Nick Faldo Pro Golfer: Compact Control, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Nick Faldo Pro Golfer: Compact Control, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

For a lot of people, Nick Faldo was one of the first players that really went to town on rebuilding and remodeling a golf swing. He had quite a decent swing in the past but he went to it with David Ledbetter, rebuilt his golf swing from the ground up, got very technical, very positional orientated in his swing, ended up winning six major championships with that technique. So, it clearly worked very well for him.

Although Nick is a very big guy, quite a strong guy, but in his day, he was never really known as one of the longer hitters and his power in the game of golf has taken over for the last 20 years. Nick really struggled to keep pace and ended up retiring earlier from the game than most people would have done normally, because he just couldn't keep pace with the distance he was hitting the ball.

He still got a lovely career now as an announcer. But when you look at the fundamentals in his game, there's a lot that you could take on board and learn from. Nick, very, very good over the golf ball, really nice posture, stood up tall, obviously he's a big guy, but he had his hands down quite low, really got the club beautifully in position on the way back where it would lead better, tirelessly on taking the club away from the golf ball, really firm and resisting with his right side, bringing the club back here.

If you want to learn from this position from Faldo, good strong straight left arm, shaft pointing down the target line at the flag, club head sitting right on top of your hands, face angle, your spine angle and a network and a nice compact position on the top, really solid on the way down. He wasn't too fast with the legs and the hips, didn't really get himself out of position, very rarely swung the club over the 3 o'clock line. His game wasn't built on power but it was just absolute precision and accuracy and brilliant ball striking.

So, if you're a big guy but you don't find that you hit the ball a lot far, look at Faldo for inspiration in terms of how a good, sound, technical golf swing can win six major championships without being one of the longest hitter out there, but he was one of the straightest hitters out there.

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For a lot of people, Nick Faldo was one of the first players that really went to town on rebuilding and remodeling a golf swing. He had quite a decent swing in the past but he went to it with David Ledbetter, rebuilt his golf swing from the ground up, got very technical, very positional orientated in his swing, ended up winning six major championships with that technique. So, it clearly worked very well for him.

Although Nick is a very big guy, quite a strong guy, but in his day, he was never really known as one of the longer hitters and his power in the game of golf has taken over for the last 20 years. Nick really struggled to keep pace and ended up retiring earlier from the game than most people would have done normally, because he just couldn't keep pace with the distance he was hitting the ball.

He still got a lovely career now as an announcer. But when you look at the fundamentals in his game, there's a lot that you could take on board and learn from. Nick, very, very good over the golf ball, really nice posture, stood up tall, obviously he's a big guy, but he had his hands down quite low, really got the club beautifully in position on the way back where it would lead better, tirelessly on taking the club away from the golf ball, really firm and resisting with his right side, bringing the club back here.

If you want to learn from this position from Faldo, good strong straight left arm, shaft pointing down the target line at the flag, club head sitting right on top of your hands, face angle, your spine angle and a network and a nice compact position on the top, really solid on the way down. He wasn't too fast with the legs and the hips, didn't really get himself out of position, very rarely swung the club over the 3 o'clock line. His game wasn't built on power but it was just absolute precision and accuracy and brilliant ball striking.

So, if you're a big guy but you don't find that you hit the ball a lot far, look at Faldo for inspiration in terms of how a good, sound, technical golf swing can win six major championships without being one of the longest hitter out there, but he was one of the straightest hitters out there.

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