André Rennes

1 Executive summary

2 Ball flight — range screen

Metric	André (Oct 14)	6-Iron #1 (Oct 6)	LPGA Tour avg	PGA Tour avg
Ball speed	107 mph ★	103 mph	109 mph	127 mph
Club speed (est.)	~76–78 mph	~75–77 mph	78 mph	92 mph
Carry	146 yds ★	140 yds	152 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 (29 yds)	25 yds	30 yds
Landing angle	44°	46°	46°	50°
Spin	— (not on screen)	—	5,943 rpm	6,231 rpm
Curve	17 ft (right)	11 ft	—	—
Hang time	5.6 s	5.7 s	—	—
Proximity	99 ft	53 ft	—	—

The screen has glare and a green tint, but all values are legible. The apex label is partly in shadow and was read as Apex from the screen layout and its ft unit. The unit under flat carry can't be read and is taken as yards. The curve direction comes from a small right-pointing arrow next to 17 ft, which means a fade for a right-hander. Carry (146) is a little longer than flat carry (144), so the landing area sat slightly below the hitting level. The ball rolled about 4 yards. Club speed and spin aren't on the screen. At a typical iron smash factor of ~1.38–1.40, 107 mph of ball speed means about 76–78 mph of club speed, right around the LPGA average (78 mph). Report #2 (Crystal Springs, Oct 18) had no ball data, so it has no column here.

What it means: since report #1, ball speed rose 4 mph and carry rose 6 yards, while launch fell 3°. More speed with less launch is the right direction, because more of the energy sends the ball forward instead of up. The flight is still on the tall side: the apex (27 yds) is 2 yards above the LPGA average even with slightly less ball speed. The total gained only 1 yard because this steeper flight rolled less (4 yds vs 9). A launch closer to 17° should turn some of that height into distance.

3 Timing & tempo — measured from the video

Filmed at 30 frames per second, so each time is accurate to about ±0.03 s. The takeaway starts at 8.30 s (frame 39), the top is at 8.90 s (frame 57), and impact is at about 9.13 s (frame 64).

Tour figure: John Novosel, Tour Tempo. If the downswing is off by one frame either way, the ratio moves between ~2.3:1 and ~3:1.

What it means: the downswing (0.23 s) is as quick as in his earlier 6-iron swings. The change is in the backswing: at 0.60 s it is longer than both earlier 6-iron swings, so the ratio moved from ~2:1 to ~2.6:1. This is his closest swing to Tour Tempo for this club, and it came with his best 6-iron ball speed. A longer backswing did not cost him any speed.

4 The reference frame — how this swing was measured

• Grid: each square is about 5 inches (~46 px at full resolution, 9.22 px per inch). The grid is scaled from his body size in the frame, so treat all 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 center of the frame and give a fixed perspective scaffold.
• Depth rays (yellow, dashed): drawn from the vanishing point of the feet-line stick and the ball-line stick, which meet near the horizon close to the ball-line stick. Anything moving along these rays is moving toward the target (into the picture), not sideways. The stick endpoints were read to about ±10 px.
• Address references: the white line marks the top of the cap and the light-green line marks the back of the head. The red trail is the head's path and the yellow trail is the hands' path, frame by frame.
• Body points were tracked automatically on every frame (120 frames, 7.0–11.0 s), then checked by eye at each key position.

5 Swing sequence

Nine key positions, filmed down-the-line from behind the hands, from address (8.20 s, frame 36) to finish (10.10 s, frame 93). 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

Opening frames: the sole was shown to the camera. In the clearest close-up, the numeral has its loop at the bottom and a small bar underneath. Read upright against the bar, that is a 6, not an upside-down 9. A second, blurrier close-up shows the same shape. One other crop showed no clubhead and was not used. The ball data (107 mph, 146 carry, 20° launch) also fits his 6-iron. Logged as the 6-Iron with high confidence.

Photo 1 — Address Good

• Feet parallel to the feet-line stick. The ball sits just outside the ball-line stick, with the red cross stick nearby.
• Athletic iron posture: knees flexed, arms hanging, top of the cap right on the white address line.
• Ball on the mat, a fair test of an iron off turf-like contact.

Photo 2 — Takeaway Early dip

• Hands, arms and club move away together. The hands are already ~17 in from their address spot.
• The head is already about 5 in lower on the grid. The sinking starts right away.
• Hips move ~2 in away from the ball, a turn rather than a slide in.

Photo 3 — Lead arm parallel Good width

• Wide arc: the hands are ~31 in from address, and the wrists are setting on time.
• The trail knee keeps its flex, and the hips stay ~2 in behind their address line.

Photo 4 — Top Compact

• A compact top with the shaft well short of parallel. That is a controlled length for a 6-iron.
• The head rises back to ~2.6 in lower than address, its highest point of the backswing. It is also ~3.3 in toward the ball line (see depth note).
• Hips ~2 in away from the ball: they turn, they don't slide in.

Photo 5 — Arm parallel (down) Good

• The hands drop slightly inside the line they went up on (yellow trail).
• The head starts to sink again (~4.4 in), while the hips hold ~1 in behind address.

Photo 6 — Delivery From the inside

• The club comes from the inside, with the hands ~15.5 in from their address spot and the arms in front of the chest.
• The hips still sit ~1 in behind their address line, with no move toward the ball.

Photo 7 — Impact Watch the head

• The hands return to their address spot (within about half an inch).
• The head is ~6.5 in lower than at address, more than on report #2 (~5 in).
• The hips hold their depth (~1 in behind address). This is the second 6-iron report in a row with no early extension.

Photo 8 — Release Full extension

• Both arms extend down the line and the chest keeps turning.
• The head is still low (~7.6 in) just after the ball, so the stand-up comes later in the follow-through.

Photo 9 — Finish Excellent

• Tall and balanced on the lead leg, with the trail foot up on its toe and the chest to the target.
• Head ~5 in above its address height: he stands fully tall, as in both earlier 6-iron reports.

Overlay — head at address, top and impact

Depth note: from behind, the head's sideways shift (~3.3 in at the top, ~1.6 in at impact) lies partly along the depth rays. That makes it a mix of "toward the ball" and "toward the target", and one camera can't separate the two. A face-on clip of the next swing will settle it (see section 10).

7 Where the 6-iron sits in the bag

Heads-up: the gaps around the 6-iron are uneven. It carries 13 yards less than the 5-iron (146 vs 159) even with nearly the same ball speed (107 vs 108 mph). It carries only 2 yards more than the 7-iron (146 vs 144), and goes 3 yards farther in total. The 6-iron's higher launch (20° vs 19°) explains part of the gap below the 5-iron. Each club has only one swing with screen data, so a fresh 7-iron report will show whether that 2-yard gap is real.

8 Diagnosis

9 Next steps — keep it simple

10 Limitations & next capture

• One swing is a snapshot. The ball readout matches this swing, because it's the screen shown right after it.
• Spin and club speed aren't on the screen, so club speed is estimated from ball speed and loft at impact is inferred from launch and apex.
• Glare and a shadow cover part of the screen: the apex label and the flat-carry unit were read from the layout.
• Distances come from a grid scaled to his body in the frame (±1 inch). 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: Next capture, to sharpen the reference frame: (1) the same down-the-line spot, plus (2) a face-on clip at chest height, square to the feet stick, (3) 3–5 balls for an average, (4) André's height, to lock the grid scale, and (5) a straight-on photo of the range screen to cut the glare.