Holmes bio, golfer, net worth, affair, wife, brain. Hes just got a natural ability that most dont have. Altogether, he has won 8 times in his professional career. So holmes is a very short, stocky, powerfully build player. Watch jb holmes plum bob ft putts, your blood wouldnt boil. Brian mogg of the waldorf astoria orlando golf academy, takes us through pga tour player j. Holmes key power moves that you can use to improve your swing. Holmes drives the ball a prodigious distance, but has trouble keeping it. Holmes rallied from a fourshot deficit in the final round. Justin thomas slow motion driver swing analysis duration. Holmes born april 26, 1982 is an american professional golfer who plays on the pga tour.
Fix your sway to swing like holmes february 12, 2020 golftecs director of instruction, kevin kihslinger breaks down j. Its well known on tour amongst players even if its not voiced on the forums much. Holmes can reach clubhead speeds in excess of 5 mph. 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. Holmes swings, using a video lesson from instructor brian manzella. This helps allow for body rotation, side bend, and a late width that helps with consist and powerful launch. For other people named john holmes, see john holmes disambiguation. I also included some gc footage of holmes from a playing lessons with the pros episode, comparing the two. B holmes swing and gives you a drill thatll help you control. 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. Holmes the little blondhaired kid in sneakers and holding a club posing with his high school team. He reached careerhigh ranking at number 19 in the official world golf ranking in 2017. 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. Interestingly holmes puts the weight at the toe of the club to help create a fade ballflight.
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. Jb holmes with one of the most egregious 72ndhole icings that i can remember. 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. Which one should you be looking at in your quest for more distance. This video will help you understand how lag is created and transferred and what. 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. Holmes golf swing with shotvision, available for the iphone. Make no mistake holmes grip is one of the strongest on tour. I didnt know who porn star john holmes was but i figured it out quick when i was in the third grade and playing high school golf.
Jb holmes won his fifth pga tour title at the genesis open but was roasted on social media over his slow play it was a brilliant win the for the 36. Holmes will be paired with tiger woods this weekend. 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. In this video i take a look at jb holmes golf swing. His left and right hands are turned so far away from the target that the vs on both hands formed by the. 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. While other players are able to match this number, j. According to the article, both players swing the club the driver at the same speed. 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.
From boy wonder to big bopper courtesy of maurice holmes thats thirdgrader j. 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. Swing analysis jb holmes jb holmes does a great job of creating lag around his body instead of up and down. Jb holmes does a great job of creating lag around his body instead of up and down. Holmes needed more than a little help from justin thomas, but fashioned a solid oneunderpar 70 in blustery conditions to win the genesis open by a single stroke for his fifth pga tour win. Torrey pines kicks off return for big hitters bubba watson. Holmes, captured at the barclays 2012, is analyzed by fourtime pga tour winner and emmywinning broadcaster billy kratzert. Improve them, and your swing will likely get faster. His 8under 64 was the lowest finalround score of his career, supplanting a. The shortest backswings on tour today golf club guru.
Holmes was atop the open leaderboard after thursdays first round, marking the first time he has led at a major in 11 years. If you are trying to shorten your swing, you can definitely learn a thing or two from watching how the pros do it. Now he has a ping g410 plus driver which for the first time has moveable weights. This gives you an idea of how much force he generates in his swing.
In fact, holmes has twice led the pga tour in driving distance and never ranked lower than seventh in. The video is obviously an iron shot, yet his driver swings are just as compact surprisingly. Jb holmes is another golfer who has a slightly less than conventional golf swing. Sometimes i analyze a swing for the first time and am fascinated by things i didnt expect to see. At the end i wrote as you can see, you dont have to make the moves quite as big as manzella does. 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. Golf swing faceon view of pga tour pro and long driver jb holmes during the 2015 franklin templeton shootout.
His sixstroke comefrombehind victory was the largest on the pga tour since matt jones rallied from the same number of strokes at the 2014 shell houston open en route to his victory. Holmes, for example, very long hitter, one of the longest on the pga tour, has a very, very short backswing. He gets characterized as deliberate while cantlayothers are slow aka worst people in golf lol. Capture image of jb holmes rit hand release action through impact image copied unedited from the image in jim hardys book on the release. 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. Holmes have led the tour in driving distance over the last five years. Dalys swing is extremely long, holmes features an abbreviated backswing in which the club shaft does not reach parallel with the ground. Of course, some people are just blesses with athletic ability.
A closer look at the tour edge exs driver mygolfspy. In fact, holmes has twice led the pga tour in driving distance and never ranked lower than seventh in his six full seasons. He also carries a ping g410 fairway too, which replaces the 2016 taylormade m2 he had in the bag earlier this year. 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. 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. Cameron champ top left clockwise, rory mcilroy, dustin johnson and j. 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.