I’ve been quiet in recent weeks due to not having much to say about golf swing mechanics, due to the fact that I’m deeply into the issue of the grip and how it changes everything in the swing process.

I can say at the moment that the likely reason my efforts to replicate Mike Dunaway’s swing action comes down to the grip issue.

Also evident is the reason I spent most of the winter of ’22-’23 hitting the ball left on the indoor simulators – also down to the grip.

Now, as it pertains to Mr. Dunaway, you all know that I’ve said many times that you can completely fail to understand the concept behind an explanation, until you actually replicate the motion in question, at which point it becomes comically clear what is going on and how you failed to get it until then.

With Dunaway, that moment arrived yesterday while I was working on his pivot and down swing.

I made a critical discovery regarding weight transfer and footwork when I finally came to understand how and why Dunaway stayed on his right (trailing foot) for so long into the down swing:

He was “using the ground,” and doing it properly, not what the clueless pundits on television and Youtube say today’s players are doing.

I’ve always noticed what he was doing, but didn’t appreciate the significance of it until I recreated the action, at which point it all became crystal clear.

If I’m correct in my assessment, I don’t see how any other golf swing model could even come close to the leverage and power generation in this particular model, and that’s where I am at the moment.

I should be garnering new video to post to the site next week, and from there, I daresay it should be an interesting spring and summer.

More to come.