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1. SWING SEQUENCE: BREAKING DOWN TROY MULLINS' POWER
Drives so pure, it's hard to believe her swing is mostly self-taught
July 30, 2018, Golf Digest

By Ron Kaspriske

Troy Mullins
Nickname: Troyger
From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of Birth: March 28, Age 31
Height: 5'8
DRIVER: Ping G400 (9 degrees, 48 inches)
BALL: Volvik Vivid XT
Instructor: Self taught !!!

Troy Mullins has worked with several golf instructors, but when the long-drive champion thinks about how she developed her swing, she says intuition deserves most of the credit.

"Learning the driver was difficult for me at first, because I only swung irons for the first few years when I began playing," Mullins says. "But I pick up things quickly, and coming from a track background [she competed in the heptathlon at Cornell University], I started doing what felt right for my body to do when I was throwing the shot put. It was similar."

Specifically, she discovered that generating power with a driver comes from a blend of lateral, rotational and vertical forces—just like it does when throwing an eight-pound shot.

"You can tell that she understands how the body should move," says instructor Trillium Rose of Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md., one of Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers. "Her positions, her angles at various points in the swing, she doesn't look awkward. She's doing it by the book. Her swing looks classically taught."

GETTING BEHIND IT
Troy Mullins starts her swing like someone who competes in long-drive competitions, says instructor Trillium Rose. "She knows that she can create power with a big move off the ball. She even lets her left knee kick in and heel come off the ground to get all her weight on the right side of the body."

GREAT RANGE
"She has great shoulder turn, but her hips turn a lot, too," Rose says. "Many golfers try to prevent that much hip rotation, because that resistance against the upper body helps generate torque. But she gets power by making as big a turn as she can. There's more than one way to do it."

FREDDIE-ESQUE
As Mullins reaches the top, Rose says she has the look of Fred Couples. "That lead elbow is really straight. If that arm collapses, you lose the width you need to power through the ball. Also, most people who swing past parallel bend their body toward the target. But she's nice and tall."

LAG IT LIKE SERGIO
"It's pretty unusual with women to see the clubhead lagging so far behind the hands in the downswing, but she's got lag like Sergio," Rose says. "The combination of soft grip pressure and unwinding really fast with her pelvis encourages the type of lag you see in power hitters.

PUSH AND GO
Mullins plants her left heel and pushes straight up with that leg to increase hip speed, Rose says. "At the same time, she's pushing toward the target with her trail leg, like a sprinter off the blocks. That combination gives you so much speed. It's a great move to copy if you can."

UPSWINGER
As she strikes the ball, her swing is being supported entirely by her left foot. "Some long drivers still have a lot of weight on the back foot, because they're trying to launch it up," Rose says. "But she's able to hit up on the ball because of a significant amount of right-side bend in her torso."

MOMENTUM SHIFT
Her right arm rotates over the left in the through-swing as a result of momentum. "If the club is coming from the inside through impact, the clubhead will turn over if your grip pressure is light," Rose says. "When instructors talk about fully releasing the golf club, this is a great example."

2. How Long-Driver Troy Mullins Rips Tee Shots: "Without speed, you can't send it."

By Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest

When golf instructor Trillium Rose was asked to take a look at Troy Mullins' driver swing for an analysis, her reaction was "she has the torque of a teenage boy." That's not something every woman would probably want to hear, but if you're a long-drive champion like Mullins, you take that as a compliment.

With an average swing speed of 117 miles per hour, which would rank her in the top 50 on the PGA Tour, Mullins routinely hits drives in the 320- to 350-yard range. She won a competition in Denver last year with a ball that went 4-0-2.

"She has a humongous range of motion and generates a tremendous amount of swing speed by using the great strength she has in her abs, glutes, quadriceps, her entire lower body really," says Rose, one of Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers. "You can tell she's a great athlete."

Mullins, 31, credits her background as a sprinter, shot-putter and heptathlete as giving her the strength, speed and athletic coordination to launch golf balls. She participated in track and field from age 8 until she graduated from Cornell University. Amazingly, it was shortly after leaving college that Mullins took up golf.

"I had just come back from Beijing after majoring in China, Asia and Pacific studies at Cornell, and was wondering if I should go to law school," Mullins says. "I needed to take some time off, so I decided to start going to the driving range for fun."

Armed with only a set of used irons—"I couldn't hit the woods at first," Mullins says—she smacked hundreds of balls at Westchester Golf Course near her home in Los Angeles and began to hone a swing that would help her become a perennial contender in the women's division of the World Long Drive Championship. In her first competition in 2012, Mullins made it to the finals before losing to current champion Sandra Carlborg.

"I was so nervous," says Mullins, who also qualified for the 2012 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur. "But what I learned was that I could compete. Now when I stand over the ball in competitions, I usually just blank out and swing hard. I don't care how strong you are. Without speed, you can't send it."

Here are her other thoughts on how to drive it longer:

ADDRESS GRIP IT STRONG BUT LIGHT
"My setup is fairly standard for a long driver," Mullins says. "My feet are wide enough apart that I know I can swing hard without losing my balance, but they're not too wide. I also keep my left shoulder higher than my right to help hit up on the ball. Grip is super important. My grip is really strong, but light. What I mean is, my right hand is set on the club in a strong position, but I'm not holding it tightly with that hand. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being super tight, I'd say it's about a 4 or 5. That allows me to really release the club hard through impact. My left hand holds the club a little tighter to help control the face, but if you squeeze too hard with the right, you can't whip it through."

BACKSWING LOAD LIKE YOU MEAN IT
"I turn back as far as I can, really trying to load up on my right side. I guess there's a point where you can overturn, and then you can't get back to the ball. For me, that's probably the point in the backswing where I feel like my left foot is starting to lift off the ground. When I reach that point, I know it's time to swing down. A great way to practice loading into your trail leg is something I call the pitcher drill. On the range, I'll sometimes take the club back and then lift my left leg off the ground like pitchers do in their windup. You can even hit balls this way. Just plant that left leg and fire through with the club."

"Practice winding up like a pitcher to feel how much you should load into your right side before swinging down", Mullins emphasises.

DOWNSWING GET THOSE HIPS THROUGH
"Sometimes my hips slide too much toward the target as I start down, which leaves the club too far behind, and I end up hitting blocks or hooks. That being said, your hips really need to be active if you want to hit it farther. If your upper body and arms lead the way in the downswing, you're in trouble. When you reach the top of the swing, push hard into the ground to get your hips rotating toward the target. If your hips go, everything else will, too, and you'll smash it."

"The club wraps around your body from moving its fastest through impact—not before."

“SHE LOADS UP, PUSHES UP AND THEN HITS UP. THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT FOR DISTANCE.” ~ TRILLIUM ROSE