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Gaby Lopez uses a specific power movement to bombard long drives.
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Erin Hills, Wis. – everyone is looking for ways to hit the ball longer – and this includes the good. With the advent of advanced analytics in the Golf world, the bomb and gouge strategy has become increasingly popular.
At the LPGA Tour, the adaptation of that strategy is left behind with other tournaments, but as data and analytics (such as KPMG Insights Performance) have become more widespread, even the best female players in the world are trying to smoke as much as they can.
Just 10 years ago, the longest driver in the LPGA Tour on average 274.4 yards away. This year, the same figure will be ranked 22nd, while the longest driver in the Polly Mack on average 290 yards per poke. With the need to increase the increasing distance, the goods are increasingly looking for ways to add more power to their oscillations.
One such player is Gaby Lopez. At the beginning of this year, the 31-year-old visited the Title Institute of Performance for help to become more efficient in shaking and creating more power. Since then, she has the best season of her career running, with her average distance from Tee to 12 yards a year.
In the range in We open women, This highly improved rhythm of the driver was on the full screen – and presented an important action that everyone can include for more power.
Movement of Gaby Lopez’s power
One of the biggest keys to power generation is to get your weight forward earlier at rhythm. Something something that people at TPI preach and something we have covered in this space before. And so it is the same thing that Lopez was missing before visiting TPI.
According to a blog from the title, “it was clear that she was generating her forces too late.” With the change of late weight, Lopez was losing tonnes of potential power in its oscillation.
To correct this, it is piercing the feeling of getting its weight on its lead side much earlier at the pace. In the range in Erin Hills, you can see it working on this movement with a rocking test that exaggerated the weight change – a classic tactic used to engineer the new swing.
“Learning Gaby to push against the land earlier in landing, it developed more efficient mechanics, both in terms of power and sustainability,” says the title blog.
So far, it looks like this feeling is working – and it’s something that even recreational players can do to generate power in their shakes.
