Nelly Korda's swing – and how we can all learn from it

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World No.1 Nelly Korda has over 6,000 videos playing on her phone. The move is referred to as one of the best in the world and has already helped him win two Majors and an Olympic gold medal.

“I have time to practice and maybe I'll record maybe 20 or 30 videos until I really like it,” he said. “But I was told that I have to stop or just remove them all and keep what I want.”

Jordan Spieth described it as 'like playing with Adam Scott, he swings it really well'.

Here, Advanced PGA Professional Deana Rushworth breaks down Korda's action.

Standing

From a stance standpoint, Nelly has an athletic build and really adds to her height. He doesn't over gather and he doesn't squeeze the ball so, from the coccyx to the thoracic spine, it looks very straight and that really helps with spin and swing if golfers can achieve that. If your lumbar spine is nice and flat in the setup, it just helps protect your pelvis from impact. So it's a great setup to have.

WATCH: Nelly Korda's swing – slow motion

The takeaway

As for the first movement it has a good take of one piece. His hands are not out running around his body or anything like that. For any golfer, male or female, struggling to control the club at the top of the backswing, if you can flex your wrist, especially with an iron, sooner rather than later you will find that you can control the club at the top. Although if people cry the wrist too late, it goes out of place, and becomes a bit concrete on the way down.

The fact that you put it at a perfect 45˚ where the lead arm is parallel to the ground, that means it's pretty good. What's really cool is that you have a flat left hand on the top and it's similar to the clubface.

A revolution

From the top he maintains his height very well. Most players tend to sink at the top of the backswing and you can see here that his right shoulder is away from his ear. When people get a little higher and start to close it, the gap between their shoulder and ear is very small. So he does a great job of keeping it shallow and bringing his shoulder back.

You can see that as he comes into the swing position, the shaft is positioned very well with his right arm so that he can bring that club and throw it to the ball. Now he's going to really circle the shot and, if he'd gone forward and got high, he'd be in a lot of trouble.

As he approaches the ball he holds his angles perfectly. He has great range, good release and frontal rotation on the road.

The rhythm

As for the tempo, if you watch it at full speed, it has a really good rhythm and nothing too fast. This helps to set up well and maintain good posture through swinging.

When I'm teaching rhythm, the way I'll talk to people about it is I'll say, look, imagine you're running a 400m race and you want to save a little on the tank until you finish with a sprint. I will draw a chalk line from the ball to three feet past the ball and I will tell them that this must be the fastest part of your swing. So they have to naturally test themselves to be able to put that acceleration into the shot.

Another good feeling is to feel like you are swinging a string and try to feel it move. It's all about getting that feeling of that acceleration with the ball rather than going to the ball. You have a certain amount of acceleration in your swing and, like a water gun, once you press the gun, it's over.

You can teach the players to do distraction techniques when you make them say something like 'Severiano Ballesteros' and try to marry that with a swing, but the important thing is that we want to commit to the ball and the point of acceleration is good. commitment, strike and holding the club in line with the shot.

About Deana
Former England player Deana is now Head Professional at Witney Lakes in Oxfordshire and is a regular in Today's Golfer magazine.