He reached careerhigh ranking at number 19 in the official world golf ranking in 2017. Golf swing faceon view of pga tour pro and long driver jb holmes during the 2015 franklin templeton shootout. Dalys swing is extremely long, holmes features an abbreviated backswing in which the club shaft does not reach parallel with the ground. Swing analysis jb holmes jb holmes does a great job of creating lag around his body instead of up and down. Holmes the little blondhaired kid in sneakers and holding a club posing with his high school team. This helps allow for body rotation, side bend, and a late width that helps with consist and powerful launch. While other players are able to match this number, j. Of course, some people are just blesses with athletic ability. This discussion coupled with the driver testing once again reveals the arbitrary underpinning in the ruling bodies and their approach to officiating and regulating the game. He also carries a ping g410 fairway too, which replaces the 2016 taylormade m2 he had in the bag earlier this year. Dalys swing is extremely long, holmes features an abbreviated backswing in which the club shaft does. How downcocking in your downswing adds lag for those not as flexible as tiger, why i recommend switching to a more neutral grip if youre snap hooking, and how you can add up to 15 yards to your drives by tweaking your club face impact.
Jb holmes does a great job of creating lag around his body instead of up and down. Holmes key power moves that you can use to improve your swing. Holmes have led the tour in driving distance over the last five years. Improve them, and your swing will likely get faster. Torrey pines kicks off return for big hitters bubba watson. Cameron champ top left clockwise, rory mcilroy, dustin johnson and j. For other people named john holmes, see john holmes disambiguation. As he goes back, thats about where he finishes, then as he starts down really gets a lot of down cock and lag in his club as he starts the downswing and then bam, lets it all.
In this video i take a look at jb holmes golf swing. Holmes golf swing with shotvision, available for the iphone. He makes a very short back swing, but jb holmes is renowned as one of the longest hitters on the tour, so how does he achieve this. Also, because his driver is soooo uprighthe must be deathly affraid that he will hook it for your argument to make any sense he stands up trying to get his. Brian mogg of the waldorf astoria orlando golf academy, takes us through pga tour player j. The video is obviously an iron shot, yet his driver swings are just as compact surprisingly. Holmes, born in campbellsville, kentucky, began to play on the varsity golf team at taylor county high school in campbellsville when he was in the third grade. He gets characterized as deliberate while cantlayothers are slow aka worst people in golf lol. If you are trying to shorten your swing, you can definitely learn a thing or two from watching how the pros do it. However, bubba watsons average ball speed is 194 mph while j. Its well known on tour amongst players even if its not voiced on the forums much. Jim hardy uses the followthrough swing action of the professional golfer jb holmes in order to demonstrate these specific biomechanical elements of a rit release action.
The kentucky native switched to a new driver just before the pga championship, a cobra l4v x, which is intended for players with extremely high swing speeds. Tyler ferrell breaks down how jb holmes creates 122mph club head speed with a less than full swing. Justin thomas slow motion driver swing analysis duration. So to sum up what youre saying tiger didnt take the time andor have the knowledge and people around him to get properly fit for a driver. Holmes, captured at the barclays 2012, is analyzed by fourtime pga tour winner and emmywinning broadcaster billy kratzert.
So holmes is a very short, stocky, powerfully build player. A closer look at the tour edge exs driver mygolfspy. According to the article, both players swing the club the driver at the same speed. Interestingly holmes puts the weight at the toe of the club to help create a fade ballflight. Holmes will be paired with tiger woods this weekend. Holmes rallied from a fourshot deficit in the final round. Hes just got a natural ability that most dont have. Jb holmes responds after slow play criticisms at genesis open. Holmes, whos now 7th on the pga tour averaging well over 300 yards, and brittany lincicome is averaging 260 plus yards, and in 3rd place for total driving distance on the lpga tour. Though its drivers have historically offered solid performance, tour edge struggled to gain any meaningful ground retail market share with drivers priced at or. Holmes won the genesis open on sunday at riviera country club for his fifth career pga tour victory. B holmes swing and gives you a drill thatll help you control. In fact, holmes has twice led the pga tour in driving distance and never ranked lower than seventh in his six full seasons. Matt kuchar, jb holmes, luke donald, and brian gay all put exotics by tour edge clubs in play, winning a combined ten times on the pga tour and making several ryder cup appearances.
This video will help you understand how lag is created and transferred and what. Holmes, for example, very long hitter, one of the longest on the pga tour, has a very, very short backswing. Holmes can reach clubhead speeds in excess of 5 mph. One of the big things that weve got to really understand before we really get started here is that to effectively swing the golf club at 100 miles and hour.
Holmes swings, using a video lesson from instructor brian manzella. Jb holmes slow motion video how to create lag youtube. Now he has a ping g410 plus driver which for the first time has moveable weights. Altogether, he has won 8 times in his professional career.
Watch jb holmes plum bob ft putts, your blood wouldnt boil. His 8under 64 was the lowest finalround score of his career, supplanting a. I also included some gc footage of holmes from a playing lessons with the pros episode, comparing the two. Holmes born april 26, 1982 is an american professional golfer who plays on the pga tour. Both holmes and watson have both had their driver swing speed clocked as high as 126 mph, but limited rotation in his neck has made it very difficult for holmes to swing the club with any. Holmes grip may not set him apart from golfs other big hitters. I dont have his swing on a computer media format but i videotape just about very tournament on the usa network and the regular cbs, nbc and abc tourneys as well. Some guys have short swings due to their wristy motions, but others like jb holmes have hardly any wrist hinge at all. Sometimes i analyze a swing for the first time and am fascinated by things i didnt expect to see. That is the case with jb holmes, who does a bunch of cool stuff in his swing that allows him to be one of the games longest hitters even with what appears to be a less than full swing. In fact, holmes has twice led the pga tour in driving distance and never ranked lower than seventh in.
Holmes swing is notable in that he proves that you do not need a long backswing to hit the ball a long way this is good news for occasional golfers like ourselves, because we would prefer a shorter backswing for consistency and control. Capture image of jb holmes rit hand release action through impact image copied unedited from the image in jim hardys book on the release. Holmes drives the ball a prodigious distance, but has trouble keeping it. Make no mistake holmes grip is one of the strongest on tour. This gives you an idea of how much force he generates in his swing. Which one should you be looking at in your quest for more distance. At the end i wrote as you can see, you dont have to make the moves quite as big as manzella does. Jb holmes is another golfer who has a slightly less than conventional golf swing. From boy wonder to big bopper courtesy of maurice holmes thats thirdgrader j. The shortest backswings on tour today golf club guru.