Jack Nicklaus - Can't Release Too Soon
Jack Nicklaus once said, "you can't release too early on the downswing." Golf instructors use that quote to support many different swing styles. There is a key second part of that quote often omitted, and without the second part of the quote, the meaning is completely changed. What Jack said was, "you can't release too early on the downswing, as long as you move into your leftside and swing the club from inside the target line".
Also, when you analyze Jack's own swing, you will see that he has a great shallowing move (he needs it with a "flying elbow"). While he describes an idea that sounds like you can just throw the club from the top, he clearly demonstrates a "falling" or "waiting" move in transition. Perhaps his brain registers the start of the downswing at delivery position as opposed to the top of the swing?
Jack Nicklaus once said, "you can't release too early on the downswing." Golf instructors use that quote to support many different swing styles. There is a key second part of that quote often omitted, and without the second part of the quote, the meaning is completely changed. What Jack said was, "you can't release too early on the downswing, as long as you move into your leftside and swing the club from inside the target line".
Also, when you analyze Jack's own swing, you will see that he has a great shallowing move (he needs it with a "flying elbow"). While he describes an idea that sounds like you can just throw the club from the top, he clearly demonstrates a "falling" or "waiting" move in transition. Perhaps his brain registers the start of the downswing at delivery position as opposed to the top of the swing?
Video Transcript
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In this insight we're gonna take a look at Jack Nicholas's release. Now Jack
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Nicholas described or has a famous quote where he says you can't release the
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club too soon in the downswing. Now if you investigate it you'll find the
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golf digest article where he said this and the second half of that statement is
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as long as you get into your left side and as long as you're releasing from
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inside the target line. So a lot of players will interpret this in in
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different ways. Let's take a look from the down the line and see what he may
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mean because I've heard people say you should just throw your hands from the
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top and I want you to see that if we look at Jack Nicholas's transition you can
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see that there's a pretty pronounced shallowing move. Anyone who has a little
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bit more of that right flying elbow is gonna have to have a little bit more of
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that shallowing move in order to get the arms or the club between his arms on
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the
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downswing and he discussed this as one of his checkpoints in that article. So
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you'll
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see that most people would interpret the release as either rotating the arms to
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the left casting or ulnar deviating but you'll see that during his transition
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he's not doing any of that. So the question then becomes well what exactly
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did he mean? Does he feel it earlier than it's actually happening or in his
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mind is this position here over on the right still pretty close to what he
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determines the top of the swing. Like maybe his brain is not really
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registering that he's started down until right about here because you'll see
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through the ball there's a pretty good timing and there's a pretty aggressive
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straightening of that right arm as his arms extend and he gets into a really
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good bracing position. From this target line view we can get a really good look
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at what the left arm does. So you can see that the the wrist of the left hand
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is
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fairly vertical here and you can see the pit of the elbow is kind of pointing a
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little bit more down towards the ground and then as he plants that left leg and
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gets into that left side you'll see that left arm release start to shallow out
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and you'll see he comes in on a beautiful delivery angle gets into a great
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delivery position and then you can you can see the timing of when his arms
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extend. Now a lot of golfers who tend to release early or cast or have an upper
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body dominant pattern and tend to extend those arms too soon what happens is if
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they try to keep the arms bent it makes it feel very athletic. What Jack is
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demonstrating is if you look at his pelvis if you look at his back you can see
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that his body is just leading his arms until the arms kind of get triggered to
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release by the bracing move. So if you're struggling with your arms getting
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active too soon or if you've just misinterpreted Jack's quote or if you
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think you have a different interpretation I wanted to present a couple good
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videos on Jack where you can see that he's clearly demonstrating a lot of the
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shallow movements that we talk about in our program and the timing that we
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discuss in the Zora loops. So if you have any questions about this video or any
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other videos on the site please don't hesitate to contact us and we will help
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you clear it up.
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Ask Mulligan for helpJack Nicklaus - Can't Release Too Soon
Jack Nicklaus once said, "you can't release too early on the downswing." Golf instructors use that quote to support many different swing styles. There is a key second part of that quote often omitted, and without the second part of the quote, the meaning is completely changed. What Jack said was, "you can't release too early on the downswing, as long as you move into your leftside and swing the club from inside the target line".
