Hank Haney gives us the Key move in Jimmy Walker’s Golf Swing!
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Jimmy Walker has a free-flowing golf swing that seems devoid of any surplus movement. Smooth on the backswing, great transition into the downswing, and a full follow-through. But the key component of this swing is the ability to keep the club moving from the inside. This produces a consistent draw. The move that helps him produce this swing is explained by Hank Haney for Golf Digest! Enjoy!
Get to know the real Jimmy Walker – 14 interesting facts!
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Jimmy Walker is an interesting man, but very few people can tell you much about him other than the fact that he is a 5-time winner on the PGA Tour and has a propensity for playing well from the front! And now he is also a Major Championship winner! But there are many more interesting facts about Jimmy Walker – as Joel Beall of Golf Digest points out. 14 of them!
1. He was a LONG shot to win the 2016 PGA Championship.
As of July 25, the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook had Walker at 125-1 odds. And for a good reason: Walker had missed the cuts at the last two majors, and his last top 10 came in March.
PGA Championship Fist Pump!
2. He played collegiate golf at Baylor.
Walker was an All-Big 12 performer in Waco and never missed a tournament with the Bears. He graduated in 2001.
Baylor Campus.
3. Before Baltusrol, his biggest golf thrill was playing in the 2001 US Open.
That year’s event at Southern Hills was his first tournament as a professional. Although we are guessing winning the Wanamaker has usurped this memory as his favorite moment.
Southern Hills
4. He met his wife at a Nationwide Tour event.
Erin Stiegemeier was a volunteer at a 2004 tournament, and as Walker said, “the rest is history.” They have two children.
The family!
5. He was the 2004 Nationwide Player of the Year.
Walker grabbed this honor, as well as topping the tour’s money list, thanks to wins at the BellSouth Panama Championship and Chitimacha Louisiana Open.
Jimmy Walker shows the Correct Sequence to start the Downswing!
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Mar 31, 2017; Humble, TX, USA; Jimmy Walker tees off on #9 during the second round of the Shell Houston Open at Golf Club of Houston – The Tournament Course. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports
Jimmy Walker is one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour, and in this clip, Hank Haney‘s analysis tells us Jimmy’s secret is the way he starts his downswing. A turn – slide – turn sequence involves a good shoulder turn, a lateral move that shifts the weight from the back foot to the front, and then a huge turn through the ball. This creates that tremendous clubhead speed that allows him to pound the ball! Thanks to The Scene for this great clip!
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Jimmy Walker has just won the Valero Texas Open to become the first multiple winner on Tour for 2015.
He won the Sony Open by record 9 strokes back in January, when he became the first repeat winner of this tournament since Ernie Els in 2004.
For the last 2 years, this guy has been on fire. After a checkered past on the Nationwide Tour, stints on the PGA Tour, and Q-school, Jimmy Walker started to develop a consistent game on the PGA Tour in 2011 and 2012.
His first win came in the Fall of 2013 (the beginning of the 2014 season) with the Frys.com Open, and he followed it up with a win in January of 2014 at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Then in Feb. ’14, he won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. After 187 events without a victory, Walker racked up three wins in just eight starts and went on to garner three Top-Ten finishes in three majors in the same year.
“He’s one of the hottest players in the world,” Scott Piercy, Walker’s closest competitor, said.
“What he’s done the last year or two years, nobody’s catching him. It’s just a cakewalk.”
Do you think he will contend at Augusta? Bet your bottom dollar he will!
