André Rennes

1 Executive summary

2 Ball flight — range screen

Metric	André today	André 6-iron #1	LPGA Tour avg	PGA Tour avg
Ball speed	107 mph ★	103 mph	112 mph	132 mph
Carry	146 yds ★	140 yds	153 yds	183 yds
Flat carry	144 yds	—	—	—
Total	150 yds ★	149 yds	—	—
Launch angle	20°	23°	17.1°	14.1°
Apex	81 ft (27 yds)	87 ft	25 yds	31 yds
Landing angle	44°	46°	43°	46°
Curve	17 ft right	11 ft	—	—
Hang time	5.6 s	5.7 s	—	—
Proximity	99 ft	53 ft	—	—

★ 6-iron personal best. The arrow on the curve panel points right. Club speed isn't on the screen: at a typical 6-iron smash of ~1.38–1.40, 107 mph of ball speed means about 76–78 mph of club speed, just under the LPGA average (78 mph).

What it means: the speed is LPGA-level and the peak (27 yds) is already a tour-height peak. The extra 3–6° of launch is costing distance: the energy goes up instead of forward. With the same speed and a 17° launch, the carry should reach about 150–153 yds, the LPGA average.

3 Timing & tempo — measured from the video

30 frames per second, so each time is accurate to about ±0.03 s. Takeaway starts at 8.30 s, the top is at 8.90 s, and impact is at 9.13 s (the ball is gone in the next frame).

Tour figure: John Novosel, Tour Tempo. One frame either way at the top moves the ratio between ~2.3:1 and ~3:1.

What it means: this is his best 6-iron tempo so far: a slower, fuller backswing with a fast 0.23 s downswing, much closer to the tour's 3:1. That rhythm probably helped the extra ball speed.

4 The reference frame — how this swing was measured

• Grid: each square is about 5 inches (48 px). It's scaled from his body size and the alignment sticks in the frame, so treat distances as ±1 inch.
• Vertical and horizontal center lines (light green): fixed references for balance, spine and height.
• Two corner diagonals (green): they cross at the frame's center and give a fixed perspective scaffold.
• Depth rays (yellow, dashed): drawn from the vanishing point of the target-line sticks. Anything that moves along these rays is moving toward the target (into the picture), not sideways.
• Address references: the white line is the top of the cap and the light-green line is the back of the head. The red trail is the head path and the yellow trail is the hands' path, frame by frame.
• Body points were tracked automatically on every frame (150 frames, 6.5–11.5 s), then checked by eye at each key position.

5 Swing sequence

Nine key positions, filmed down-the-line from behind the hands. The target is straight into the picture.

Photos are numbered in the order they happen in the swing. The frames follow the standard swing positions.

6 Position-by-position biomechanics

Club check

The "6" on the sole, shown to the camera at 0:18 after the swing. Logged as the 6-Iron, report #3. Location confirmed by the video's GPS: Mariners Point Golf Center.

Photo 1 — Address Good

• Feet parallel to the white feet-line stick, ball just forward of center, hands slightly ahead of the ball.
• Athletic iron posture: knees flexed, back straight, arms hanging under the shoulders.

Photo 2 — Takeaway Good

• One-piece start: hands, arms and club move away together.
• The head is already beginning to sink, the first hint of the dip.

Photo 3 — Lead arm parallel Good width

• Wide arc, the wrists setting on time.
• Trail knee keeps its flex, and the hips turn without sliding.

Photo 4 — Top Full turn

• Full shoulder turn, hands high, shaft just short of parallel. A good length for a 6-iron.
• Head about 3 in lower than at address and ~3 in toward the ball line.
• Hips about 2 in away from the ball: they turn, they don't push in.

Photo 5 — Arm parallel (down) Good

• The lower body starts the downswing and the wrist angle holds.
• The hands drop on a slightly inside path (yellow trail).

Photo 6 — Delivery Solid

• The club comes from the inside, with the arms in front of the chest.
• Trail heel starting to release, on time.

Photo 7 — Impact Watch the head

• Hands come back to their exact address spot (within half an inch).
• Head is ~6 in lower than at address. That's the largest dip in the logbook.
• Hips hold their depth (~1 in away from the ball): no early extension, for the second report in a row.

Photo 8 — Release Full extension

• Both arms extend down the target line and the chest keeps turning.

Photo 9 — Finish Excellent

• Tall and balanced on the lead leg, trail foot up on its toe, belt buckle facing the target.
• Held, as in every report.

Overlay — head at address, top and impact

Depth note: from behind, part of the head's sideways shift runs along the depth rays, so it mixes "toward the ball" with "toward the target". A face-on clip would split the two (see section 10).

7 Where the 6-iron sits in the bag

Heads-up: the 6-iron carries only 2 yards more than the 7-iron (146 vs 144) but 13 less than the 5-iron. The normal gap between irons is 10–15 yards. The ball speed is almost the same as the 5-iron (107 vs 108 mph), so the gap is a launch problem, not a speed problem: 20° is a 7-iron launch. Bringing it down to 16–18° should open the gap above the 7-iron.

8 Diagnosis

9 Next steps — keep it simple

10 Limitations & next capture

• One swing is a snapshot. The ball readout matches this swing, as it's the screen shown right after it.
• Spin and club speed aren't on the screen, so club speed is estimated.
• Distances come from a grid scaled to his body and the sticks in the frame. His real height would make the scale exact.
• From behind, depth (toward the target) mixes with sideways motion. That's exactly what the depth rays flag.

Next capture: (1) the same down-the-line spot, plus (2) a face-on clip at chest height, square to the feet stick, to read shaft lean and the right curve, (3) 3–5 balls for an average, and (4) André's height, to lock the grid scale.