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J.B. Holmes will be paired with Tiger Woods this weekend.

Holmes can drive the ball a prodigious distance, but has trouble keeping it in the fairway. His driving accuracy is only 50%.

Most assume that is because of his distance.

When we measured his swing mechanics, we found the problem was in his alignment.

You can see our analysis at JB Holmes FBR 2008

You can't measure that spine angle that accurately. In fact, if you draw the same line ( 36 deg ) on the impact picture ( you said 21 ) it wouldn't be much different. His body is twisted and how can one say his spine angle is when it's all twisted. It's just a theory. Fred Funk is the shortest hitter on the tour. Take your pick! I'd agree though the distacne has nothing to do with accuracy. My longer drives tend to be more accurate.

This is silly. these are the kind of things that make golf so hard for mid handicappers. they see things like this and start crunching numbers. there is already to many things going on in a golf swing. people need to make repeatable swings no matter what is going on and no matter how many moving parts there are. sure it is easier to create a repeatable swing with less moving parts but this review of J.B's swing is stupid.

One word for JB Swing!
If I was in a gallery I would Boo what he started his 42 practice swings ...humm or maybe I would fall asleep.

I posted a side-by-side comparison video today of J.B.'s swing with John Daly's. Here is the video.

J.B. is the Anti Daly hehe. He goes well short of parallel on this swing and we all know that Daly goes waaaay past.

I played with some great players a couple of seasons ago when I was representing a course on their 8 man team. I studied their driver swings on the first tee and noticed that most of the really long hitters stopped short of parallel on the backswing.

Think how much farther he would hit it on the last couple of holes if he toned down that endless preshot routine!! He's probably made 250 swings by the time he gets to the 16th tee. Has he always taken that long or did he need the extra calm down time to handle playing with Tiger?