I’ll keep this short and sweet, but the specter of Mike Dunaway will not leave me alone – time and time again I’ve said “Aha, I’ve got him!” only to be proven wrong.

That could be about to change.

Mike Dunaway, you’ll recall, was a college American football player (I say American because I have European readers who call a different sport “football”), and I daresay he was a better athlete than I was.

So, wouldn’t it be ironic if I completely failed to break down Mike Dunaway’s swing and replicate it, no matter how hard I tried, only to discover essentially the same swing model by doing my own research using athletic intuition?

Here’s the short and sweet of it – in fact, I’ll just paste (with an edit or two) an email I just sent the gent who sent me the last Dunaway swing clips that we have, and with whom I’ve been discussing Dunaway for years:

Well, wouldn’t you know it but today, while working on the setup for my new swing, I hit the proper setup (pretty sure, I’ll test it next Monday or Tuesday), and by George, the downswing is Dunaway from the top to the finish.

The difference is, I don’t like a shifting head, so my setup is slightly different – no shifting head on the back pivot and the leading heel does separate from the ground… right now this is where I am.

So, a little different setup and pivot action, but a near carbon copy of the down swing that you see in the clips you’ve sent me and his Austinology/Peace River swing clips.

Down and through, step-around finish. I can’t wait to go test this out, but the earliest will be Monday or Tuesday.

I was no where near the proper ball position yesterday, and that was because, I’ve just worked out, that I was using a left-dominant setup and didn’t realize it.

I didn’t realize it because, duh, I’m still transitioning to right-dominant and today I figured out the difference between a left or right-dominant setup.

FYI – If I’m correct, a lot of golfers out there who are right-dominant swingers are also setting up with a left-dominant position over the ball.

In fact, if I’m correct, the standard Classic Golf Swing setup was left-dominant in nature, which would mean that my model currently under construction would be the optimal CGS model for right-dominant swingers.

Period.

Here’s another irony – this last swing clip that we have of Dunaway, take a look at his head on the back pivot:

It literally doesn’t move on the back pivot, rather it moves down and back, what I call the “Trebuchet Drop” into impact, exactly what I used to do once upon a time.

Adjust that setup of his slightly, it would be a stable head with perhaps a slight drop on the down swing but no backward movement – at least theoretically.

I’m on the case.