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Mike Weir's magic 'waggle'!
Something has to account for Mike Weir's impressive success
in 2003. Media commentators are fond of saying "Mike went away from his waggle
in 2002, and he reintroduced it in 2003." Weir himself has said as
much...
So what's the big deal with the "waggle" anyway?
Weir started
using the familiar waggle in 1998. As he has put it, "It just kind of worked its
way in from a drill from trying to combat...a little bit of a shut club face."
In fact Weir's move is not really a classic "waggle" at all. Ben Hogan
discussed the waggle in Five Lessons. For Hogan the waggle was primarily
a hand and wrist move. You know, where the golfer addresses the ball, and then
"waggles" the club back and forth with his hands.
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According to Hogan,
"...the backswing is simply an extension of the way the golfer takes the club
back on the waggle." But if you look at photos of the Hogan pre-shot routine,
you'll see him waggle with his hands, then you'll see him take the club back in
a completely different way. The waggle seems to imply an early wrist cock —
almost at the very beginning of the back swing. But in fact Hogan didn't set his
wrists until well into the backswing. So whatever it was, the Hogan waggle was
not a "rehearsal" of the backswing.
For Weir it definitely is a
"rehearsal" of the backswing — and therefore I think makes more sense. Watch
Mike closely and you'll see him do that now familiar two piece move — take the
club back "low and slow" (well, moderately low and slow), then deliberately cock
the hands up just before hitting the horizontal position. It is a very
deliberate setting of the hands — a "rehearsal" of the move he wants to make in
his actual backswing.
In other words, he is reminding himself that he
wants to get his club into a specific position on the way up. As he said in the
same interview quoted above, "For me it started as a drill with my coach to
combat a tendency I had for a shut club face and a problem I had in my
backswing, just a little drill. I took it to the golf course just in some
practice rounds just playing with my coach. It felt so good, we were like, let's
try it..."
Apparently it works. And why wouldn't it? Instead of
rehearsing a little hand flip, you rehearse the actual take away you want to
employ — and in particular, your hand and wrist position just before going to
the top. Seems like a pretty sensible thing to do.
So why don't more
golfers do it? I suspect it is because they are not comfortable with that early
setting of the wrists. They have been told (or think they have been told) that
the hands should get into the set position "naturally". Mike Weir's success
should have a lot of golfers rethinking that assumption.
Copyright © 2003
by Richard J. Hendershot, all rights reserved.
This article may not be
republished except with express written
permission.
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Rick Hendershot is an
avid golfer and student of the game, as well as a writer and internet publisher
who lives in Conestogo, Ontario, Canada. He publishes several golf related
websites and blogs, including Golf Articles and Reviews,
Very Special Golf
Travel, and The
Weekend Golfer's Blog. He also manages an advertising and link placement
service called The LinkNet
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