Also, when you analyze Jack's own swing, you will see that he has a great shallowing move (he needs it with a "flying elbow"). While he describes an idea that sounds like you can just throw the club from the top, he clearly demonstrates a "falling" or "waiting" move in transition. Perhaps his brain registers the start of the downswing at delivery position as opposed to the top of the swing?
Jack Nicklaus once said, "you can't release too early on the downswing." Golf instructors use that quote to support many different swing styles. There is a key second part of that quote often omitted, and without the second part of the quote, the meaning is completely changed. What Jack said was, "you can't release too early on the downswing, as long as you move into your leftside and swing the club from inside the target line".
Also, when you analyze Jack's own swing, you will see that he has a great shallowing move (he needs it with a "flying elbow"). While he describes an idea that sounds like you can just throw the club from the top, he clearly demonstrates a "falling" or "waiting" move in transition. Perhaps his brain registers the start of the downswing at delivery position as opposed to the top of the swing?
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.360
In this insight we're gonna take a look at Jack Nicholas's release. Now Jack
2
00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:09.160
Nicholas described or has a famous quote where he says you can't release the
3
00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:14.120
club too soon in the downswing. Now if you investigate it you'll find the
4
00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:17.880
golf digest article where he said this and the second half of that statement is
5
00:00:17.880 --> 00:00:22.800
as long as you get into your left side and as long as you're releasing from
6
00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:28.400
inside the target line. So a lot of players will interpret this in in
7
00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:34.000
different ways. Let's take a look from the down the line and see what he may
8
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.440
mean because I've heard people say you should just throw your hands from the
9
00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:43.360
top and I want you to see that if we look at Jack Nicholas's transition you can
10
00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:48.560
see that there's a pretty pronounced shallowing move. Anyone who has a little
11
00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:53.520
bit more of that right flying elbow is gonna have to have a little bit more of
12
00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:58.120
that shallowing move in order to get the arms or the club between his arms on
13
00:00:58.120 --> 00:00:58.240
the
14
00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:04.640
downswing and he discussed this as one of his checkpoints in that article. So
15
00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:05.500
you'll
16
00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:12.000
see that most people would interpret the release as either rotating the arms to
17
00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:19.240
the left casting or ulnar deviating but you'll see that during his transition
18
00:01:19.240 --> 00:01:25.120
he's not doing any of that. So the question then becomes well what exactly
19
00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:30.400
did he mean? Does he feel it earlier than it's actually happening or in his
20
00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:35.520
mind is this position here over on the right still pretty close to what he
21
00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:39.080
determines the top of the swing. Like maybe his brain is not really
22
00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:44.400
registering that he's started down until right about here because you'll see
23
00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.120
through the ball there's a pretty good timing and there's a pretty aggressive
24
00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:54.880
straightening of that right arm as his arms extend and he gets into a really
25
00:01:54.880 --> 00:02:03.440
good bracing position. From this target line view we can get a really good look
26
00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:10.080
at what the left arm does. So you can see that the the wrist of the left hand
27
00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:10.240
is
28
00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:16.720
fairly vertical here and you can see the pit of the elbow is kind of pointing a
29
00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:22.280
little bit more down towards the ground and then as he plants that left leg and
30
00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:27.520
gets into that left side you'll see that left arm release start to shallow out
31
00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:34.120
and you'll see he comes in on a beautiful delivery angle gets into a great
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00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:39.560
delivery position and then you can you can see the timing of when his arms
33
00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:45.000
extend. Now a lot of golfers who tend to release early or cast or have an upper
34
00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.440
body dominant pattern and tend to extend those arms too soon what happens is if
35
00:02:50.440 --> 00:02:56.280
they try to keep the arms bent it makes it feel very athletic. What Jack is
36
00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:00.120
demonstrating is if you look at his pelvis if you look at his back you can see
37
00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:06.080
that his body is just leading his arms until the arms kind of get triggered to
38
00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:12.040
release by the bracing move. So if you're struggling with your arms getting
39
00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:16.960
active too soon or if you've just misinterpreted Jack's quote or if you
40
00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:22.760
think you have a different interpretation I wanted to present a couple good
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00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:26.560
videos on Jack where you can see that he's clearly demonstrating a lot of the
42
00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.920
shallow movements that we talk about in our program and the timing that we
43
00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:35.080
discuss in the Zora loops. So if you have any questions about this video or any
44
00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.920
other videos on the site please don't hesitate to contact us and we will help
45
00:03:38.920 --> 00:03:41.520
you clear it up.
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