Holly Sonders and Natalie Gulbis: Golf Swing Analysis

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I knew you would want to watch this one. These are two interesting ladies in the golf business, one of whom plays the Tour (Natalie) and one who commentates (Holly), but both are known for being about the most attractive women in the game. I was able to grab her breasts Holly's swing from TV last week at the tournament in Palm Springs, and of course Natalie's is all over YouTube. The comparison is interesting since Natalie is the better player, having won on Tour and managing to stay out there for years with what can only be described as an odd swing. Holly's swing is much more conventional, as are the problems we see with it, namely poor use of ground forces to engage the midsection, a better use of which would enable her to produce a much more effective strike with every club. Gulbis is a mystifying subject as her swing has not produced the results that everyone had hoped for and yet it has not changed much over a long period of time in spite working with Butch Harmon. There may be many reasons for that, and I am not privy to the inside scoop there, but it doesn't seem like it would be such a stretch to improve her right arm position in the backswing.

Anyway, at the end of the video I ask the viewers to choose Holly or Natalie, and it can be on any basis you want it to be. Just choose one. We will keep score.

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19 thoughts on “Holly Sonders and Natalie Gulbis: Golf Swing Analysis

  1. Hahaha, best analysis by far. Natalie does have special genetic
    abilities….apart from the ones you mention….she apparently has an extra
    vertebrae in her neck. Think Butch said it makes some things harder to work
    on

  2. This is the first time I have disagreed with WayneD. On Holly Sonders’
    swing, I think her problem is not that she is not using her muscles in her
    midsection, but that she is getting *too* tight and “locked up” in the
    midsection. This is why her body snaps together with her hips- she is
    pulling them together and locking down. It would be best if she relaxed the
    left side of the torso so that it can stretch and lengthen, while firing
    through with the right arm.

  3. Holly, no doubt. Nat’s backswing is not pretty. … I wonder what Sneds
    shot. Lol. … and btw the caddie holding the pin had the best view of that
    putt. I know what he was thinking. 

  4. interesting how I just watched another swing analyst discuss Holly, and he
    raved over her swing, and how it had the key to power about it,
    specifically, her very large shoulder turn and modest hip turn at top of
    backswing. The “power angle” or whatever it’s called, the differential
    between shoulder turn and hip turn, the bigger the better.

    But Holly herself has said in interviews she doesn’t have much power
    nowadays.

    I don’t think in all the videos of Mr Defrancesco I’ve watched that he’s
    paid much mind to the shoulder/hips angle difference as being a key to
    power.

  5. Women bring their heels off the ground more because #1 they are more
    flexible than men and they abuse that in the backswing. And #2 they are
    quad dominant where men on hamstring dominant. 

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