Big Play With Michael Hebron

Name	Age	Home	Driving Distance	Best Score*	Swing Coach	TV/Website
John Bigelow IV		Orlando	140 yards	43	Kelly Sheehan	The Ellen DeGeneres Show/ jbfour.com
Brayden Bozak	2.5	Littleton , Colo.	55 yards	NA	His dad, Reid	Good Morning America / braydenbozak.com
Reece Campbell		Newmills, Scotland	150+ yards	44	Jane Connachan	Cold Pizza/ tinywoods.co.uk
Jared Goldstein		Stamford , Conn.	110 yards	38	Ken Struckman	The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Early Show/ None
Kyle Kushnir		Los Altos , Calif.	80 yards	42	Rudy Duran	None/ None
Thomas Reininger		Mableton, Ga.	60 yards	NA	Rudy Duran	Local news/ None
* Scores on short nine-hole courses

WHO: Julieta Granada

WHAT: Drive into the fairway

WHERE: 420-yard par-4 18th hole at Trump International

WHEN: Final round of the ADT Championship

Most pros and amateurs are searching for a perfect swing, but not many of the young talents on the LPGA tour. They have unorthodox swings and prove that guts and smarts--not perfect mechanics--make stars. Granada has a short backswing and a very fast, aggressive move through impact. She succeeds because she lets it rip without steering the ball. That's how she casually split the 18th fairway despite the huge lake on the right side.

All clubs are designed to have the shaft ahead of the clubhead at address. Regardless of swing style, every good player replicates that position at impact. (It's impossible to hit anything but a flop shot with the shaft behind the ball at impact.) To get a feel for the proper shaft position, use a mid-iron to hit half shots while maintaining this relationship between the shaft and clubhead until after impact.

MICHAEL'S TIP

Shaft First at Address and Impact

Michael Hebron teaches at Smithtown Landing Country Club in Smithtown , N.Y.

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