Fred Couples is legendary for his smooth ride.
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There are few players in the game with a smoother swing than Couples Fred. It looks like he’s not even trying, yet the ball always explodes off the clubface. When he hits balls in the range, you can’t help but stop and admire.
of way Couples swing the club makes golf look easy. He just takes the club back and lets it rip. It is the perfect blend of balance and power. If there’s a swing to modeling yourself, Couples is a good place to start.
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When Couples does his back flip, he’s thinking about only one thing: completing a full shoulder turn to the top.
“I think every good player or every good amateur wants to do that,” he says. “And once I turn my shoulder, I don’t think about changing direction, it just happens.”
Down, Couples feels his hips loosen from the impact of the past – but he doesn’t let the club leader follow him. Instead, he wants the clubhead to release down the target line after making contact with the ball.
If he were to let the clubhead start to follow his hips after impact, it would swing heavily from outside to inside, which could make it difficult to produce power. So instead, he wants to focus on getting the clubhead loose on the target line.
“I release the club going down the line,” Couples says. “So learn to clear your hips and let the club go down the line and drop it.”
When Couples do this, it makes it easy for him to generate energy effortlessly.
