As a favor to Ralph I did a little swing interrogation of Peter Senior. One of my all time favorite golf swings. Very misunderstood in popular golf circles. However, take a look and see what really makes it work. While this is not an interview per se, I’ll post stuff like this in here and if Bradley and I do more of them, we’ll at some point open another forum for swing reviews.
At Gotham Golf:
gothamgolfblog.com/2011/10/p … ckson.html
Excellent stuff. But Lag, you forgot to draw the lines! 
As I was watching that, I wondered to myself why you’d never done this kind of thing before. 
Who knows… maybe the beginning of a new era!
When I run out of things to do I’ll look to do more of them.
thanks John & Ralph, very helpful & enjoyable to watch
Hugely instructive and thank you Lag, would love to see you do the same for Hogan, Knudson, Trevino and Gary Player.
Can you comment a bit more about how Senior exemplifies the level flat shoulder turn with a low left shoulder? He seems to want to stand up straight in a really vicious way post impact rather than go for a left sided crunch?
Well,
You have to look back at where Peter has the clubface at P3. It’s about as open as anyone ever. So to square that up, he uses a combination of module 1 and 3 in a big way. The quick torso move level and flat is the biggest contributor there, and it is a very powerful move… and does everything to keep the shaft right on plane through the impact arena so that compression is really straight on through the ball, and not any kind of glacing blow with any independent hand manipulation for a basically straight piercing golf shot.
Towards the end of the video you talked about how good his post impact pivot thrust was. Did you ever ask him about this. Do you know how he developed it? Was it something he worked on, or was it just the natural way he swung?
Someone told me years ago that he spend a lot of time swinging in tall grass as a youth. Regardless if this is truth or not… swinging in tall grass is an excellent way to develop a lot of the required proper muscular conditioning for striking a golf ball with a hitting action.
Hi. Does this Peter Senior swing analysis still exist anywhere? The link doesn’t work anymore. Thanks
Hey John,the Senior analysis link is no longer there.
I’m dying to see it.
Your stuff is so awesome
If you put it on YouTube…it’d get tons of hits.
Senior is the ABS GOAT!
When watching Senior swing, do you not see a lot of clubface closure through the strike? Could just be me, but seems like his forearms are really rolling over as he is ripping through?
I could be misremembering, but I believe this was a blog post, not a YouTube video, on the old The Gotham Golf Blog site run by @NYC_Lagster (Ralph Perez). He has a Youtube channel now, with the same name, with some really great interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@GothamGolfBlog-p5v
Yes, a ton. I tried to point that out in the past. One problem is that most the old footage is very poor. And then if you use new footage people say the high rate of closure is due to age or his use of modern technology.
so I guess as long as you are accelerating, it doesn’t matter if you have a lot of face closure?
Of those who have studied it, which is probably not many, there’s no notable correlation between rate of closure and driving accuracy. There’s a slight positive correlation between rate of closure and swing speed.
Acceleration… most people think only about tangential acceleration and whether or not anyone actually accelerates the club through impact gets fiercely debated on forums like this. It’s been argued about a lot but most people think it’s a good intent.
so basically the intent of accelerating is more effective for accuracy then having a lower rate of clubface control?
I don’t know, since it’s easier to study ROC and accuracy than an intent since they’re measurable. I personally think acceleration is a better thought to focus on.
Yeah, links come and go… or die… as this entire site almost did.
For the 100th time… we all need to thank William Hanisch for saving this site.
I have a lot of stuff saved on an old desktop computer that I don’t use anymore.
I’m sure I have the old footage I taped of Senior when I was down in Australia… it’s really great. Maybe I can pull it off the old VHS Tape… and film an HD screen with an iphone… then put it on youtube soon. I don’t think my thoughts on his swing would have changed. The footage I have was when he was at his peak in the late 80’s. I’ve seen more recent footage and his swing was not nearly as dynamic… I like the good stuff!
Thanks Williiam!!
I’m a former software engineer so must have taken some time.