MA Swing: Lee Trevino Body Release

 

Lee Trevino had another prototype Muscular Advantage (MA)** swing Along side Arnold Palmer. Trevino is the prototype Fade Swing while Palmer was the prototype Draw Swing.*** Both of these swings are, in the Words of David Ledbetter, Body Release Swings. The Palmer Draw swing was a little bit more Arms Release (here), but not much.

David Ledbetter described the Trevino Swing as Body Release in his book Lessons from the Golf Greats in page 142. I really can't do much better than David Ledbetter's description so I'm going to extract the Chapter below. If you study golf, you should gave the Ledbetter Book!

Here is some of my own Analysis of the Treninvo IMages in thge Ledbetter book:

Notes

** Classifying Trevino as a Muscular Advantage (MA) player might seem confusing to some readers. He was short and dubbed the "Merry Mex." However, Trevino was strong. He enlisted in the Marine Corp; you don't get through Marine Boot Camp if you are a weakling. If you have ever lived in the US SouthWest (Trevino was from Texas) you know that Latino men, selected from long family lines of hard family farm work, are extremely strong for their size.

*** To hit a Fade or a draw with the MA Swing, either open (Fade) or close (Draw) our stance.