Kevin Na (Video) - by Peter Finch
Kevin Na (Video) - by Peter Finch

Kevin Na is a 31 year old tour professional from Seoul in South Korea. And he has a very unique way of approaching the golf shot. Now everyone has different amounts of kind of pre shot routine quirkiness if it’s put that way. Kevin Na has a special pre shot routine that isn’t often repeated. Everyone has a waggle before they start the swing in most cases. So just a little bit of a breaker of the wrist just to settle the hands and just to get the swing tempo kind of grove before the shot is actually played. Now what Kevin Na does, is multiple repetitions of almost a little one piece takeaway.

So keeping the arms, the hands and the body all connected, just taking the club away, then every now and again it will swing up, and then come back down. It has brought him a little bit of criticism on tour for the amount of time that he actually takes to hit the shot, but what he does, he repeats the waggle, and he repeats his one piece takeaway, until the point he feels comfortable, and then he lets the swing go. And it’s an action and it’s a swing which is seeing him become very successful on tour over the last couple of years and be a main stay in the world’s top 50. Now, I’m not saying that you need to waggle to that extent and you need a pre shot routine to that degree, but certainly having the waggle and having something which triggers the swing, will help you hit better shots.
2015-04-22

Kevin Na is a 31 year old tour professional from Seoul in South Korea. And he has a very unique way of approaching the golf shot. Now everyone has different amounts of kind of pre shot routine quirkiness if it’s put that way. Kevin Na has a special pre shot routine that isn’t often repeated. Everyone has a waggle before they start the swing in most cases. So just a little bit of a breaker of the wrist just to settle the hands and just to get the swing tempo kind of grove before the shot is actually played. Now what Kevin Na does, is multiple repetitions of almost a little one piece takeaway.

So keeping the arms, the hands and the body all connected, just taking the club away, then every now and again it will swing up, and then come back down. It has brought him a little bit of criticism on tour for the amount of time that he actually takes to hit the shot, but what he does, he repeats the waggle, and he repeats his one piece takeaway, until the point he feels comfortable, and then he lets the swing go. And it’s an action and it’s a swing which is seeing him become very successful on tour over the last couple of years and be a main stay in the world’s top 50. Now, I’m not saying that you need to waggle to that extent and you need a pre shot routine to that degree, but certainly having the waggle and having something which triggers the swing, will help you hit better shots.