In 1996, the former hockey player Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) was able to do three stages and beat the “very old” driver of his grandfather over 400 meters. For self-sec golfers, this required a highest level of disbelief at the highest level. The general public certainly did not seem to care.
Since that time, the only technology that has accelerated as quickly as golf clubs can be seen in changes in our video distribution systems. In Netflix Happy Gilmore 2The content of the happy bag obtains a major upgrade – whether or not the streaming is an upgrade to the theater in the delivery of the video content is a completely different conversation.
Martin Borgmeier, who can really drive the golf ball at 400 meters – and it’s just with a warm -up swing – adopted the great success of how physics informs the long ball. So, which is better to break the biomechanics of the long match of Happy Gilmore than the man who defeated the golfer entirely in the world (and a big full -fledged striker) Bryson Dechambeau at the World Drive 2022 championship. We had some advice to try along the way.
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You were five years old when HAPPY Gilmore Released – What is your relationship with this film?
It was the first golf film that I watched as a child. I started golf course at the age of nine. It was definitely the first film (golf) that I watched, and everything else came after that – so, like, like The legend of Bagger Vance,, Cup… Because it was my big dream at 10-14 years old to become a professional golfer and essentially become the next Tiger Woods. It didn’t work. (Laughter.) But like all these films, of course, were a large part of my life. And HAPPY Gilmore-In fact, I looked at him back, perhaps about 10 years ago, and I did at that time [that] All the jokes and all that, most did not even do it [register]. But the only thing I knew when I was a child – and I remember that it was – he hit him very far. He had his super crazy pre -shot routine and everything – the breakup and all that – and I just found it funny and I enjoyed the long journeys and the terrible putts when I was a child.
We all tried the Happy Gilmore Swing – Have you been successful with it?
Yeah, it’s so funny that you say that because I just published a coil on my Instagram for a bad Birdie gift. (Bad Birdie is a golf clothing company and a sponsor of Borgmeier.) It was a ice hockey jersey (the first gilmore sport). [I did] The crazy approach – the Happy Gilmore Swing – a little exaggerated, even with, like, likely 10-15 steps and a little shouting also involved. So yes, I tried it, and in fact it worked well.
[But] The way I did it in the video – obviously on purpose – I’m a bit like pushing the golf ball a little, and that falls from the tee (comic effect). It turned out to be much more difficult than hitting him well, because the biomechanics behind him – [The Happy Gilmore swing] is actually an excellent drill for long -lasting length. What you have to do is that you have to advance your pressure in your lead leg just before contacting the golf ball, and at the same time, stay back with the upper body, because otherwise you cannot swing on it. So, fundamentally, forcing this to run there is a great way to practice this element.
Your long, displayed training are 484 yards in competition and 520 yards on display-How far has a good Gilmore-Swing for you?
I mean, when I really beat it, it is probably not even so different from what I really go (with a normal long -term swing.) It is not too much on speed. I think the speed is roughly the same – it’s fast (the record speed of borgmeier is 239.3 MPH) – but the crazy thing is really in contact while keeping the square face.
Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore in Happy Gilmore 2.
With the kind authorization of Netflix
You are 6’4 ”and 240 pounds. There is undoubtedly a great factor of force in long journeys. But you mainly speak of biomechanics as a means of long journeys – what do you see as the brain rupture against Brawn?
Ninety-twisting. 80% mechanics and the remaining 20% are – let’s call it. But all the work we do in the gymnasium is mainly to stay healthy and make our body capable of managing all the stress that we have put on a daily basis, right? Because, I mean, it is obviously a unilateral movement. We have rarely hit the golf balls on the left … so it’s really about staying strong and healthy and being able to resist all the stress that we have put there.
But to really hit far, let’s say that 80 percent is a biomechanics, then that the remaining 20% that I called strengthis essentially your body which allows you to swing yourself faster because it knows that it can resist it all and allows you to do it, if that makes sense. Because otherwise, when you look at strong men, on the right, the strongest people in the world – if the force was such a large part, they would do it [have the fastest ball speeds] in the world. This is not the case. This is really how it works, and it is also what I do in the past, like five, six, seven years, [trying] To understand, like the quantity of what is really important. And if I had to do something for the rest of my career, it would only be biomechanics.
Can you analyze Happy Gilmore’s swing for me? In Movie-Land, his training is more than 400 yards (with old clubs). How far can a guy from his stature from Adam and this swing with these clubs really drive a golf ball?
I suppose a 250[-yard drive] It would be an incredible driving with this equipment. Because what will happen with modern golf balls and its clubs is that it will run too much. So, a large part of the energy – even if he was swallowed very quickly with this good Gilmore swing, he would lose a lot of energy from this right ball while going up in the air in the air in the air [instead of going] Before. Even if it was a very low degree driver, with current golf balls and titanium pilots, of course, this energy transfer will be much better than with wooden clubs.
When we talk about “Smash Factor” – this is one of the efficiency data points that we use with launch instructors – modern titanium pilots would be about one and a half of the club’s head speed would be the speed of the ball. So let’s say that you swing at 100 MPH, this would turn into ball speed of 150 mph. I would see this factor at around 1.3 or something with the wooden club. So it would be much, a lot, much slower than a titanium driver.
My distance is zero. Give me one or two things I could do, an invisible view, which would instantly add the footage?
It is a combination of two things. So, first of all, being aware that a driver swing is different from an iron swing. So, with a pilot swing, the golf ball is on a tee, so we don’t have to take the divot after the ball, we can actually swing on it … And that will improve the launch with the rotation, and finally raise the golf ball further.
And so the other piece is – it’s actually quite close to the happy gilmore swing, because, [while] He does it in an extreme way, being more athletic in general and being less a robot, and in fact using a little athletics that we know in other sports … Look at any other sport – even baseball, they move, they freak out move Before swinging! The launcher, before throwing, he will move, using a little of that [athletic movement]. It could just be a slight little start -up movement before removing the club, so getting this body to the right before removing the club – or it could be as extreme as Gilmore’s happy swing, but ultimately moving our body a little could certainly help get a little more power in this swing.
I’ll try crazy shit in my garage tonight.
[Laughs] Don’t break your leg!
This interview was slightly modified and condensed for more clarity.
