Bradley Hughes: What Great Ball Strikers Do Differently | Ep. 12

So Bradley, at that time when you were playing this well, did you understand the whole 430 path and what you're now coaching? Or at the time, did you do it naturally? Or where did the 430 path and that kind of knowledge come from? Would you mind sharing that? Yeah,

so I kind of did it very naturally just because, like I said, I would walk around with Greg Norman and I would copy his wing and what he told me.

Funnily enough, like after listening to him, I had the right foot slide that he had.

I didn't mean to do it.

I wasn't trying to do it.

It disappeared out of.

what he talked to me about using the ground in a certain way and kind of drill two.

And then how he got this big high finish where his hands were way up high, that was kind of drill three, and I wanted to do that.

So indirectly I was doing all the drills, but I didn't really break it all down until later on when I stopped playing and was getting ready to coach.

Interesting.

Okay.

And you saw the likes of Greg Norman and you even mentioned Jack Nicklaus in your book.

You mentioned a lot of like Gary Player, Ben Hogan, like all the old grades did it.

I know like you've spoken about equipment, lie angles, heavier clubs.

Do you find that nowadays the lighter clubs have kind of ruined a lot of golf swings as well and more upright clubs? That's something I've noticed anyway in my game.

Flatter lie angles are playing way better.

100%.

You know, if the club's really light, you're never going to feel it.

It's going to be hard to load it.

You're going to want to unload it.

You don't know where it is.

You're not going to use the ground as well.

You see a lot of people now just jump away from the ground because there is no pressure really going to their feet because they're just trying to swing the club so hard.

Upright clubs obviously bring more vertical releases and vertical downswings into play, so...

I don't think the physics of the golf swing has changed, but the tools have, and it's made people swing far differently than what I believe are the better ball strikers.