rory’s pre-shot routine and try to dispel the popular notion that he “just gets up and hits it” in some sort of child-like, non-thinking manner. That is hardly the case as he takes exactly the same amount of time to hit the ball as did Louis Oostheuzin in his British Open win and as did Charl Schwartzel in his Masters victory. It has also been reported that McIlroy has trouble flighting the ball in the wind, a notion he somewhat dispelled at the Honda as he navigated blustery winds in the last round with a variety of cut-off swings to hold on for the win. And as surprising as it may seem given the hysteria over his ball striking prowess McIlroy actually led the field in putts gained, bunker play and scrambling, and certainly would not have beaten Tiger or Tom Gillis had he not gotten it up and down from all over the place on Sunday. He will be a formidable opponent indeed should he match up his brilliant hitting with the kind of game he displayed around the greens. Indeed, such a combination has not been seen since the heyday of one Tiger Woods.
And speaking of Tiger, here we see that his swing is really coming around as his hands finally begin to track outward toward the ball starting the downswing instead of moving straight down. A good friend of mine who used to play the tour knows Brandt Jobe quite well, and when he asked Jobe how it was playing with Tiger on Sunday Jobe replied that he “would just like to hit it like that”, meaning that Tiger’s control of the ball in the wind was impeccable while bombing it off the tee as well. If you think about it each time Tiger has reworked his swing it has taken about this long for it to gel, and if you add in the time lost due to injury and the assorted personal issues he is about overdue to begin playing Tiger like golf again. It may take McIlroy firing on all cylinders to keep Tiger from regaining his perch at #1. It will surely be a fun year to watch golf.
Posts Tagged ‘Rory McIlroy’
Golf Swing Analysis: Rory and Tiger at the Honda
Friday, March 9th, 2012TV Golf Announcers Just Make Stuff Up: Rory McIlroy
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
In this video you will see proof of what I have been saying for some time now, namely that when announcers (any of them) describe why a Tour player sends a shot awry they are making it up. The point is that the actual reasons a shot by a great player is missed are so small and fast that they are simply not seeable, even with a slow motion camera, unless there is time to do a side by side comparison with computer graphics of swings from identical angles and lies. I know I’ve never seen that on TV, but I certainly have seen just about every announcer pronounce that the player missed for any number of conventional reasons, such as “he got ahead of it”, or “he hung back”, or “he got quick” or, well, you name it and they might have done it. Well, here we have Johnny Miller (not picking on him, he just happened to offer up this perfect example of how silly this all is) describing Rory Mcilroy missing one iron shot to the right, and another to the left. The camera catches him from the same angle at slow motion, and if you can pick out the difference you are a better eye than I.
Rory McIlroy Golf Swing Analyzed
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Here we have Rory McIlroy and in this video we do a side-by-side comparison of Rory’s golf swing from the US Open and The Masters. Now, obviously there was something in Rory’s golf swing that let him down in the fourth round at the Masters and there was something he improved on before the US Open. The work he did on his golf swing paid off in the form of a Major Championship. We can’t say exactly what Rory did work on, but in the side-by-side golf swing analysis you can see a difference when the lines are in place and get an idea of what improvements were made. This is the kind of stuff you just can’t see without using video analysis.
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