JB Holmes vs. Brittany Lincicome Golf Swing Analysis
Published: March 2, 2026
If you've been looking for that secret move to put in your golf swing to add more power, then you're going to want to pay close attention to how two of their respective tours' longest hitters — J.B. Holmes on the PGA Tour and Brittany Lincicome on the LPGA Tour — use their lower half in the downswing sequence to perfection, building tremendous power and clubhead speed. Now, let's go ahead and get started.
Okay guys, so as I said in the opener, we're going to be taking a look at two of the longest players on their respective tours. J.B. Holmes, who is ranked 7th on the PGA Tour averaging well over 300 yards off the tee, and Brittany Lincicome averaging 260-plus yards, sitting in 3rd place for total driving distance on the LPGA Tour. One of the big things we've got to really understand before we get started is that to effectively swing the golf club at 100 miles per hour, we need more than 30 pounds of muscle available and actively engaged. You can even run your own swing through an AI swing analyzer to see how your current power mechanics stack up against what Holmes and Lincicome do here.
A lot of times golfers get wrapped up in trying to use mostly their arms and shoulders and chest to produce all that clubhead speed, and there's just not enough muscle mass available up there — unless you've spent a serious amount of time in the gym building your shoulders and arms. Generally speaking, it's very difficult to generate that kind of clubhead speed from those smaller muscle groups alone.
So what we want to think about is where we have our biggest muscle groups available. We talk a lot about the core muscles — the abs and the obliques. We certainly want to talk about the glute muscles, because the glutes are really our chunkiest and most powerful muscles. A lot of times if we focus on hitting the golf ball with our legs, we'll be way more powerful in the swing and we'll be able to use ground force energy. We'll be able to move that energy up the kinetic chain and turn it into massive clubhead speed through impact.
Let's go ahead and take a look at both players. There's one very common move that you'll see in both J.B. Holmes and Brittany Lincicome. I'm going to work both into the takeaway here — they both stay extremely wide. If you've been having trouble keeping your swing wide in the takeaway, the video "Keep the Trail Arm Straight to Turn" is exactly what you need. Both of these players do that extremely well, so you're going to see at the completed takeaway that both arms are very wide and their shoulders have rotated about 45 degrees. Then I'm going to get Brittany up to the top of her swing, because this is where the big power move starts to happen.
Both players do not get the golf club back past parallel — they actually stay short of parallel. I think that's one of the big myths you've seen perpetuated by old swing footage, like an old John Daly swing where he had the club wrapped around his neck. Granted, he did hit the golf ball a very long way, but there was also a ton of downswing sequencing happening in his move. We don't need the golf club wrapped around our neck to get it moving back the other direction quickly — we just need proper sequencing.
What you're going to see here is the big power move right here. This is where we start to hit the golf ball with our legs. That big movement in the upper body is being created entirely by the lower half. Right there — that big sitting move. We're fully loaded into the trail side, and then we're making a big sitting movement into that lead side. Brittany Lincicome makes a very similar move — she changes directions and sits into her lead side with tremendous force.
What you'll notice here is that when both J.B. Holmes and Brittany Lincicome get their hips and knees back to a square position, their hands have not really dropped much below the sternum — the center of the chest. Brittany's might be a fraction lower, but the key point is this: one of the big mistakes golfers make is trying to pull the arms down or to unwind the shoulders manually. The movement from the hips — from roughly 30 to 45 degrees wound up back to square — has already automatically unwound the shoulders in both players. Now we're starting to work the power up out of the lower body. We're starting to get posted up, leveraging the ground, stalling the body, and then releasing the golf club and allowing the hands and arms to act independently from the body. That's when you're going to hit maximum clubhead speed at impact. The GOAT Drill system trains this exact lower body loading and release pattern so you can build it into muscle memory.
All right, so that's the big power move. If you've been struggling to find more power in your golf swing, we really need to work on sequencing. We have a number of videos on the website that can help, including great information on how to use your hips in the golf swing, a downswing sequence drill, a weight shift drill, and a video on starting the downswing before completing the backswing. All these videos are going to be in the recommended videos tab to the right of the video player. So if you want to add more power, let's get to work on letting go of those smaller muscles in the upper body and driving everything from those big muscles in the lower half — and you'll be well on your way to bombing it well past your friends, just like J.B. Holmes and Brittany Lincicome do every week on tour.
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