Post by philknj on Sept 11, 2015 20:25:38 GMT
Among all the tourney highlight and mushy tribute videos for Bo Mee Lee, I came across a unique one, where her driver swing met the computer age on 3/19/2015:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83kJjqsqzQ
I don't know Japanese, but there were three items that caught my attention:
2:00 - I assume 45.2 m/s (meters per second) is her clubhead speed. If my math is right, that's 101.1 MPH. I wonder how that compares to the median speed on the LPGA tour.
2:25 - What slicers need to do more often...the dropdown path on the downswing.
2:50 - A carry of 233 yards doesn't seem like a lot, but she gets a lot of rollout. I've seen her drives scamper between the 260 and 270 graphic markers that the JLPGA broadcast will overlay on the fairways. She plays the Srixon Z-Star ball.
On 7/23/2015, the instructor did the same driver analysis with Erika Kikuchi:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0xJXP3ehs
Obviously, she has a totally different swing and the oomph she puts into it is much more evident. One might assume her swing speed is as much as BML'S, but no, it's less at 42.7 m/s, or 95.5 MPH.
This guy also posted videos of the same analysis using irons for both players. I don't know what iron was used in each case, but BML had more speed with that, too. One visible difference was that BML took a divot and Erika picked it clean.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83kJjqsqzQ
I don't know Japanese, but there were three items that caught my attention:
2:00 - I assume 45.2 m/s (meters per second) is her clubhead speed. If my math is right, that's 101.1 MPH. I wonder how that compares to the median speed on the LPGA tour.
2:25 - What slicers need to do more often...the dropdown path on the downswing.
2:50 - A carry of 233 yards doesn't seem like a lot, but she gets a lot of rollout. I've seen her drives scamper between the 260 and 270 graphic markers that the JLPGA broadcast will overlay on the fairways. She plays the Srixon Z-Star ball.
On 7/23/2015, the instructor did the same driver analysis with Erika Kikuchi:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0xJXP3ehs
Obviously, she has a totally different swing and the oomph she puts into it is much more evident. One might assume her swing speed is as much as BML'S, but no, it's less at 42.7 m/s, or 95.5 MPH.
This guy also posted videos of the same analysis using irons for both players. I don't know what iron was used in each case, but BML had more speed with that, too. One visible difference was that BML took a divot and Erika picked it clean.
