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The Woodlands, Texas – Nelly Korda has one of the most beautiful swings in all of golf. Every time you pull out a club, someone seems to be there to document it. With the perfect balance of fluidity and power, there are few moves that rival it.
“It’s like playing Adam Scott,” Jordan Spieth said after playing alongside Korda at the PNC Championship last year. “It swings in a very nice way. It’s going to be cool to watch that beat.”
With a swing flowing with one of the best players of this generation, it looks like it will be hard to find a flaw. But we are often our own worst critics, and this theme is perfectly aligned with Korda.
Despite having five top-10 finishes this season, the 24-year-old who competed in the Chevron Championship admitted she wasn’t comfortable with her swing.
“I don’t think I’ve had my best yet,” Korda said. “So I hope I can continue to work on my game and peak at the right moments.”
So far at the Chevron Championship, the plan appears to be working. On a Monday afternoon at Carlton Woods, Korda posted a four-under-68 to sit on the back of just one lead through 18 holes.
But even with that great job, Korda makes it clear that she’s been doing a lot of fiddling with her swing lately. Her favorite method? She shoots – and watches – a lot of her swing videos.
“There are a lot of videos on my phone,” she said. “It’s disgusting.”
Unlike many LPGA pros, Korda is usually surrounded by her entire team on key weeks—parents, agent, swing coach, and caddy. Off the course when you work out, you usually go at it alone.
“I have one of these mounts,” she said, “do it myself.” “If people knew how many swing videos I have on my phone, if I had to ask my dad to film that many swings, he would boycott every single one of my practices.”
Korda estimates that she has up to 6,000 videos of her swinging on her phone. six thousand. The number has gotten so high that she joked that she might need to upgrade her cloud storage in the near future.
“I go to a training session and maybe I’ll do the video maybe 20 or 30 until I really like it,” she said. “But I’ve been told I need to stop, or I just want to delete them all and keep what I want.”
Most swing tinkerers know the feeling. Photographing your swing and taking it apart is a bewildering exercise – and something that can help you tremendously. The problem comes when you get it also The quagmire in the video malfunctions. Most players are not good enough to digest and diagnose their flaws.
For players like Korda, this is not a problem. When you compete for major tournaments, you usually have a solid understanding of the do’s and don’ts of swing.
Plus, if you had a swing like Korda, wouldn’t you be obsessed with watching her on repeat?
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