Someone mentioned Trevino…
I watched Trevino’s warm up session before the “Bruno’s Memorial Classic” senior event in Birmingham, AL in either 1992 or 1993. It was really a thing of beauty to watch.
The warmup lasted about 1 hour. He was with his caddie Herman Mitchell and had two other people watching him warm up.
He started out hitting wedge shots that honestly went about 5 yards. They didn’t get half way to the end of the range tee area. He hit shots like this, the longest ones going about 15 yards maybe, for minimum the first 30 minutes of his warm up. He would hit 2 or 3, then stop and talk.
Then he started making longer swings, probably 3/4 length, the length he probably used for alot of his standard iron shots. Again, it was mostly the wedge and certainly nothing more than a short iron.
With about 15 minutes left, he began taking full swings and worked his way all the way up to his driver.
Interestingly, at this point in his career, he was playing mostly a little draw, like 2-3 yards maybe.
The sound of every strike was incredible. So crisp.
The other experience I can remember from a great ball striker was taking a golf lesson from Kathy Whitworth in Fort Worth in 2005. We only did long game for about 20 minutes, as I wanted mostly a chipping and pitching lesson from her. But it was similar to Lee Trevino; every shot she hit was just so flush. It was so humbling to try to hit chips and hear the sound mine made compared to hers, on such a little shot.
I’ve not been around any modern pros to hear how they hit it, but Trevino and Whitworth were both amazing strikers of the ball.
To see the BBG guy making such a rotary move, it is reminiscent of Trevino. I hope he continues to post about how his game does with this method.