Johan Edfors -- Hitter

[bray]

Yoda,

I am assuming here that you have not seen Edfors motion in frame by frame or slow motion. So if that's true what about his motion made you think it was a hitter from the coverage you saw???

Sorting Through the Instructor's Textbook.

B-Ray

[Yoda]

Yoda,

I am assuming here that you have not seen Edfors motion in frame by frame or slow motion. So if that's true what about his motion made you think it was a hitter from the coverage you saw???

I did do a Tivo slow motion of Edfors on the Practice Ground, but it only confirmed what I had already seen (which confirmation is why I stopped it down in the first place):

1. His high, still Clubshaft at the Top;

2. Drive Loading in the Start Down and minimum Accumulator Lag in the Downstroke;

3. Right Arm Throw to PUSH the Club through Impact;

4. All of which combined to produce an Automatic Angled Hinge Action into the Follow-Through.

The Action of an individual Component may be hard to spot in the flash of a given Stroke. However, the important characteristics produce a Motion that is readily identifiable. A Golf Stroke is a combination of its individual Components, their related tendencies and the resulting overall Motion. These are the things that catch the trained eye of the competent instructor.

[metallion]

With this win he is close to join the European Ryder Cup team, so we may see a lot more of him in September. As I recall he has gone through Q-school 7 times. From no previous wins to 3 wins in 2006.

Edfors started working with a new coach last year. Starting this year just outide top 400 on the world rankings and now well in top 50.

He is one of the longest on the European tour.

[Yoda]

With this win he is close to join the European Ryder Cup team, so we may see a lot more of him in September. As I recall he has gone through Q-school 7 times. From no previous wins to 3 wins in 2006.

Edfors started working with a new coach last year. Starting this year just outide top 400 on the world rankings and now well in top 50.

He is one of the longest on the European tour.

Thanks for these insights, Metallion. Judging from his post-round interview, he is also a very polite, well-spoken young man. I hope to see him in action personally at the 2007 Masters. If not there, then my guess is that, as the Barclays Scottish Open Champion, he definitely will be invited to the Barclays Classic at Westchester in New York next August, where LBG will once again be conducting their Golf Academy.

On second thought...

Now that the Barclays is the first of the four FedEx Cup playoff events, the field is limited to the low 144 year-long FedEx point qualifiers. And, as I understand it, each of these must be a PGA TOUR member. Given the non-eligibility of players such as Johan, that means that we could have a winner of one (or more) of the four Majors not eligible for the season-ending Big Bang. Hmmm...

Henning, can you tell us anything more about this newcomer to the scene of World Class Golf?

[metallion]

Henning, can you tell us anything more about this new comer?

Johan seems to be a very popular fellow among his peers.

Henning is likely to have some insight since Johan grew up just south of Gothenburg. Same place as Fredrik Jacobson, who is of more or less the same age.

Johans instructor since last year is Rikard Fors. Recently named Swedens best instructor by Golf Digest. I'd guess Henning knows him and you (Yoda) may have met him if he was present at the PGA session in Tylösand earlier this year.

Rikard Fors was the coach who raised Fredrik Jacobsons to a winner. When Rikard took on Fredrik in 2003 he won three tournaments on the European Tour, among others the prestigeous Volvo Masters at Valderrama. Since then Fredrik has left Fors for Leadbetter.