Bradley Hughes & ABS On Tour

Two, looks like both of those links are for part 2

Should be fixed now- must’ve pasted same link

Nice one, thanks again :+1:

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Fun day today- caught up with one of my friends of 40 years. Hadn’t seen each other for about 15 years!! He moved to USA a few years ago to run Tour Edge golf. They are big on The Champions Tour and sponsor several players including Langer, Weir, Waldorf and McCarron.
We met up at McCarrons house and played his course up near Charlotte. Trump National- good course.
Did some work with Scott yesterday and today and we played today.
It’s really interesting now how I play very little and practice very little but just about always seem to hit the ball well enough to shoot a good score. I wish it was like that when I was on tour LOL Always felt like you went around in circles on tour from playing and practicing so much.
I had 7 birdies after bogeying the first hole. Pretty good on a tough course with fast sloping greens. My buddy made a joke that if I want to keep coaching these guys I shouldn’t beat up on them on the course. :grin:

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Real quick video from a few years ago at Players Champ at Sawgrass of myself and Elkington talking to his son Sam about a benefit of what the DownUnder Board can help the golfer achieve as far as pressures of the motion

Private video on Vimeo password: elk1

Class :ok_hand:

Is there anything stopping you from playing a few tournaments a year?

It’s funny, I was looking at some Tour Edge stuff recently. There’s something about a bit of offset on a fairway wood that I’ve always been drawn to, more like an iron maybe - offset in a wood is probably fairly straight/standard for an iron. Their Hot Launch stuff looks pretty sweet, from what I can tell online.

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I have no status on Champions Tour- would have to go to q-school and don’t have the time or energy to work on the game and lose lesson slots to attempt that

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Harold Varner working on the stick plane drill- Players Championship 2021

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Congrats on that! Really fun to see them doing so well applying the ABS stuff.

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Well, If you keep beating the guys you’re teaching, maybe they’ll organize a couple of sponsor’s exemptions for you…

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Saw a great photo today- same hole different day.
Everyone knows the top photo but the bottom photo is same event different day

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Sergio

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While Sergio is a great ball striker, he had some flaws. Hogan didn’t let his head go past the “wall” that Sergio does in your pics. Hogan’s right elbow would stay with his upper and lower body in his downswing while Sergio’s would get a bit stuck, which is where he’d get the blocks and hooks under pressure.

A great modern example of Hogan’s right elbow is actually Boo Weekley. If Sergio had moved his right elbow in the downswing like Boo and kept the Hogan-like lag that he is so well known for, there’s no doubt he would’ve won more than one major.

I don’t know about that? Boo was an excellent player- but he was more of a shut face to hold open player

And he definitely used more right arm extension down the target line than Sergio through impact- as Sergio’s hands went more left than target wards so he avoided club face crossover. For the most part his bad shots were slight pulls or pushes as opposed to bit shape mishaps


End result is there are more ways than one to skin a cat. Neither of them were great putters/ that’s certainly what held Sergio back from winning more majors and Boo from winning more tournaments

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Look at both Boo’s and Ben’s right elbow when the clubshaft is parallel to the ground in the downswing, it’s all caught up with the right hip and possibly even ahead of the right hip.

Sergio gets behind with his right elbow and that’s where he gets the slight inside-out even if his clubshaft is on the same plane at impact as address. The club head can still go under the plane even if the grip is on the plane and that’s been his pattern.

Boo releases like he does because it’s to level out his shoulders post impact, he levels them out better than Sergio.

I am currently on Mod 3, is the elbow more down in front of you covered in later mods or is that just Mod 1? I am like Sergio on steroids with my right elbow in back/to the side of me.

Thanks,
Jim

When you do module 1 try and feel the right elbow at start point is closer to your belly button than your hip- it will increase the range of motion in that arm and help get it more forward as it will feel more ahead

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Awesome, thanks and will do.

Jim

Cool pic of Tiger and Snead at impact

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PV5- Mod 3


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